In the 1930s, the housing rates doubled, and banks would not lend to African Americans, and people could not re-sell their houses to African Americans if it was in a white neighborhood. If African Americans were able to buy a home in a white neighborhood, people would get scared that “black people” were moving in, so they would flee their homes. They would then re-sell their homes to an African American at a markup price. If they had one missed payment they would be evicted. Contract sellers would try everything to get them evicted and put the house back up on the market.
The outsider, by definition, is isolated in some way from the dominant thrust of society. Many outsiders don’t decide to be outsiders, but are born with an inner sense of difference, a sense of seeing or feeling, observing, more than others, often with a driving sense of purpose and a lack of interest and/or ability to conform with the expectations of the status. “A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.” ― Will Cuppy. For me, the significant elements arising from this quote communicates an understanding that “black people” who are severely discriminated and introverted by society causes their solitary race to become unidentified and isolated. So I ask myself, how has the concept of the outsider portrayed itself throughout society?
However, Blacks continue to face some major racial issues in American today. Some steps have been taken to so-called “level out the playing field” such as affirmative action, which makes employers and educational institutions maintain certain amounts of minority held positions or vacancies called quotas. However, African Americans still feel the pressure from dual labor markets. A dual labor market is when the economy can be divided into both a primary and secondary sector. Secondary sector means that employment will be short-lived, have lack of internal promotion, and lower wages.
Dead in the Dark Jorge Racism is an excuse for hatred, ignorance, and insecurity. Racism is a side effect of xenophobia which is the fear of anything strange or foreign. In America racism has been a problem since the slave era. Even though racism still exists today, people should not let it get in the way of their opinions. Racism affected all aspects of the African American life in the United States.
As the black vote was so limited it meant they really had no voice. The destruction of the equality laws was due to the lenience on the hate acts against blacks in the south. In the post war, years a group was formed going by the name of the Ku Klux Klan. Originally
They met in the Deep South during the Civil Rights Movement. It was a period when marriages between whites and blacks were socially unacceptable. Richard’s family was especially racists and they partially disowned him when he professed his love for a black woman. He was nearly beaten to death by a group of locals because of his love for Marilyn, but they stayed together. They were together for over 30 years before Richard was shot dead in his own home and Marilyn was arrested for his murder.
This absence of people of color sort of implies that the stories of minorities are not important.”(Bodnick) The stigma, whether it was created directly or indirectly,created by the lack of/negative portrayals of minorities in the media has created a very toxic environment for minorities. Not being portrayed in a positive light and/or not being represented has formed a world full of stereotypes and prejudice that haunt minorities to no end. Some as miniscule as bullying, to as serious as death. “Stereotypical representations of minorities perpetuate cultural ideas that encourage racism and sexism. They influence attitudes and reinforce gender and racial segregation still present in society, no matter if messages you might receive tell you otherwise.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Affirmative action is a controversial and often misunderstood policy. It is a program whose origin the late 1960s was based upon the historic societal disadvantages shared by blacks and other minorities and the need to rectify disparities between those groups and whites. Over time it has come to embrace women, in most of the ways that it has benefited other minorities. When it was first introduced it attracted little opposition. The country was just emerging from Jim Crow period, an era of racial segregation and state-supported discrimination against African Americans.
Upon completion a research that was done on my group as Black / African American, it was determine that we were immigrated to the United States for employment purposes. The receptionist that was given to us a immigrants in the country was not always friendly. We had always felt uneasy where ever we go and had been set aside because of our skin color. There were law restrictions against us, open bloodshed and almost 1/3 of immigrants and their children had to return to their home because of the uneasy feeling towards strangers. Coming from a black group we had faced a combination of segregation, racism and prejudice.
“Irrational exuberance in the housing market led many people to buy houses they couldn't afford, because everyone thought housing prices could only go up.” (useconomy.com). During 2006, housing prices started to decline. Many people took out loans with very little money down, and they had to foreclose on the house because if they sold it, they would not get enough money back. With the foreclosing rate increasing, many banks began to freak out because they were going to face huge losses. Around August of 2007, banks become afraid to loan money out due to the fact that they did not want to suffer from losing money yet again.