English Literature

Since time immemorial, discrimination is widely observed and practiced in most countries whether in terms of race, sexual orientation, age, educational and economic status. People, indeed, have the great tendency to isolate and discriminate social classes who belong to minority groups.

Even most of the people would say that there is no discrimination among the Black Americans, still, we cannot deny the fact that most of the Whites have this tendency to discriminate and isolate the Africans in terms of color and opportunities.  Some companies observe racial discrimination when hiring employees for their vacancies. Whites are mostly hired compared to the Black applicants. There is still this pre-conceived notion that Blacks are inferior to the Whites in most aspects of their life.

This has in line with the giving of Congressional seal of approval to jazz and making Huck Finn as an honorary Boy Scout. Jazz cannot be fully accepted by most of the Americans since it originated from the Blacks. It may be associated with the pride and ego of the Whites since most of them treat the Blacks as inferior. Likewise, Huck Finn cannot be considered as an honorary Boy Scout since he is an illegitimate son who runs from her family to fulfill his dreams. The negative connotation to him cannot be removed anymore despite the fact that he saved Jim from the threat of slavery.

Nevertheless, discrimination, like the case of jazz and Huck Finn, should be treated in a different way to create harmonious relationship with the other people. The culture of discrimination should be totally put into trash. For instance, there should be equal treatment in the workplace between the Blacks and the Whites. People should hold unto the belief that the government and private sectors should widely observe and practice the economic autonomy for all the genders and to let them have access to equal opportunities and equal rights (Gottfried 2004).

In order to eliminate the dilemma on discrimination, we should not believe that  giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. Jazz, which is the representation of the culture of the Blacks can also be given the Congressional seal of approval. Accepting jazz is not like making Huck Finn as an honorable Boy Scout.