Issues with racism such as, poverty, immigration, money, healthcare, etc and what laws can we change.

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Thesis: Issues associated with racism are many and affect the victims in one way or another; therefore there the laws should be changed to ensure that they endorse the practices that unite people rather than those that lead to the problem.
Racism issues have been affecting the standards of living of various individuals, especially in America.
It is evident that medical service provision is not accessible to some people due to the problem of racism.
Financial racism is also an issue, especially in the urban communities.
Wealth generation among various individual is at times difficult due to racial discrimination; immigration also can be denied due to racism.
Changing laws can lead to a reduction of this problem
Researchers have proofed that the problem of racism can be done away with by use of legislation.
The laws that can be changed so as to minimize racism are those that govern how medical services are provided.
How people behave in the workplace can also be corrected by introducing new laws.
Institutions and schools also can assist a lot by ensuring that their students are thought about measures of anti-racism.
Issues of racism
Racism is considered traditionally to be an unfavorable attitude towards individuals from other races. It has gone on to be a tradition especially in the American society and has affected the minorities adversely. Racism has posed several challenges and issues such as inadequate health care, poverty, and difficulty in immigration.

The discrimination that is experienced in most societies is mainly racial-based (Hughey, Matthew W. 70). Racism leads to many problems in the community at large and individuals. It also results in great mental health effects on the people who get exposed to it. It leads to lack of trust, depression, and feeling left out, constant fear, avoiding carrying out various activities that involve meeting other people and health problems. These effects will affect the people’s ability to study, work and achieve their desired goals. Also, it affects an individual’s well-being because they are denied access to education, jobs, and other services. All these problems will make the victims lag behind in development hence making them live in poverty.
Racism adversely affects the environment of health care and on those getting health care facilities. In the medical services field, differential access to the fundamental and preventive human services is limited to individuals from the preferred groups. Unequal appropriation of medical services assets brings about ill health and death rates that shift substantially among racial and ethnic classifications and economic classes. Social insurance, as an asset, must be conveyed reasonably and impartially. Medical caretakers and other human services suppliers might be casualties and culprits of racial separation. Particular abuse regularly undermines the work encounters of people who are related to gatherings that are the objectives of biased practices. The American Nurses Association trusts that medical attendants and other social insurance suppliers have an obligation regarding guaranteeing a working environment which perceives singular contrasts while being free of segregation in light of ethnic and racial distinctions.
In spite of some late changes in medical services conveyance, numerous issues proceed for most minority populaces. There are constant and considerable contrasts in the wellbeing of Americans. Minorities experience the ill effects of specific sicknesses at up to five times the rate of white Americans. For example, cancer is the main source of death for Chinese and Vietnamese. Surveillance, Epidemiologic and End Results (SEER) information from the National Cancer Institute demonstrate that Korean rates of stomach cancer are five times the rate for the aggregate populace. Vietnamese ladies experience the ill effects of cervical disease at about five times the rate of white Americans. The quantity of Hepatitis B cases among Asian American and Pacific Islander kids is a few times higher than for youngsters in the United States. Contrasted with the overall public, Hispanics have a higher rate of the stomach, throat, pancreas and cervix cancers. There is a critical issue in the Native American populace with diabetes, sudden newborn deaths, and inborn deformities. In spite of a few upgrades in medical services for African Americans since the 1960’s, African Americans have a six years shorter life expectancy compared to that of the white Americans.
Financial racism is additionally identified with the crisis of the urban communities, where most barrios and ghettos are found. As fundamental businesses move out, administrations are permitted to decrease; roads go into disrepair, and bridges disintegrate. Here the medication emergency carry on unabated, newborn child death rates zoom to levels over those in the Third World, and illnesses like AIDS and tuberculosis become practically wild. Here the groups are in a virtual condition of attack as supremacist police divisions, under the affection of battling medications, threaten and scare. Black and Brown youth are routinely gathered together in breadths and have filled the country’s correctional facilities and penitentiaries to the point of the flood. For Black and Brown individuals, prejudice implies shorter, unhealthy and less-esteemed lifestyles. This problem makes the blacks have low self-esteem thus become prone to biases.
After the civil war in the 18th century, the African Americans who were freed from slavery were denied the access to the resources provided by the government. The rapidly expanding organizations started by the whites barred them from getting good land to settle in because of the racial discrimination. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the government also availed resources that were wealth-generating to the white’s businesses and families alone. It distributed billions of dollars, millions of acres of land, mineral resources rights, major television and radio frequencies and major airline routes exclusively to the white Americans. The non-European and black Americans were denied the access to the apartheid regime and racial violence present during the era (Nelson, Jacqueline K. 494).
