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Topic: racism

Singapore is renowned for its multi-racial society. People around the world are amazed at how our different races have been able to coexist and live together in harmony. But there is more than meets the eye. Though there aren’t outwardly expressions of displeasure amongst the different races, Singaporeans do practice racial biasness, more often than not without themselves even realising it. For this topic, I would like to talk about the news of an assistant director that was fired for her racist comments.
Topic: racism

According to the article, NTUC assistant director, Amy Cheong, was sacked after she posted offensive comments online. She put up a public status on her personal Facebook timeline, complaining about a Malay wedding that was being held at a void deck near her home. In her status, she related Malay weddings to high divorce rates, and asked how society could “allow people to get married for 50 bucks”, peppering with vulgarities. She also allegedly wrote, “Void deck weddings should be banned. If you can’t afford a proper wedding then you shouldn’t be getting married.” Cheong’s Facebook account has since been deactivated, and she has apologised publicly. However, her post has sparked a furious backlash from the citizens.
Topic: racism

The reason for Amy Cheong posting the racist comments on her Facebook is due to her prejudice toward the Malays. According to the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective, Prejudice is a product of labelling and perception. These labels create selective perception of others, and overpower with emotion while blocking out rational thoughts. Consequently, self-fulfilling stereotypes are created. From this, “she related Malay weddings to high divorce rates, and asked how society could allow people to get married for 50 bucks” and “Void deck weddings should be banned. If you can’t afford a proper wedding then you shouldn’t be getting married”, Amy Cheong labels the Malays as lowly and that their weddings are substandard. Hence, we could tell that she is prejudiced towards the Malays.
Topic: racism

The Functionalist view states that prejudice serves a function by creating in-group solidarity. It also states that prejudice creates a common enemy and serves to define discriminated groups as dysfunctional. In this case, Singaporeans, in general, form an in-group unity by ostracising the Bangladeshis and regarding them as dysfunctional because they are “dirty” and “smelly”. Therefore, the Functionalist view shows how a racial group is discriminated by others.
Topic: racism

Even though the town allows nungas to play on their football team, they are still classed as unwelcome in the Port. “boongs piss off ” is written on the jetty shed. The word “boong” is a derogatory term that the aboriginals are referred to. “Everywhere you look boongs piss off, boongs piss off, boongs piss off. Everywhere,” the crude saying is written everywhere in The Port making it clear that nungas are not welcome in this part of town. The goonyas part of the town. At the end of the novel, Blacky and his siblings, paint over the sign “boongs piss off ” that is on the jetty shed, showing that they are not as racist and narrow minded as the rest of the town, their decision may not be agreed with, but they are standing up for what they think is right, proving that nungas should be accepted, not discriminated against.
Topic: racism

Not only is this town racist, but it is also filled with sexism, majority of the men and teenage boys do not believe that women are their equals. Mr Robertson will not take advice from Gwen Black (Blacky’s mother) because she is a woman, even if she was a “tactical genius”. “Everybody thought that to be a great coach you had to be a great player. And a bloke, of course,” . Pickles is also sexist, he dislikes Cathy (a camper) squidding with Blacky and himself, he believes that it is a man’s job. “Girls and squid, according to him didn’t go together,” . Blacky’s father is also sexist, he is always down at the pub drinking or going out fishing while his wife Gwen is at home cooking and cleaning for her family.
Topic: racism

Themes are the framework of works of art. Just like a backbone in humans is needed to provide support and aid movement, a theme is used to send a message across to the audience and provide the means used to send it. Appearance vs. reality is a theme most commonly used in writing. It requires the audience to think about the fact that the piece of art they have just read or seen has more to it. This theme is used in Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time”, Julio Polanco’s “Identity” and American rock band Evanescence’s song, “Everybody’s fool”.
Topic: racism

Appearance on the other hand, was made to cover up reality. There only reason as to why the original, fixed state of things has to be altered is to hide the truth. For instance, the main characters of Gordimer’s story are a family living in a suburb that are racist but try not to make it seem so. They put up a silhouette of an intruder as a warning to future burglars. The silhouette is neither black nor white proving that the family is not racist (Godimer).
Topic: racism

Likewise, Julio Polanco’s poem also shows that there is something hidden under all the glamour and falsity that is appearance. It is about pretty flowers that are “always watered, fed… but harnessed to a pot of dirt” (Polanco). The flowers appear better off because they are being taken care of but in reality, they are not truly happy because they are not free. Lastly, Evanescence again reinforces this idea through the behaviour discussed in their song. They describe how one alters their behaviour when around others. The person has “no flaws when they are pretending” (Lee). This is because they use their changed behaviour to cover up their true imperfect selves. Appearances are often made because it is an easier alternative to the real thing.
Topic: racism

