Redlining

Over the course of this semester we have looked at several ethnic groups and their adversities. Although we have seen them separately that is not to say that their challenges have solely affected them as a single group. In actuality we have seen similarities in the ways that the oppressed are marginalized, across both time and space. This ushers in the notion that races are relational to each other, these groups although seemingly having different histories can actually show more resemblances…

The railroad station was forced to fire all black switchmen after a powerful protest of white workers, because during wartime, jobs were no longer determined by race but filled because they were in such need. After the war, some employers went back to the traditional practice of employing individuals based on their race, while others did not. Racism was very costly to employees because they must pay white workers more, and because a limited pool was available to hire. However, another way to…

There are so many factors involved that causes minorities to be disproportionately affected by criminal justice system. While racism is the root cause of most the disparities minorities face, it has become so normalize that it has become a part of our daily lives to the point where it is not viewed as racism, but just the way things are. If we look at where the criminal justice system really began to take off, you will see it was around the time when slavery ended. Drastic laws where set…

Crony capitalism is not capitalism, it is socialism. The government backs up a company’s decision through bribery, promises, and many other dirty tricks and one example Coates made clear that had occurred was the FHA and their redlining policy. 1 Insurance companies would not back people living in areas that were redlined, 1 and through racist policy-making and possibly even through transactions between racist groups and the government, the “ghetto” was formed to concentrate the…

As a critical observation of Quinney’s theoretical basis, the writer contends his social conflict theory is not fully developed, and lacks corroboration firmly supporting its assertions regarding class conflict and crime causation. In fact, Quinney fails to point out the non-supportive evidence that cuts against social conflict theory. Mutchinick et al., (1990) states Quinney has failed to explain why then do nations with lesser or little class conflict such those practicing socialist…

Conversations in the United States regarding racial inequality between blacks and whites are incredibly divisive. That is logical because one side must blame, while the other rebuts, and vice versa, until the discourse resentfully ends and no progress has been made. The chasm on opinions exists because whites are fundamentally incapable of understanding the plight of blacks unless they are well-educated. However, it’s difficult for whites to be well-educated, in context, given that the…

On October 29th, 1929, the United States witnessed one of it’s greatest economic tragedies. The American people watched banks fail with uninsured deposits, leading to people losing the entirety of their savings. Surviving banks were no longer lending freely to the general public, and unemployment skyrocketed to nearly 25%. This infamous event is now referred to as Black Tuesday and the time period to follow would be known as the Great Depression. Events soon grew immensely worse with the…

there was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and different forms of social control were placed in to multiple systems, the forms of social control that were the most outstanding are African Americans are still subject to three methods of social control: redlining; educational inequality; and mass incarceration. This means the areas where it was most prevalent were education, social work, and policing and the law, and can be seen in the readings of “Statement to the Boston School Committee June 11,…

Why would they have a reason to believe the opposite if federal fair-housing laws have been on the books since 1968? But why is it that “in a network of 100 friends, a white person, on average, has one black friend”? (Kristof 2) In the article Redlining Revisited: Mortgage Lending Patterns in Sacramento 1930–2004, Jesus Hernandez explains that, “Despite decades of government reform, the American housing credit system continues to mirror long-standing patterns of racial segregation and…

The idea of providing reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans in America has long been a contentious issue. In his powerful work "The Case for Reparations," Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that such a policy is a moral, economic, and social necessity for the United States. By examining the nation's troubled heritage of systemic racism perpetuated through discriminatory housing policies, predatory financial practices targeting Black communities, and the deprivation of opportunities for…