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January, 2023
Greetings to everyone!
I have noticed the current social movement for justice and equality in America is inclusive of marginalized people. It is being clearly addressed with possible resolution for the first time in modern society.
WHAT IS “MARGINALIZATION”?
marginalized
/ˈmärjənəˌlīzd/
adjective
- (of a person, group, or concept) treated as insignificant or peripheral.
“members of marginalized cultural groups”
What is a marginalized person?
A society that labels certain people as outside the norm — weird, scary, hateful, or useless — marginalizes those people, edging them out
So, the question becomes who are the marginalized?
Who are the groups and persons referenced in these explanations and definitions?
Marginalized Populations
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The social revolution of the 1970s coined the word “marginalized” to describe the experiences of those who live on the fringe of mainstream America. Such persons are systematically excluded from full participation in the American dream and consequently lack the self-efficacy to improve their life situation. In the end, society pays the costs when people encounter barriers to achieving their potential. The term marginalized has expanded from originally referring to minorities and persons from poverty, to include a long list of cultures and populations. Here is a sample of the most common marginalized groups:
- GLBT
- Senior citizens
- Racial/Cultural minorities
- Military Combat Veterans
- Persons of below average intelligence
- Hearing, visually, and Physically Challenged Persons
- Persons with a serious and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI)
- Persons with Cognitive Impairments
- Gamblers and Substance Abusers
- Autism Spectrum Persons
- Gifted and Talented Persons
- Persons with disfigurements
- Persons Living in Poverty
- Sex Offenders
- The Homeless
- Felons
While this is only a listing of those most commonly referred to as marginalized, there are other individual people who just do not fit into mainstream culture, and suffer the same consequences. Such persons are all around us but virtually invisible…unless they cause problems or disrupt the lifestyles of mainstream persons.
So often, we can by recalling our own life experiences and observations, remember witnessing or experiencing antisocial acts and hateful behaviors that are ostracism and social exclusion. The reason is claimed to be due to mainstream perceptions about race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, and sexual orientation.
Lifestyle differences, religious beliefs and practices, as well as social morays within a community have created divisions, separatism, demonization, and marginalization.
The frame of reference to identify marginalization is clarified.
Marginalization is the active ostracism and social exclusion of persons and groups from access and participation in mainstream society. (e.g.: business, government and leadership) this is understood to occur because both targeted individual’s and groups’ are different from the accepted mainstream norms.
This translates into a determination of lifestyles.
What is supposed to be an acceptable lifestyle?
What makes a lifestyle important to be defined?
Who determines what factors life and what factors style of others?
These are very daunting but significant questions about inclusiveness.
Let it be understood, that in some degree and manner we all can be and are marginalized.
For instance, children and the elderly are marginalized in the capitalist economic model.
GENDER MARGINALIZATION
Throughout history, until the 20th Century, women have been extremely marginalized in capitalistic societies ran by white men.
Gender marginalization is by now an accepted theoretical concern and enough empirical evidence is available to substantiate a strong presence of gender discrimination, oppression and subordination in all societies, whether developed, developing or the underdeveloped.Jul 18, 2018
Women of Color Marginalization.
Women of color have recently taken the spotlight in the public forum. Kamala D. Harris, Vice President of the United States of America, is a woman of color of Asian and African American descent.
We are now living in an era of transparency no longer allowing or tolerating bigotry and systemic racism.
Such events herald the revision of social, economic and political structuresand social mores of this country. Social consensus strongly indicates that it is past time for classist rule over the masses. A change is occurring.
LGBT MARGINALIZATION
In 1993, the Clinton Administration issued Department of Defense Directive 1304.26. Better known as “don’t ask, don’t tell”, the policy officially allowed closeted gay individuals to serve in the Armed Forces for the first time in U.S. history, though it did continue to bar known homosexuals from serving in the military.
LGBTQ youth make up at least 40% of all young people experiencing homelessness in the United States — an outsize portion, considering LGBTQ youth comprise only around 5%-8% of the total population of young Americans.
Until now, their experiences have gone mostly undocumented, according to Brandon Andrew Robinson, an assistant professor in the gender and sexuality studies department at the University of California, Riverside. Robinson uses the pronouns they/them/their.
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/03/19/how-policing-perpetuates-marginalization-lgbtq-youth
AFRICAN AMERICANS MARGINALIZED
It is historical fact that Africans were involuntarily brought to America as slaves. Africans were captured, shackled and chained and transported as livestock to America into bondage. This enslavement continued from 1619 AD – 1865 AD.
The public debate (not including Africans) over American ownership and enslavement of human beings, resulted in civil war and produced the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1st 1863. Although the Emancipation Proclamation declared enslaved Africans to be free Americans, the acceptance of such by mainstream American society has not happened.
