THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REST

There is no Such Thing as Rest

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There is no Such Thing as Rest

In America today, there are many races ranging from Hispanics, blacks among other immigrant. However, the blacks went to America because of slave trade. In the 17^th to19^th century, the world demand for cotton had grown quite high, and mechanization was still not well known. Hence, there was a big demand for laborers to work in the cotton fields. This led to the slave trade where many of the Africans were sold to work in the fields. The historical event behind this was the rise of plantations in the southern America, and the invention of the cotton gin this managed to increase the demand for cotton (Schneider & Schneider, 2006). When the gin was introduced, more could be made from cotton. In addition, the rise of plantation had already caused the demand for labor to go up. More so, even though technology had not advanced during those days, transport had improved and trade between foreign countries overseas had increased creating a bigger market for cotton. This drove the need to plant more for export. Hence, it laid a foundation for slavery where more and more labor demands kept rising. More so, through slavery, cheap labor was available, which other wise would not be likely without slaves considering they were only compensated with food and never rested (Strayer University, 2011.).

Tradition plays a part in keeping people in slavery too. In America, because blacks were viewed as slaves from the time they were brought in, many continue to think that the white man is superior. This creates a circumstance that allows one race to accept its inferiority to another, hence they accept to be treated like slaves. Such traditions make people slaves since some will think being at their service is the right thing to do. Even today, some races will still be considered inferior to others, driving them to think they are not meant to be equal to other races. This way, accepting to be slaves might seem obvious. Today, people seek to be employed by others, which mean they have to live under their rules. This makes them slaves when they cannot have their say, and risk punishment when they go against the rules. Such traditions create a thought that allows people to concede to such treatment considering they may not have any other sources of income.

Many factors in America contribute to prejudice and discrimination against African-Americans. One of them is the stereo types placed upon a person or group of people by another race. One of the stereo types placed upon African-Americans is that they are inferior, just by their color. Another factor that contributes to prejudice and discrimination is their history. Africans came to America as slaves, and many people view them the same way and fell superior to African- Americans even to this age (Schneider & Schneider, 2006). In learning history, people will always know how Africans were treated I those slavery days, and a notion of their inferiority will continue to cause prejudice and discrimination. Another factor has been the poverty and education among the blacks. In the past decades, discrimination in education was quite evident and blacks would have their schools while whites had theirs. This contributed to a difference in social living conditions where the whites are considered more educated and living a better life than the blacks did. Many of the blacks are poor; hence, more prejudice is directed towards them. In addition, the whites believe that America belonged to white people and blacks only came as slaves to work in America. Hence, they are considered foreign, and many people will have a prejudice towards them even if the law does protect them.