Summary: Discrimination Against Afro-Latinos

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Prospectus: Discrimination Against Afro-Latinos
Tentative claim: The region of Latin America has an enduring high level of inequality and discrimination within its population, and as the result, Afro-Latinos are suffering from poor economic conditions, lack of access to education, health care and welfare. Statistics show that in Brazil, 60% of Afro-Brazilians are living in poverty, which is twice as much comparing to the rate of white; while in Panama, the illiteracy rate for white in rural areas is 15%, but the rate for African descendent is 44%. These minorities have less government protection, yet get more punishment. However, though racism is deeply embedded in the society, the most common responses to the issue for governments are denial, justification, and reframing according to a report published by the Inter-America Commission of Human Rights. Nevertheless, erasing the concept of race from laws and other official documents, by no means, has led to the end of race as a key factor in determining how the benefits of society are distributed, nor does it negate the fact that Latin American society is predicated upon a clearly pyramidal structure with blacks and indigenous people at the bottom and whites at the top.(A Region in Denial, Ariel Dulitzky) …show more content…
It obstacles the Afro-descendent from receiving their citizenship rights and denies the self evident truth that all men are created equal. In addition, according to the article Violent Democracies in Latin America, discrimination is a causal factor and predictor of crime, thus makes the citizens victims of violence. If the governments in Latin America still choose to conceal and twist the facts, this issue will become even
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