Why are blacks not treated equally?

Answer 1

Here is the short version: Africans were taken out of Africa and brought to the United States to function as free labor. In the pre-industrial era, the only way to harvest crops, for instance, was by hand. In the Americas, whites and Native Americans were the original slaves. However, they were not ideal candidates for slavery because they were able to escape for diverse reasons. Because of their skin color, it was easier to identify the Africans as slaves. Therefore, they were less likely to escape successfully. In order to increase their profits margins, owners diverged from the ancient practice of slavery in which the individual could earn his or her freedom and created chattel slavery. In chattlel slavery, the individual and all of the individual's descendants are slaves for his or her lifetime. In order to get a predominantly Christian culture to accept this practice, which was the antithesis of their religious teaching, and to keep the Africans subservient, the slave owners created racist propaganda that Africans were less than human and inferior beings. However, the stereotypes and lies that people of African descent were inferior to whites were generally accepted as true for hundreds of yearsand so were not so easily countered once slavery ended and even persist to this day.

Lastly, the social caste system based on the darkness of a person's skin is prevalent in many cultures besides the American culture. I cannot speak thoughtfully on those origins.

Answer 2

Racial segregation is the separation of different racial groups in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a drinking fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home.[1] Segregation may be mandated by law or exist through social norms. Segregation may be maintained by means ranging from discrimination in hiring and in the rental and sale of housing to certain races to vigilante violence such as lynchings;[citation needed] a situation that arises when members of different races mutually prefer to associate and do business with members of their own race would usually be described as separation or de facto separation of the races rather than segregation. In the USA, legal segregation was required in some states and came with "anti-miscegenation laws" (prohibitions against interracial marriage).[citation needed] There were laws passed against segregation in the USA in the 1960s. Segregation in hiring practices contributes to economic imbalance between the races[citation needed]. Segregation, however, often allowed close contact in hierarchical situations, such as allowing a person of one race to work as a servant for a member of another race. Segregation can involve spatial separation of the races, and/or mandatory use of different institutions, such as schools and hospitals by people of different races.

Answer 3

Sometimes black people are not treated the same way as white people. But ever since Martin Luther King Jr. came along, blacks were not treated right. They couldn't go into libraries, eat in restaurants, and so on. Martin Luther King Jr. told people that just because blacks have a different skin color, it doesn't mean they should be treated like dirt, we are all people, and being darker shouldn't matter. Blacks are sometimes not treated right in this generation, but it is not as worse as it use to be.

Answer 4

Because of their skin colour which is unfair they can't help being black they are human beings at the end of the day just like white people. So why treat them differently?