This IS reverse discrimination, and it should not <br>be practiced. Race should NOT be considered at all in any admissions <br>program that is federally funded. By trying to right past wrongs on <br>minorities by incurring wrongs on the majority today, it will start a cycle <br>that will, in th e worst case, be never ending. For example, if yesterday <br>a Negro could not get into a college because of discrimination, then today <br>we'll let him in because we want to try to right the wrong of yesterday. <br>But in doing so, we must not admit a white because he is white.
Segregation separated blacks to enter better schools such as the public schools. Not having to get the same education as everyone else, when you know you’re capable of learning more than anyone else. In other words, they were treated like second class citizens. The laws that enforced segregation throughout the
White people believed they were superior to the blacks and barely viewed them as human beings. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee writes accurate descriptions of how racism was ingrained in the daily lives of Americans such as Aunt Alexandra whose response to Scout as to why she cannot play with a black boy is "Because- he – is – trash, that’s why you can’t play with him". Alexandra is not giving Scout a real reason why because she has no reason other than she grew up with society telling her black and white children could not play together and was brainwashed into believing it. Another situation that shows the shocking segregation is when Cecil Jacobs asked a question about why the Jewish were persecuted in class "But that ain’t no cause to persecute ‘em. They’re white aren’t they?"
W.E.B. Du Bois stubbornly insisted that blacks should be seen as equal to whites in society. Washington, on the other hand, feared that Du Bois' decision would lead to violence and suppression in the black community. Du Bois' and Washington's views on formal education were also strategically different. For example, Du Bois believed that blacks should be able to go to the same school and use the same resources as whites.
Where as before they were consistently achieving the highest grades on the old assessments, on FSP black students were being introduced into a process of educational failure due to white supremacist attitudes which match those in the US which leads to failure being the only norm attributed to black people in life not just in compulsory learning. The issues faced by black people in the UK are almost identical to those in the US, however it is projected in a different context. Whereas in the UK students are separated into placement sets which provides the disadvantage, in the US students are separated into schools which have a dominate black populations and receives less funding than other schools with a majority white student body. With this distinction and comparison made between the Critical Race Theory of the US and the UK, the notion of “separate but equal” (US Department of Justice, 1896) exist in equal measure in both states. This paper would argue that the indoctrination of whiteness, as defined by Gillborn as the “assumptions and actions” (2008, p. 9) of whites, is maintained through an invisible and legal form of segregation, which exist in the schools of Britain.
This also extends to the unwritten rules of everyday life, like to walk around with no shoes on at work/school, as this is expected of you but isn’t written in any rulebook. However, you must consider the degree to which the norm is violated and therefore the value of breaking that social norm and what affects it has on the social group. An evaluation of this definition would be to consider the subjectivity of the matter; every person will think different actions are ‘abnormal’ that another will not. There is also over or under-inclusivity to consider and to whom these definitions should extend to. Also, we need to consider cultural relativity, which means that certain actions may be accepted in some cultures but not all, like Western cultures are different to Eastern.
In the chapter from “Jim Crow’s Children” the author describes the fear on the part of white people that “educated blacks were likely to aspire to more than plantation life” (Irons, 2002 p 3). Keeping them away from education allowed whites to sustain the lowered expectations that blacks were only fit for manual labor. Even today, by controlling and perpetuating society’s stereotypes that certain groups of people “don’t belong” it keeps many from even attempting to access education. Even though people of color are now “constitutionally” given access to education, there are still pervasive thought patters of lowered expectations that keep many from seeking
The fact that she has been influenced means that other individuals believe not possible for a black person to share the same manners and values as them (black people’s manners and values were not as worthy as white people’s in Maycomb at the time). Today, racism still very much exists, but less people believe that colored men are not respectable. Lynch mobs and segregation rarely occur anymore, and To Kill a Mockingbird makes the readers want to bring cultural inequality to an end, because it really illustrates that somebody’s culture or somebody’s skin color does not have anything to do with how respectable they are as a
The separating of black and white has caused many problems in society and these inequalities are still felt today. Rebellion, revolution, boycotting and even riots, have led to tensions between the two races. Additionally, desegregating schools led to a learning gap between black and white students. The Constitution states that no state can make the law that takes away the rights and privileges of citizens making them immune to it. Desegregation of public places should be allowed because it is inequitable to separate humans based on the color or pigmentation of their skin.
It is so sad that because of the color of your skin determined rather or not you were fit to live in a society with people who thought they were better than you. Can you imagine what that could have been like? Being taken away from the only land that you called home and being brought to a foreign place only to be told that you were worthless and would never amount to nothing. I know there are quite a few people that feel like they have heard this story a million and one times, but if you take the time to really look at history then it really would speak for itself. Not only were African Americans treated differently there are quite a few other races that were mistreated as well.