Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Okies #2

1) Answer the Content Question (What were some of the root causes for prejudice against the Okies during the Great Depression)? One of the main causes for prejudice to happen agaisnt the Okies was that most of the population of the Panhandle in Oklahoma left to California. The Californians were really mad, because out of nowhere these people started pouring into their state and started taking all the jobs the Californians had. Since there was a shortage of food in California when the Okies came in, the Californias had no other duty but to blame the Okies for coming in and taking their food. The Okies soon felt prejudice and discrimination against them, but they could not return bak to Oklahoma, because all that was left back at home was nothing. The Californians wanted to kick the Okies out, but how could they if was free for anyone who wanted to come in. The Californians saw the Okies as thiefs who came to do no good to their state, but only to take theif jobs, food, and state.California

3) Discuss efforts, either in the past or in today’s world, to stamp out prejudice. Do you think the efforts have been/are successful? What have you done in your life to eradicate prejudice? What COULD you do? Many leaders of different organizations have tried to stamp out prejudice, and sometimes their effort to clear it out of the way fails. But, many leaders are also able to make a change about discrimination. One of these important leaders was a man that went by the name of Martin Luther King Jr. King Jr. fought for the rights of blacks and those of color that were not able to do many of the things the whites could do. He achived many of his goals many of one of them was that those of color also had to have the rights of being able to sit in the front of the bus and not be sent to the bus. Martin Luther was able to achieve this and more. But, even when Martin was around trying to make change there was still discrimiation happenning all around.When I hear someone around me insulting somebody else from a different race I ask them how they would feel if someone else talked about their color and made them feel bad.Maybe one thing we could all do to stop discrimination would be to start with ourselves. What I mean by starting with ourselves is that we need to not say rude comments about someone else that would make them feel as if we were discriminating them. i think the efforts that the past leadres have done to try and end discrimination have been a succes for some parts of the world, becuase even when we don not realize it someone is being discriminated and hurt. Yes, the effort to stop discrimination has worked, but it only works for a certain time of priod, because it still continues to happen in todays world as well as prejudism.