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| charset=utf-8"> Introduction: | | | | in the United States sometimes considered |
| There are many ethnic communities within the United | | | | inter-marriages to African Americans a crime and |
| States. Most of these ethnic communities have | | | | sometimes they would even kill their kinsmen if they |
| migrated into the United States over the years. Many | | | | were found out to be involved with African Americans. |
| indigenous ethnic groups or Native Americans like the | | | | Besides this African Americans have faced vigilante |
| red Indians have been marginalized extensively | | | | violence especially in the form of lynching during the |
| especially due to foreign occupation of the land over | | | | Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era is a period of time |
| the last two decades. On this essay I will analyze a | | | | when the Jim Crow laws were in existence. |
| migrant ethnic group whose migration into the United | | | | These laws constitutionally allowed for racial |
| States is profoundly different from all the | | | | segregation against blacks. They were in existence |
| others.African Americans | | | | until 1964 when they were abolished, after the passing |
| African Americans are an ethnic group in the United | | | | of the civil rights act of 1964, especially due to black |
| States whose ancestral homes are mainly in | | | | movements mainly led by martin Luther |
| sub-Saharan Africa. African Americans just like many | | | | king.Explanation |
| other ethnic groups in the United States migrated into | | | | There are many reasons why African Americans |
| the United States for over the last decade. Unlike | | | | have been discriminated against, but the main reason |
| other immigrants African Americans in the United | | | | why they have been discriminated against is due to |
| States did not migrate into the United States out of | | | | the color of their skin. The black skin of African |
| their own volition. | | | | Americans is considered by many to be inferior to |
| The earliest African American immigrants in the United | | | | other skin colors and thus they do not see the reason |
| States were actually slaves who were shipped into | | | | why a black person should be more prosperous than |
| the United States in order for them to work in white | | | | they. Apart from this there are other people who hold |
| plantation farms. Most of these were usually captured | | | | the cognitive prejudice that Africans and in extension |
| forcefully and then sold to slave merchants along the | | | | African Americans were not created but actually |
| east African and west African coast and then traded | | | | evolved. This belief makes them view African |
| to slave ships and brought across the Atlantic ocean in | | | | Americans as resembling apes and thus they belief |
| what was famously referred to as the trans-Atlantic | | | | these people should be living in zoos. |
| slave trade. Although a majority of African Americans | | | | On the issue of institutional discrimination: |
| have an African ancestry there are around 17% of | | | | Institutional racism or discrimination is not foreign to |
| African Americans who have a European ancestry | | | | American culture. African Americans have been on |
| and there is still a significant group that have an Indian | | | | the receiving end and they have been highly affected |
| or Native American ancestry. | | | | by it. On this perspective many African Americans |
| On matters of prejudice, segregation, and racism: | | | | have faced many occupational and educational |
| African Americans have faced many ills during their | | | | disadvantages due to ingrained stereotypical views |
| long stay in the United States. African Americans have | | | | that are still deeply rooted in the American society like |
| faced hostility from other ethnic groups ever since the | | | | blacks are inherently criminals. This has denied many |
| days of slavery up to date. Although in recent days | | | | African Americans many privileges enjoyed by other |
| the hostility is not widely spread it is still evident and | | | | races like a good education, the best occupations as |
| ripe deep inside the American society. Due to this | | | | well as a just legal structure. |
| prejudice African Americans were denied their liberty, | | | | Cultural identity |
| the chance to pursue their own happiness and even | | | | Everyone has a right to belong to a certain culture. |
| denied life in the following ways. Firstly African slaves | | | | Although I would like to associate more with the |
| were not recognized as humans but as property of | | | | African American culture, I will have to recognize the |
| the slave owners. | | | | fact that the American society is multiracial and thus I |
| In addition slaves were denied the right of freedom of | | | | have to equally relate not only to the African American |
| worship and association. African slaves once shipped | | | | culture but I also have to identify with the general |
| into the United States, they were separated from their | | | | American culture.Conclusion |
| wife’s and children. Furthermore, slaves who | | | | Acts of racism, discrimination, and segregation are not |
| were extremely emaciated on arrival in the land of | | | | unique to the American culture. The system of |
| opportunities’, were usually left to die due to the | | | | apartheid or racial segregation was legally in existence |
| fact that they had no economic value to the slave | | | | in South Africa until 1994. In many other countries |
| lords. In this respect African Americans have faced all | | | | people of other nationalities or ethnic backgrounds are |
| kinds of prejudice which are cognitive prejudice, co | | | | always discriminated against. |
| native prejudice and affective prejudice. In this respect | | | | All what needs to be done is for people all over the |
| African Americans have been discriminated against in | | | | world to be made to understand that whether a |
| the electoral process, educational sector, public | | | | person is a red Indian, a black American, a Punjabi or |
| transportation, legal system as well as many other | | | | whatever, people need to realize that a beneath the |
| fields. | | | | skin we all have the same color of blood, the same |
| African Americans have found themselves | | | | body organs and that above all we all have one heart, |
| segregated against when it comes to the family unit | | | | one soul and one chance to live in this lifetime. |