Every person in today’s scholarly community has been told of the story about Martin Luther King Jr’s triumph over wrongful segregation laws and racial discrimination. With peaceful protesting and moving speeches made to the public, Martin Luther King Jr was able to have a large enough impact on society to help change the laws on segregation in the 1960’s. It is only 50 years since civil rights act was put in place, meaning 50 years ago it was an average, commonplace occurrence to discriminate against race even if it was morally wrong (History 2). Now, in the year 2014, racism is believed to have been eliminated from today’s society. However, even if it’s not as intense as it was in the 1950’s, racism is still present. Not only is it still
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According to the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), racism is defined as being treated differently based on race; more specifically in terms of our education system it is defined as “individuals from historically marginalized racial groups may be perceived as less worthy or less intelligent than those from the majority culture.”(NASP 1). In today’s community, this definition provided by the NASP is the one we should accept. As mentioned before, there has been a lot of change and growth with racism and is not as severe as it was 50 years ago. The lynching of African Americans has (for the most part) ended, but there still is racism and the racism described by the NASP, which I’ve also personally experienced, is the type of racism most prevalent today, and is the racism that affects the African American …show more content…
According to the article “Being Black and Feeling Blue: The Mental Health Consequences of Racial Discrimination,” racial discrimination can make people feel distressed, depressed and “high-strung” (brown et al. 3). African Americans not only feel stressed in being a student in higher education but also have anxiety and even depression caused by racial discrimination. Stress is such a common part of being a student, but having more worry coming from an outside source can definitely add up and have negative outcomes. According to the Mayo Clinic, stress can lead to the abuse of drugs or alcohol (1). According to the National Institute of Mental Health (MIMH) many symptoms of stress and depression lead the person to be inactive and just stop trying to do anything in life in general. If the population of African Americans in higher education is more likely to be affected by stress and depression while in school, a lot of those students are more likely to end up with poor test scores or lower graduation ratings in general. Again, even though this only affects African Americans directly, there’s a moral responsibility given to everyone living under a high society, and that responsibility is broken if other races are not taken into consideration. This idea of stress caused by discrimination has been shown a lot over the years in higher education not only as an
According to the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), racism is defined as being treated differently based on race; more specifically in terms of our education system it is defined as “individuals from historically marginalized racial groups may be perceived as less worthy or less intelligent than those from the majority culture.”(NASP 1). In today’s community, this definition provided by the NASP is the one we should accept. As mentioned before, there has been a lot of change and growth with racism and is not as severe as it was 50 years ago. The lynching of African Americans has (for the most part) ended, but there still is racism and the racism described by the NASP, which I’ve also personally experienced, is the type of racism most prevalent today, and is the racism that affects the African American …show more content…
According to the article “Being Black and Feeling Blue: The Mental Health Consequences of Racial Discrimination,” racial discrimination can make people feel distressed, depressed and “high-strung” (brown et al. 3). African Americans not only feel stressed in being a student in higher education but also have anxiety and even depression caused by racial discrimination. Stress is such a common part of being a student, but having more worry coming from an outside source can definitely add up and have negative outcomes. According to the Mayo Clinic, stress can lead to the abuse of drugs or alcohol (1). According to the National Institute of Mental Health (MIMH) many symptoms of stress and depression lead the person to be inactive and just stop trying to do anything in life in general. If the population of African Americans in higher education is more likely to be affected by stress and depression while in school, a lot of those students are more likely to end up with poor test scores or lower graduation ratings in general. Again, even though this only affects African Americans directly, there’s a moral responsibility given to everyone living under a high society, and that responsibility is broken if other races are not taken into consideration. This idea of stress caused by discrimination has been shown a lot over the years in higher education not only as an