Is Racial Discrimination Arbitrary?

Thesis Statement

The racial and ethnic minorities, especially the Afro descendents in America always faced difficulties due to their race and color.

Introduction

The Convention characterises racial discrimination amply as "any distinction, exclusion, limit or fondness founded on rush, hue, fall, or nationwide or ethnic source which has the reason or result of nullifying or weakening the acknowledgement, pleasure or workout, on an identical footing, of human privileges and basic freedoms in the political, financial, communal, heritage or any other area of public life." (Appiah, pp 234-255) In part, the Convention needs nations to accuse racial discrimination and to chase by all befitting entails and without hold up a principle to eradicate racial discrimination;

Condemn all propaganda and associations which are founded on concepts or ideas of superiority of one race;

Guarantee the privileges of every individual without distinction as to rush, hue, or nationwide or ethnic source, to all municipal and political privileges and to all financial, communal and heritage privileges, in specific the right to housing; the right to public wellbeing, health care, communal security and communal services; and the right to learning and training. (Armbrust, Roger, 2003)

 

Discussion

Under this treaty the United States has pledged itself to organising unquestionable and comprehensive accounts on racial discrimination in the United States. These accounts are to be offered to and reconsidered by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of the United Nations on a periodic basis. The first such report was due November 20, 1995. It has not yet been filed. The second U.S. report was due November 20, 1997. It has not yet been filed. (Rachels, pp125-128)

In the past the Committee has searched data on Life expectancy, infant death, and the communal and financial standing of few groups. (Appiah, pp 234-255)

In the second part of the report the Committee ...