Life is full of hardships, struggle and anxiety which one must face almost daily. This becomes too difficult for people and they create an idealistic way of life which appears easier and better. For example, in Gordimer’s story, the family does not want to face violence from the coloured people. “There were riots, but these were outside the city, where people of another color were quartered” (Godimer). Due to this, the family creates a safe home with lots of security reinforcements and this keeps the danger out so they do not have to face it. Similarly, Evanescence’s song tells readers about a character who covers up their true personality.
Topic: racism

They sing “without the mask where will you hide? Can’t find yourself lost in your lie” (Lee). The person creates a new self- image because they probably did not like who they used to be. In like manner, Julio Polanco makes an even stronger point of the harshness of reality with descriptive words in his poem. The flowers are well kept and cared for unlike the weed that is “exposed to the madness of the vast, eternal sky” (Polanco). The condition the weed grows in is harsh so even though the flower is not free, it lives in a safer environment. Appearance is also used broadly by the writers as a metaphor to express their opinions on political or social issues.
Topic: racism

Gordimer’s story expresses her opinion on a political issue while the topic of both Polanco and Evanescence’s work is based on social issues. On one hand, “Once Upon a Time” may feel like a children’s tale but it is really showing how she feels like a children’s tale but it is really showing how she feels about apartheid in South Africa (CITE). The story is written in simple language but it has a serious undertone as to the consequences of racial segregation. The colours people are not the only ones affected by racism. Racism has an effect on everyone involved. In her story, Gordimer expressed this using the death of the son (Godimer).
Topic: racism

Her opinion is that apartheid benefits no one. On the other hand, Julio Polanco writes about a social issue. In his poem he says, “I’d rather be a tall ugly weed” (Polanco). This is an extended metaphor used to show how the narrator prefers being strong and free while suffering hardship as opposed to being under the rule of another. Julio Polanco shows that he believes in the right of freedom. By the same token, Evanescence’s style in their lyrics voices their opinion on hypocrites. They think these kinds of people go from fooling everyone to becoming “everyone’s fool” (Lee). In conclusion, these artists use the theme to express themselves.
Topic: racism

Deeper thoughts are stimulated in the audience when the theme of appearance vs. reality is used. It is a message within a message. Nadine Gordimer, Julio Polanco and Evanescence are only a few of the artists who use this theme. In their works, they show that appearance is only serves as a blindfold to the truth; appearance exists because reality can become too hard to face and lastly, use it as a means of expression. The theme of appearance vs. reality is like a matryoshka doll, the message is there, you just have to go through all the other layers.
Topic: racism

Portrayals in the story showing this racial issues included the string of events like the first one which was the carjacking incident by two blacks with the main characters, making false testimony against a white cop, treating Mexican-Americans and other Hispanics, the white police officer’s troubles with the black receptionists and transferring the anger later to the black couple and also a gun shop owner that suspected a man of terrorism because he don’t speak well in English and is a middle eastern man.
Topic: racism

At present popular media serves as a very powerful tool to communicate messages and expose the truth about the society. People can see themselves and relate to the characters of the story. There are times that movies touch sensitive issues or tries to promote something for advocating or promoting a certain cause. This movie had won the Best Oscar awards in the year 2005 because of its relevant social-political content. The movie has been a successful attempt to expose the painful truth about racial stereotyping and how damaging it is to human relationships.
Topic: racism

Has it been fair? Maybe it depends upon the person how we understands the whole picture the movie tried to express. Popular media can condition the minds of the viewers. It conditions us to think and feel things as the director or the producer wants to. It doesn’t really mean that what we see is always true and what others believe as portrayed in the movie is always right. We should still give people the freedom to reject or accept the ideas being presented. What can the viewers notice in this film?
Topic: racism

They can see the natural reactions of people towards other races. They can see the level of their emotions and mentality. One can observe that humans become manipulative and diversionary in their reactions and treatment of other race. People can see how they become judgmental and critical of others. Does it mean that people should constantly live in fear and suspicion? Does it mean we cannot tolerate differences? These are just some of the many questions that one can find in this movie. References
Topic: racism

Sarah and Angelina Grimke were the first Southern women to become influential abolitionist, which spoke on the end of slavery; as well as social and political equality for freedmen and women as well. The Grimke sisters stretched the boundary of women’s public role, by giving speeches to audiences with men and women, and by speaking in front of a state legislature about African American rights. Sarah and Angelina broke many of the social and political boundaries subjected on women. Sarah Moore Grimke was born in Charleston, South Carolina on November 26, 1792 and Angelina Emily Grimke was born on February 20, 1805 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Topic: racism

