https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys Racism in OMAM en-us 2021-12-10 13:31:29 UTC 2021-12-14 07:11:51 UTC hello@padlet.com 2408864_1 https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946172332 It is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed at a certain person or people for being a part of a certain racial or ethnic group. ]]> 2021-12-14 04:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946172332 2408864_1 https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946172932 In a system with various other races, one race would think that they are superior to all others, and try to benefit from the oppression of the others. Not all cases have this occur as a collective, but more as a general population.]]> 2021-12-14 04:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946172932 2408864_1 https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946185566  - African Americans were the group most affected by the Great Depression financially as approximately half of all African Americans were out of work

- Unemployment rates of African Americans were doubled or tripled the rates of whites. This occurred because in northern cities, as long as there were white people unemployed, African Americans would be fired from any job, just to give their opportunity to the whites.

- An additional factor is that African Americans only had entry-level jobs before the Great Depression.

- Government surveyors created a map of Credit Risk Areas on maps based on a driving factor racial and ethnic makeup of neighborhoods. Entire communities were marked as high credit risks purely based on their ethnicity and convinced many banks who and whom not to lend money to. 

- Before World War II, African Americans could not participate in the military.

]]> 2021-12-14 04:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946185566 2408864_1 https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946238069 - Many African Americans had traditionally voted for Republican, so FDR's response was to try to entertain African American visitors at the White House. FDR also gained more African American advisors to make the POC community feel more wanted within our government.

- FDR issued Executive Order 8802 which states that everyone, regardless of race, religion, color, or national origin, would be able to participate in the armed forces of the United States.]]> 2021-12-14 05:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946238069 2408864_1 https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946250344 - African Americans greatly benefitted from the New Deal programs as it allowed them to be given the opportunities of Low-cost housing, education, and employment.

- The Federal Writers Product also supported many out-of-work African American white collar workers by providing them with employment]]> 2021-12-14 06:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946250344 2408864_1 https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946264864  - Around 42% of African Americans feel treated unfairly within the workplace. In comparison to this, other ethnicities such as Asian, Hispanic, Latino have rates from 26% or lower in the workplace. ]]> 2021-12-14 06:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946264864 2408864_1 https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946266045 Asian Americans are being randomly attacked as a supposed scapegoat for the Covid-19 virus. The virus has been said to have originated from Asia, and so a decent portion of the public has seen them as the root of the problem. Some examples include attacking Asian Americans of all ages in public, where some cases include the elderly.

African Americans still suffer a large portion of hate crimes.]]> 2021-12-14 06:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946266045 2408864_1 https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946285339 Lynching was a practice in the 1930s where mobs of people would go after a certain person and execute them on the spot. They are executed without official trial and are sometimes used as entertainment in the form of hanging. ]]> 2021-12-14 06:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946285339 2408864_1 https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946302371 link]]> 2021-12-14 06:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/2408864_1/prktrx2lvx8m5yys/wish/1946302371