Essay On Systematic Racial Inequality

8) Systematic racial inequality is a major issue in the United States, and has been since its founding as institutions in the society seem to openly disenfranchise and discriminate against minorities and allow the majority to succeed in ways the minority cannot. Police profiling causes a greater percentage of minorities to be imprisoned than their white counterparts, specifically when it comes to drug charges and black Americans even though the majority of drug users are white (“The Color of Justice”). The institutional inequality that is created by this causes a void in the black community. Black males are the ones that are predominately hit with drug charges; they then go to jail usually leaving behind a family of some kind; a single mother …show more content…
According to PBS News Hour, those who make above the average low income household are more than two times more likely to attend (80%) a highly selective college compared to a low income individual (34%), which due to the institutional stratification of society, is more likely to be a black or Hispanic college applicant (“Top Achieving Poor…”). This ability to afford college or to have more exposure to the college application process accompanied with more positive stereotypes, causes whites to generally appear to be a better applicant. Based on this it is clear that the United States has a social structure that consistently rewards people for being white; the benefits of one’s skin color being a light complexion are astounding. There is a smaller chance of being profiled and arrested while participating in a theft; (“What Would You…”) there is a smaller chance of being arrested on drug related charges; a greater chance of getting a loan, graduating from a college or university, getting a high paying skilled job, all because of the social inequality that institutions enact on