Anglais, racism and ethnic discrimination in the United States

Racism and ethnic discrimination in the United States has been a major issue since the colonial era and the slave era.

With the colonization, numerous ethnic groups were perceived as lower races. They were subjected to the colonizers white, them is been exploited and reduced to slavery. This practice was certainly abolished in the United States by the XIIIth amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America which officially abolished and forbids the slavery in the United States. It was adopted by the Congress on December 6th, 1865. But in spite of an official abolition, the racism did not disappear for all that.

Indeed, in 20 ème century, the racism was never so present in the United States. At that time, the Afro-Americans possessed no right, they lived in disastrous conditions. The women took care of children of the whites and were paid a poverty. As shows it the famous movie: " the Help”.

Numerous revolutionary movements were set up of what that with the famous Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King Jr is an Afro-American Baptist minister, a nonviolent an activist for the civil rights of the Blacks in the United States, for the peace and against the poverty

This fight was stressed with numerous injustices committed on black people. The example the most known for injustice is the one of Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks is an Afro-American woman who became an iconic figure of the fight against the racial segregation in the United States. Rosa Parks fought afterward against the racial segregation with Martin Luther King.

She became famous December 1st, 1955, in Montgomery by refusing to give its place to a white passenger in the bus.

Further to it, Martin Luther King, throws  then a campaign of protest and boycott against the company of buses which will last 380 days. November 13th, 1956, Supreme Court of the United States breaks the segregationist laws in buses, declaring them unconstitutional.
This fight(wrestling) will end with law of 1964 which forbids any shape of discrimination in the public places.

The racism did not nevertheless go out totally but the mentality of people in strongly evolved. We can notice this evolution with the election of Barack Obama elected for a first mandate on November 4th, 2008 and reelected for the second on November 6th, 2012. It is the first black president to reach the government in the United States.

But nevertheless, there are still certain problems with the community blacks in the United States, at present numerous affairs are in progress against the police for abuse of their power on colored persons black. But the justice can finally act by condemning the discrimination.