ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
Topic: racism

In the future, I hope to help end the blatant bias towards immigrants of color. Now that I am aware of the inequalities they face, I notice them often. Currently, I am most upset about how our president treats people of color. He has tried to prohibit people from the Middle East from entering the country and has declared a national emergency at the United States-Mexico border because they are supposedly these monsters coming to the United States to commit violence and steal jobs from Americans. Despite the fact that there are way more crimes committed by white Americans and plenty of jobs, many Americans take Trump’s word for it. By helping at 8th and College Connections, I have put faces to some of these ‘horrible’ immigrants and learned that they are really kind people and have the potential to help our society if we just give them the chance. By dedicating myself, I can use nonviolence to lessen the racism towards the immigrants who have a lot to offer.
Topic: racism

Frida Kahlo is well-known for using symbolism such as animals to show the deeper meaning of the artwork. I think that the use of the black monkey, black bird, thorn necklace and the black cat in this piece symbolizes the dark past (physically and psychologically) that she have experienced. The tw butterfly on her head might be symbolising her claim about being born in 1910 (revolution of mexico) as she claimed that she wanted to start a new life.
Topic: racism

Frida painted in 3 different styles and they were; Magic Realism, a way to paint in a greatly realistic style to show imaginary scenes or images. Surrealism. A 20th century style of art and literature. Modern Art, a style to show the Vilceks love for the art of the country. Her subject matter wasn’t like others; landscape, or abstract etc. instead it was deeply emotional. Making hers different in other feelings than humourous. She showed the true meaning of life of what it meant to her
Topic: racism

Kahlo claimed to be born in the year 1910, the year of the outbreak of the Mexican revolution as she wanted to start her life on the new/modern Mexico. This information is characterized since childhood by a deep sense of independence and rebellion against social and moral ordinary habits, moved by passion and sensuality, proud of her “Mexicanidad” and cultural tradition set against the reigning Americanization: everything mixed with a peculiar sense of humour.
Topic: racism

Drawing on her personal experiences (her troubled marriage, her painful miscarriages, her numerous operations), her works are often shocking in their stark portrayal of pain. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are self-portraits, often incorporating symbolic portrayal of her physical and psychological wounds. Another thematic element in her work developed from her deeply felt influence of the indigenous Mexican culture, which surfaced in her paintings’ bright colors, dramatic symbolism, and unapologetic rendering of often harsh and gory content.Although Kahlo’s work is sometimes classified as surrealist, and she did exhibit several times with European surrealists, she never considered herself a surrealist. Her preoccupation with female themes and the figurative candor with which she expressed them made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the 20th century.
Topic: racism

Analysis: The Broken Column shows a crying Frida, half naked, with tears in her eyes. Her body is covered with nailess and her body is open, this shows that her physical and psychological struggles are visible through the distortions of her body, which is fragmented, doubled, turned inside-out, and merged with non human elements. The earthquake-like background may also resembles with her past struggles. A broken iconic column replaces the artist’s crumbling spine and sharp metal nails pierce her body. The hard coldness of this inserted column recalls the steel rod that pierced the artist’s vagina during her bus accident. She also used a biblical reference as beyond its physical dimensions, the cloth wrapped around her pelvis, recalls Christ’s loincloth, again Kahlo displays her wounds like a christian marty. Overall, Frida Kahlo uses physical pain, nakedness, and sexuality to bring home the message of spiritual suffering.
Topic: racism

Analysis: Frida Kahlo put so many symbolic creatures in this painting. She was not painting a realistic scene but using these symbolic elements to express her feelings. A bird butterfly is often symbolize freedom and life and its beauty. The humming bird is Always actively seeking the sweetest nectar, they remind us to forever seek out the good in life and the beauty in each day. The prime message of the hummingbird animal totem is: “The sweetest nectar is within!” Hummingbird animal totem meaning is about energetic resources. Just like ‘The Broken Column this piece shows a biblical reference through the thorn necklace wrapped around her neck which again may show a Christian Martyr. The thorn necklace is inspired by the thorn crown on Christ’s head which also symbolizes suffering. In this portrait, Frida Kahlo faces the viewer with background of large green leaves and a yellow leaf right behind her. The thorns are around her neck like a necklace which is held by a black monkey. Her neck is bleeding from the piercing thorns. On right side behind her shoulder is a black cat. A hummingbird is hanging on the thorn which knots around her throat. Her expression is calm and solemn. It also seems she is patiently enduring the pain.
Topic: racism

