A summary of statistical data from various agencies on racism in America.
This paper discusses how, despite the guarantees set forth under the amendments to the United States Constitution and other federal legislation, the civil rights of citizens belonging to ?minority? groups in the United States continue to be violated by various forms of illegal discrimination. It looks at how an historical analysis of national social and economic problems in relationship to racial inequality proves racial discrimination continues to thrive in American society in various forms of institutional discrimination. Through an analysis of tables and charts, it shows how statistical data herein asserts different forms of racial discrimination in contemporary society.
“The data in Chart 7 indicates Whites have the lowest number of children with no annual health care visits within a year. About 15% of all Black and Asian children did not have annual health care visits and approximately 20% of Hispanic and Native American children did not have health care visits over the past year. The fact that these children did not have health care visits is not an inference of good health. Rather, the lack of health care among minority children is an inference that they are not receiving preventative care such as vaccinations, and childhood illnesses and injuries are going untreated. The long-term consequence for children who do not receive needed health care services is permanent handicaps or disabilities, which later keeps them trapped in poverty by preventing them from working.”