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Liu Kha

ESL 33B Project 3

Prof. Carlisi

27 November 2017

Thesis Statement:

Many Americans tend to believe that discrimination on African-Americans does not exist in the

present society; however, African-Americans are living with racism which will have an influence

on African-Americans such as physical, mental health.

Detailed Outline

I. Introduction

A. Hook: America is one of the richest country in the world; unfortunately, the high

quality of life always goes with discrimination increase, especially race

discrimination.

B. The definition of discrimination and racism need to reminder ,so people can judge

their behavior is right or wrong.

1. It is reasonable to say that the incorrect knowledge makes people think

they are right, but they are totally wrong. ( Munger)

2. Racism is the belief system that justifies the unfair treatment as different

race (Marger 25) and discrimination is the behavior of isolating a specific

ethnic group (Marger 57).

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C. Thesis: Many Americans tend to believe that discrimination to African-Americans

do not exist in nowadays society: however, African-American are living with

racism that create a great deal of stress, which has an influence on African-

Americans physical and mental health.

II. There is a reason why Americans think racism does not exist in nowadays because

they have seen something good happened in 2008.

A. The first black president is a sign of ending racism .

1. People can believe that if a black people can be a leader of Americans, there

should not have any more excuses for racism.

2. Chaney complains that since black people were forcibly brought to

America they had been treated prejudge by those people who created and apply

the law (p481).

3. The first nonwhite president, Barack Obama is the symbol that

discrimination does not exist in the U.S. anymore(Piston, Spencer 434).

B. Barack Obama is not the symbol of ending racism.

1. A lot of people died because of discrimination after the end of election 2008

(Election of Obama provokes rise in U.S. hate crimes)

2. The discrimination on African-Americans was more clearly after the

election 2008, it did not reduce.

III. The racism and discrimination have influence to African-Americans physical health.

A. African-Americans adults physical health, who suffered the discrimination, are

affected.
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1. Black people are shoot by police, which make their body stay in worry

status most of the time, this is not good for their physical health.

a. As the result of beating, black people will always feel painful

because of the wounds while police make.

2. No matter what are their social roll, black people lives is easy to be taken

by while people that impact their sleep.

a. Black people cannot have a good sleep, so that their physical

health will be affected such as getting cold symptoms (Sleep and

Health )

B. Not only adults physical health is affected by racism, but African-Americans

children also are the victim of it.

1. Black students are the favor target to be bully in school, so that they will

have an uncountable physical wound on their body.

a. According to National Center for Education database there are

20.3% of Africa American students be bully in school and it is higher

than Hispanic and Asian students. (National center for education)

2. African American children who be beat will suffer a tough time in school

that lead them to lose motivation and that affect their well being.

a. When children do not have motivation, they will keep them stage in

exhausted status and not like to eat and their weight decreasing so they

will more likely to get sick (Hunger and Malnutrition, pg 1)

IV. African Americans adult mental health be affected by discrimination and racism
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A. Base on the study of Preterseet in 2012 mentioned the experiencing of racism

is a tough time that have a lot of stress and have an impact on the mental

health.

1. Stress increase the depression and anxiety of African American so

that they always feel uncomfortable and that will lead them to be an

anti-social person

2. Stress increasing can make the person who suffering it lose their mind

B. Racism and discrimination make a tremendous impact to black kids

1. African-Americans children who suffered racism will likely to increase

depression and anxiety (Children and Racism)

2. Metal health be affected by racism can impact to the life span of African

American (Depression, pg1)

V. Conclusion

White college students have less academic stress than black college students

because white students have better social support than black students (Negga 5).

Therefore, the stress that African-Americans adolescent is suffering can be

reduced if they have more social support. Indeed, social support will help African-

Americans understand that they are not be isolated, people care about them that

will improve physical and mental health for African-Americans a lot. A good

cope which combine both mental cope and physical cope can lead to a good result

of decreasing stress for African-Americans.

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Introduction

American is one of the richest country in the world; unfortunately, the economic increase

always goes with discrimination increase especially race discrimination. People have a difference

behavior in each situation and each person they faced with. The common in those behavior is

people likely to treat better to the person their like than the person they dislike. However, that

unfair treatment not the cause to make people treat another ethnic group discrimination. One of

the main reason that people treat other unfairly is the misunderstanding. People thought that the

way they treat other is normal and accepted but they do not know that it is wrong. Many people

use their knowledge which collected from social media to treat other, they accidently use that

fake knowledge to treat other. Fake knowledge is the knowledge they get from the headline of

the article or from some social media which is not totally true or it is completely wrong (Munger,

Charlie). When people unknow they do right or wrong they will pretend that they do the right

thing and no harm to everybody. That briefly explain why discrimination and racism start with

misunderstanding. Marger explain that racism is the belief system that people use to justify the

unfair treatment for difference and discrimination can basically understand that is the behavior of

isolating members of ethic group (25, 57). American culture is the place where discrimination

happen a lot and the victim of racism, usually, is African-American. Many Americans tend to

believe that discrimination to African-American do not exist in nowadays society; however,

African-Americans are living with racism and that create a great deal of stress which would have

an influence on African-Americans such as physical and mental health.

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Body paragraph: Outline Section II B

Race discrimination does not have any sympathy. Not only African-Americans adult be

impacted, but also their children are the victim of race discrimination. A lot of black students be

beat in school that enough to everybody says that black students are the favor target of race

discrimination, and it seem like black students have the highest percent of being. The study that

finish by U.S Department of Education in 2015 show the evidence of black student be bullied

frequently (see fig 1)

Figure1: Table of being bullied in school from 12 though 18

National Center for Educational Statistics. Student Reports of Bullying

and Cyper Bullying: Result from the 2013 School Crime Supplement to
the National Victimization Survey. US Department of Education ,Apr
2015, https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2015/2015056.pdf . Accessed 4 Nov 2017.

National Center for Educational Statistics. Student Reports of Bullying and Cyper
Bullying: Result from the 2013 School Crime Supplement to the National
Victimization Survey. US Department of Education ,Apr 2015,
https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2015/2015056.pdf . Accessed 4 Nov 2017.
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People though that children be bullied because they did not tell adult their situation. This is not

one hundred percent right. The percent of children be bullied in school when their parent notice

is decreasing yet it does not stop. Black students still stay in a highest level of being bullied

although they are injured or their parent noticed (see fig 2).

Figure2: Children be bullied from 12 to 18 that adult noticed or

be injured

National Center for Educational Statistics. Student

Reports of Bullying and Cyper Bullying: Result from the
2013 School Crime Supplement to the National
Victimization Survey. US Department of Education ,Apr
2015, https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2015/2015056.pdf .
Accessed 4 Nov 2017.
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