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What Is Racial Discrimination?
DIRECT racial discrimintion: This is when you are treated less favourably than someone from a different ethnic background.
It includes treatment that could lead to racial segregation.
INDIRECT racial discrimination: This is when you or
a large proportion of your racial group does not meet a rule or condition that applies to everyone. You have to show that
the rule or condition puts your racial group at a disadvantage. If the rule cannot be justified on non-lawful grounds, it
is unlawful discrimination.
Racial Discrimination includes;
Refusal to admit pupils or students from black and minority ethnic communities or require that
they have better qualifications on racial grounds.
Applying admissions criteria which have the effect of excluding disproportionately high numbers from particular
racial groups.
Carrying out
instructions from an employer or work experience provider not to send pupils or students from particular racial groups.
Giving lower assessments or marks
to black pupils based on unconscious assumptions or lower expectations about thier abilities .
Failing to investigate complaints about racial discrimination.
Harrassment
This is also unlawful. Harassment takes place
when, as a result of race, ethnic or national origin you are subjected to unwanted conduct which viloates your dignity,
or which creates an intimidating, hostile, humiliating or offensive environment. For example, racist jokes or comments, physical
attack, racist grafitti or offensive literature.
Victimisation
The Race Relations Act
also protects against this, for bringing a complaint of racial discrimination, or for giving evidence or information in someone
else's complaint.
The Race Relations Act (The RRA) applies to everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality,
citizenship and ethnicity.
What Is Racial Equality?
Racial equality is the belief that individuals, regardless of their racial characteristics, are morally,
politically, and legally equal and should be treated as such. Furthermore, it is the belief that different racial groups are
equal, with none being inherently superior or inferior in intelligence, virtue, or beauty.
In the United States
the term is commonly linked to the belief in equal treatment under the law as well as equal opportunity as a principle to
ensure individuals, regardless of their race, an equal opportunity in education, employment, and politics.
In reality, the ideal of racial equality, however defined, has not always been practiced, nor has it been fully achieved
anywhere in the world. This is because the belief in racial equality has historically had to counter both deeply rooted beliefs
in racial inequality as well as the concrete political, legal, and customary practices of racial discrimination and oppression. Hence racial equality is expressed in antiracist philosophy and in antiracist political mobilization.
For more information click the link below:
Equality - Racial Equality - Racism As Ideology, The Politics Of Racial Inequality, The Struggle For Racial
Equality, The Continuing Struggle http://science.jrank.org/pages/7669/Equality-Racial-Equality.html#ixzz0oH5VSIep
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