Racism And Racial Discrimination

The “man” is holding me down. This is a common idiom many black people have become accustomed to hearing. It’s often applied when things don’t go according to plan. Job interviews, house hunting, and court cases all instances when the “man” is holding black people back. Although it’s seen as a figure of speech, there may be an underlying truth to the phrase. With that said the “man” may not be referring to an actual person, but systematic racism.
This idea that any group of people is being discriminated against in today’s age may sound implausible to the average American. This is often due to The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Yet evidence reveals discrimination is still occurring despite this legislation. One of the many forms if racial bias can be found in the housing market. In 2012 the department of housing and urban development did a …show more content…
In the 1960s this was common scare tactic people known as “blockbusters.” Blockbusters were realtors that used scare tactics to buy homes for cheap and sell them at a higher price. By making white home owners fear their neighborhood(s) would be taken over by black home buyers and with that comes a decrease in the value of their property. They could often get homes at a much lower price than the market value of the property they were looking to buy. One of the many scare tactics used was to pay black people to walk or cruise a neighborhood. This would reinforce the idea that more blacks were looking to move in that neighborhood. The realtor would come in offering a seemingly “fair” price. The idea was that once a single home owner sold their home the rest would follow. They would in turn sell the newly purchased home for many times what they paid for