Racial Discrepancies

This week in American Studies, we discussed the "Peculiar Institution". This is used as a euphemism for social and economic repercussions of slavery in the South in America. As we talked about this, we began to wonder about racial discrepancies that our society has today. Some discrepancies that minorities face, especially African-Americans, include environments like the workplace and in the social hierarchy.While there are many possible origins to this issue, I personally believe that these have been caused by the after-effects of slavery and Jim Crow laws.
The reason I believe that slavery is the cause is because American society has yet to fully emerge from racial stereotypes and from slavery. After slavery was abolished during the Civil War, the African-American slaves were released from the South and the entire country. But despite this, lives for these former slaves barely improved and in some cases, got worse. African-Americans as a whole have never had the ability to recover from slavery and have been "stuck" near the lower and middle classes. One reason that accounts for this truth is with Jim Crow Laws. These laws basically prohibited African-American improvement in the social classes and at work.