...For the greater good of this nation, the education system has to be reformed, as racial inequality is evident and the discriminatory educational system is becoming a self destructive factor on the citizens of the United States of America. In the U.S, public education funds rely on taxation of local property. These property taxes vary between different districts and locations. This variance of property tax revenues often leads to inequality of education due to lack of financial resources in the school to provide opportunities, facilities and programs for the students. This inequality of opportunities is evident and often leads up to broader, much larger social problems in the long run. According to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, racial minorities are more likely, than their white counterpart, to be suspended from school, receive less access to math and science classes, and are usually taught by lower-paid teachers with less experience. (Rich 2015) Statistics from the date proved that based on the data collected during the 2011-2012 academic year, black students face harsher discipline than other students and are three times more likely to be suspended than white students. Young African-American students are also suspended and expelled at disproportionate rates, even students as young as preschool-level. Students of color also lacks the access to schools that offer a full range of math and science courses, which undoubtedly impacts their chances of getting...
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...This is just a point of view from a former special needs educator, the issues principals would face I figure would be greater. In “Different Perception of Race in Education: Racial Minority & White Teachers” Paul R Carr & Thomas R. Klassen where they discuss how minorities are able to relate better to other minorities because of experiences “Teachers are, undoubtedly, and important factor, and the influence of the lived experiences of predominantly white teachers and administrators working with and increasingly racially diverse student body needs to be understood” (page 68). This part of the excerpt stood out to me because it made me think of the hiring process of teachers and administrators in education later on page 69 Carr & Klassen state that “almost 50% of secondary students are of racial minorities and only 10% of teachers are of racial minorities (Carr,...
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...Racial Preferences Do Not Create Equality in Education To bring more diversity and create equality in higher education, many colleges give racial preferences when minority students apply. They do work; however, some white students feel racial preferences violate equal protection. The philosophy of affirmative action is useful in understanding creating education’s equality. In the United State, the racial problem is always an important issue in approaching democracy. In 1961, “affirmative action” first appeared in a government document named Executive Order10925 signed by John F. Kennedy. Affirmative action is the “positive steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities… from which they have been historically excluded.” (Fullinwider 1) It mostly used in education field now to promote the proportion of minority students in higher education. Based on affirmative action, many universities give preference to minorities when both they and majority white students apply at the same time. So that many minority students got the equal chance, or even more chance to go to college. This kind of action do have influential effect, in 2004, 21% of the freshmen at the Austin campus, University of Texas were black or Latino, and this percentage up to 26% in 2007. (Washington) It seems that minorities get equal treatment and equal opportunity in education, however, it brings new problems. According to an article entitled “Supreme Court will hear case on affirmative action...
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...most pronounced one is the racial segregation. Even though certain races are perceived as inferior to some, there should be no such thing because we all need to work together to make the planet a better place and lives are ruined over racial this segregation. The theme of this story is about tough choices and racial divides. Throughout the story you have mention of how segregated they are. The white boy lives in the farm house while the black girl and the rest of the help live in a kraal. The boy goes off to boarding school to learn while the black children get a second rate education if any. This story is all about racial segregation, something that is still very prominent in Africa today. The story is set in Africa where segregation and racial inequality are the country’s way of life. The story is set on a farm were the children will play together during early childhood and then they start going to school. The white kids will be given a better education while the black kids are given a much lower education and by the age of thirteen the divide between them is pretty large. Two kids that grew up together fell in love, one of them is the farmer’s son named Paulus and the other is one of the worker’s daughters named Thebedi. Their relationship became more intimate after Paulus went off to boarding school. It again took a turn when Thebedi gave birth to a child that was lighter than expected. The story is about two young children from different racial backgrounds that...
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...Nyandire Dickens. Racial Discrimination Racial discrimination is one of the major vices that have affected human race for a long time with very many active bodies trying to eliminate it. It involves people being treated less favourably in various aspects of life depending on the social background or the skin colour that she or he possesses or background of origin. This vice is mostly dominant in housing, employment and consumer markets (Devah Pager and Hana Shepherd, 2008). Recruitment is always based on the colour of individual and at certain times black people are always exposed to some sorts of discrimination while performing their tasks in the work place. The racial behaviour may include; harassments, exclusion and labeling (sociology of discrimination, 2008). In addition, some people may be denied the opportunity to access certain residential places that are only preserved for people of specific colour. These kinds of discrimination lead to stress, anxiety and totally reduce morale of an individual in the social aspect of life (Feagin & Sikes 1994, Kessler et al. 1990). Racial discrimination is not only bad for human social life but may also diminish the effort or reduce performance in the work place. It affects both performance in labour markets and education (Ogbu 1991; Steele 1997; Loury 2002, pp. 26–33). Most organizations have been on the forefront in fighting this vice including the civil societies and the government. The National Association for the Advancement of...
