unemployment stands at 37 percent nationwide. these statistics show a crisis among black americans that should be setting off alarm bells in election year 2004.

yet even john kerry, the candidate whose party’s voting base includes the vast majority of blacks, has issued barely a sound bite. this should come as no surprise, since black lives, black votes and black rights have been devalued since the founding fathers. the original u.s. constitution permitted slavery and counted black slaves as three-fifths of white persons in determining both congressional representation and taxation,

embedding racism in the very foundation of u.s. society. the institution of slavery was abolished only through civil war, a bloody second american revolution that cost at least 600,000 lives.

but racism outlived slavery and flourished for the next 100 years in the form of jim crow segregation, in which the majority of states, from north dakota to texas to california, made it a crime for blacks to intermingle with whites in all walks of life-from hospitals to cemeteries, lunch counters to phone booths, military service to marriage.

jim crow segregation laws were challenged and finally struck down only because of a massive civil rights struggle stretching over more than two decades, from the 1955

montgomery bus boy cott to the fight to enforce court-ordered school desegregation in the 1970s. but de facto segregation continued, north and south, while accusations of "reverse racism" and black "welfare dependency" emanated from the political

establishment, injecting racism with new life in the post-civil rights era.

politicians from both the democratic and republican parties scrambled to appear "tough on crime," embracing the so-called war on drugs, which tripled the prison population between 1980 and 1995. two-thirds of those who entered the prison system during that period were black, latino or poor, and the vast majority of them were nonviolent drug offenders.

today, with the prison population swollen to more than 2 million, african americans make up just 12 percent of the u.s. population and only 13 percent of drug users, yet account for 35 percent of drug arrests and 53 percent of drug convictions. blacks are also 43 percent of those on death row.

last year, the u.s. bureau of justice statistics estimated that 30 percent of 12 year-old black boys will spend time in jail in their lifetimes-far more than will attend college. and because many states have laws denying present and former inmates the right to vote, an estimated 13 percent of all black men-including one in every three in alabama and florida-have been disenfranchised.

racism, not criminal records, explains the high unemployment rate for black men today. a recent wall street journal report showed that in the city of milwaukee, a white job

applicant with a criminal record has a better chance of being called for an interview than a black man with no criminal record.

"the disadvantage carried by a young black man applying for a job as a dishwasher or a driver is equivalent to forcing a white man to carry an 18-month prison record on his back," concluded reporter david wessel. and only racism can explain these statistics:

segregation in public schools, which decreased continuously from the 1950s to the late 1980s, has now returned to levels not seen in three decades.

black infants are almost two-and-a-half times more likely than white infants to die before the age of one, a wider gap than in 1970.

in 2002, 79 percent of blacks aged 25 and older were high school graduates, compared with 30 percent in 1968. yet the typical black household had a net worth of just $19,000, compared with $121,000 for whites.

more than 200 years since slavery was written into the u.s. constitution, its racist legacy remains-and the words of abolitionist frederick douglass remain true: "without struggle, there can be no progress." only a struggle that shakes the foundation of u.s. society can end racism

racial discrimination， or， the color problem， refers mainly to negroes in the united states， as they constitute one tenth of the total population. the term "negro" is applied to people descended or partly descended from slaves transported from africa long ago. it is now avoided by many white americans for fear of offending their "non-white" brothers. the old term "nigger" is now considered to be insulting， and is altogether avoided in decent usage. in official statistics the term "non-white" is used， and in ordinary situations it is acceptable to call non-white people "black"， although this term was once also somewhat insulting.

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discrimination - a harsh words. since human development to today, in the heart of the world, the club and was unable to hide sad history, human nature.

at home, between the han and minority nationalities, the historical legacy of a variety of reasons, also achievement now a noun - ethnic minorities can add cent in the university entrance exam, the reason is that minorities learning condition is not good. this gave me an idea like this: learning condition of villages and towns and large cities this up if there is a huge gap? why didn't the concept of "points"? this explanation may not be able to find. i want to ask the true meanings of discrimination.

boxing champion at the 1960 olympics in rome, the american black boxer cassius clay (now the world famous boxer - muhammad ali) because it is black, he was a restaurant from the outside, even if he shows himself to be an olympic champion.

"barefoot big fairy" british 18-year-old south african athletes - zola - bud, in the 1984 olympic games in los angeles and run the queen mary - decker for the women's 3000 m gold medal, mary - decker accidentally stepped on bud, pour on the runway, immediately into the bristle, accused the bud of rude behavior, bud to prevent dekker beyond their means, more let a person is angry dekker herself also put their resentment to bud, a cavity (because it allows dekker lost the opportunity to win) and the bard is stand on, from now on in the playground.

then turn the pages of history, the british foreign trade means, the black slave trade, that is to the devastation of africans and the african social economy immeasurable damage.

racial discrimination! a worthy social shock. i don't know whether they provoke the touch of the human heart! even if that to become a thing of the past! when human beings can truly learn to respect?