Wiley’s work falls into the category of Identity Politics, which is art, film, and writing, which deals primarily with aspects of the artist’s identity, for example race, gender, and sexuality. It is vitally important to Wiley that black people, especially black American men, are both the subjects and the audience of his paintings. At a time when young black men are constantly vilified in the press and mainstream media, and even murdered on the street by racist policemen, Wiley’s portraits are an essential document of the power, fashion, versatility and beauty of the black community in the USA. Historically, the role of portraiture has been not only to create a likeness but also to communicate ideas about the subject’s status, wealth, and power. During the eighteenth century, for example, major patrons from the church and the aristocracy commissioned portraits in part to signify their importance in society. This portrait imitates the posture of the figure of Napoleon Bonaparte in Jacques-Louis David’s painting Bonaparte Crossing the Alps at Grand-Saint-Bernard. Wiley transforms the traditional equestrian portrait by substituting an anonymous young Black man dressed in contemporary clothing for the figure of Napoleon. The artist thereby confronts and critiques historical traditions that do not acknowledge Black cultural experience. Wiley presents a new brand of portraiture that redefines and affirms Black identity and simultaneously questions the history of Western painting.
Topic: racism

His work is closely related to culture and life. Most of his photo look ‘American hood like’ this suggests that he must have been related to this type of lifestyle.The models he uses are normally dressed in their everyday clothes, which brings out the originality a lot. They wear urban street style clothes. Kehinde uses juxtaposition well to contrast the meaning of the photo which is linking the urban lifestyle to the olden days. By applying the visual vocabulary and variations of wealth, prestige and history to subject matter. Wiley makes his subjects and their stylistic references juxtaposed of each other, this forces ambiguity and makes the viewer confused and question on what they see.
Topic: racism

Kehinde Wiley was born in 1977. He is a New York based portrait painter, with a Los Angeles native. He is mostly known for his highly realistic paintings of brown skinned people in quite heroic, regal like poses. He is known to be a racist, critics say this because the paintings he does where once a powerful white man, in which he exchanges for a firm piece of a male with an african-american origin. He was inspired by the old masters paintings.
Topic: racism

Analysis: This portrait is typical of Wiley’s work, featuring a young black male subject depicted against an ornate background. However, this work also acts as an example of how Wiley responds “site-specifically” to different geographical locations. This portrait was completed in Brazil, and instead of his typical Rococo or Baroque backdrops, Wiley drew inspiration from the brightly patterned tablecloths found in the favelas, or shanty town, inhabited by poorer working people in Brazil. He brings a similar site-specificity to portraits done in other parts of the world. For instance, in West Africa, he was inspired by the African patterns found in the marketplaces, and sampled body positions from West African sculpture. Likewise, in Israel, he created his backgrounds based on Israeli paper cut outs. In this way, viewers of Wiley’s portraits completed outside of the Unites States are provided with instantly recognizable visual clues (regional and cultural specific imagery and patterns) to help them locate the work and the subject’s point of origin.
Topic: racism

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don’t want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know’ what justice is.” I don’t want to invent victories for people’s movements. But to think that history-writing must aim simply to recapitulate the failures that dominate the past is to make historians collaborators in an endless cycle of defeat.
Topic: racism

If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, occasionally to win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past’s fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
Topic: racism

the author talked about Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress, where he discussed the coming of Columbus when he first set foot to the continent and how the natives looked like during the pre-colonial age as he descriptively narrate the physical attributes of the natives, their appearances, their own customs before the colonizers, their means of living, moral standards and their geographical set up. It also made comparison from different conquistadors of American continent and how the natives fought against colonizers. The author were able to ask these questions:
Topic: racism

“Was all this bloodshed and deceit-from Columbus to Cortes, Pi- zarro, the Puritans-a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made-as it was made by Stalin when he killed peasants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Ham- burg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgment be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?”
Topic: racism

Drawing the Color Line, basically suggest and provoke the hostile living conditions of slaves, black and white under different level of circumstances. It also explained as why slavery prevailed despite rebellious acts countering brutality and unjustness among the slaves. Howard Zinn, noted how the masters could economically benefit from its slaves. The author also brought up the factors and reasons as to why slavery sprouted in the continent as he stated “We see now a complex web of historical threads to ensnare blacks for slavery in America: the desperation of starving settlers, the special helplessness of the displaced African, the powerful incentive of profit for slave trader and planter, the temptation of superior status for poor whites, the elaborate controls against escape and rebellion, the legal and social punishment of black and white collaboration.”·· “The system was psychological and physical at the same time. The slaves were taught discipline, were impressed again and again with the idea of their own inferiority to “know their place,” to see blackness as a sign of subordination, to be awed by the power of the master, to merge their interest with the master’s, destroying their own individual needs.”
Topic: racism