Both girls spoke out against the ill-treatment of slaves that they saw firsthand. In 1819, Judge Grimke became ill and Sarah went with him to Philadelphia to get medical treatment. While in Philadelphia Sarah met the Society of Friends, the Quakers appealed to her because they rejected slavery. After Judge Grimke died Sarah moved to Philadelphia in 1821 and became a Quaker. Angelina began to attend Quaker meetings in Charleston and she began to ask questions about slavery.
Topic: racism

Angelina began to speak against slavery to elders of her Presbyterian Church. When Angelina got no response from the church and no answers from her family about slavery she moved to Philadelphia in 1829, joining Sarah in voluntary exile and becoming a Quaker. For the first couple of year they did charitable and rreligious work. In 1835, Angelina joined the Philedelphia Female Antislavery Society. In 1836, Angelina qorte An Appeal to the Christian women of the South, which spread in the north; it was destroyed in the South, and Angelina received a warning to never return to Charleston.
Topic: racism

Sarah published An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States, also published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1836, Angelina began to speak in front of small groups of women in New York City. This caused huge controversy as they began to speak to crowds of men and women. In 1837, the sisters toured New England which caused great controversy. Sarah’s Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman: Addressed to Mary Parker, President of the Boston Anti-Slavery Society, and Angelina’s Letters to Catharine Beecher, in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolition, Addressed to A.E. Grimke. They were criticized for speaking out, but they said they had the right as women to speak, this established them as leaders of the women’s rights movement.
Topic: racism

In February 1838 Angelina became the first American women to address a legislative body. In May 1838, Angelina married abolitionist Theodore Weld in Philadelphia; their ceremony had sexual equality and attended by blacks and whites. Sarah lived with Angelina and Theodore for the remainder of her life. They helped write Theodore’s American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. In the 1840’s and 1850’s The Grimke sisters and Theodore started schools at Belleville and then at a community near Perth Amboy. In 1862 they all moved to Faimount near Boston. In 1870 the sisters joined a group of women in an attempt to vote in a a local election. Sarah Grimke died at the age of 81 in December of 1873. Angelina, who had been paralyzed for several years because of strokes, died on October 26, 1879. Theodore Weld survived until 1895. All three had lived to see the end of slavery and the rise of a women’s rights movement.
Topic: racism

They range from the little things such as telling the black boy to throw out his gum but let the white boy chew it, to moving all the black kids to the back of the class. There is one story about a white male teacher who called a black student “nigger”. The boy was walking into the English class one day, and the teacher told him to “sit down nigga! ” The teacher claims that because he hears the students calling each other that casually in the hallways all the time, it gives him a right to also use the word.
Topic: racism

There are reports of black students scoring lower in reading assessments than white students. This could be the cause of black students not trying because they are not confident in themselves. It was also found that black kids receive more severe punishments than white kids for the same offense, and they are more likely to be suspended from schools. There are also accounts of minority parents feeling that they have had less positive experience while visiting their kids’ schools than white parents. There are reports from the minority parents about the discipline problems.
Topic: racism

Alison Moore, a black teacher in London, was attacked and knocked unconscious by three white students while leaving her school last year. There is always going to prejudice people present in schools, but there are ways to work around it to help benefit the education of the students. Racism deeply affects the way students learn and how they will see themselves for the rest of their lives. A student’s teacher is one of the most important adult figures in one’s life, and if there are problems in that relationship then there will be problems forever, and no child needs that in their life.
Topic: racism

“The Durham Report was a racist file that has had a lasting impact on the nation of Canada”. This report was predisposition and written by a British individual ‘Lord Durham’ who composed statement which made French look inferior to the English. This report was in an overall favour towards British. To start with, the first primary suggestion was to join the Lower and the Upper Canada into one province called ‘Canada’. This recommendation would provide British Canadians a benefit in population.
Topic: racism

This would make British more powerful and French inferior to them as they would not be consisted of more in the political federal government and in the choices for the province. Finally, Lord Durham utilized a biased language for French and assaulted on the French culture. This discrimination is still going on today in some British countries where French are living this pressure. French were called names like pea soup, frenchie, etc. they were also divided by fence in some places like sport arenas, auditorium and lots of other places.
Topic: racism