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...Olugbenga Folarin Racism is to believe that all members of a race have abilities or characteristics specific to that race especially to say that another race is inferior or superior to another race or races. (Prejudice and discrimination both come with racism too.) Racism is a global problem that needs a solution that will result in endless benefits. It affects all facets of society including the learning process, which especially affects people of color. Since the 1600’s it has been hard for the of African descent persons. In education they have had a hard time prospering, like in the 1600’s; of African descent being was not allowed to even learn. In 1870, 81% of African Americans in the United States were illiterate (when only less than 9% of white Americans were illiterate). But that was because only about 9% of the African American went to school, while 50% of white American children attended school. After this key point in history, the numbers improve and things get a little better but not much. In 1896, the Plessey v, Ferguson (Plessey was a man who could easily pass for white but was jailed for sitting in a white only train car when he took matters into his own hands to challenge the separate car act .He took them to court and they made great points but the supreme court still kept the “separate but equal” law because they thought it was constitutional ).Supreme Court decision to pass equal but separate laws went through and it only made things worse for the African...
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...What explains the adaptation of the 1948 Apartheid law in South Africa? South Africa’s Apartheid was a political system founded in racial segregation. The National Party, the only governing party between the years 1948 to 1994, committed itself to oppressing the country’s people through racial legislation. What factor explains the adaptation of the Apartheid law in 1948? An Afrikaner (southern African ethnic group) minority ruled the population, enacting Apartheid once white supremacist leaders and racial segregation had become a central aspect of the South African policy after World War II. The Afrikaners had also formed some Broderbund organizations, developing and imposing ideology that helped in pushing the Apartheid agenda. Such ideology was officially administered in South Africa through the mandate of the League of Nations, later revoked in 1966 via the United Nations 2145 Resolutions (Barbarin, Oscar & Linda 2013, 221). The Great Depression 1929 resulted in a bad economic turn in South Africa, and saw many Afrikaner whites move to the city in search of jobs from previously settled rural areas. However, due to high taxes, native South African tribesmen had to work in the mines resulting in an increase in the number of black people in the manual labor workforce. Racial segregation itself began during the colonial period under the rule of the Dutch empire until the British appropriated the Cape of Good Hope in 1795 (Clark, Nancy &...
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...A racial policy which Rooted from the new deal; after World War ll, the government used federal founding for public housing. Public housing was motivated to create racial segregation by state and federal government. You would think that these racial policies were created in the south. But it would seem to be all over the united states. They were known as projects. Projects were intended for whites and blacks at first. However, when the white families left the projects for the suburbs, the projects became public housing for blacks and they were intended and targeted for other black neighborhoods. Furthermore, they continue the policy by establishing the “neighborhood composition rule”, which means public housing cannot disturb other pre-existing racial composition of neighborhoods around them...
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...Prejudice and Discrimination Tiffany Gibson Sociology November 25, 2012 Matiko Bivins Prejudice and Discrimination When reflecting on my six-month expedition to South Africa, I recognized various aspects of prejudice and discrimination. Although racial categories in South Africa have been abolished, many native countrymen still view themselves and others according to these categories. Race is the classification system to categorize people based on physical characteristics, but has not scientific significance. “Blacks are the largest racial group in South Africa (approximately 79% [of the total population]) (Shutts, Kinzler, Katz, Tredoux, & Spelke, 2011)” consisting of several ethnic groups, such as Khoi-San, Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, Sotho, Venda, and Shangaan. Ethnicity is cultural traits shared by a category of people; religion, language, and national origin are types of ethnic classifications. However, the minority of white South Africans have more freedom and opportunities because of the unspoken racial separation within the government and workforce. Khoi-San is the unified name of two ethnic groups, who share physical characteristics and languages of the Bantu region. They are known to have small, short frames, copper-brown skin, high cheekbones, and slanted eyes differentiating them from their dark African counterparts. They are native to the semi-desert regions in...
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...Racial Diversity in Society Angela Rowland ETH/125 October 13, 2013 Arletha Ndoume Racial Diversity in Society Part I African Americans seem to fall below regarding political, social and economic standings. Economically, their income has improved over the past fifty years. They now report a median income of what White men were making 50 years ago. In 2009, the median income for Blacks was $32584, and for Whites it was $54461.00. (Schaefer, 2012) As much as the income has increased for African Americans, it has also increased for White men. That suggests they are still the less than race. It could be said that their economic status is a result of poor college enrollment or graduation among their race. The reduction in financial aid availability has deterred African Americans from applying for higher education, and the stigma that comes with trying to succeed in school as an African American does the same. In the social aspect, there seems to be consistency of broken families among the race. Single parent families account for 91% of the households. (Schaefer, 2012) This is a shocking statistic. Although, they are broken families, there seems to be very strong generational family ties. Each generation seems to take responsibility for the younger generation. There are several instances where the grandmothers are raising the grandchildren. There will likely be multi generations in one home. They also have strong religious values and attend church together weekly. There...