Howard Zinn emphasizes the people’s condition, and its state. The author discussed how the people were treated from the newly founded colonies, the struggle of the mass from the hostility and animosity. He jotted down the poor condition of the people from enslavement, how it was very common for a slave to be beaten and whipped every time then women were sexually exploited like nothing new, the usual scenario. How colonial laws existed but were never exercised. This chapter talks deeply to the wretched lives of the slaves over long period of moral neglect from continuity.
Topic: racism

the chapter presents the internal struggle for mobilization, where the mass was divided into committing themselves and fight for the cost of revolution or to exclude themselves from a great danger, some stayed neutral. According to Howard Zinn, conflicts have arose before their common enemy, recruitments for militias had gone wrong and even escalated dispute over the matter. “What soldiers in the Revolution could do only rarely; rebel against their authorities, civilians could do much more easily. Ronald Hoffman says: “The Revolution plunged the states of Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and, to a much lesser degree, Virginia into divisive civil conflicts that persisted during the entire period of struggle.” The southern lower classes resisted being mobilized for the revolution. They saw themselves under the rule of a political elite, win or lose against the British.”
Topic: racism

basically talks about the history’s long been denied regard for the women on its role and importance in the society. The author discussed the different characteristics of women from one state to another. He contested the depiction of the society’s common knowledge about women, which were so called child bearers and sexual apparatus for men. Enumerating the crucial conditions of women from the age of colonization to revolution. Women before men composed almost half of the population of the old society yet gets a little regard for its contribution highlighting only of those men without reconsidering their importance. In this chapter the author collected stories of women which history did not tell the world and simply putted aside.
Topic: racism

entitled “As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs” it presents the idea of a bloody integration to a hope it could’ve been modified to a little extent. However, Howard Zinn pointed out the lapses of those revered American heroes for the outcome, how these leaders even initiated the marginalization casting out the native Indians from their settlements and acquired those territories like it’s a manifest call to do so. As stated in the book, an article mentioned and states that “a smaller sacrifice; that the aboriginal population had accommodated themselves to the inevitable change of their condition. . . . But such a wish is vain. A barbarous people, depending for subsistence upon the scanty and precarious supplies furnished by the chase, cannot live in contact with a civilized community.”
Topic: racism

“The determination of our slaveholding President to prosecute the war, and the probability of his success in wringing from the people men and money to carry it on, is made evident, rather than doubtful, by the puny opposition arrayed against him. No politician of any considerable distinction or eminence seems willing to hazard his popularity with his party . . . by an open and unqualified disapprobation of the war. None seem willing to take their stand for peace at all risks; and all seem willing that the war should be carried on, in some form or other.”
Topic: racism

As Howard stated, “with slavery abolished by order of the government-true, a government pushed hard to do so, by blacks, free and slave, and by white abolitionists-its end could be orchestrated so as to set limits to emanci- pation. Liberation from the top would go only so far as the interests of the dominant groups permitted. If carried further by the momentum of war, the rhetoric of a crusade, it could be pulled back to a safer position. Thus, while the ending of slavery led to a reconstruction of national politics and economics, it was not a radical reconst~uction, but a safe one-in fact, a profitable one.” The chapter presents and contest that the motives for slavery were not actually racial, but economically driven. Thus Americans developed racism largely as a way of justifying the brutal enslavement of African people. Howard again, presented the resentment of the slaves against their masters and rebelled against them. Thus running away was much more realistic than armed insurrection. The emancipation that was enacted was not a complete freedom but “The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States.”
Topic: racism

it talks about the resistance due to the prevalence of growing inequalities in United States, legislations that was heavily carried by the oppressed citizens, the tenants. These bills were countered by Anti-rent movement and basically defeated and rejected. Allowing the birth of civil conflicts that have led to inevitable consequences with the growing antagonism of the poor.”The period before and after the Civil War is filled with politics, elections, slavery, and the race question. Even where specialized books on the Jacksonian period deal with labor and economic issues they center on the presidency, and thus perpetuate the traditional dependency on heroic leaders rather than people’s strug- gles. Andrew Jackson said he spoke for “the humble members of soci- ety-the farmer, mechanics and laborers. . . .” He certainly did not speak for the Indians being pushed off their lands, or slaves. But the tensions aroused by the developing factory system, the growing immigra- tion, required that the government develop a mass base of support among whites. “Jacksonian Democracy” did just that.”
Topic: racism

