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Ethnic Groups And Discrimination

Ethnic Groups and Discrimination
Although I am not an American, I have very close connection with the Black community. This particular group of people has faced prejudice, segregation, and racism. It basically began when Africans sold Africans to the Arabs who sold them to the French who sold to them the English who then brought them over to America as slaves. Most of these slaves where uneducated and came without skills and without any social sophistication which was very prevalent in Europe at that time. As slaves they were not necessary looked at as humans but as property.
"Since slaves were considered property they could be bought and sold at will. This 1835 broadside issued by Thomas Griggs of Charlestown, South Carolina, offers the "highest price for men, women, and children" to be paid in cash" (Hope, G 2001).
Once the idea of slavery was abolished those attitudes did not go away, you can pass a law to change the status, but you cannot pass a law to change the......


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