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nal report showed that in the city of Milwaukee, a white job applicant with a criminal record has a better chance of being called for an interview than a Black man with no criminal record. It is self-evidence that the black people in America are discriminated though the America advocates equality. It is a long struggle to eliminate the discrimination against the blacks. B. Straits of the Female If the people say that being black is a greater handicap than being a woman, probably no one would doubt. Everybody knows，the black people’s suffering is unquestionable in a long history. However, Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress, says being black is much less of a drawback than being female. As both a woman and a black pursuing a political career, Chisholm faced more obstacles than others. But, that’s funny-she found that she encountered greater prejudice as a woman than as an African American. It goes without saying; the prejudice for women is more than black people. Because women are inferior to men, lack of education and so on, which caused the men’s dominated status in their families. America is a country advocating freedom and human rights, which means that everyone is equal. And the phenomena in the life also show the female have priority. For example, in the street the male will let the female walk first. When the male talks about something in public, they always say ladies and then say gentlemen. Conversely, current situation reveals cases about women in America suffered discrimination from the white men and the black men. In politics, the female didn’t have the suffrage. Opinion polls are also now beginning to show many elector express that, they don’t like female to be president, so that it is impossible to vote for female candidates in 2008 president’s vote whatever party they represent. Almost 70% America voters think the Democratic Party’s Hillary Rodham Clinton, won’t win in that vote. Nearly 80% voters consider Republic Party’s Condoleezza Rice, who is the U.S. Secretary of State, has no chance getting the voters’ supports. It also shows she couldn’t get most of voters’ support. It can be easily evidenced that the gender is the reason which causes this result. In the economy, the female are dependent on the male, even if they find some jobs, their salary is less than the male’s. The major reason is that the boss considers the male stronger than female and the female only adapt to housework. According to the investigation, the men and the women who have the same education and abilities to do the same job, if the men’s salary is 1 dollar every hour, the women’s salary is only 0.77 dollar. Comparing the women’s pay with men’s, you’ll find the women’s is decreased by 1/3. This condition exists in every profession, such as low salary cleaners and high salary lawyers. After one year, the difference is between 0.7 million to 2 million dollar. In spite of this, the women work hard all the time. So people cannot only look at the surface of the things. The female has been liberated in the law, however, they don’t reach the level of equality in the life. C. Straits of Black Women The blacks only need to get through the racial discrimination if they want to gain equality. And the white females need to be approved by white males. Surely, both of them are not an easy thing. With the double identity of the black and female, the black women have their own particularities. In male-dominated fami