this chapter presents the crucial truth behind the 19th century’s growth and development lays the bearer of burden, the poor which robbed and robbed by the elites or the upper class on the extent of exploitation. As Howard noted that United States is becoming a capitalist, hence lower class being exploited yet propagating the idea for everyone’s well-being thus anyone could and must benefit from it. The chapter also presented the expense of industrialization with its inventions to the working class. Howard pointed out how the federal government supported the literal robbers from the oppressed working class.
Topic: racism

in this chapter, it talks about United States as an emerging superpower that extends its venture from conquering and acquiring new lands. How they prompted aggression to these nations and enacted policy of intimidation. In this chapter the author discussed how United States developed a false platform of recognizing independence and freedom as a natural right and must be exercise where in fact in contrary, they conquer lands and exploit whatever resources they could get and propagated racism on the other hand. Military intervention in Cuba, the war in the Philippines is few good examples on their hypothetical platforms.
Topic: racism

the 13th chapter talks about the “The Socialist Challenge” basically, this chapter talks about the early 20th century, where the number of strikes was growing at a startling rate. An increasing number of moderate and middle-class people were embracing the idea that capitalists exerted too much power over the country. Around 19th and early 20th century, Americans embraced non-capitalist economic theories and ideologies. Many people, including moderate, middle-class people, recognized the dangers of capitalism and wanted radical change.
Topic: racism

No one believes themselves to be racists nor do they want to be considered racist. Racism is not as prevalent in today’s society as it used to be, yet we fail to realize subtle racial biases that are held subconsciously in all our minds. In the movie Hidden Figures directed by Theodore Melfi in 2016, African-American women are discriminated against because of the skin color they are born with is not white. Through verbal and non-verbal language, their colleagues, who behave monstrously, discriminate against the women in ways that colleagues do not recognize.
Topic: racism

Before 1960’s, in the USA, color segregation and gender discrimination were prevalent. Many scenes in the movie depict white people isolating black people; for example, African American women in the movie have to work in a separated place, they have to sit on the colored chair of the buses, borrow books in the separated area in the library and use colored bathroom just like the main character, Katherine. During the 1960s, these signals under the law separate but equal of racial segregation lead “whites” to treat “blacks” unfairly in the direct and conscious way.
Topic: racism

Racism still exists today; however, the perceptions of racism are different than the 1960s. According to Cognitive Complexity and the Perception of Subtle Racism, Landon D. Reid states there is still a gap between perception and reality in America. For examples, in 2009, there was a poll taken to show how the people of the country felt as to where we stood on racism in the USA (Reid 291). 26 percent of Americans believed racism is an enormous social problem, 39 percent believed that racial conflicts are still continued today and 77 percent believed that race relations are good (Reid 291). Nevertheless, in reality, 74 percent of blacks said that they have been discriminated against, 60 percent said they felt unsafe and not fit in the melting pot, and 40 percent reported being stopped by police due to their race (Reid 292). This shows how there is a large gap, which states a view of a misconception of racism on one side, can lead to subtle racism. In most recent days, if a person is made fun of due to their culture and skin color, it is considered to be stereotyping and having prejudices but not racism. However, they do not know this is also a type of discrimination because it is difficult to find under this “perfect mask” (Reid 292).
Topic: racism

Those different views between whites and blacks in racism are a misconception that has been substantiating how people blur what truly is and is not racism. The more the topic of racism is ignored, the more the topic is becoming blurred in today’s world. We can see in the past, through the movie, the evident signals of discrimination such as the obvious black bathroom sign that makes Katherine runs half a mile from her workplace or “black pot” which her co-workers make to have not to drink coffee in the same pot with her. During the 1960s, those preposterous signals are obvious in society, which are different from now. In today’s society, those signals are not disappeared but replaced by another cloudy way. Racism is not over, it just occurs subtler and more subconsciously.
Topic: racism

