In the United States of America people are discriminated every day, either by their color, ethnic background, their disability and even from the place they live. Although this country is well known about their ruthless crimes against other ethnic backgrounds that occur almost on a regular basis. There are many countries around the world that express the same feeling when it comes to people of different colors and ethnic backgrounds.
In the Article “Levels of Racism”, it is explained that there are three levels of racism. The first level, is called the Internalized Racism, which is when a person has racism within himself or herself. Believing that they wish they could belong to another race. An example happened at the beginning of the movie …show more content…
Institutional racism, can be described as a discriminatory treatment, unfair policies and practices, inequitable opportunities and impacts based on race. In the movie you can see that the help lived in rough towns and homes and they had to take the bus back to their communities since they couldn’t afford to own cars. They were paid minimum wages without any social security or any paid vacation.
Jones analysis of a gardener’s tale is very helpful in understanding racism and how there is a simple fix on helping to reduce racism. Jones explained the gardener’s tale on the metaphor about two flower boxes. One box was filled with fertile soil with red seeds and the other was an old soil box filled with pink seeds. The gardeners favored the red color flowers so he invested the time in taking care of those flowers and discriminated the pink flowers from …show more content…
Due to the poor equality and disparities, race can represent a huge factor in the homeless population. According to the US department of Housing and Urban Development, “Hispanics or Latinos comprise 20 percent of the homeless population, regardless of sheltered status. Most homeless people were either white (49%) or black and African American (40%). While a majority of the unsheltered population is white (57%), similar numbers of African American and white people are found in shelters.” (Hudexchange.info,
In the Article “Levels of Racism”, it is explained that there are three levels of racism. The first level, is called the Internalized Racism, which is when a person has racism within himself or herself. Believing that they wish they could belong to another race. An example happened at the beginning of the movie …show more content…
Institutional racism, can be described as a discriminatory treatment, unfair policies and practices, inequitable opportunities and impacts based on race. In the movie you can see that the help lived in rough towns and homes and they had to take the bus back to their communities since they couldn’t afford to own cars. They were paid minimum wages without any social security or any paid vacation.
Jones analysis of a gardener’s tale is very helpful in understanding racism and how there is a simple fix on helping to reduce racism. Jones explained the gardener’s tale on the metaphor about two flower boxes. One box was filled with fertile soil with red seeds and the other was an old soil box filled with pink seeds. The gardeners favored the red color flowers so he invested the time in taking care of those flowers and discriminated the pink flowers from …show more content…
Due to the poor equality and disparities, race can represent a huge factor in the homeless population. According to the US department of Housing and Urban Development, “Hispanics or Latinos comprise 20 percent of the homeless population, regardless of sheltered status. Most homeless people were either white (49%) or black and African American (40%). While a majority of the unsheltered population is white (57%), similar numbers of African American and white people are found in shelters.” (Hudexchange.info,