Racial Discrimination Black And Middle Class - 1527 Words

Businesses nationwide are constantly breaking the law. They re not giving blacks equal consideration to other candidates that are other than black by discriminating against them. It is against the law to racially discriminate against your choice of employees as put in place by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And here we are fifty years later and it is still happening today. To be black and middle class is not the same as to being say white and middle class and not for obvious reasons. The white has a major advantage and doesn t have to do anything to earn it. The unemployment rate of blacks with a college education is 5 percent higher than that of whites and one of the main issues creating that statistic is racial discrimination. Employers†¦show more content†¦To fully understand this current issue for blacks in America, this paper will discuss three key ideas. First the paper will highlight the role the government plays in this issue. Secondly the paper will go over the role businesses play. And finally, the paper will discuss the disadvantages of not following equal employment opportunity. The first topic that I will discuss is the role that the government is playing in equal employment opportunity for blacks. Racial discrimination has played a large role against blacks since the beginning of our country even up until present day. And even after slavery was ended blacks were still never legally equal to whites until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act says that no employer shall discriminate against their employees when hiring, firing, or promoting. And with this act created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) who are used to implement the law. The EEOC has been growing ever since its creation and now includes many different programs to aid its cause such as investigatory authority, creating conciliation programs, filing lawsuits, as well as organizing voluntary assistance programs (Teaching With Documents: The Civil Right s Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). Affirmative action is As West defines the term... refers to both mandatory and voluntary programs intended to affirm the civil rights of designated classes of individuals by taking positive action to