Brandon OQuinn

Mrs.Williams
English 112
27 March 2015
Segregation and racism past and present
Saturday August 9, A police officer gets a call about a robbery at a convenience
store. the person describes the robber and said that he's walking toward the QuikTrip
store.
Now a little after noon the officer encounters Michael and his friend as they walk down
the street. Michael is unarmed and shot to death. Let me say this was not during the
1960s civil rights era, this event happened just last year.Today African American in the
United States are still fighting for the same rights as they were in the Civil right era of the
1960s, because racial stereotypes still exist, there is unfair treat in the workplace, and
African Americans have to work twice as hard to prove themselves.

As like the Civil Rights movement, racist stereotypes still exist today. For
example, the George zimmerman case down in Florida. On February 26, 2012
George Zimmerman a neighborhood Watchmen calls 911, and the police give him orders
to stay in the car and do not approach him. Zimmerman ignores these instructions, a little
after some of the neighbors report hearing a gunfire. Zimmerman says and acknowledges
that he shot Trayvon because it was self defense. A couple days later The Martins
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(Trayvon's parents) file a missing persons report. Some police officers visit the Martins,
and they are able to identify his body. Zimmerman didn't even know who or where the
gunshot came from he just made assumptions that it was Trayvon and shot him for self
defense.

Addition to racial stereotypes there is also unfair treatment in the workforce.

Today and the past unfair treatment in the workforce still exist today. Just like racial
stereotypes some people use those to judge some African Americans even before they
even really get to meet them. For example Yolanda Spivey an African American woman
who applied to over 300 hundred open positions for the insurance industry and she
worked in the industry for 10 tens, and not 1 employer responded to any of her resumes.
so she went back to college to complete her degree.After she was done with school she
went job searching again, and made a new resume but she put that she was caucasian and
changed her name to Bianca. After she sent her resume out that very same day her email
and phone messages were packed with employers, also some of them were calling more
than once just to get a interview with her, just because they assumed that she was
caucasian.

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Just like the effort that they have to put in the workforce, African Americans have
to work twice as hard to prove themselves in modern society. In todays world and in the

past, I believe African Americans have to work two times harder just to top whites in
order to
achieve greatness. Just as i said before in the workforce with Yolanda Spivey, people
judge you just by you race right off the bat. So as a African American we have to prove
ourselves to people that were capable of doing the same amount and quality of work as a
Caucasian person could do.

Finally as like the past and present day, they are still racial stereotypes, unfair
treatment in the workforce, and that African Americans have to work to times harder just
to prove themselves. By writing this paper I want to change all this, so that the future
world can better than what it is today.