Racism in the United States: By the Numbers

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1SOCIOLOGY
1. Learning from the video
The videos illustrate the current scenario regarding the practice of racism in
the country of United States. As per the recent survey analysis, more than 75 per cent
of the white Americans do not think that there exists any racial bias in the criminal
justice system or the context of the racism is a significant problem in the country of
America (Tim Wise 3 11 16, 2016). Though there lies some of the discriminatory
practices within the nation like the prison sentences of the African Americans have
been 20 per cent longer than that of the white men prison sentences when they are
convicted of similar crimes.
Furthermore, the practice of racism in the United States includes unequal
treatments like poor quality health treatments. The videos also explained that the
tremendous economic inequality in the country is one of the major factors towards
racial disparities ("Racism in the United States: By the Numbers, 2014). The videos
portrayed how the people of colour specifically the African Americans had been
dehumanised and criminalised in the United States throughout the century. Though
there has been a lot of changes in the term of modernisation, xenophobia and racism
furthermore exist in the multicultural society of the United States. In the case of the
educational platform, the shreds of evidence regarding the systemic biases are against
till overwhelming. The reservations for the white students are much higher as
compared to the coloured students. It has become challenging for African Americans
to acquire wealth due to the everlasting and the long history of the practice of racial
discrimination throughout the states. Thus denial of the systemic racism in the country
exemplifies the rejection of the evidence that indicate the racial bias effects almost
every part of the American life.