By Sandra Levkovich
In today’s society, especially living in New York, there are different type of races that you see everyday. When you travel on a train or bus, everyone is mixed, if you take a look around, it is not like it was decades ago. White people don’t sit in the front of the bus and black people dont sit in the back anymore. When you walk the streets , you will walk past many different faces. In fact, just yesterday I saw a white jewish man in a wheelchair being pushed by what seemed to be his friend that was a black man. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the other person if they don’t look like you, but people in today’s society still discriminate.
In Birmingham, Alabama, The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a major litigation settlement with Tyson Foods for $871,000 on behalf of black workers who alleged that they were racially harassed. There was racially segregated bathroom facilities for the workers, racial slurs, and a lot of intimidation. The bathrooms even at one point were locked so that when a worker needed to use the facility the key was only given out to the white man. Is this really happening in our country? They employers of Tyson Foods are discriminating just how black people were not allowed to sit anywhere they wanted on the bus.
Even though there was a settlement for this ridiculousbehavior against the company, the treatment should not have existed in the first place. People have no regard to the law against passing judgment against different race. This case is of the many, many more of discriminting and racist acts. I feel as though as one who is racist, is one who thinks he is too good for anyone. If you pass a judgment on someone, you think your better then them. That is not the way it is in life. Everyone deserves a chance at anything and everything that life has to offer. I hope that one day that cases such as the one that happened in Alabama, or even any cases that deals with discrimination and racisim becomes extinct. Martin Luther King Jr even says, “Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brothergood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”
