Racial Prejudice In Mcbride's The Color Water

Racial prejudice is a big issue within the courts globally. The biggest source of prejudice that the world receives is from government, and the information citizens get is what the government sees as suitable for the world to see. Discrimination in the courts comes from old political and social views, that in today’s society are seen as racist. The criminal justice and judicial systems are not color blind, they see deeper than African- American, Muslim , or Hispanic; they see the stereotypical actions and thoughts of a minority. Prejudice in the judicial systems has trickled down the “Minority Waterfall” and is stemmed from racism and white privilege. This is evident in courtrooms when African- Americans receive harsher sentences than whites for same or similar crimes. Racism in the United States of America is very low profiled in society today. Since the late nineties and early two- thousands, the people of the US are more willing to “blend” with different races. …show more content…
She spoke of her mom and how she were white and she wrote, “When I asked if she were white, she’d say ‘I'm light skinned,’ and change the subject” (McBride, xix). She talks about how she is very privileged for a black woman and how her mother raised twelve black children, sent them all to college and made them doctors, dentists and teachers. This is important to the original stance of the argument of this paper because this shows that minorities can be just as well off as whites. A black child doesn't need to be raised by a white woman to be a great person, many of those great people are raised or taken in by black families. A person cannot be judged simply by the color of their skin. The tint of skin or lack of it is cause by geographical placement on the map. The closer ones ancestors were to the equator, the darker the individual will