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The 2000 Presidential election has brought much attention to itself. While a slew of lawyers try to cheat their respective political figurehead into the White House, the topics discussed during the debates have been put aside. Affirmative action and education touch upon a delicate subject, which hinders the fundamental progress of our nation. Racism is nothing new to this country. In fact, much of the early development in America is the result of slavery. In this paper I will attempt to use the African American people as an example of how the deep roots of racism, like anything else, has evolved over time and has all but escaped America. Everyone is aware of the problems slavery has caused in the United States. It caused the nation to divide, as was the case in the Civil War. The war's conclusion granted the slaves freedom. Emancipation didn't necessarily end racism or better the African American's situation. Now they had to fend for themselves with no economic support, education, or rights. As a whole, the development of the African American community had been suppressed and left a few steps behind. The Great Depression seemed to even out the economic side of things, making hardship more uniform for all. This led to the emergen
45-61. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1991 Punishing the Poor. Southern Exposure, Summer, pp. 12-13. 1984 A Policy Framework for Racial Justice. In Women and Children in Poverty, pp. 1900. In Elenor Leacock and Helen I. Safa, eds. Women's Work: Development and Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (19) 3:7-27. After World War II, the economy improved and the majority of middle and upper class white America moved to the suburbs. Meanwhile the African American population began to increase in the inner cities where most blacks found themselves mainly due to the presence of money in the city. The stiff guidelines imposed by welfare programs encouraged single parent families with dependent children. These criteria would up the amount received by a household (Udesky 1991: 13). With so many mouths to feed and such slim supplies of money, the inner city projects became the solution.
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