Eugenic & Discrimination

The eugenics movement was not only an excuse to persecute minorities during the 1920s it also set the precedent for the many decades of racial discrimination that followed. As the movement began to receive bad press due to its unconstitutionality social elites began to their way of life as they had known it start to crumble and feared the over turn of their society by minorities who exhibited any form of potential. Thus minorities were placed in the type of roles that best suited the upper class persona. Such as encouraging participation in art, music, culinary arts, military service, factory work,agriculture and etc. in order to ensure their further enjoyment and prosperity. Minorities have continually been placed in areas of professional restriction. This keeps the wealth and simultaneously the power concentrated within one group predominately the whites. The 1965 adoption affirmative action policy has done a great deal to lesson the hindrance of minorities in today’s society, yet the discrepancies between the few who have created successful professional careers and those who still reside the below the poverty line is extensive.