African-American Politics

¶ … against the emerging concept pertaining to the Racial Privacy Initiative, abbreviated as RPI. The Works Cited seven sources in MLA format. African-American Politics Just like other constant processes accompanying change, global politics has been in a constant changing state since times immemorial. Not only that, politics that we observe worldwide based on different rules and regulations as well as outlining distinct policies unique to every age, Stone Age, Middle Age as well as Modern Age is highly rich in history.

On the same account African-American politics has also witnessed various changes. African-American politics, however, is largely based on issues pertaining to the racial differences and color prejudices that the blacks in America have had to face since for good. This mercurial political sphere while undergoing change gives birth to various phenomenon and activities. The recent one being the issue related to the Racial Privacy Initiative.

The Racial Privacy Initiative is considered to be a "ballot measure that would curtail the classification of people according to race, ethnicity, color or national origin by state and local government in California" (Racial Privacy Initiative deserves close scrutiny) put forth by the American Civil Rights Coalition Chair Ward Connerly.

According to the coalition, the purpose behind taking this initiative is to make the racially obsessed Californian government realize the urgent need for the creation of "a colorblind state that places more emphasis on privacy while offering respect for the complicated notion of racial identity" (Racial Privacy Initiative deserves close scrutiny). However, this is just one side of the concept regarding the Racial Privacy Initiative. Like always, this form of privacy with a highly political element has both merits and demerits and therefore proponents as well as opponents.

I, for one, certainly oppose this Racial Privacy Initiative that on one hand promises a biased-free society for the African-Americans by equipping the people with the psychological advantage of choosing to keep their privacy protected by applying ban on the collection of the racial data (Burden). However, on the other hand, if and when passed by voters, the RPI is fully capable of undermining California's anti-discrimination efforts (Wasserman).

This is because, by applying ban on the collection of racial data, the coalition is indirectly making the grave mistake of ignoring a major concern pertaining to the same issue. If and when the masses at large are permitted to conceal the important racial and ethnicity information, the law-makers as well as the policy-makers in charge will be left with little information as well as much-needed statistics to probe in order to draft accurate policies and regulations.

Moreover, with people choosing to hide valuable information regarding race and ethnic background as well as preferences, less and less information will be available for the law-makers to utilize while making the much-awaited amendments. Hence, by creating an information "black out" thereby deliberately placing greater hurdles in the path of the law-makers by augmenting the non-availability of relevant and priceless data, the ulterior motives of the coalition members are more than apparent and lucidly highlight the loopholes in the entire politically charged activity (Coleman).

When such valid information will not be available, material evidence will lack thereby forbidding the lawmakers to prove and check whether racial differences and prejudices exist or not and to what extent. And this will give rise to greater discrimination in massive and crucial realms of life like formal representation in the government as well as minority representation elsewhere. This will then certainly impact the voting rights and racial profiling. However much adversely thereby constantly feeding the vicious circle of vices pertaining to the acts of racial discrimination.

The research conducted in the related field as well as the relentless efforts done by the experts who have been vehemently opposing the concept of racial privacy initiative including the ACLU, the NAACP, and the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund indicate that this politically infected initiative "poses a great threat to the progress made thus far in race relations and addressing inequalities among communities of color" (Racial Privacy Initiative deserves close scrutiny).

Thus, no matter how ideal the concept of this racial privacy initiative sounds and appears today, people all over the world to date witness racial discrimination in its worst forms and will remain able to "notice differences between races despite what the letter of the law dictates. Ballot measures such as the initiative imply that race relations and equal opportunities have risen to such a level that there is no longer a need for such check boxes on applications or legal forms.

This idea is difficult to believe at a time when the debate over reparations for slavery churns at the state and national levels" (Racial Privacy Initiative deserves close scrutiny). Conclusion Thus from the above discussion, it is evident that as mistaken by the masses and unlike the portrayal of the initiative at the hands of the coalition, a colorblind society and an equal society can never be one and the same thing. Hence, supporting evidence provided above prove that racial privacy initiative deserves a thorough scrutiny.

This is because, racial privacy initiative will forbid local as well as state.