I will give several definitions of discrimination along with examples of personal discrimination and examples from the readings. I will also talk about blaming the victim using Ryan's article, what role fear plays in violence and hatred, and talk about members from two different groups and their experiences with discrimination. In class we learned that when you treat people differently because of their skin color, kind of job they have, or if you won't sell a house or rent an apartment to someone because they are homosexual, black, female, Hispanic, Native American, etc. I think this is all because of discrimination. Along with discrimination is oppression.
Oppression applies to the same groups of people that discrimination does.
Gregory Mantsios talks about different kinds of oppression. Oppression and discrimination are done sometimes without even knowing it. Discrimination against blacks I think happens because white people are so used to either ignoring us like we don't exist, or thinking they can still order us around.