Discrimination Cases

Discrimination in the United States has existed since the country first formed. The pilgrims discriminated on the Indians, before there was a word to describe their actions. Whites discriminated against blacks since this country has inhabited both at the same time. Many people still feel that discrimination still exists, they are probably right.

However, the shift from blacks has moved to Indians, or people of Arabic decent. This of course is due to the events of nine eleven in the United States, however it is wrong. The United States even has a history of discrimination against women, and that’s of any race.
Although there are laws that prohibit discrimination against anyone based on race, religion, sex, origin, or even disability, discrimination cases still are prevalent in American society. It is almost like when telling a child not to do something, but the do it anyway just to go against the grain.

A race discrimination case focuses on a particular party using ones color or ethnicity to discriminate against them. These discrimination cases have existed since way back in the sixties and still occur today in the twenty first century when we have an African American president of the United States. For example, in two thousand and nine, JCPenny was sued because they fired a greeter at their Long Island store for race related reasons and was sued by the EEOC or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a discrimination case for the firing. The EEOC is a government agency that is used in discrimination cases of any kind that come out of the work place.

This is a situation that highlights how quickly a case like this can turn into race relations. Many times discrimination cases will establish systems to protect the employees and make sure that they are not discriminated against for any reason. A discrimination case that are religion based usually have the backing of some congregation or church. In the United States there is not one set race, making it against the law to prohibit a certain religion, or impose a certain religion on another. Religion is an issue that is very sensitive for many and can cause people to do some unlawful things. Just because another person does not have the same beliefs as another, does not make it right to discriminate against them. A discrimination case has been filed against the United States supreme court many times as of late regarding gay marriage. Seeing as there is not one set religion in the United States, and marriage is defined as being between a man and a women from a religious stand point, gay people a problem with this restriction as law. Discrimination cases of this kind won in the state of Massachusetts where civil unions were created and amended into the Constitution of the state. A discrimination case protects all people regardless of what they’re lifestyle maybe, and the Constitution where most of these rights are stated, was designed to do that as well. More importantly, the whole belief of America is based on constitutional law, both state and local.