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关于歧视的英语作文The terrible toll of racism in the U.S.
By Sharon Smith | March 19, 2004 | Page 7
HALF OF all Black men in New York City can’t find a job, while Black teenage
unemployment stands at 37 percent nationwide. These statistics show a crisis among Black Americans that should be setting off alarm bells in election year 2004.
Yet even John Kerry, the candidate whose party’s voting base includes the vast majority of Blacks, has issued barely a sound bite. This should come as no surprise, since Black lives, Black votes and Black rights have been devalued since the Founding Fathers. The original U.S. Constitution permitted slavery and counted Black slaves as three-fifths of white persons in determining both Congressional representation and taxation,
embedding racism in the very foundation of U.S. society. The institution of slavery was abolished only through Civil War, a bloody second American Revolution that cost at least 600,000 lives.
But racism outlived slavery and flourished for the next 100 years in the form of Jim Crow segregation, in which the majority of states, from North Dakota to Texas to California, made it a crime for Blacks to intermingle with whites in all walks of life--from hospitals to cemeteries, lunch counters to phone booths, military service to marriage.
Jim Crow segregation laws were challenged and finally struck down only because of a massive civil rights struggle stretching over more than two decades, from the 1955
Montgomery bus boycott to the fight to enforce court-ordered school desegregation in the 1970s. But de facto segregation continued, North and South, while accusations of "reverse racism" and Black "welfare dependency" emanated from the political
establishment, injecting racism with new life in the post-civil rights era.
Politicians from both the Democratic and Republican Parties scrambled to appear "tough on crime," embracing the so-called war on drugs, which tripled the prison population between 1980 and 1995. Two-thirds of those who entered the prison system during that period were Black, Latino or poor, and the vast majority of them were nonviolent drug offenders.
Today, with the prison population swollen to more than 2 million, African Americans make up just 12 percent of the U.S. population and only 13 percent of drug users, yet account for 35 percent of drug arrests and 53 percent of drug convictions. Blacks are also 43 percent of those on death row.
Last year, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that 30 percent of 12 year-old Black boys will spend time in jail in their lifetimes--far more than will attend college. And because many states have laws denying present and former inmates the right to vote, an estimated 13 percent of all Black men--including one in every three in Alabama and Florida--have been disenfranchised.
Racism, not criminal records, explains the high unemployment rate for Black men today. A recent Wall Street Journal report showed that in the city of Milwaukee, a white job
applicant with a criminal record has a better chance of being called for an interview than a Black man with no criminal record.
"The disadvantage carried by a young Black man applying for a job as a dishwasher or a driver is equivalent to forcing a white man to carry an 18-month prison record on his back," concluded reporter David Wessel. And only racism can explain these statistics:
-- Segregation in public schools, which decreased continuously from the 1950s to the late 1980s, has now returned to levels not seen in three decades.
-- Black infants are almost two-and-a-half times more likely than white infants to die before the age of one, a wider gap than in 1970.
-- In 2002, 79 percent of Blacks aged 25 and older were high school graduates, compared with 30 percent in 1968. Yet the typical Black household had a net worth of just $19,000, compared with $121,000 for whites.
More than 200 years since slavery was written into the U.S. constitution, its racist legacy remains--and the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass remain true: "Without struggle, there can be no progress." Only a struggle that shakes the foundation of U.S. society can end racism
Racial discrimination， or， the color problem， refers mainly to Negroes in the United States， as they constitute one tenth of the total population. The term "Negro" is applied to people descended or partly descended from slaves transported from Africa long ago. It is now avoided by many white Americans for fear of offending their "non-white" brothers. The old term "nigger" is now considered to be insulting， and is altogether avoided in decent usage. In official statistics the term "non-white" is used， and in ordinary situations it is acceptable to call non-white people "black"， although this term was once also somewhat insulting.
种族歧视在美国的可怕的代价
一半的黑人在纽约找不到工作,而黑人青少年
全国失业率高达37%。这些统计数字显示,危机中美国黑人应该设置在2004年大选之年敲响警钟。
即使约翰·克里的在野党候选人的选举基础包括绝大多数的黑人,已经发布了仅仅一声咬人。这不足为奇,因为黑人生活,黑人选票和权利自开国元勋们一直在贬值。最初的美国宪法允许奴隶制和黑人奴隶作为计算3/5的白人人在决定国会代表和税收,
嵌入种族主义在美国社会的基础。奴隶制被废除的机构只有通过内战,一场血腥的第二个美国革命,成本至少600000人的生命。
但比奴隶制和种族主义盛行的形式在接下来的100年里黑人种族隔离,在大多数的州,北达科他州的德克萨斯到加利福尼亚,使其犯罪的黑人与白人混合各行各业,从医院到墓地,午餐柜台电话亭,婚姻的兵役。
黑人种族隔离法律挑战,最终推翻了只是因为大规模的民权斗争拉伸超过二十年,从1955年
蒙哥马利巴士抵制运动执行法院下令学校种族隔离的斗争在1970年代。但事实上的种族隔离继续,北部和南部,而“逆向种族主义”的指责和黑色的政治,传出“福利依赖”
与新生活,注入种族主义对内权利的时代。
民主党和共和党两党政客竞相出现“严厉打击犯罪”,接受所谓的“毒品战争”,监狱人口在1980年到1995年之间增长了两倍。三分之二的人进了监狱系统在此期间是黑人,拉丁裔或贫穷,他们绝大多数的非暴力毒品犯罪者。
今天,监狱人口膨胀到200万多,非裔美国人占美国人口的12%,只有13%的吸毒者,但占35%的.毒品被逮捕和53%的毒品定罪。黑人也有43%的死囚。
去年,美国司法统计局估计,30%的12岁的黑人男孩一生中花时间在监狱里——远远超过将上大学。因为很多州都有法律否认现在和前囚犯选举权,估计有13%的黑人男性,包括一个在每三在阿拉巴马州和佛罗里达州——已经被剥夺了公民权。
种族歧视,没有犯罪记录,今天解释了黑人的高失业率。《华尔街日报》最近的一份报告显示,在密尔沃基市,一个白色的工作
申请人有犯罪记录有一个更好的机会比一个黑人被称为接受采访,没有犯罪记录。
“缺点由一个年轻的黑人申请洗碗机或司机的工作相当于迫使一个白人18个月被记录在他的背上,“结束记者大卫·韦塞尔。只有种族主义能解释这些数据:
——在公立学校种族隔离,减少不断从1950年代到1980年代末,现在已经回到三年未见的水平。
——黑人婴儿几乎两倍半白人婴儿死亡的年龄之前,比1970年更大的差距。
——在2002年,79%的25岁及以上的黑人是高中毕业生,1968年这一比例为30%。然而,典型的黑人家庭的净资产19000美元,相比之下,白人为121000美元。
200多年以来,奴隶制是写入美国宪法,其种族主义遗产,废奴主义者的话说弗雷德里克·道格拉斯依然如此:“没有斗争,没有进步。“只有一个斗争,震动美国社会的基础可以结束种族歧视
种族歧视,或者颜色问题,主要指黑人在美国,因为他们占总人口的十分之一。“黑人”这一术语应用于人的后代或部分是从很久以前奴隶从非洲运送。现在是避免被许多白人因为害怕得罪他们的兄弟“白人”。旧的“黑鬼”一词现在被认为是侮辱,完全避免使用良好。在官方统计术语“白人”,在一般情况下是可以接受的打电话给非白人人“黑人”,尽管这个术语也曾经有些无礼。
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