Alonzo Cason Inequality Quiz

Alonzo Cason

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            This week's topic covered and focused on inequality, an everlasting topic that's always a hot bed of debate and discussions. Compared to some of the past topics we've had this one is one that majority of the class has some experience with whether by past discussions or experiences it's an issue we all have at least seen or experienced in some way which in turn greatly helped me in reading the assigned articles and getting a key understanding on the topic through a sociological perspective. The first article I read was that of "African American, Hispanic, and White Beliefs about Black/White Inequality" by Matthew O. Hunt. The article in question looked at as the title indicates through that of the various races views on the inequality between Black/white. It highlighted that most of the information it was using came a 1977-2004 (GSS) to help survey and map racial differences in favor for, trends in, and the root of the seven "modes of explanation" for blacks' disadvantage. The article is quick to explain the vast difference between whites and black's views on inequality with blacks being more likely to support a discrimination explanation regarding inequality. Last semester, my Africana studies professor briefly discussed something like this with the class, he discussed at length how people who've never faced adversity or struggles always put the people who are struggle against it as being nothing more than lazy, not good enough, or they simply lack the "it" factor. That past discussion lead to me to an article on the website of futurity, titled "3 Areas that Show Americas Racial Inequality" by Milenko Martinovich-Stanford. The article looked at the 3 most important areas in America's society structure that shows the clear evidence of inequality those areas being of housing, employment, and health. It discussed that African Americans are ranked lowest in all 3 categories and went into details how business even discriminate against them while hiring. We've briefly discussed these same areas as being clear indicators of inequality. Prof. Kubal earlier in the week talked about a past study that showed that businesses are more likely to hire a white ex-convict than an African-American.  This topic helped showed me that there is factual proof to it and its not some blown out of proportion issue. I should know I've both faced and experienced discrimination in my life and this week's topic truly highlighted the major issues its causing and proved it needs to be addressed and not just in a "Ohh we'll fix it when we can." No, Inequality will always be an issue in society until the day people can finally look past the color of a person's skin and look at their character. Because, who are we to judge a individual on their appearance and not of who the individual is.