The reason why they did was that they knew that the French couldn’t afford the tickets to sit on the English and the rich side, and it would again make French inferior to the English. Also, the French could only speak English on the bench. Lord Durham also said that the French had no history or culture and also called illiterate which totally attacked the French culture. He also suggested making a program of education where French Canadians would become more progressive. This meant changing the French to English indirectly. This was really unfair to the people of the Lower Canada or French and it made them really angry.
Topic: racism

In brief, Lord Durham suggested that the responsible overall regime be dominated by the English so that the French would be kept away from leadership positions. By uniting the Upper and Lower Canada, giving the responsible government only to the English and using a wrong language for French Durham made French look poor, bad and illiterate with no history or culture. This was mainly abandoning the French identity which was pretty sad for the French people. This reported affected Canada a lot even though they already knew what was going on in the Lower Canadian people.
Topic: racism

In the poem Tune of Lawino racism raised its unsightly head in a rather ridiculous type, some individuals might argue that any form of bigotry is ludicrous, which is very easy to understand, but in this particular circumstance in my viewpoint it is worst than the partition in America throughout the early part of the century 20th century. It’s called self hatred, self hatred is a very unusual form of racism and it can appear in any ethnic group however its black self hatred that manifest it self in this poem, as Lawino’s spouse Orcol condemns his partner, people and there lifestyle.
Topic: racism

I thought for a 2nd maybe she slouched and/or didn’t do anything to assist him around your home or possibly she betrayed but one thing I was sure of is that whatever it was it obviously triggered him to stop loving her. This was became more and more apparent as he continued to insult her, he compared her to things like the rubbish in the rubbish pit; a little canine, the ojuu bugs that sit on the beer pot and a sheep, indicating she is a fool.
Topic: racism

Orcol constantly ridicules Lawino saying, she is primitive for not being able to play a guitar, he states she her eyes are dead because she cant read, he states her ears are blocked and she cant comprehend a single foreign word as he boastfully scorns her in English, and he states she can not count the coins. Roughly translated he called her dumb, worthless and he generally announced she wasn’t worthwhile of a male of his quality. It was mind boggling to me how a guy could say something like that to the ladies he called his wife with out a reasonable description. What could have happened in between now and there wedding vowels that could make him dislike her in such manner? As Lawino, the narrator, continued to explain her circumstance to her fellow clansmen the pieces of the puzzling poem began to fall together, and the picture became more clear.
Topic: racism

Through the collage of words Orcol put together to slander his wife’s name even more so, the insults began to spread like a plague. Orcol began mentioning and vilifying others related to Lawino and or anyone he knew that lived and looked at life the same way she did. He insulted her parents and by saying that they do not know the ways of God and they sit in a deep darkness as sorcerers he specifically called her mother a witch, he smeared the names of there clansmen by referring to them as fools, because of there traditions, such as eating rats. But it wasn’t until he referred to them all as kaffirs, when I had realized that his problem had nothing to do with anything his wife did to him that caused him to view his her in such a harsh manner, I now understood he had a problem with her race and culture but this was puzzling all in it self because they were of the same race and culture.
Topic: racism

The word “kariff” in Africa, is a word that is the equivalent to the English word “Nigger” which is used as a derogatory statement to degrade black people. When Orcol said this word there was only one explanation as to why he talked about his wife, her family and the people of his culture in the horrible way as he did. He is suffering from a form of racism called self-hatred. Once it was clear to me that Lawino had not did any thing to cause him slander her name in such manner, Lawino bluntly stated that her husband pours scorn on all black people, by his racists comments such as all black people were primitive and their ways are utterly harmful, their dances are moral sins, and they are ignorant poor and diseased. These were all signs to his struggle with self hatred.
Topic: racism

“Self-hatred” is when you discriminate against yourself basically or somebody of your own ethnicity because you are ashamed of the stereo-types placed on the majority of people from your race and or you feel that you are better the people in your culture. This is exactly what Orcol was doing, obviously he felt as if he was better than the people of his culture because the majority of people weren’t fortunate enough to have received an University Education so this made him feel as if the people of his culture were being left in the dark and were not doing enough or anything to change. He was being taught how to speak English and some of the other more American-like traditions, which made him feel as if the way of life he was previously involved with was un-civilized so he no longer wanted any thing to do with it.
Topic: racism

As a method of slowly prying himself from the culture and his race he became involved in a relationship with another women who obviously had similar views of her culture, there ways of life and the fact that they thought black people were primitive. This is implied in his mistresses appearance which is described by Lawino. Somewhere in the process of getting educated at the University, Orcol not only changed his perception of how black people should behave and live, but he apparently somehow had altered his opinion in a what beautiful black women looked like, instead of the dark skinned women he chose to marry, as of now he thinks that his mistress is the real definition of beauty.
Topic: racism

