Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past, Present, and Future

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countries of Europe and is the descendant of European immigrants (European American, 2011). Years later, in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and was arrested. Her actions sparked protesting and boycotting (which Martin Luther King, Jr. was in charge of). This marked the day that many historians consider to be the beginning of the civil rights movement. A year after Martin Luther King Jr. started protesting, the bus system was desegregated. He then gave his famous ―I Have a Dream‖ speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial to various ethnic groups in 1963, a year before the act. The act was then created, and it stated many important issues regarding equality. Title seven of the 1964 Civil Rights Act created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They enforce laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, etc. in hiring, promoting, firing and all other terms and conditions of employment (Carr-Ruffino, 2009). After the act, a poll was taken in 2003. It asked eight questions regarding equality and civil rights. One question asked African Americans and Euro-Americans if they agreed that, ―Civil rights have greatly improved our lifetime.‖ 25% of African Americans agreed, while 48% of Euro-Americans agreed (Carr- Ruffino, 2009). This shows the difference in opinion between the African and Euro-Americans. The last question on the poll asked how much they agreed that ―Euro-Americans have equal job opportunities.‖ 17% of African Americans agreed and 55% of Euro-Americans agreed (Carr-Ruffino, 2009). This question had the biggest gap (-38%) out of all of the questions, which is sad, because this shows that African Americans still, do not feel equal regarding job opportunities. While researching for this topic, we found an article from Boston‘s Bay State Banner Newspaper that was written on February 24, 2011. The article was called, ―Are Companies Excluding Jobless from Applying?‖ It stated that some companies may be weeding out job applicants just because they‘re unemployed. The EEOC is trying to figure out whether this could violate federal job discrimination laws or not. They‘re investigating whether excluding the unemployed may have a greater effect on African Americans, Hispanic Americans and other minorities that tend to have higher jobless rates. Helen Norton, a professor at the University of Colorado Law School said that employers and staffing agencies have advertised jobs with the explicit restriction that only currently employed candidates would be considered. 55
The jobless rate is 15.7% among African Americans. Therefore, this problem could have a greater effect on them. Officials are concerned that this practice could hamper the government‘s efforts to help millions of unemployed people get back to work (Hananel, 2011). African Americans have been stereotyped throughout time. Mostly all of African American stereotypes come from the legacy of slavery and segregation. In order to justify slavery, Euro-Americans created degrading stereotypes of Africans. Stereotypes are irrational beliefs towards a particular group of people. Euro-Americans observed an abused slave whose rage finally consumed him and who lashed out violently. After this Euro-Americans began saying that African American men are violent. Even to this day, the stereotype of African Americans being violent still stays with them. A cultural custom that may perpetuate this stereotype is African American‘s preference for using direct confrontation to resolve a conflict. Most Euro-Americans, Asian Americans and Latino Americans prefer more indirect methods. This is why that their actions are often seen as hostile. They like more face-to-face conversation when there is a problem and most people don‘t appreciate this. The face-to-face conflict may make others nervous and out of their comfort zone. This action to African Americans is just being truthful and assertive, but others find it as anger or rage. Even though African American men have more arrest and convictions, doesn‘t mean that they are more violent. There are a lot of other ways to go to jail that have nothing to do with violent action at all (Carr-Ruffino, 2009). Another stereotype that is given to most African Americans is that they are less intelligent than other people. Reality is that school grades and scores on tests like the SAT exam depend more on socioeconomic status than any other factor, including ethnicity. Children that come from low-income households, and whose parents don‘t receive a great education, will get lower grades than others. Children whose parents receive a higher education, and have a greater income, will get higher grades in school. When the socioeconomic status goes up, in turn so do the children‘s grades. African Americans have different learning styles that help them improve in school. They are better at recognizing rhythms and patterns than other cultures. They are better at doing oral projects, like presenting in front of the class, 56
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