The income and wealth generated by the white Americans due to their access to sufficient resources were massive. The wealth has been transferred from one generation to the next. This inheritance has enabled the whites to go on providing better housing, food, education and other socioeconomic amenities for their children. The blacks, on the other hand, continue to live in poverty because of the restriction to the access of resources. The unfair enrichment led to unfair impoverishment for the black Americans. Together with the continuous white discrimination, they have led to the passage of poverty among the African Americans from one generation to the next (Augoustinos, M., and D. Every 255)
The white American domination and expansion were in the form of genocide, slavery, and oppression. This domination resulted in the economic exploitation of the black Americans. The directly involved whites, on the other hand, gained more wealth, income, and assets. This type of economy was based on slavery systems and commercial enterprises and farms and later led to the rise of de facto segregation and racial exploitation. The same economy has largely favored the economic status of the white Americans whereas the blacks continue living in poor standards owning very little or no wealth at all (Harrell, Shelly P. 43). It resulted because of the exploitation enhanced the assets of the whites substantially and increased the economic mobility.
The immigration problem is another issue that has been greatly posed by racism. Many governments react in several ways to the arrival of refugees in their country (Osler, Audrey and Hugh Starkey 208). They may send them back or admit them to wait for the decisions of the courts and the bureaucracies about their request for asylum. The refugees, many at times referred to as ‘economic refugees,’ encountered unfavorable decisions by the courts of the country they seek asylum in. Many of them were sent back to their country of origin and sometimes faced the risks of imprisonment, harassment, and death upon their return. This kind of treatment is illegal because states have a fundamental obligation to protect these refugees by refraining from deporting them and exposing them to the dangers of their home country. Additionally, the people that sought asylum started being seen as offenders that caused crime in the borders. For this reason, immigration became a huge issue that was mainly as a result of racism.
Laws that can be changed to curb Racism
Even though it is natural for individuals to prefer people from their race to others, legislation can be utilized to reduce the effects of racial discrimination in the society. Laws can be changed to ensure that all the people have equal opportunities regardless of their race. The government should ensure that these laws are existent and are strictly followed. Also, it should be made illegal to target a person based on their race. Although these laws will not change what people think or feel about others, they can prevent them from acting upon their beliefs. Additionally, we all have to realize the task of ending racism concerns all of us, so we should all be accountable. Companies and institutions can also be told to recruit individuals and students without basing on their race. This idea will enable anyone to get accessed to development opportunities.
In the medical sector, laws should be change to ensure that the acts that prevent the minorities from accessing the health care services are minimized. Also, the laws should be able to reduce the discrimination acts that make the patients from the minority groups unable to obtain the health care they deserve. Additionally, the healthcare providers should be educated on the cultural differences and be encouraged to appreciate the diverse races. In this way, everyone will be offered the health needs they deserve without bothering to know the race or ethnic group they are coming from. The training will also reduce the biases that lead to the rise of unintended discrimination in the medical sector.
In the workplace, the laws should be changed to allow for recruitment that is neither cultural nor ethnically biased. Racial prejudice will be reduced if the staff is diverse while racism will be reduced if power is shared equally in leadership. The recruitment can be done by looking for staff in places where people from different ethnic groups and races can be found. Also, there is a need to embrace international as well as transnational solidarity so that we can live together in unity. There must be a law that ensures the availability of a committee that enhances inclusiveness and fair policies in the organization (Osler, Audrey, and Hugh Starkey)
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Laws that ensure that all the schools or institutions have a diversity club should also be established. This club will be useful in creating awareness among the students and training them on ways of preventing racism. Anti-racism education should also be included in the school curriculum to ensure that every student recognizes the other cultures thus shun from racism (Lentin, Alana 37). Develop procedures for dealing with racist acts and provide incentives for example extra credits, special recognition for efforts to promote cross-racial understanding. People should also be encouraged to be loving and welcoming to others regardless of their race. Achieving this will improve unity among the people as well as solve the problem of racism.
In conclusion, racism is a threat to individual development, especially to the victims. To solve this problem, people should be taught the importance of valuing diversity. All the organizations and institutions should appreciate diversity so as to enhance development in the society. Although these changes cannot be accomplished easily, step by step transformation should be encouraged. The small steps are necessary since they pave a way to a deeper understanding of diversity, appreciation of different ethnic groups thus the reduction of racism.
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