While America portrayed itself to the world as the most “free” and powerful country with its foreign policies, the actions taken in America were often contradictory to such portrayal. From 1947 to present, America’s domestic policies toward minorities overtime reflected a contradiction because of policies that either did not dealt with the problems successfully or just neglected equality and liberty every man was born with in America. America demanded democracy, freedom, peace, and anti-communism from the rest of the world, despite discriminating and segregating its own minorities and women. America’s founding ideals from the Declaration of Independence state that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain
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With African-Americans claiming illegal violations of their rights, the Congress passed its first civil rights measure in more than 80 years. The Civil Rights Act of 1957, as a reaction to the Brown case, established the right to vote to African-Americans under the Fifteenth Amendment. However, this also caused opposition from segregationists which burned African-American churches, centers of education and organization regarding voting, and physical opposition. Similarly the Civil Rights Act of 1964 seeked to improve the living conditions of African-Americans proactively after the government experiencing civil resistance within its policies. This amendment banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, or ethnicity in public places as an abolition to the “separate but equal” laws. Also the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that restored and protected the voting rights of minorities under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment. Despite all of these improvements or even attempts made by the government in their domestic policies, it is clearly known that segregation and discrimination still occurs to this day. For example, according to the article “The Fight Against Racism Today” in the website, http://race.eserver.org, racial segregation of Black and Latino from White Americans today is due to “corporate and governmental policies including red-lining and the Reagan and Bush administrations’ cuts in housing and urban spending, which have resulted in the devastation of inner city neighborhoods”. As a consequence, it has created a segregated school system and “contributed to the sharp downward slide of education received by Black and Latino children all over the country”. This shows that the economic and social systems are mainly used to segregate non-white races based on income and race, which overall
With African-Americans claiming illegal violations of their rights, the Congress passed its first civil rights measure in more than 80 years. The Civil Rights Act of 1957, as a reaction to the Brown case, established the right to vote to African-Americans under the Fifteenth Amendment. However, this also caused opposition from segregationists which burned African-American churches, centers of education and organization regarding voting, and physical opposition. Similarly the Civil Rights Act of 1964 seeked to improve the living conditions of African-Americans proactively after the government experiencing civil resistance within its policies. This amendment banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, or ethnicity in public places as an abolition to the “separate but equal” laws. Also the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that restored and protected the voting rights of minorities under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment. Despite all of these improvements or even attempts made by the government in their domestic policies, it is clearly known that segregation and discrimination still occurs to this day. For example, according to the article “The Fight Against Racism Today” in the website, http://race.eserver.org, racial segregation of Black and Latino from White Americans today is due to “corporate and governmental policies including red-lining and the Reagan and Bush administrations’ cuts in housing and urban spending, which have resulted in the devastation of inner city neighborhoods”. As a consequence, it has created a segregated school system and “contributed to the sharp downward slide of education received by Black and Latino children all over the country”. This shows that the economic and social systems are mainly used to segregate non-white races based on income and race, which overall