The first strategy that should be used in implementing the anti-bias is by the government formulating policies that ensure that discrimination is reduced in the society (Guerin, 2003). Most of the activities that are carried out in the society are monitored by the policies of the country. The government should be the body that is in the “middle” of ensuring that racial discrimination has been reduced. Therefore, the first step in ensuring that the plan has been implemented is by pressing the government to formulate advanced policies supporting the plan.
The other strategy in implementing the plan is by coming up with multiple training of the society. This is important in that there are many people in the society who do not understand the impact of racial discrimination. Some people were born in an environment that encouraged discrimination hence inheriting the traits. Training programs should be in all places in the society (Laszloffy & Hardy, 2000). For example, organization manager can be trained on the impact of racial discrimination, and be taught the importance of having people from different races as employees.
Training programs should also be in social places like churches and hospitals. Training the society will ensure that people will understand the dangers of discrimination and learn the advantages of all races working together. This strategy will eradicate ignorance that is in the society hence ensuring that the plan has been implemented.
Legislature and judiciary branches should come up with strict punishments on people who are found guilty of exercising racial discrimination in the society (Macedo & Gounari, 2015). This should be after the policies have been made. Tough punishments will ensure that people in the society will be afraid of engaging in racial discrimination. For example, in case a manager of an organization insults an employee due to his race will lead to the punishment. This fear of punishment will ensure that the plan has been implemented.
The other way to ensure that the anti-bias plan has been implemented is by introducing topics in school studies about racial discrimination (Szoke, 2012). There is no specific time on when the plan will be fully implemented. Therefore, the education body should introduce these studies in school. This will ensure that children will be introduced to the training at an early stage. Some people are involved in racial discrimination because they were brought up in a discriminative environment and they were not taught the dangers of being involved in this vice. This should be mainly in the low grade classes. People have to grow understanding that they should not be involved in racial discrimination.
Anti-bias plan can be implemented by the government increasing the number of African Americans in the government (Guerin, 2003). Discrimination has been encouraged by the lack of many African Americans in the government. There are positions in the government that are filled by people who are selected by the head of state. The plan cannot be a success if the government is not in support.
Increasing the number of African Americans in the government will make this ethnic group represented hence reducing the cases of racial discrimination. There are African Americans who are qualified to fill some positions in the government. The superior groups will also stop discrimination because they will feel that African Americans also have a share in the government.
The final strategy of implementing the anti-bias plan is by abolishing all the policies that are in existence that may lead to discrimination (Laszloffy & Hardy, 2000). For example, there are schools that have policies that only allow admission of children who are white. This means that these policies are encouraging discrimination. This policy should be abolished to ensure that all people capable of taking their children to these schools have a chance. There are other social institutions that have policies this vice. Abolishing these policies will help in implementing the plan.
Implementation of the plan will have various impacts on the African American families and children. The first ethical impact is that black children will an improvement in their self-esteem. This is because these children did not believe that they were good enough in the society, but the implementation will make them understand that they are not inferior in any way. The other impact on the African American families is that there will be an increased social power. This will be evident because African American children will be trying to have white friends. African American families will also diversify their family bracket. Racial discrimination has reduced the social power of people. Therefore, implementing this plan will enable African American children and families to have friends from other races.
The first item in NAEYC that matches the recommendations of the anti-bias plan is “ethical responsibility of children.” This is an item that ensures that the main responsibility of NAEYC is to ensure that everything taught is safe to children (Feeney, Freeman & Moravcik, 2008). Teaching about racial discrimination is safe for children because it will make children stop fighting due to their ethnic differences, and become social. The other item of NAEYC ethical code that supports the recommendations is “ethical responsibilities to families.” This is satisfied by the recommendation that there should be training project programs to people about the impact of racial discrimination to the society.
The parents will also have the responsibility of training their children about stopping discrimination. It is ethical that parents take the responsibility of teaching their children how to be productive without hating people because of their ethnical group. The final item in the NAEYC code of ethics is about creating policies that create a physically and emotionally safe environment for children. This is in the recommendations because there is formulation of policies that will ensure that people stop discrimination practices in the society (Feeney, Freeman & Moravcik, 2008). This will help in making the environment safe for children emotionally because those who were discriminated will not be victimized again.
The success of the plan would be measured by carrying out random researches to acquire information on whether racial discrimination has reduced. Research will be carried out through interviews and administering questionnaires to random people in different parts of the country. The other way to measure success of the plan will be by collecting information on the number of employees are in organizations depending on race (Szoke, 2012). The organizations picked for the analysis will be picked at random.
There is no specific time allocation on how long it will take for the problem to be completely eradicated from the society. However, it will take approximately two years for changes to be noticed. This is because there need to be time for formulation of the policies and enforcing them. Training programs will also require time to be successful in most parts of the country. After two years most people in the country will have understood the advantages of not being involved in discrimination. Others will have stopped the vice due to the tough punishment. However, this plan will be a successive plan because it has to be implemented in the society every time.
In case the plan failed there would be several changes to ensure that it became a success. The first change would be to include the responsibilities of the other ethnic group. This will help in making the other races appreciate the plan and not feel like it is in support of one group. There will also be inclusion of different people from different ethnic group in documentation of the plan so that it may be appreciated by all the represented groups. These changes would make the exercise a success and help in eradicating racial in the society. This is because this menace has prevented some projects and people from being successful.
References
Feeney, S., Freeman, N. K., & Moravcik, E. (2008). Teaching the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct: Activity Sourcebook. National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Guerin, B. (2003). Combating prejudice and racism: New interventions from a functional analysis of racist language. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 13(1), 29-45.
Laszloffy, T. A., & Hardy, K. V. (2000). Uncommon strategies for a common problem: Addressing racism in family therapy. Family Process, 39(1), 35-50.
Macedo, D., & Gounari, P. (2015). Globalization of racism. Routledge.
Szoke, H. (2012). National anti-racism strategy. Australian Human Rights Commission.
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