Upon emancipation, African Americans were unceremoniously foisted into the hardscrabble Southern workforce with no provisions. The competition for job earnings was not welcomed by working-class white Americans. The socalled “emancipated Africans” were targeted, terrorized and lynched wantonly, to enforce exclusion and marginalization.
This was a strong basis of resentment and continues to be so.
Since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics started collecting data on the African American unemployment rate in January 1972, this rate has more often than not been twice as high as the white unemployment rate.
Who owns wealth in the United States?
How many American homeowners are there?
There are 83.5 million owner-occupied homes in the US. Less than 5million owner-occupants are non-white.
Black home ownership is less than 3,000,000 homes in the United states out of over 83 million homes owned in the United states. The LatinX community owns even less.
According to data from the Federal Reserve, in 1990, white households owned 90.7% of household wealth in the United States, whereas Black households owned 3.8% and Hispanic households owned 2.1%. These numbers have changed little over the past 30 years, with white households now owning 85.5% of wealth in 2019, and Black households owning 4.2% and Hispanic households owning 3.1%. Most of the white wealth decline is due to other racial groups attaining a share wealth.
Penal Marginalization
The United States criminal justice system is the largest in the world. At yearend 2015, over 6.7 million individuals were under some form of correctional control in the United States, including 2.2 million incarcerated in federal, state, or local prisons and jails. The U.S. is a world leader in its rate of incarceration, dwarfing the rate of nearly every other nation.
Such broad statistics mask the racial disparity that pervades the U.S. criminal justice system, and for African Americans in particular. African Americans are more likely than white Americans to be arrested; once arrested, they are more likely to be convicted; and once convicted, and they are more likely to experience lengthy prison sentences. African-American adults are 5.9 times as likely to be incarcerated than whites and Hispanics are 3.1 times as likely. As of 2001, one of every three black boys born in that year could expect to go to prison in his lifetime, as could one of every six Latinos—compared to one of every seventeen white boys. Racial and ethnic disparities among women are less substantial than among men but remain prevalent.
The source of such disparities is deeper and more systemic than explicit racial discrimination. The United States facilitates two distinct criminal justice standards: one for wealthy people and another for poor people and people of color. The wealthy can access a vigorous defense with every statutory and constitutional protection available. The experience of poor and minority defendants within the criminal justice system often differ substantially from that model leaving many defenseless or poorly represented.
Considering the foregoing examples of modern marginalization within the American Society, the question becomes, what is next?
The answer is not simple.
However, it does begin with each of us, and the public-at-large, recognizing that, in the interest of equity and full participation in society, marginalized people must be enfranchised in order for society to be comprehensive and inclusive.
Using this as an edict we can adopt and embrace a forward thinking and forward moving ideal that includes individuals and groups marginalized as lesser citizens due to social ostracism and social exclusions that are based upon condemnation ofpeople living alternative lifestyles.
The responsibility and the power needed to attain inclusiveness in American Society is within those who have been excluded.
Marginalized people must recognize the citizen power they possess that has lain dormant. Failing to exercise rights and privileges extended to all American citizens is not an option.
Marginalized segments of society must create a coalition.
An understanding of others who have experienced the same or similar exclusions in society because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, lifestyle differences or other perceived differences is imperative.
Communication and collaboration among marginalized entrepreneurs is necessary to establish programs that work together within a community network focused upon increasing the enfranchisement of marginalized segments of society in America.
Citizenship in the United States is fulfilled to the extent that the citizen exercises that citizenship.
How would you summarize the basic rights of a US citizen?
The United Sates Constituttion, Bill of Rights protects citizens’ pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship (religion), the right to keep and bear arms, the freedom of peaceful assembly, and the freedom to petition government for redress of greivances. It also prohibits warrantless government intrusion, unreasonable search and seizure of lands, property and personal effects, cruel and unusual punishments, and compelled self-incrimination.
The point to be taken is the staggering percentage of difference in homeownership. This is mainly due to specific systemic inequities in wealth opportunity and wealth distribution. Reckoning these inequities will not be accomplished through seeking external remedies. The remedy that is needed is within the community that needs it.
I want to make myself clear and understood about the need.
The need that I speak of is not about trying to criticize any individual or group. The need is for heightened awareness and active unity amongst marginalized people and communities.
The goal is to help marginalized people understand their rights to access and distribute resources in the seller economy.
We will not be denied resources. We will not be exploited by others and deprived of all rights and privileges as human beings and as citizens.
The mission leads to helping others by sharing, teaching, and educating.
Actions also involve service. Giving of oneself for the benefit of others is invaluable in creating this coalition.
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