Orcol’s mistress, Clementine is described by Lawino as a so called modern woman were as Orcol describes Lawino as the old type and no longer attractive. Lawino says, Clementine wears bright red lip stick and powders her face from a once dark skin complexion to a pale tone to look more like a white woman, she is very slim almost to the point where it looks as if she has an eating disorder, much like the majority of America’s super models, and this is what Ocol now believes true beauty is.
Topic: racism

Self hatred is not a very command form of racism but when it dose appear it is usually something that occurs when a person comes from a rough environment normally plagued by poverty, and works hard to become come successful. When they succeed they sometimes forget were they come from like Orcol and his mistress Clementine. Successful individuals coming from a rough background sometimes begin to even despise the people who didn’t make it out of the struggle because, they are successful and they probably feel since they were able to prevail, that anybody can do it regardless of the circumstances.
Topic: racism

That can often cause the successful person to have a hard time having sympathy for those people. But what most of those individuals who weren’t fortunate enough to make out of the hard times want is empathy from a person who made it out of poverty, they don’t want any one to feel sorry for them because they most likely don’t know any other way of living so they cant miss what they never had. As was the case with Lawino and her husband she didn’t want his sympathy or anyone else, she just expected Orcol to understand her situation and respect her more since there struggles were similar prior to his University education and it probably hurts especially because they are married.
Topic: racism

In the midst of all of the name calling done by Orcol, Lawino still keeps her composure and never discriminates against Orcol’s new teachings. Instead of becoming a racist herself, by returning derogatory statements to Orcol and the way of life he has chosen, Lawino just attempts to better comprehend Orcols’ reason for believing and saying what he dose about black people and understand what it is he describes as modern a modern person.
Topic: racism

If everyone who had racist tendencies or was being discriminated against took the course of action that Lawino did and tried to comprehend and understand the people they displayed racism toward or the people discriminating against them, instead throwing gasoline in the fire it could possibly help the situation. Lawino could be a good example for all people, Americans especially, while being ridiculous and discriminated against by her loved one Orcol, she still managed to not become a part of continuous world wind of racism.
Topic: racism

The Help Is an American novel that represents an era of civil rights, written by the point of view of a white educated southern woman, in a very different time period of what the book is set in. The Help takes place during the 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. This novel tells a story about the relationships between African-American maids and their white employers. During the 1960’s, not only in Mississippi but the greater part of the south, African-American women were the nannies and maids to white families for generations and dealt with racism in order to earn an income for their own families.
Topic: racism

She grew up in Jackson with her own African-American nanny who died when she was sixteen. She narrates The Help as two African-American maids and one young white woman; all live and grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. Stockett’s point of view in this novel is that she was one of those many children in the South that had a second mother who was black and wanted to tell those nanny’s stories on behalf of her own deceased nanny. She makes the two African-American narrators the protagonist, Aibileen and Minny, and the young white women, Skeeter, is also a protagonist who wants to tell the truth about Jackson, Mississippi and does so by convincing Aibileen and Minny and others to tell their stories about being nannies to white families.
Topic: racism

The Help was published in 2009, the year Barack Obama took office. 2009 was important year for America; it was the year that the first African-American president took office. During the campaign a lot of racial tension started rising, even though America had changed drastically since the 60’s there were still some old ignorant views. This book was written during a time when America had progressed for the better but its individuals hadn’t. The campaigning of president Obama could have reminded Stockett of how much America has changed in such a short time but how some people hadn’t.
Topic: racism

Kathryn Stockett wrote this book because she felt that she needed to tell the story of the African-American maids and their white employers relationship. It was written to tell the truth of Jackson, Mississippi in the 60’s, to make America aware of what was going on down in the south during that era. Kathryn admits in an interview that she herself was at one point in her life prejudice but she also states how much she loved her own nanny Demetrie, who raised her till she was 16. Stockett wrote this book so that people could speak about race in general, people avoid the topic because it’s a sensitive subject that many individuals find uncomfortable or better left unsaid.
Topic: racism

The Help takes an individual back in time to an era of racism and puts the reader in the shoes of two southern black maids and a young educated white women. This novel brings the reader to realize how much the world has changed and how much society has as well. In less than 60 years America has gone from strict segregation to having a black president in office. The Help also takes the reader back to a time of sexism, when women were to be doting housewives and child bearers. This novel shows how young Skeeter was too educated for her mother’s liking and was constantly being haggled to settle down at the age of 23 and find a husband, except she wanted to become a writer, a man’s profession in the 60’s. Today in America a woman can do anything she wants, no matter her race, as long as she has the right education and determination.
Topic: racism