People have denied that they discriminate against non-white people. According to “It Wasn’t Me!”: How Will Race and Racism Work in 21st Century America”, Euardo Bonilla-Silva states whites American claim that “it wasn’t me” when it comes to issues of racial inequality (112). However, they are not being duplicitous while they said, “it wasn’t me” as they truly believe they have nothing to do with racial minorities standing in society (Bonilla-Silva 112). Whites acknowledge the discrimination exists and when they are faced with evidence of discrimination, they classify these occurrences as isolated incidents (Bonilla-Silva 120). Whites might find justifications to prove they are not racist. According to The New Threat: ‘Racism without Racists’, John Blake states when whites and racial minorities talk about race, there are three phases that often happen in the “conversation”. The first one, I do not see color, as a real example in 2014, a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri, they are not particularly troubled by the grand jury’s decision to not issue an indictment (Blake). They said “let the legal system handle the decision without race-baiting” (Blake). The second phase called “But I have black friends”, Charles Gallagher, a sociologist at La Salle University in Philadelphia, gave a hypothetical example: “A white police officer in Ferguson may be married to a black woman and have black and Latino friends, but that doesn’t mean the officer is above racial profiling” (Blake). Racial bias is so deeply engrained in people that it can manifest itself in surprising places. In final phase, “Who you calling a racist?” people refuse to admit their biases. As Blake mentions in his article, Ross who is the author of Everyday Bias, says that the smarter we are, the more self-confident we are, and the more successful we are, the less likely we’re going to question our own thinking. Even the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, has been suspicious of efforts to achieve diversity in workforces by hiring more officers of color in Ferguson’s police force, believing that they amount to reverse racism or racial preferences (Blake).
Topic: racism

Even though not all people believe they behave as racist with racial minorities, looking at the data shows different advantages between two groups of “color”. Today, racism occurs in many fields such as employment, housing, credit markets and consumer markets. Many minorities such as blacks, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans suffer housing discrimination (Pager 182). In The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets, Devah Pager states between 2000 and 2002 the Department of Housing and Urban Development conducted an extensive series of audits measuring housing discrimination against those group of minorities (188). The study result divulges bias across multiple areas (Pager 188). As for blacks, they face discrimination in roughly a fifth of housing searches and for Hispanics, in roughly a quarter of housing searches on both rental and sales they were discriminated against (Pager 188). In credit markets, blacks pay more than five out of a thousand higher interest rates on home mortgages than do whites and this is under the controls of income level, date of purchase, and age of buyer (Pager 189). More than 82 percent of blacks and Hispanics applications were rejected when several risks of default, cost of default, loan characteristics, and personal and neighborhood characteristics happen (Pager 189).
Topic: racism

Moreover, according to Systematic Inequality: How America’s Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap,” Angela Hanks mentions in 2016 blacks with liability typically owed $35,560 less than 40 percent of the $93,000 in debt owed by whites. However, because blacks owed larger amounts of high-interest debts such as installment credit and student and car loans, the debt they typically owed was more expensive (Hanks). This problem leads to the median wealth for non-retired black households 25 years old and older was less than one-tenth that of similarly situated whites (Hanks). As a simple example from Hidden Figures, Katherine’s boss tells her that she has been forbidden to wear any jewelry except pearls, but NASA does not pay colored female computers enough to afford pearls. During the 1960s, racism is more directly; however, in some cases, the signals of subtle racism like the different wealth between whites and blacks were also occurring.
Topic: racism

However, people still do not want to concede these differences are racism; therefore, we now can find some small details happening with an individual as subtle racism. When relating the topic of subtle racism to everyday life, people may think what are some ways in which this is shown. These ways might change our mindset of racism and make us believe racism is not happening. Compared with the movie Hidden Figures, the background of the movie is set up in the 1960s; therefore, the racial and gender discrimination that three main female characters face is more directly due to the period of time that “white and black separation” still be protected by laws. From the movie, those women are discriminated by the way they have to do everything separated from “whites”, for example, separated bathrooms, separated areas in the library, separated areas in the workplace, separated pots and blacks sit on the back of the bus.
Topic: racism

On the other hand, in the article “Race and Gender Oppression in the Classroom: The Experiences of Women Faculty of Color with White Male Students”, Chavella T. Pittman finds that women of color faculty experience gendered racism in the classroom and that their authority is challenged, their competency is questioned, and their scholarly expertise is disrespected almost exclusively by white male students (186). An example from Pittman’s research, white males subconsciously allow themselves to open colored women faculty’s office door without knocking, if a student may call a male faculty Dr., he will call her by first name (188). Another example from an article called Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions, Sendhil Mullainathan mentions 50 percent of result for the callback in an interview is this has a “white” name in the resume. Mullainathan also mentions in a 2009 study, it found that African-American applicants with no criminal record were offered jobs at a rate as low as white applicants who had criminal records. Moreover, several studies show that black patients with heart disease were much less likely to recommended a helpful procedure, even they have the same medical files with those white patients. Mullainathan shows how there is subtle discrimination that is happening more currently but we do not realize it. Bonilla-Silva states that is a new way of maintaining white domination in places like Ferguson, called “racism without racist”. This does not mean you are consciously being racist but rather subconsciously. We use the term stereotype or prejudice as a form of not believing that racism is happening.
Topic: racism

