Racial disparities can be ramified into several component factors for identification and educational purpose. There is stereotype, prejudice, and xenophobia. Here in the United States, the issues of race is highlighted on a day to day basis. The promotion of Western culture through  mainstream media and other popular sources that have dominantly portrayed the West as a model society with the best living standard for mankind had not only been divisive, but had generated a clear distinction and a class of who they think you’re from who you are. As a result, these concepts have created a label of Socio- Geo-political stigma  on people of coloreds.

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Lets take a closer look at one important group of people, the immigrants. This group seems to get the most pressure compare to other groups. Immigrants are people who come to the United States with special advantages and disadvantages, and with a dream of their own. It is only reasonable to assume that some of these people were once  rich businessmen or women, or a proud mother or father to a family dearly cared for, and who didn’t have to wake up every morning and work under the harsh dictation of a factory boss just to pay the bills. Some were respectable members of their communities, who were not defined by community members on the basis of color or the sound of their voice. But all this soon changed as they leave behind their loving homeland. They are now subjects to inhumane racial discrimination that are practiced in subways and at bus stations in our cities, by people with the so- called white skin advantage. Oh! How they fail to know that we are all brothers and sisters under the skin.

For the purpose of this content, let’s consider a drama:  John Doe here is a successful businessman and a proud father of two who had just arrived from Liberia. His first self- imposition of racial inferiority is with that first immigration officer who looked down on him for lack of adequate and clear answers to questions not probably understood because of speech differences, as his wife and two kids watched. He soon realized this situation as a warning that there is an urgent need for adjustment! After this life changing experience, some immigrants go the extra miles to do cosmetic surgery, enroll in English class, and learn to use American brand clothes that exposed them even further. Some abandon their non genetically modified organic food for American foods. 

love and American dreams of their own. They come to America not just to work for self improvement, but to help carry America a step further, and therefore feel the same way as natural born Americans. a good number of this group holds advance degrees, and serve as the driving force behind successful American companies, and government policies, with just the oval office being the limit. However, progeny of this immigrant group has no limitation whatsoever as regards to success. There is another group, made of people with little or no big dreams of their own. The kind of life they live are evidence of self enrichment. Always ready to settle for less. There is no driving force in them and therefore a liability in our neighborhood and communities. Still there is another group of immigrants who come to America to get educated and go back to their homeland with different ideas. History is a witness that majority of this group are policy makers and powerful politicians in their country, with some even becoming rulers.

Immigrations and adjustment are very important matters that still need attention by our statesmen. I researched and realize that there are three main groups of immigrants. The first group is people with great

The institutionalize Socio- Geo-political stigmatization of the coloreds had been re-defined by the intelligentsia to convey a more comfortable and proud meaning for an already angry society fighting for change!

Mankind has been classified with these Geo- political labels: the Aryans, the Mongoloids, the Negros, with a sub classification that is categorize by a standard of a first world to third world countries. All nations are supposed to be held with the dignity they deserved. But due to the popular and affluent western culture that is enviable out there by government and people of other countries who do not have enough to compete with the western world would soon re-defined their success by the all popular American standard.

Consider this paradigm. In West Africa, Nigerian people who belong to the Ibo or Yoruba tribe would not happily allow his daughter in marriage outside the boundary of that tribe as tradition demands. But not all, there are other social reasons. Liberia is one nation that is so racist. From 1847 till now people of non negro decedent can not own real estate or hold public office. This unreasonable law also extends down to their young ones.

However, this same country, Liberia for some colonial reason, feel a great sense of superiority above its immediate neighboring countries. Research shows that it is because of the sheer advantage of its historical ties with the United States that left them using the US dollars, and with a flag of theirs, bearing great resemblance to the US. While it is true that many of their past leaders were Americo- Liberian, it is no reasonable ground to exercise big brother-ship.

What is responsible for all this? Are we not from one ancestry parents? Way so much diversities in the US alone? What does Science say? Consider a rudimentary subject of the Botanist Gregor Mendel’s principle of heredity.  We know from high school biology how two people of the same race, with no racial contamination should pro-create; their offspring should bear their dominant features. So, the question is: is Adam and Eve really the ancestor for everyone living today as some religion teaches?. To answer this question, I have device my own formula. Let’s assume that from the beginning our ancestors proportionally had all the genes that exist today for mankind, with the dominant gene being associated with the largest race and the lowest gene associated with the smallest race. One would still ask, how than that no white family, or black, or Chinese family had  bore a miracle child of totally different racial characteristics? However, does the Ethiopian boy, who allegedly began to change at nine year-old from a black healthy state to a white state of normal bearings delivered the verdict of a superior race?

Anthropologists still have problem with accepting some Bible stories that seem to offer little or less clue for authenticity, for example, there is no evidence of a worldwide flood. This doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. However, racial superiority is a by-product of an improved society. Uneven distribution of natural resources and the advancement of Science that is found in western countries and not in others are all factors that promote racial superiority. It is the same for two friends to envy one another of the lack of some physical feature that the other doesn’t have. It is to be proud of something unique, but that doesn’t mean is the best. During my long drive from, Trenton, New Jersey, to DC on the most historic inauguration ever, in the US. The inauguration of the first African American President, Barack  Obama. As I arrived in DC on that chilly Tuesday evening, there was a general sense of equality and oneness. You could see hope in the eyes of tens of thousands of people, blacks and whites, young and old, citizens and immigrants. Meanwhile, I thought, the world can really be like this if we consider ourselves as one big family.

However, I intent that this content serves as a preview  on racial disparities not just in America, but the world at large. And I hope my readers will reason with me that if we only synchronize our resources and knowledge and contain our true enemies, like  poverty, illness, global worming, and even, a possible alien invasion, we will not only enjoy peace, but will be saving billions of dollars in fighting racial war.

I’m a student of Liberal Arts at the Mercer County Community College with a dream of my own to hold a PhD in Sociology someday.