Racial_Problem_in_America 美国种族问题

Racial Problem in America

Americans assert that everybody was equal, and freedom and democracy are boasted from time to time. Now many Americans think that the racial discrimination is disappeared. However, it is not true. "All man are equal" is still did not give to some color people in America today. From the past to now, Racial issues always exists.

As America is a country of multi-nationality, the racial discrimination has existed since the nation begins, even before its beginning. When Dutch and English encroach on the American continent, the White’s policy never presses religious restrictions on them as they did on the others. In the White’s encroachment, the White settlers kept themselves aloof from the other color people-blacks. And they thought that the White is superior to the Black. Their policy was one of extermination, not absorption. Then it moves to the slavery. At the time of slavery, Blacks were suppressed by the White people. The Black was forced to do lower jobs and be servant or slavery of the White. They had experienced that they are treated to be lower humans.

By the time of American Civil War, when all the southern economic system was founded on Negro slave labor, the plantation owners had worked out all the necessary justification for it. Some of them even attempted to prove, with a wealth of biblical that Negroes were sub-human and were suited for nothing other than slavery. Then at the end of the war finally brought freedom to the slaves in 1865, but blacks still had a lower position in society. Many Southern states practiced segregation to "keep blacks in their place." Separated schools, separated restaurants and even separated entrance for Whites and Blacks showed clearly that there was a strong racial discrimination in the society. It is obvious that the racial discrimination existed from its history.

As we all know that Martin Luther King had a famous speech, "I Have a Dream" in 1963. And he dreamed of a nation in which people were not judged by the color of skin, but by the content of their character. He also dreamed of a nation where all people were equal and harmony. This dream has come true for some, but for some, it’s still a fantasy. Luckily, the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s helped black people get many of the rights which are promised in the Constitution. But in spite of the achievement of it, racial problems still exist. The laws have changed, but some white people remain prejudiced. And the 1992 Los Angeles riots is a good example to show that.

It’s no doubt that the racial tension has defused by people’s labor and activities. But we also can see that racial discrimination does exist in America nowadays. We can know it from today’s black unemployment rate and rate of survival black patients. According to unemployment and job loss figures released for August 2009 by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the national unemployment