Racism is more complex than before, you cannot find the sign appears evidently in front of you but it occurs in every small detail in our day-to-day life. According to The Millennials (Generation Y): Segregation, Integration and Racism, Geraldine Brown mentioned racism just does not concern a dominant racial group overly oppressing minorities. There is subtle racism describes racial microaggressions based on race (Brown 7). According to Unmasking ‘Racial Micro Aggressions’, Tori DeAngelis states one of the forms of racial microaggresions is aversive racism, which is common in today’s society (42). Whereas aversion is based socially and is subtle, microggresion leads to the threat of racism. For example, if race B’s qualifications are just as strong or as week as the race A’s, race A tends not to discriminate against race B (DeAngelis 42). However, when there is a huge disproportion between two race and race B’s qualification seems to lower than race A’s, race A tends to favor their own race versus race B (DeAngelis 42). We choose to think, I only did that because I was the normal thing to do (DeAngelis 42). The same evidence occurs in Hidden Figures, white employees have larger offices than “black” employees and when Katherine is required that does not speak with the department head, Mr. Harrison unless he speaks to her first. The different light between two places that Katherine works in, West Area Computing and Space Task Group continues to give us more evidence to prove the segregation in NASA. In West Are Computing, the room is a little darker than in Space Task Group, where the light is much brighter. This proves the different values that NASA gives the professional skills and people who work in two places. From those examples, we can recognize these are subtle racism, in which “whites” are represented as more intelligent and have higher qualifications class than “blacks”; therefore, they are assumed that they can disregard or discriminate against “blacks”, those who are lower than them.
Topic: racism

We might not realize subtle racism exists or is real until we are the person who is the victim of it. That is an explanation for the way your mind automatically puts certain groups of people in certain categories, leading to racism. According to “Is Everyone a Little Bit Racist?”, Nicholas Kristof states the main point in this article is they are people who believe in equality yet they have a biased view on the world causing racism to happen. There is an experiment tested undergraduate students on subtle racism. A student from University of Colorado used an online shooter game to test if there was bias between white and black. It shows the views on racial bias based on gender as well as whether they react on playing the video game. The students were police officers who were shown a series of black and white males with some holding guns and some holding innocent objects. As Kristof mentions ordinary players routinely shoot more quickly at black men than at white men, and are more likely to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black man than an unarmed white man. In the result, more blacks were shot in the video game, especially undergraduate students. Kristof is also an example, he states the first time he took the test, he shot armed blacks in an average of 0.679 seconds while shooting armed whites in 0.694 seconds. This experiment shows that subtle racism is the new definition of racism in the 21st century and that this opened the eyes of those who do not believe or know if racism still existed.
Topic: racism

On the other hand, when we think about our everyday life, we seem to interact with people who look similar with us and tend to favor those types of people more. Sometimes we have friends that “look similar” to us. It is not necessarily for us to put ourselves to stick with our own race or culture but subconsciously we feel safe and comfortable when we are in a group that we look like most. This shows how racism has changed from the conscious way to much more subtler. That leads to a tendency, which can describe as we do not judge these types of action as racism because they happen subconsciously. We used to view it as bluntly segregating races whereas now it is sort of blurred into subconscious actions we do every day with our friends.
Topic: racism

No matter what race we are, we have bias within and out of our race. According to Blake, a psychological experiment is tested. There are two pictures: one picture is of a white man with a knife attacking an unarmed white man and the second is the white man with a knife attacking an unarmed black man. When asked who was armed, many people picked the white man with a knife in the first picture (Blake). However, in the second one, both black and white people said that the black man was holding the knife (Blake). Some colored people even assume themselves as lower class in society or discriminate themselves. Everyone all subconsciously does discriminate against others
Topic: racism

