Complexities of Racism
Racial prejudice is a vise that has continued to persist despite the numerous local and global attempts to demolish it. Among other institutions, racism is evident in educational facilities where the minority groups, such as the blacks, are segregated and ascribed meager resources and reduced services. Primarily, racism is observed during admission, course and class allocation, awarding performance, eatery, and accommodation.
Although anti-racism campaigns are aggressively pushed, racism practice has resorted to more subtlety approaches. Racial treatment inspires inferiority complex and other socially withdrawn behaviors. In turn, it interferes with the social development of the discriminated persons, development of social hatred against the group perceived as dominant, performance in education, and other extra-curriculum activities both at individual and group level (Marom, 2019). Also, it results in the emergence of white supremacy and class system with the dominant race owning top services and amenities at the expense of the rest of the groups, which automatically become second in the class positioning. Notably, racial bigotry in schools is practiced by imposing stringent requirements against blacks and other minority groups. Such conditions cut off many potential learners from accessing education of their choice and the opportunity to serve their societies and nation in a better way.
In conclusion, when racially discriminated persons finish their education, they can hardly make it to high positions in the working places owing to the low self-esteem acquired in school and the extensive racism beyond educational structures to include work and leadership spaces. Similarly, the production of racial graduates stimulates the spread and persistence of racism beyond local economies to global markets, which in essence hinders productivity, interferes with the entire organizational management, production systems, and interactions among workers and with clients; henceforth, obstructing both national and international branding.
Reference
Marom, L. (2019). Under the cloak of professionalism: Covert racism in teacher education. Race, Ethnicity, and Education, 22(3), 319-337.