PHI103: Informal Logic (GSK1212F) Instructor Phillip Bence Racism in Corporate America April 23, 2012 Anyone who believes that racism does not exist in the U.S. today is clearly out of touch with reality. Examples of racism are apparent in many different areas of life, particularly in corporate America’s hiring and promotion practices. Corporate hiring and promotion tendencies are clearly racially disproportionate. It is no coincidence that the CEO’s, COO’s and CFO’s of many of America’s major corporations, Fortune 500 companies and successful business are not people of color. Racially-motivated hiring and promotion decisions by supervisors, managers, directors and HR personnel have almost replaced decisions to hire or promote based
From Pearson, “Let us suppose we could prevent the white man, if we liked, from going to lands of which the agricultural and mineral resources are not worked to the full; then I should say a thousand times better for him that he should not go than that he should settle down and live alongside the inferior race”. From this excerpt, we can see that one reason for countries to start colonization is because of to utilize the natural resources of the earth better and with more efficiency. Also, the intervention of the colonial power were to bring “free markets” and trade-routes for their
As described in the text, J.P. Morgan desired power and control as opposed to gaining wealth. In the reorganizations of the railroads and the consolidation of competing businesses, Morgan had created industrial giants know as General Electric and U.S. Steel. Rockefeller Jr. believed that by eliminating small businesses was the “working out of a law of nature and a law of God”. This ideology of society was based on the law of evolution at a macro-level, in comparing the business world to the natural world. But in reality the natural laws governing businesses had nothing to do with evolution but rather the laws of supply and demand.
I believe we do not need to experience more of such to learn to live in a fair environment. How much do we need to see of this prejudice before we whites can realize that we have been harming far too many people? As Mr Abraham Lincoln once said “How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people?” We have always declared as a nation that all men are created equal, but what we practically read it as is “All men are created equal, except the
He supported his argument with the example of the Eden (when Europeans arrived in North America). Krech asked “how can America be simultaneously paradise seemingly untouched by human hands and-as archaeologists and other scholars have often proposed-inhabited by people who, prior to the arrival of Europeans, exploited lands and animals in order to live, cut down forests for fuel and arable land, and perhaps oversalinated fields and helped animals to an early demise”. He also went on to explain that aboriginal people have been working on the land as a means of survival, but because it wasn’t industrialized, Europeans were quick to make assumptions of the Natives. Krech also noted that the manner in which aboriginals used the land and animals involved a system of spirituality and
Frederick Street: Life and Death on Canada’s Love Canal State-Sponsored Crime “Economic gains should never be an excuse for knowingly poisoning workers and their communities” (Kuyek, 2004:2), is just one of many examples of officials using profit as a means for pollution. Because of the resistance of powerful corporate and government organizations to valuing the health of employees and citizens above the making of profit leads those officials to overlook regulations, push constructions and lobby surrounding neighbourhoods to the ‘good’ of economic growth, while in the same breadth marginalizing their decisions for harmful effects. Officials typically placed hazardous waste sites, coke plants, steel mills and the likes near poor or minority communities because they expected less opposition than if the site were located near a well-off community. Social analysis must take place if we are to ask questions and learn about how our decisions to either welcome or reject such ‘prosperities’ are genuine and how issues may be interlinked. Using our sociological imagination could broaden our view of state-sponsored crimes and give insight as to how our personal troubles may be in the future interlinked with public issues.
Our lives melting into one another.” What a beautiful way to put it. In an article, I found on Cultural Survival where an interview took place with a Historian (Schlesinger). He states that the reason the Unites States vast multicultural society has worked for over centuries is due to overriding the conception of an American nationality. American citizenship has not only been enriched by strangers from different countries, but it has been transformed. America once a racist country that was initially run by white settlers who felt subgroups should be enslaved to do peon labor.
“Know-Nothing Party” formed, they answer questions by saying “I know nothing” 5. they supported native-born people over immigrants, they split like Whigs 6. antislavery parties: Liberty Party- passed abolition laws, Free-Soil Party- opposed expansion of slavery 7. slogan: “Free soil, Free speech, free labor, and free men” B. The Free- Soilers’ Voice 1. Didn’t have to free-soiler without being abolitionist 2. Northern free-soilers supported racist laws 3. Free-soilers focused on slavery’s competition w/ free white worker, wage based labor force 4.
But more often than not, minorities do not profit from social justice. When I say minorities, I am speaking of African Americans, Hispanics, the poor (any color), and other members of diverse groups. In order to truly acquire social justice, the government must be dedicated in distributing the environmental and economic "goods" and "bads" among all of
However, she was bluntly unaware that pesticides were not the biggest issues people had to worry about during the mid-twentieth century. In fact, it was global warming. She says “The chemical to which life is asked to make its adjustment are no longer merely the washed out of the rocks carried in rivers to the sea; they are the synthetic creations of man’s inventive mind, brewed in his laboratories, and having no counterparts in nature.”(Carson 1-40). In respect to her statement, McKibben adds on to the corruption of their sacred world by acknowledging that global warming has changed the world’s physical and chemical features. Examples of these changes he mentions are the “Arctic ice cap is melting”, Greenland’s glaciers are “thinning”, the oceans are becoming more “acidic” and “warmer” which is lowering the survival rate of several species such as coral.