Sociology

Sociology

In society buisness are mainly runned by the whites in where for instance mexicans are the ones you see in the back of the kitchen of a fast food place or restaurant doing the food or the cleaning to the restaurant, hospital, mall, etc. Eventhough things like these still go on society has made a big inprovement. Our current economic system makes people power hungry and pushes people to seek power which leads to power abuse and taken advange of other racial groups.

Whites are normaly the ones that have the power and have the right to speak there mind out loud. But, when another racial group takes that to place they are not taken serious and pushed aside. In class dicussions we had has gave me a understanding that white folks are the ones with better oppurtunities and taken in consideration with power.

White supremacism is the belief, or promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds and that therefore whites should politically, economically and socially dominate non-whites. The term is also typically used to describe a political ideology that perpetuates and maintains the social, political, historical and/or industrial dominance of whites.[1] Different forms of white supremacism have different conceptions of who is considered white, and different white supremacists identify various racial and cultural groups as their primary enemy.[2]

White supremacy was dominant in the United States before the American Civil War and for decades after Reconstruction.[3] In large areas of the United States, this included the holding of non-whites (specifically African Americans) in chattel slavery. The outbreak of the Civil War saw the desire to uphold white supremacy cited as a cause for state secession[4] and the formation of the Confederate States of America.[5]

In some parts of the United States, many people who were considered non-white were disenfranchised, barred from government office, and prevented from holding...

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