Today, the definition of racism is a misconception has been “substantiating” how people misunderstand and blur what truly is and is not racism. Racism nowadays is much more subtler. Ultimately, we are all subconsciously racist. We hold preconceptions about racism that we don’t realize and make snap judgments in our heads. When something about race happens and seems not to be right, we sometimes say those are prejudices. However, prejudices originate in racism. We have a tendency to use prejudice as a justification to not believe that racism is happening every day and reject that we act as racists. Often we rely on the past definition of racism, where one race is considered superior to another race, to help us avoid confronting the sensitive topic. We need reminding that the definition of racism is constantly evolving and not talking much about it leads to the concept of subtle racism, ultimately making everyone subconsciously racist. Improving a person’s awareness may not effect change as thoroughly as changing an organizations or everyone’s mind. If each of us works to actively promote equality in our society, whether in civic groups, schools, workplaces, we may be able to make more impactful contributions to the decline of unintended racist behavior.
Topic: racism

Reinhard eventually was assigned to be the eradicate the Czechs. He planned to gain their trust by making it look like he was helping him when really he was going to hurt them (Herold). The Czech exile government in London made some resistance plans to not only to eliminate Heydrich but also to discourage the work cooperation with the Germans (Tagart). How does Reinhard Heydrich the “Hangman of Europe” get eliminated? He would be eliminated by assassination.
Topic: racism

During the assassination, there were trained assassins who were told to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich (Tagart). The assassinators failed at assassinating Heydrich but causes him to go to the hospital and he dies there (Herold). The infection on Heydrich’s lower back and legs was what killed him whereas Herold argues that he died in a coma (Washington). Either way, he died in agony (Tagart). The Czech would soon learn that for every action they do, there would be an equal and opposite reaction or, in this case, a positive or negative consequence.
Topic: racism

After Heydrich’s death, he had two funerals and one of them Hitler attended to (Herold). He was given the Blood Order Medal even though he had a major war record already (Herold). Hitler and the Nazis unleashed genocide against the Czech people killing all the boys over sixteen and sending the women and children to death camps to be tortured and killed (Washington). Frank unleashed the SS unit to Protectorate to kill Heydrich’s assassinators, kill every man and women, send children either to camps or to adoptive families, and would continue this for the next three years (Tagart). All of these genocidal actions toward Czech people would continue until the end of WW II and they would be free.
Topic: racism