Art, music, and literature express a time period’s essence by using lyrics, images or words to depict what’s going on in that era and to preserve it for the future. They teach people of that certain time and in the future by telling a story lyrically or the artwork represent something that happened back then. The song “Mississippi Goddam” uses lyrics such as “Just give me my equality” to tell the audience of the African-American struggle to gain equality in the segregated south.
Topic: racism

Although African Americans were getting educated and climbing the latter of success, discrimination still existed. In the 1980’s Molefi Kete Asante published a book, “Afrocentricity” this book was based on the idea that looking at information from, “a black perspective” as opposed to the norm, “the white perspective”. Afrocentricity: The theory of social concept. It points out the black ideas and values. African Americans began reaching out to their own history. Seeing what is the best interest of for the African people and “emphasizing r promoting emphasis on African culture and the contributions of Africans to the development of Western civilization. ”
Topic: racism

Although the Fresh Prince of Bel Air doesn’t use the phrase afrocentricity, the show bases many of the episodes on this idea. For example, in one episode, Will fights to try to keep his old neighborhood in his heart, his old ways, his friends, and his old simple life, he misses who he once was. His uncle Phil Banks helps him to realize that he can use the good of both worlds to make his own life. In the end his black values that he was raised with were never forgotten.
Topic: racism

In all episodes, Will is very proud of his heritage. He stands up for what he believes in and this is what made the show popular. Blacks were talking about what they believed in and people were listening. When the audience took interest in this sitcom, more people began to see the rise in more black actors and actresses throughout the years. Blacks were also rising in status and having political views. They were being transformed to the center of the stage, the white man’s stage and whites were accepting the different norm.
Topic: racism

There was more respect for African Americans who were becoming educated and rising to the top of jobs such as judges and doctors. Although the Fresh Prince of Bel Air delt with African Americans being accepted into a white man’s world, the sitcom also showed the one thing that African Americans cannot seem to leave behind them, discrimination. The show reminds African American’s that although they have come a long way since Martin Luther King, they still continued to meet with people that discriminated against them.
Topic: racism

One of the popular episodes of Fresh Prince of BelAir is “Racism at Hillman College”, Carlton faces a time where he is being discriminated against. Carlton and Will get stopped by a white police officer because they are two black guys in a nice luxury car. The officer thinks that they stole the car. Will sees that they are being discriminated, but Carlton gives the officer the benefit of the doubt, “He’s just doing his job” Will on the other hand sees right through the officer and like any criminal from his old neighborhood, he leans up against the car to be searched, while Carlton is wondering what is going on.
Topic: racism

Will tries to explain what is happening to Carlton,Will quotes, “If you see a black guy drive anything but a burned out Pinto, then you better stop him because he stole it. ” Although Will understands discrimination, Carlton has been hidden from that in his easy rich life. His parents raised him in a different world from Will. Carlton sees the good in all, but Will sees the real world. In 1990, discrimination was still very much alive. Many television producers were using sitcoms such as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air to remind people that this behavior still exist and we need to put a stop to it.
Topic: racism

Although discrimination is still very much alive today, children are learning from these sitcoms that discrimination is not good. The more interrelations among different ethnic groups being seen in these type of shoes, can help our future look a bit more peaceful. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air sitcom was used to show all ethnic groups that African Americans were on the rise to a better education and better jobs. African American were showing society that the old norms were being broken. They were helping others to understand that their views were just as important as white man’s views.
Topic: racism

Yet, the sitcom continued to show that discrimination still exist in today’s society. Looking at sitcoms today, they still continue to show society that this world we live in is not perfect, discrimination still exist among all races. The Fresh Prince of BelAir shows how African-Americans are on the rise, getting a higher education and taking on higher power positions. The Fresh Prince of BelAir is basically showing the world that all colors can interact with one another to make this planet of ours a place to be proud of and a place that we can call free of discrimination.
Topic: racism

Characterize Marais Van der Vyver Marais Van der Vyver is an afrikaner farmer, living in South Africa during the end of the apartheit regime. Furthermore he has title as the regional Party leader and commandant of the local security command. The people from his district remember how he as child was rather shy and withdrawn, and it seems that the people around him beleives that he has conserved these personality traits as an adult. Nevertheless he exposes his feelings at the police station when repporting the hunting mishap, where he accidently shoots one of his black farm labours.
Topic: racism

