Race Discrimination Essay

Discrimination

Discrimination was and always will be an issue in the world we live in. Ever since humans became to exist there was always an issue of unjust treatment. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Discrimination is a hot topic right now in the United States of America due to Caucasian cops shooting African American victims. There were riots in Baltimore and protests in Chicago that have taken front headlines of the news. There is more than just race discrimination in the U.S.

This topic affects our founding ideals of democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity,

Not too long ago people of the African descent were often not allowed to vote unless they paid money, which they did not have because they were too busy being slaves. Which is also another form of discrimination in itself, which we will touch on later. “The clearest case where racial discrimination has no place is in government-financed services such as schools and libraries (Discrimination, 2015).” If it is government funded everyone deserves to have an equal right to it. “If not, the government has committed the equivalent of theft, which is immoral, that is, requiring someone to pay for a service, then compounding the crime denying him its benefits (Discrimination, 2015).” America has come a long way since the birth of this country and finally we have had a black president which shows that America is changing for the better. Even though there are some very racist people, which I believe are mostly elderly because that’s the way they were raised. Times are slowly changing and young parents are teaching their kids to treat everyone equally. “More than eight in 10 Americans agree that in the future, Americans will be more accepting of all races (National, 2015).” Now less people are being brought up in a racist

Equality is the idea that everyone is treated equally and/or fairly. Granted most people say life is not always fair; which I agree with but no one deserves to be discriminated against. We are all human and all deserve to be treated equally and that nobody is worth more than the other. “Fairness would also lead to the expectation that once arrested, blacks would be equally likely to be convicted and sentenced as whites. But again, the evidence shows that black incarceration is out of step with black offending (Is the, 2015).” This cannot be happening if we want America to change in the near future. Blacks are being sent to jail longer than whites who commit the same