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...the segregation laws but the Sauer Commission was established in 1947 to focus on the relocation of blacks into urban areas and the negative effects it would have on white businesses and jobs. In the election of 1948, Smuts's United Party lost to the main Afrikaner nationalist party, the Reunited National Party, which joined the Afrikaner Party. Together they became the National Party. Racial segregation in South Africa became legal in 1948 when the National Party began to officially enforce apartheid and the rights of the majority, non-white people were diminished. The National Party then sorted people into racial groups of black, white colored, or Indian so residential areas could be segregated, sometimes by force. Several apartheid laws were passed since the inception of apartheid in 1948 until 1970. The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949 prohibited interracial marriages and the Immorality Act of 1950 made interracial sex a crime. The Population Registration Act of 1950 formally established racial groups and furnished everyone with identity cards to specify their racial group. According to the Apartheid Museum (2003), families could be separated if they were grouped into different races. The Group Areas Act of 1950 forced people to live in separate places defined by race. The Bantu Authorities Act of 1951 separated white and black...
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...ESSAY QUESTION; 1. Short Essay (1500-2000- words) Assessment 1 Students are required to submit a short essay that encompasses theory and examples to support the argument that: Sport and politics are inextricably linked. Intro This essay intends to discuss the mechanisms by which sports and politics are inextricably linked. To do so, the paper will focus on instances where politics/political relations have deeply implicated/penetrated/interfered the process/practice of sport. The core or main focal point of the essay will discuss the history behind the human rights violation made by South Africa’s apartheid policy/regime and their lofty suspension from the Olympic Games. The paper will go onto explore how this racial segregation policy impacted sport within the South African nation/community. A conclusion will follow which describes South Africa’s present stance in post-apartheid era and how sport contributed to the dismantling of the apartheid regime In order to begin, it is first necessary to define Human Rights clearly. The Officer of High Commissioner for Human Rights state that “Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.” http://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/Pages/WhatareHumanRights.aspx ...
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...South Africa is considered an upper middle income country in terms of the World Bank tables but according to Wilson (2011:2) as well as Cornell and Wilson (2012:1) poverty in South Africa, despite its high income ranking, is widespread and severe. The only possible explanation for the contradiction in South Africa’s characteristics would be the deep levels of inequality experienced within the country (Wilson 2011: 2). This essay is going to prove, through looking at what poverty and inequality entail, how it originated in South Africa as well as evaluating statistical evidence, that inequality is indeed a more pressing socio-economic challenge than poverty is in contemporary South Africa. According to Laderchi, Saith and Stewart (2007:1) most policies now a days are somehow related to the impact of poverty on the country but in order for these policies to make a difference it is important to know what we are aiming at and therefore a clear understanding of what poverty and inequality is as well as where these terms originated from is essential for success. Laderchi, Saith and Stewart (2007) supply us with multiple approaches to poverty including the monetary approach, capabilities approach, social exclusion approach as well as participatory approach. Universally the monetary approach is dominantly accepted and used. This approach describes poverty as being a shortfall below a minimum level of resources or poverty line which is assessed through whether the individual can meet...
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...light on critical information regarding history and race relations, and how this relationship has severely impacted certain racial group for better or for worst. The information learned from this film can be used to determine possible reasons as to why, White adults are the most likely racial group in the US to meet the Federal Physical Activity Guidelines. The film touches on the numerous government aid given to White individuals and family in the past, and how these same opportunities were not given to family of color. This in itself left many Black and Latino families in difficult situations which would be passed on from generation to generation. An example of these government...
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...Have a Dream in the nation’s capital. The civil rights movement succeeded thanks in part to the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for equality of all people’s has started to become a reality. Inspired . African Americans got the most public attention after the end of World War II. They are well-know activists in protesting against discrimination in racism. Since the end of World War II, the population of African Americans in the United States has been increased 7% in few decades. The massive increase of African Americans population formed huge communities in cities, such as Oakland, Richmond, Los Angels etc. In this long time period, African Americans have to face and struggle for racial discrimination in their life. The major problems were employment, education, and housing. In the case of hiring, the ratio of unemployed African Americans increased double from 1940s to 1970s. Most of African Americans people had to deal with lower living standard. The economic discrimination kept African Americans away from skilled work or sometime not even a chance to get hired in any job. Before World War II, African Americans were denied to work in the field involves skilled techniques. During World War II, nation needed more workers to catch up its production volume, many African Americans were allowed to work as skilled workers in industries. After the end of war, however, the number of African American workers decreased dramatically. Even thought there were issues...
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