Structural Racism Essay

Due to the United States long history of slavery, racism is a social issue that is noticeably stronger in this part of the world. There are two forms of racism which are individual racism and structural/institutional racism. According to the article “The Perfect Example of Structural Racism” by admin, structural racism is “a system of societal structures that work interactively to distribute generational and historic advantages to groups of people based on race and that produces cumulative, race-based inequalities. This includes laws and policies with “unintended consequences based on radicalized behavior”. This type of racism goes sometimes unnoticed to the victim, making others believe that racism is a thing of the past when in reality it

John is very well educated, having a masters in computer science, and has had great achievements, yet he has never been able to escape the harsh injustices due to racism. Now he earns an honest living as a real estate agent for a New York real estate company, working with this company for over seven years. John has always worked hard and has helped whoever whatever, in the office he was assigned to and is known to increase the amount of sales per year in every office he was in. However even after seven years of hard work and helping out the company, he was not promoted to the office manager position until recently, meanwhile his white colleagues were promoted to a manager position after at most one year. Even after being promoted he did not have the full title to himself. In fact, he had to share the title with a white man (who does not work nearly as hard as him) making him co-manager, while there are only one manager assigned to each office in different locations. This made him the first African-American to co-manage any of the company 's locations. And yes, the owners of the company are

I have helped with this business and through it I have witnessed what he brings to the real estate company. I see how much harder he has to work as opposed to his white colleagues. Yet, all of his hard work was not and I would say still is not appreciated, only for the simple fact that he is black. I have seen some people who were white, that he has guided the way through the business of real estate, get promoted only after a few months. And after all of the money, time, and effort he has put into the business for the company, he was only given the title of co-manager after seven years,which to me is a slap in the face. Although he has been able to maneuver to a higher position and made it to be the first black man to co-manage one of the company 's office, he will never get to become an owner or part owner of this company. This makes it structural racism because he has been oppressed by the company for several years by not being able to move up until after seven years, while his white colleagues were able to move up in less than a year, with less effort that he has put