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as we all know , honesty is of vital importance in people’s eyes .honesty is considered to be a good virtue and dishonesty is regard as an evil.

in modern society , there is a phenomenon that some teenagers take delight in telling lies、breaking the appointments each other even cheating in the exams and so on . personally , i think dishonesty as an evil that should be looked upon.

however , as a student , we are supposed to be a honest people from in all directions in diary life .

firstly , don’t speak the lies on purpose. because of telling lies , people will never believe you even if you speak the truth as the story “the wolf is coming ” . and a liar is always looked down upon and regarded as a black sheep by other people who are around you .

secondly , firmly keep yours’ word . if you make an appointment with friends , for example you will go to cinema , you should get there on time . but if you exactly couldn’t get there on time ,you might say sorry to them to express yours’ honesty .

it is said that : honesty is the best policy . so we should learn how to be a honesty people .

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when we talk about the discrimination, we always think about the race between the black and the white. black people are always looking down by the white people, while in our country, though we are the same color, the discrimination still exists, it is about the people’s view about the different cities.

当我们谈到歧视的时候，我们总会想到关于黑人和白人的种族。黑人一直都受到白人的歧视，然而在我们国家，虽然我们出于同样的肤色，但是歧视仍然存在，那是关于人们对不同城市的看法。

when we talk about the big cities, such as shanghaiandbeijing, we always think about that the people inbeijingresist the people from other cities.beijingcitizens are so proud of their identity, they think they are priority, they are in the first rank, while others are lower than them. while when we talk about the people from poor country, we always think about the dirty face and ragged clothes, this is also discrimination. are these true? of course not, i have friends frombeijingand guangxi, both of them are nice to me, they don’t look down upon people or look dirty. the impressions are wrong, people now no longer discriminate each other, the crimination only exists in few people.

当我们谈到大城市，如北京和上海的时候，我们总会想到北京人抗拒其他城市的人。北京居民为他们的身份感到自豪，他们认为自己是高人一等，他们出于第一层次，然而其他人低于他们。当我们谈到来自贫穷城市的时候，我们总是想到脏的脸和破旧的衣服，这也是一种歧视。这些都是真的吗？当然不是，我有来自北京和广西的朋友，他们对我都很友好，他们并没有看不起人或者看上去很脏。这些印象都是错误的，人们现在不再彼此歧视，歧视只在少数人身上存在。

in all, though the discrimination still exists between cities, we must have the thought that it is not all people, just a few people, we believe that someday it will disappear.

总的来说，虽然歧视在城市间仍然存在，我们必须意识到这并不是所有人，只是一些人，我们相信将来歧视会消失的。

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我的妈妈是一位铁路工人，在水电段配电室上班。有一天，我去妈妈单位，发现电线杆下有一只喜鹊，它的俩只抓子已经没有了，他已经死了，我问妈妈：“为什么？”妈妈说：“它被电打死了！爪子被电烧掉了。

my mother is a railway worker, working in the distribution room of the hydropower section. one day, when i went to my mother's unit, i found a magpie under the electric pole. its two claws were gone. he was dead. i asked my mother, "why?" mother said: "it was killed by electricity! the claws were burned by electricity.

你在家时千万不要弄电源的插头，一定要等妈妈回来帮你，电给我们的生活带来了许多好处，但它也有危险的一面，你要多多注意呀！”当时我在想，电多么可怕呀，要是不注意会有生命危险，我们每一位小朋友自己在家时，可千万别乱动与电有关的东西呀！

when you are at home, you must not get the plug of the power supply. you must wait for your mother to come back and help you. electricity has brought many benefits to our life, but it also has a dangerous side. you should pay more attention to it! " at that time, i was thinking, how terrible electricity is! if we don't pay attention to it, our lives will be in danger. when each of our children is at home, we should never tamper with anything related to electricity!

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as is shown in the picture, a master student is applying for a job, but he is rejected. the interviewer just tells him the reason why he cannot get the job because he doesn’t have a ph.d simple as picture is , what it conveys to us that the requirements from the company is high and strict.

it is of great necessity to figure out the negative influence behind it. on the one hand,from the perspective of the company, they will lose the talents who are qualified for the job, because the certificates cannot prove the applicants’ capability, as we all know, some certificates are fake. on the other hand, from the employees, they believe they have a high degree, but they still can’t meet the needs of the companies, which exerts an undesirable influence on their career plans or their mental health.

to sum up, there are some suggestions responsible for the above-mentioned impact. firstly, the company cannot only judge a person’s ability from the certificate, but most importantly, give them a chance and let them show their real capability. second, the applicants should improve their own practical ability in order to get their favorite job successfully.

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