B1) What is the theme of the story? The theme of the story is quite complexed as it both deals with the racism issues which unfolded in the incredebly segregated society of South Africa, and at the same time shows how complicated and paradoxical this separation of black and white people is. This appears in the text as Lucas turns out to be the result of Marais’ extramarital relations, and as Lucas dies caused by his father, the whole affair becomes a personal tragedy for Marais Van der Vyver. But Marais knowns by himself that the story of this hunting mishap in the eyes of the opposition overtly is a callous act of negligent shooting and a perfect example of the still opressed blacks of South Africa.
Topic: racism

What is the message of the story? The message of this text could be one shouldn’t judge a case by its superficial appearance, because often it turns that the case have many different aspects which ought to be taken in consideration. For example the immediate impression of the hunting mishap easiest takes the side of the opposition’s opinions, as this very accident fits perfectly into their picture of South Africa and of an afrikaner farmer as a inconsiderate human being. In this case, the opposition is wrong. Besides, although sex between blacks and whites has been legalized, it’s impossible for our main character to stand up and tell the truth, because there still is plenty of unwritten norms and rules stuck from the time of apartheid. At that moment it’s still a taboo to have extramarital affairs, not to mention babies, with a person of the opposite skin color.
Topic: racism

Why did Nadine Gordimer write this story? It’s imaginable that Nadine Gordimer, who was a clear opponent of the apartheid regime, has written this story to invite South Africans on both sides of the segregated society to remove their prejudices against each other and learn to tolerate each other’s different worlds. Plus to depict the South Africans’ part self-created fears – the white people who live in the fear of being misunderstood, and for attacks – and the black people in fear for being subjected to racism or oppression.
Topic: racism

Why is the story called” The Moment before the Gun Went Off”? The moment before the gun went off is shown in the story as a moment of high excitement between the boy Lucas, and his father. Marais taught Lucas to maintain tractors and other farm machinery, and he took him hunting. So overall they have a good relationship with each other, despites the fact that Lucas is a product of Marais Van der Vyver’s extramarital relations, despite that he can only be a son in secret. Therefore, the death of the son Lucas becomes paradoxical because he is both a burden and a joy both dead and alive.
Topic: racism

An example being that a divided team due to the different skin colours are forced to play together, in Alexandra, Virginia which had a very high level of racial tension and prejudice during the movie. “Remember the Titans’ is about a local high school football team overcoming racism, prejudice and discrimination towards each other and the community, all while participating in a football season. The film views the struggles of being black in a white society that is trying to manage the integration that has been forced upon them and the struggle of being white in a time of racial change and being forced to alter their attitudes and beliefs about blacks.
Topic: racism

As team leader Gerry had to look inside himself to change his perspective on life and people very early in the movie, as he had to set an example for the rest of his teammates. Coach Boone undergoes many changes, as at the end of the movie Coach Boon had become less haughty and proud. He also ended up being respected by the other ‘white’ coaches. During the film you see many other characters go through a change in perspective and a change in self. Gerry’s mother, Julius, Petey, Jerry, Louie, Sunshine, and Sheryl all change their outlook on life.
Topic: racism

The themes explored in ‘Remember the Titans’ are strength, unity, courage, brotherhood, pride, trust, over-coming racism, friendship, team bonding, over-coming adversity and change. Each character in the film each had to experience each one of these themes, bettering themselves. Most of the themes occur at once: unity, brotherhood, friendship and team-bonding as most of these occurred either in training or during a game, these themes ultimately happened because each team member wanted to win the season, knowing the only way was to come together and work together as a team. Ultimately this led to having each character overcome the rest of the themes, as it was inevitable.
Topic: racism

The director used a wide range of film techniques to shape meaning and understanding. In the first scene, a graveyard in Virginia, there is no racial tension and wide-angle shots are used to show a sense of unity between blacks and whites that stand side by side. This is very important as it helps the viewer to understand that racial tension and discrimination can be over come. At the end of the movie the director also revisits the setting, which helps the audience see closure of the problems shown throughout the movie. One film technique used to help shape understanding of the setting was screen texts. At the very beginning it is shown that the movie is set across two different time periods, 1971 and 1981. In the opening scene (1981) blacks and whites are shown with equal values, no discrimination, but when it flashes to 1971 it shows fighting, protesting and discrimination between the two races. There is clear conflict between the two races.
Topic: racism

Throughout the film wide ranges of camera angels were used. The most critical were wide-angled shots as there were used to shoe both segregation and to show unity in the team. In the first half of the movie they are used to show the distance between the two groups, the scene where the coaches are eating at the same table is an example. It shows the whites on one side and the blacks on the other, the characters are distanced as much as possible. The wide-angled shots were also used to show the two groups becoming a team, an example being when they are all at the site where the battle of Gettysburg happened. It helps them to realize how insignificant their problems really are and in this scene the players are standing side by side and not in groups based on colour.
Topic: racism

