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Impacts Of Race Discrimination
Companies having 15 or more employees cannot discriminate in employment based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. This is mandated by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law also prohibits companies from taking retaliatory action against those employees who complain about race discrimination or take part in an EEOC investigation. Immaterial what your race or color is, you are protected by Title VII. |
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Although there is a law to prohibit race discrimination, it still happens. There are many impacts of race discrimination. One of the primary impacts of race discrimination shows in the individual’s work. The work environment becomes hostile and offensive on account of offensive jokes, name-calling, assaults, intimidation, ridicule and insults. An employer can be held liable for race discrimination if the initiator is a supervisor, coworker or customer.
If there is an isolated incident of race discrimination, it may have no impact unless the incident was serious like racially motivated assault or use of a derogatory term. However, there might be incidents of race discrimination that might not be “serious” but are often repeated. These incidents can create an extremely hostile work environment.
Impacts of race discrimination are seen in working place where racialized groups are in minority in higher echelons of management and high-paying jobs. However, they are widely present in low end jobs and low income jobs. This means that race discrimination leads to higher rate of poverty, lowers an individual’s civic participation and increases risks to health.
Impacts of race discrimination can be seen in the society as a whole. And efforts should be made by governments, people and individuals to minimize these impacts as much as possible and to offer remedial recourse to discriminated people who end up getting marginalized in society leading to more poverty and increased crime rates.
If you have faced race discrimination, you can lodge a complaint with the EEOC and then consult a lawyer for further advice. Based on the lawyer’s advice, you can either file a discrimination lawsuit or approach your union.
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