Racism Still Exists Today
Racism Still Exists Today “Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” -Unknown In 1954, racial segregation was unanimously ruled to be unconstitutional. However, there is still racism in the modern-day United States. Today, it comes in different forms than in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D Taylor. In her novel, set in 1933, the main characters, the Logan children, deal with many examples of racism towards them because of their African descent. There are still many examples of racism happening today in the USA, such as color-mute people, support for racist leaders, and race being considered when making decisions, just as it was in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. In Mildred Taylor’s book, there are many
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His story goes like so; every day, he would apply for between 50 and 100 jobs. After months of this with no callbacks, he changed the name on his applications to “Joe”. One mere week later, callbacks began to come. As a result of his Mexican-sounding name, Mr. Zamora did not get requests to come to be interviewed to get the job. A study in 2004 supports this claim, resumes with white names have higher callback rates than ones with “minority” names, regardless of the quality of the application. In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, there are several examples of race being a decisive factor. The first one is that white schools and stores have white employees, and African-American schools only hire teachers who are of African descent. Another example is of when the Logan family is driving in their Uncle Hammer’s car, which is the same model as Harlan Granger's’, a powerful, greedy, racist white man. The Logans are approaching a bridge when the Wallaces are trying to cross it. However, when they see the car, they backed up to let the Logans pass because, “‘Hammer!’ Big Ma cried. ‘They think you’re Mr.Granger.’” (139). Although one could argue that because Uncle Hammer was able to purchase a car that was the same as a white man’s, racism was beginning to thin out, and therefore should be gone by now, that is not the
His story goes like so; every day, he would apply for between 50 and 100 jobs. After months of this with no callbacks, he changed the name on his applications to “Joe”. One mere week later, callbacks began to come. As a result of his Mexican-sounding name, Mr. Zamora did not get requests to come to be interviewed to get the job. A study in 2004 supports this claim, resumes with white names have higher callback rates than ones with “minority” names, regardless of the quality of the application. In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, there are several examples of race being a decisive factor. The first one is that white schools and stores have white employees, and African-American schools only hire teachers who are of African descent. Another example is of when the Logan family is driving in their Uncle Hammer’s car, which is the same model as Harlan Granger's’, a powerful, greedy, racist white man. The Logans are approaching a bridge when the Wallaces are trying to cross it. However, when they see the car, they backed up to let the Logans pass because, “‘Hammer!’ Big Ma cried. ‘They think you’re Mr.Granger.’” (139). Although one could argue that because Uncle Hammer was able to purchase a car that was the same as a white man’s, racism was beginning to thin out, and therefore should be gone by now, that is not the