Social Identity In America

Social identity and race has always been related in the United States. One’s social identity is connected to his or her race here in the United States. In other words, people who are black are usually associated with what other black people do, though they do not know anything about that. One may ask, what is race and what is social identity? Race is a group of people who have distinctive physical characteristic such as skin color while social identity is how we or people recognizes us in relation to what we have in common compared to others. In the united State people are identified by what race they are and this has had several impacts on black people’s education, our social environments and politics.
Let us consider education and race. Race …show more content…
In our communities, less skilled and low paying jobs are mostly done by blacks or people of color. Most individual that are unemployed are blacks. The several incidents that we hear on the news and so forth about assaults are usually black victims. In chapter 7 of Race in America, the author gives an example from a letter Coates wrote to his son explaining to him the “reality of violence against those culturally deemed black in America and the human pitfalls in having a black body”. This shows that black people usually face violence from whites. The author also gave an example of on incident which was Michael Browns death which the killers were set free with no indictment. Even in present day, there are several situations that black people are shot or killed by whites who see blacks to be criminals. In present days, there has been incidents where white police will fatally kill blacks and say they thought they were armed, and there will be no indictments on what they did. White policemen usually think all blacks are criminals so the intend to shoot them because they might have guns on them. It is true that some blacks have criminal records but not everyone is a criminal. Most black people have criminal records because they do not have jobs though they’re educated. I remember watching a video in my sociology class that showed black neighborhoods where there will be no white leaving there. In our communities, Black people are treated unfairly because they usually have to stay in certain neighborhoods where there are no whites. Whenever there is a situation and the cops come around they take bad actions because they think we are all