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Race Wrongs, and Remedies (pgs 1-70)

Wax discusses the difference between hard struggles and brick walls within the “black communities.” “Brick walls” can be described as “discriminatory hiring practices based on pure racial animus” (Walls 19). There are three accounts of brick walls: emphasizing discrimination, structural barriers, and culturally learned behaviors. An example of discrimination is the criminal justice system and how it is unfair to the black race. Wax believes that this statement is untrue and that there is factual evidence that all races have an equal just system. Structural barriers, are the obstacles where the black race has grown up in or gone through. It is believed that these obstacles either prohibit people from success or inspire them even more.

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