I do not believe racial discrimination or private
discrimination is a problem anymore. Blacks have traveled a long road to have
equal civil rights. It was not long ago that Martin Luther King Jr. boycotted
the Montgomery bus system because Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a
white person, which led to her getting arrested. On the other hand, thirty percent
of the United States is made up of colored people, sixty percent of those will
be imprisoned. According to the Bureau of Justice statistics, one of three
black men can expect to be imprisoned in their lifetime. I don’t know if this
is an example of racial discrimination or if the crime rates speak for
themselves, but the government has done enough to protect racial discrimination.
Women have traveled a long way since the women’s suffrage
movement. Women have the same equal rights as men. They pursue the same jobs as
a man would no matter how hard the labor might be. There are female state and
government officials that represent the United States. Although in 2011 women
made 77.4 percent of what men made. African American women earned 66.7 percent
of what men earned, and Latinas made 58.7 percent of what men made. This still occurred
with the Equal Pay Act and Civil Rights Act in order. The government could do
more to seek out the problems of employment financing.
Sexual Orientation is still a major issue in
today’s time. The government has done very little to overcome the problem of
same-sex marriage. Many people do not agree with same-sex marriage, but they’re
viewing it all wrong. Gay people are always going to be gay. No matter how long
the government waits to enforce gay rights, same-sex will always linger around.
So why make them hide themselves from the world because it might make the work
place awkward. We do not have the right to judge someone because they’re
different. I don’t know what I believe, but I know that I would want to be
treated equally no matter what the case is.
