Inequality And Society Part 1

So, in today’s discussion Part 1 I wanted to bring something that touches everyone and that’s work place inequality and how it causes rift in the way the workplace functions. In most cases its hidden and definitely not very noticeable but at other times it’s in your face and the tension is so thick that well you can’t help but to wonder what gives. So, I’ve been doing some research and noticed that well per sources from the New York times. A so called Mr di Tomaso mentions the following. Di Tomaso wrote in a New York Times op-ed that it’s not discrimination that’s responsible for the high numbers of unemployed African-Americans but favoritism.Such favoritism has a strong racial component...Through such seemingly innocuous networking, white Americans tend to help other whites, because social resources are concentrated among whites. If African-Americans are not part of the same networks, they will have a harder time finding decent jobs. The most important thing is that in the society we live is the friend of a friend type of society and who you know and a lot of the times that outweighs the what you know type of person.

The combination of like-helping-like and the systemic advantage that one group has over another advances the inequality we see. She wrote: Because we still live largely segregated lives, such networking fosters categorical inequality: Whites help other whites, especially when unemployment is high. Although people from every background may try to help their own, whites are more likely to hold the sorts of jobs that are protected from market competition, that pay a living wage and that have the potential to teach skills and allow for job training and advancement. So, just as opportunities are unequally distributed, they are also unequally redistributed. Census numbers show a similar trend. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, only 18.7 percent of African-Americans had a Bachelor’s degree or higher in 2012, compared to 32.2 percent of the total population. Annual median income for African-American households was almost $20,000 less than the annual median income for the rest of the nation. The poverty rate in 2012 for African-Americans was 27.2 percent, compared to 15 percent for the nation. There were two categories that were relatively comparable: Very similar percentages of African-Americans, and the total population, had health insurance coverage in 2012 (81 percent and 84.6 percent, respectively) and a high school diploma or higher (83.2 percent and 86.4 percent, respectively).

So if anything shows us that that we have lots of work to do to make our living situations better and compromising on change working as team to achieve a society where everyone has the opportunity to grow without feeling like they’re not good enough I think now is the time. With President Trump in office we are being challenged to our very core to see who we are as people. We must turn back the clock but instead compromised and grow and learn from our mistakes.

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