Racial Inequality

In a nation built on the back of slaves, where the people of non-white colors were pronounced to be less than human, the movements attempted to bring equality to all people are far from over. In modern days, after so many battles have been fought and won in the war for equality, there is still so much inequality in the nation. As the flower of segregation was withered, the seeds of racism had been to far buried in our nation’s format. To this day, racial inequality lives in places less visible to media attention. And as long as it exists, people will seek to get rid of it anyway they can. In early December, the Injustice Boycott led by activist Shaun King begins to attempt to remove these seeds of racism left by the rise of the United States. …show more content…
But the truth shown by statistics highlights the racism in the living conditions of African-Americans. In 2015, there was about 41 million blacks in the United States. Out of those 41 million, more than 10 million of them lived in ghettos or in high poverty. That’s 25% of the the black population, but that number becomes larger and more powerful when you account that over a million more blacks were in prison in 2015. With that, African-Americans had the highest unemployment rate than any other race in the States. This is the basis of my topic, but focusing on the living conditions of African-Americans. With the high unemployment rates, many African-Americans move into ghettos. These ghettos were started in the early 20th …show more content…
With a fourth of their population in locations contaminated by terrible industry practices and ignored by the ones who should be responsible for the hell they brought upon these people, change has been called for. In the demands of the Shaun King’s Injustice Boycott lies the demand for, “A right to restored land, clean air, clean water and housing and an end to the exploitative privatization of natural resources, including land and water”. This demand calls for the government to fix the inequality in the home neighborhoods and locations under poor control of the government, such as the slums and brownfields in which the African-Americans are practically forced to live in due to the inequality in the employment rates. The demand includes the right to restored land and clean water, which refers to the contamination of land and water sources by pollution, often by industry presence, left to strive by the lack of governmental services. The boycott demands that this lack of procedure is changed, so that the ghettos were angry and desperate blacks live can be cured and poisoned earth be