So, in conclusion, Reinhard Heydrich was a successful and murderous man before and during WW II, until he was assassinated for being a wanted man. It is because of these perpetrators that millions of innocent lives have been lost and some to change negatively. They’re also the reason that anyone who has studied or witnessed WW II must keep this as a reminder not to let differences be the reason for hatred or else there might be another and possibly much worse worldwide genocide.
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Coercion has assumed serious proportions and become major cause Muslim stereotyping within the modern times wherever the role of media is central. Media wars took turned for the worst since the 9/11 terrorists attacks within the U.S..As a result, Muslims are subjected to different varieties of discrimination including hatred and unrest within the society. Media describing Muslims in an offensive and harmful manner witnessed unsettling changes on each systems creating Muslims victims of terror and violence.
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This might be as a result of the male dominated society of Balochistan and additionally as a result of the customs and traditions wherever a woman’s opinion even in matters associated with her isn’t thought of necessary. Parents particularly the illiterate ones and people happiness to the low socio-economic group are not in favor of obtaining their daughters educated as a result of it brings them no returns . Women get married and leave the parent’s house whereas boys ar future bread earners.
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Similarly even if we follow our teaching as Abu Nadrah reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said during the middle of the day at the end of the pilgrimage,”O people, your Lord is one and your father Adam is one. There is no virtue of an Arab over a foreigner nor a foreigner over an Arab, and neither white skin over black skin nor black skin over white skin, except by righteousness. Have I not delivered the message?” They said, “The Messenger of Allah has delivered the message.”
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During the last week, we have been studying racism. I was able to watch the movie “Green Book” and read several articles. The movie, “Green Book”, is about an African- American pianist that challenges himself to go on tour all around tThe United States during a period of segregation in the 1962. For his tour, he was in need of a driver and a protector, so he recruits an Italian that is from an Italian- American neighborhood in the Bronx in order for him to do the job.
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On the other hand, one of the articles titled “Don’t Let the Loud Bigots Distract You. America’s Real Problem With Race Cuts Far Deeper” by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. published in on TIME in 2018 explains how actual citizens of the US (not all) have an idea that black people do not don’t belong in the country and feel empowered due to their the “feeling” of whiteness.
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It also discusses explains the terms of bigotry (intolerance), how people blame others, racial equality, etc. A main point the article focus on are the elections of 2016 and Trump’s ideas. Also, it mentions the 1960s and 1970s and several books that justify the “American conservatism”. The second article read “Crime and Justice” by Sara Bastomski and Janine M. Zweig, talks about the sexual violence against women of color.
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Finally, the last article read “Race and Ethnicity” by Ruth Gourevitch and Solomon Greene explains about the isolated neighborhoods and the states that have cities like Louisville and Long Island that keep segregation present in contrast to however Boston don’t that does not.. It also explains the history of these isolated communities by talking about how families were blocked from opportunity-rich neighborhoods and they had limited sources, but and how now on the present this action is fully unconstitutional. PThe present society ies is are now trying to overcome racism; however, the segregation effect is still very present.
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Recently, we watched a movie about racism, and Now, with the introduction of small summaries of the movie and the articles read I will explain the relation between the articles I read with the movie m by making with four points. The first point is the theme in each of them. In the movie and articles, the theme of racism and segregation is clearly. Both show how society has created an idea of discrimination that comes from many years of cultural attitudes ago that have and caused different manifestations like repulsion, less focus on over violentnce acts, politics, etc. The second point is the problems associated with racism that are problematics present. In the movie, as well as in the articles many issues problematics are shown; for example, the prohibition of entranceering into certain places for the pianist, or the search for seek of help for black women, etc. All of these the problemsatics cause segregation and racism. The third point is how society is dealing with racial the conflicts, in these case, racism. In On both the movie and the articles, we can see how people’s mentalities have changed over time, which has createding a more conscious and protective society that seeks for equality. Finally, the fourth point is time. The movie takes place in on 1962 and one of the articles talk about the society of the 1960s and 1970s.
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InNow focusing on the actual racism ofon the US, it is incredible that racismhow it still exists in 2019. SThe society has changed their mentality a little, however, since the elections of 2016. it had retroced racism has surged a lot thanks to ideas giving by a racist man who is and now president of The United States, Donald Trump. The power his position gives him makes his word more credible so citizens believe more on the “traditional values” from the 60s and 70s that he proclaims rather than on the actual values of equality, peace, and non- discrimination.
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In conclusion, my personal observations from the movie are that it is a very good movie that shows another example of racism without actually showing the stereotype of it because at beginning Ii thought it was an inverse racism story in which the Italian was taking the place of the history black people who suffered throughout history, but then I understood and for me was a really good message. Also, the articles read show me a lot;, for example, I did not n’t know about the violences and rapes of black women, and how less help they received less help just because due toof their skin color. I believed in the eradication of segregation and racism and for the empowerment of equality for all, and hope in the future race relations will improve more..
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Background: Racism has started since the master and slave set up, and even having so many protests and claims for equality rights, we cannot deny that it is still evident in our society. And finally, racism has ended up in film and entertainment too. Whitewashing is a kind of casting where film studios would placed white actors in lead roles under the assumption that the majority of the peple would rather see a white face than a non-white one despite what the role calls for.
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Counterargument: There is no “white washing” in Filipino showbiz. This just reflects the public’s taste. Filipinos have been molded, by centuries of Spanish colonialisation, to admire fair complexions and European facial features (namely the high-bridged, straight nose). The public thus avidly follows entertainers who fit this concept of beauty. Actors are chosen because of the public’s preferences, not because the media intend to promote any agenda.
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But even with mixed blood, mestizos and mestizas are still considered Filipino. In that regard, Filipinos are still ethnocentric. They prefer a middle ground (mixed Caucasian and Asian features), rather than people who look outright Caucasian. Thus, Filipinos have no concept of white washing, as the mixed-blood citizen is an ideal Filipino look to aspire to, and is not thought of as being a different race.
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The general definition of evil is the opposite of good or the worse and horrific acts of humans such as murder, rape, etc. that are ethically and morally dangerous for the society, and most of the time are illegal in the rule of law. Many people become evil when they desire for more and more money and power. Evil person always tries to ruin other’s lives by killing or insulting them in front of others. In the story Heart of darkness, the evil can be seen through the character of Kurtz, the manager, and other white people.
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He tends to do anything for getting ivory. He became very cruel and started robbing and murdering people. He threatened local people for even a small amount of ivory. He didn’t hesitate to kill the person who refused to give him the ivory and competed with him in the business of ivory. Even he threatened one of his Russian friends when he refused to give him a small amount of ivory. He always wanted to become the best businessman of ivory and once, when he collected enough ivory, he exclaimed,