Racial Discrimination
Austin Williams, Tim Gross, Dylan Gilbreath, Amberlie Patton
Discrimination:
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex and intelligence.
17th Century
with the Europeans arrival to North America came their plan to subdue and conquer its land, but came racism and bigotry against Native Americans. the media portrayed them as bloodthirsty savages helped justify European abuses against Native Americans. When president Andrew Jackson signed the first inaugural address it majorly impacted the discrimination of native American.
Late 17th century
Many women, men, and children were stolen from many parts of Africa. In short terms they were tortured before the race were give rights later on due to the belief that white is dominant which is still believed to this day by some people. One key figure in this problem is MLK jr. instead of listening to what everyone believed he stood up for what was right and fought for the rights of African Americans.
December 1941
Due to the bombing of pearl Harbor members of the community lost homes, jobs, and businesses. Worst of all after the executive order signed by the president Roosevelt that deemed japan enemies of the state which started all of the discrimination which made the Japanese- American people even the women and children go to special camps due to the belief that they are all evil and can not be trusted.
Modern Era
the belief that native Americans are blood thirsty savages still goes on which led to high suicidal rate of these people.
Modern era
Because of their color and beliefs of other people they have hard times finding jobs and doing things they love.
modern era
People still believe that Japanese people can never be fully trusted which make their life/lifestyle much more difficult.
PLAN OF ACTION
In order to eliminate racial discrimination within our community, and later on within our society as a whole, we must understand that people are people- no matter the color of their skin, or where they come from.
We must start here, from this singular classroom, and expand to the entire school, and from there, to the district of NISD, eventually spreading this plan of action against racial discrimination further from an assembly of students and teachers to everyone in the local area.
An idea that can be brought into action would be, that since race is a physical aspect of a human, that if we didn't see this trait of a person, then we can't make assumptions about someone based on their race. We can perhaps create a blindfolded meeting with people where they talk together, get to know each other, without knowing the race of the person, and as a result cannot make judgments on someone based on their race.