Americans like to think of the American colonies as the start or founding of the quest for freedom, initially, the ending of religious oppression and later political and economic liberty. Yet, from the start, the fabric of American society was equally founded on brutal forms of supremacy, inequality and oppression which involved the absolute denial of freedom for slaves. This is one of the great paradoxes of American history – how could the ideals of equality and freedom coexist with slavery?
Topic: racism

We live with the ramifications of that paradox even today and effects how all Americans live and thrive in the United States. Many of the races that were sanctioned legally due to their ethnicity such as the Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latin Americans. Whereas as European Americans were granted privileges by law, also known as “white privileged”. During the founding of the United States, many non-Protestant European immigrants such as individuals from the Jewish, Irish and Italian descents suffered exclusion and other forms of discrimination in American society.
Topic: racism

How have these patterns of inequality developed over time? How can we explain the persistence of racial inequality despite the decline in factors that supposedly accounted for it in the past? There has been significant work in regards to these questions but there is not enough evidence for the reasons behind the racial gap. Racial inequality is classified as “imbalances in the distribution of power, economic resources, and opportunities. ” (Shapiro). Present-day racial inequalities in the United States have their background in over three hundred years based on race.
Topic: racism

Color-blind racism is a new term for contemporary racial inequality in the United States as the outcome of nonracial dynamics. Color-blind racism embellishes the thought that race is no longer an issue and that they are non-racial explanations for inequality. There are four structures that support this issue (Bonilla-Silva). Abstract liberalism uses the ideas associated with political liberalism; it is based on liberal ideas comparable to equal opportunity, individualism, and choice (Bonilla-Silva).
Topic: racism

Richard Lynn discusses that there are distinctive group differences in capacity that are somewhat accountable for constructing race and gender group differences in wealth (Lynn). Culture and religion are believed to play a part in constructing inequality by encouraging or discouraging wealth-acquiring behavior, and by giving a basis for discrimination. Certain racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be poor depending on the country that the individual belongs to. Another cause includes cultural differences between different races, an educational success gaps, and racism.
Topic: racism

It is a known fact that African Americans and other minorities lag behind whites, which poses serious issue (Contemporary Racial Inequality in the United States Russell Sage Foundation). Gender inequality and discrimination is discussed to cause and disseminate poverty and helplessness in society as a whole. Household and intra-household information and means are key guidance in an individual’s talent to take advantage of peripheral living opportunities or respond properly to threats. High education levels and social integration considerably increases the productivity of all participants of the household.
Topic: racism

To Eliminate A Mockingbird by Harper Lee highlights the horrors of bias that allows one man to ruin another based entirely on skin color. Lee portrays Bob Ewell as an embodiment of racial hatred and lack of ethical stability. The story happens in a little southern town where prejudice is a way of living. When confronted with the possibility of his daughter wanting a black man, Ewell beats her out of enmity towards the black race and blames the guy for Ewell’s own actions.
Topic: racism

Racial discrimination in the United States is as old as America itself. The United States motto deduces that, although America is a single country, it is made up of people of all walks from all the corners of the world, but some as slaves, especially from Africa. The American population is diverse both culturally and racially thus the name ‘Melting Point’. Racial discrimination is the act of subordinating an individual due to the color of the skin or race. Discrimination against people of color began long ago while slavery still existed, and it took a Civil War between the Northern and Southern states to end slavery.
Topic: racism

The following grounds for suspicion of criminality are among the many reasons that African American motorists are pulled over: Driving a luxury automobile (e. . , Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, etc. ), driving in a car with other black men, driving early in the morning or late at night, driving in a low-income neighborhood, known for its drug traffic, driving in a neighborhood where there have been recent burglaries,… Although the above list may in fact be the reason that a prejudice officer’s attention is obtained, none of the reasons listed can be filed as a probable cause in the police report. I have so many bad experiences with the police that I think, it is just getting worst.
Topic: racism

We all know, minority people, that they use theses bunch of ”laws” to still keep us down because they still, and for more of the “white people” ,think that they are a “superior race”. One day, I was with my dad driving around a nice neighborhood with some friend to go pick up one our friend to go at the club. It was late around 11 pm that night. From nowhere the police pull us over and start actin really at their defensive. They asked us to get out of the car, after checking if the car has the proper paper (insurance & driver license).