Slavery and Racism Throughout the History of the United States

Throughout the history of the United States there has been suppression of blacks with slavery and racism, but now there is no slavery and black white, and every other minority has the same rights. People still want to blame the white community for everything bad that happens to them. People say that white people have a superior advantage over every other minority, but if you look at the facts this isn't the case. This actually hurts those minorities when they say this, because they are just making excuse on why they can't excel in life. Over the years people have demonized the white community with something they call White Privilege, but this has been debunked by the facts along with Affirmative action, EEOC, and police shooting statistics. Affirmative action is a great program for minorities and women in the United States with the services they other to young kids and to adults to help them succeed in society Affirmative action is set to ensure all educational programs and job applications and personal actions are not discriminated by sex, race, and color. Affirmative action says that the non-existence of discriminations isn't enough it is on task to eliminate all unequal treatment for everyone. Affirmative action is set in place to combat past discrimination and the hidden motive is the constitutional principle with equal opportunity where everyone has equal access to self-development. This program also institutes reviews of hiring process for women, minorities and other affected groups. It prevents small businesses to not discriminate against race, sex, religion, and national origin to work for them. It also affects the governments in state and federal to favor women and minority owned businesses when giving awards and reject bid to businesses with not good relations to minority owned businesses. With Affirmative action some members of affected groups get special treatment from government agencies and other businesses. President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order to ensure all applicants that have the met requirements and abilities are considered for employment no matter race, creed, color, or nationality. Its legal status was solidified by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit voting discrimination. It ensures that there is no racial workplace discrimination so it can keep at least a racial balance of employees. The civil rights act wasn't just super great in every way they also wanted to get rid of whites making minorities the new majorities. There is also a downside to Affirmative Action with it being a hot debate topic with some saying it reverses discrimination against white people. Some of this may have some truth to it, because when talking to some minorities they say it is impossible to be racist against a white person which is not the case. People have said that you can't be racist towards, because of their history and what they have done in the past like them bringing up the example of slaves and Indians, but in fact them saying that and being racist towards whites is called reverse racism. So some of these programs make people feel almost superiorly entitled that they can't be racist but anything semi racist said to them is a violation of them and a lot of times will come at you. Affirmative actions mission statement is to not have discrimination against anyone for any reason. The next point I am bringing up is another hot debate topic about police brutality and crime rates. People have said that a lot of police just go out and solely target blacks and this is not the case at all when you look at statistics with crime and police killings. One thing you see a lot of is that police kill a lot of unarmed people for no reason, even though there have been cases reported like this most of the time this is not how it plays out. In a study it shows that the majority of people killed by cops in 2015 and 2016 were armed and attempted to assault the cop or someone else. With some saying the killing of black Americans is way higher than white American is not the case. Out of all reported police shootings which was 990, 494 were white that is almost half which is way higher than what it is for black Americans. In another study a threat level was factored in and African Americans shot by cops posed no more immediate threat to officers than white americans. This shows that cops aren't more afraid of blacks then white. There are some bad cops, but most are great people trying to help the community. This is going back to the armed and unarmed situation, but cops were no more likely to kill someone who was unarmed in a high crime area which is an argument some propose. In 2015 during the middle of the year 1,592 people had been killed by police officers since the first of the year. 732 of those were white, 387 of them were African American, and 382 of them were of an unknown race. Some people say cops have no reason to just wrongfully accuse and arrest African Americans, but if you look at statistics. These statistics disprove this with the facts that African American 62% of robberies, 57% of murders and 45% percent if assaults. Even though black Americans made up only 13% of the population of the united states. This shows that police have some reason to question blacks when there is so little of them and they do most of the crime in the United States. The myth of police brutality is widely accepted along with a lot of other myths for white supremacy by the media and some of the propaganda that is spread to conceive a false narrative. The truth police just going out on random and getting a black man is overwhelmingly unlikely and even though white people do experience this sometimes less in some areas then blacks. This is consistent with the racial gap in violent crime, showing that the police show racial bias is wrong. The media's acceptance of the false narrative poisons the relations between law enforcement and black communities throughout the country and results in violent protests that get out of hand with people destroying things and some people die because of these actions. The narrative distracts from a more serious problems that black Americans face. Last year, according to the Washington Post out of a population of 20 million only 16 unarmed black men were killed which is very low which is .0000 8 percent of that population. The previous year was high with 36 people which is still super low with only .00018 percent of that population. This shows that even with it still being so low that the number has gone down just in one year by 20 people and we can still keep going down. They even include cases where the shooting was justified, even if the person killed was unarmed. The media doesn't present this evidence though, because it doesn't fit the narrative of blacks being oppressed.

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