Discrimination
Discrimination is expressed behaviors that are negative in nature (toward people of an “out-group)”and that are not rationally justified.
In the Beastie Boy’s song “Right Right Now Now” on their latest album “ To the 5 Boroughs” addresses the problem of discrimination. The Beastie Boys contend that banks who ask the race of the loan recipient on the application are discriminating by partially basing the decision on a client’s race. The lyrics that are being represented here are:
“I went to get a loan and they asked my race
I wrote down human inside the space
It's a disgrace how they try to debase
It ain't the bank's damn business how my lineage trace”.
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