Racism in Education
Indeed, obviously, since the institution and signing of the Civil Rights Act in America by former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, along with concomitant legislation including the Equal Housing Act and other extensions of Civil Rights, engaging in systematic racial discrimination or allowing racist thinking and planning to affect the policies of any institution -- whether private or public -- has been strictly banned by the U.S. Government in law and action. Nevertheless, however, it would be remiss to assume that, simply because a system of laws are in place, that a given problem has been dealt with and has subsided. To use an extreme analogy, we have severe laws throughout the nation that attack people who possess and distribute drugs, including mandatory maximum penalties in many jurisdictions, and, even beyond these laws, the U.S. governments spends millions of dollars each year on drug enforcement, border patrols, and preventative drug education -- yet despite all of these controls, anyone who drew the conclusion that, based on these laws, drugs were no longer a problem in the United States, would be severely, severely fooling themselves into thinking something that wasn't even remotely true. Indeed, similarly as regards racism, just because we have a series of fairly stringent laws that ban us from instituting discriminatory policies in our schools does not mean that such policies are not covertly enforced or that such policies are, in fact, not simply the result of unintentional or unrealized biases upon the part of those in power, for these reasons it is necessary to have our schools continually reevaluate themselves to ascertain quite positively that they are not in fact responsible for the degradation of our policies on enforcing racial equality. Furthermore, in a year in which the sitting Presidential administration aided a movement and even filed an amicus brief in support of a judicial case to end affirmative action in schools, we must make every effort to defend these policies that uphold diversity and ensure a positive and inclusive future for minority students in our educational system at every level, from kindergarten to graduate school and beyond.
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G., a magnet school), and also in terms of the various percentages of whites; African-Americans; Asians; and Latino (a)s attending each high school. According to Solorzano and Ornelas (Feb/Mar 2004) their study of advanced placement high school enrollment trends among minority students was driven by their desire for clearer answers to several key questions about equal access to educational opportunities for minority students and white students alike within various Los
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Education Both Woodson (1933) and Howard (2001) agree that the education system in the United States is inherently biased, and that it does not serve the needs or interests of the African-American community. Blacks are systematically excluded from history and the construction of pedagogy in schools. Furthermore, Woodson (1933) points out that there have been few opportunities for African-Americans to join established professions. The message has been that blacks do not
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The other effect of the discriminatory judicial system is that non-whites are usually targeted by the system in an unfair manner. For instance, Latinos are usually and in certain instances explicitly singled out for the process of immigration enforcement. Close to ninety-four percent of all the illegal immigrants who are arrested by the INS are of Mexican origin. The Immigration and Naturalization Service itself however states that only about fifty four
In additon, there is the sustenance of a certain sense of uniformity in accordance with the economic accomplishments of the American society. Besides, given the continued electoral progress of the far-right parties that formally eschew anti-Semitism, and the lack of progress made by the radical, neo-Nazi or extremist groups that are often openly anti-Semitic, maintaining the distinction between these two types of groups (although the boundaries are occasionally blurred)
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