Massey and Denton 1993, demonstrated that even affluent minorities have been found to live in communities with higher poverty rates, lower educational attainment, and higher
shares of single-parent families. The general actions to discriminate people economically based on the race are the
discrimination on the rights to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work, to protection against unemployment, and to equal pay for equal work.
In The Help, Aibileen as a maid of Miss Leefot works in a whole day. But she is paid with minimum salary.
Take a whole day just to clean toilets. Miss Leefot don’t pay but ninety-five cents an hour less than I been paid in years. But after Treelore died, I took what I
could.
Stockett, 2009:4 Aibileen has a son named Treelore who past away at the age of twenty-four years old.
He has a little apartment over on foley street and working in Scanlon-Taylor, Treelore is to small for that kind of work and too skinny but he needed the job. The quotation above
explains that black people lag in their ability to get and keep good jobs because of racial discrimination
But one night he working late at the Scanlon-Taylor mill, lugging two-by-fours to the truck, splinters slicing all the way through the glove. He too small for that kind a
work, too skinny, but he needed the job. Stockett, 2009: 2
While the white workers can get good works with good facilities for their own selves, the black in the other hand cannot get it. It makes the black people condition worse day by
day, but they have no effort to change it for helping their own selves.
4.3.2 Discrimination in Politic
Discrimination in politic covers many actions which are done by state or government. Discrimination in politic makes the black got the inhuman treatment. It is because the
government who have the power are dominated only by white people.
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Because of some reasons, the black are got the inhuman treatments for there are not specific laws for help them. Other fact which shows the discrimination which limits people’s
right to equal treatment from society is that there are some laws which regulate for people according to their race. This condition is supported by the following quotation:
“ The booklet is simply a list of laws stating what colored people can and cannot do, in an assortment of Southern states. I skim the first page, puzzled why this is here. The
laws are neither threatening nor friendly, just citing the facts: No person shall require any white female to nurse in wards or rooms in which negro
men are placed. It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white person. Any marriage in violation of this section shall be void.
No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls. The officer in charge shall not bury any colored persons upon ground used for the
burial of white persons. Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall
continue to be used by the race first using them.” Stockett, 2009: 173
What Skeeter said in the quotation above is the evidence that the tradition has
treated the black differently from the white. As far as the people have the differentrace from other people, they cannot be the part of them. Here is the discrimination has limited people’s
right to have equal treatment from society. During Jim Crow, each of these representing societies in which the laws and cultural
institutions manufactured and enforced systematic inequalities based on group membership. Although the vestiges of Jim Crow have long since disappeared in the contemporary United
States, there remain features of American society that may contribute to persistent forms of structural discrimination Massey, 2007.
4.3.3 Discrimination in Social Issues
