ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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What is most pronounced in this section is Dr. King’s naming of the white moderate as his primary antagonist. In the discussions that comprise this portion of the ‘Letter, ‘ it becomes quite clear that Dr. King is no longer pretending that the clergymen are his entire audience. As his net grows bigger and his disappointments greater, it becomes undeniable that he is writing for a world larger than that of Birmingham.What Dr. King essentially argues is that people who see injustice and do nothing are more sinful than those who commit the injustice. This is an extension of what he has been arguing throughout the entire letter. Time and again, he has suggested that the clergymen (and his white audience by extension) have failed to truly consider the nature of black protestors, especially in contrast to other, more viscous forces. Here, he goes so far as to say that such ignorance is outright sin. Finally, he apologizes for the length and potential overstatement of his letter, but hopes they will understand the forces that have led him to such certainty. He signs the letter, ‘Yours for the cause of Peace and Brotherhood’
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Benoit traces the politicization of soccer as fascism unfold across Europe earlier than World War II. Domestic clubs had already fashioned around political, religious, and ethnic lines. Germany’s usurpation of many home leagues only bolstered this. Likewise, in the build-up to WWII, global fits gained new importance. Previously, these fits had been fairly casual affairs with animosity at a minimum. But as the conflict neared, the fits brought a new dimension. For Fascist powers like Italy, the overall performance of the Italian National Team signified the energy (or weakness) of the State.
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Markovitz argues that America’s carrying lifestyle is considerably much less violent, racist, and anti-cosmopolitan than Europe’s football way of life due to the fact it has eradicated racist language as socially acceptable, sport’s groups are geographically dispersed which reduces tension, and sports activities groups are greater intently aligned with commercial enterprise than political or social movements. He argues that as a result of the Civil Rights movement in America and the predominance of minorities in professional sports, the US has without a doubt eradicated racist chants and racial violence from stadiums. In Europe, the shut proximity of golf equipment intensifies rivalries and leads to an enlarge in anti-Cosmopolitan (racist, xenophobic, classist) rhetoric. Additionally, America sports activities are so carefully tied to a commercial enterprise that it has been difficult to recreate the social and political identities that many European soccer golf equipment has.
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Although my very own paper will not be addressing violence in American or European sports, the root motives of this violence, as Markovits notes, will be useful. In particular, I assume there is a clear connection to be made between the geographic vicinity of golf equipment and the increased intensity of support. This used to be already a point I desired to make. Likewise, the distance between American franchisees’ potential that even the most famous sports don’t revel in the type of fan support that European golf equipment does. I assume Markovits additionally does an exact job of explaining just how intimately tied football golf equipment is to their location, no longer just in phrases of sport, however economics, politics, and social movements. American sports can’t reproduce this, especially in soccer. If these types of matters do manifest with US soccer teams, it normally comes from enclaves of immigrant’s help (Chivas).
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A problem arises in this discussion seeing as some members of society do not believe that slavery should be abolished immediately seeing as the slaves are not fit for a life of freedom. They do not possess the qualities necessary such as intelligence, religion, and ‘normal’ habits in order to be free, and Tocqueville agrees to some degree, that he will resemble, as mentioned in the text, a depraved child and not a man. He argues that these are conditions that are brought on by slavery itself and that we cannot teach an individual how to be free if he is still a slave as it is counter-intuitive.
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Tocqueville goes on to explain that if slavery is not abolished within a short delay, it could take thousands of years before the ‘perfect circumstances’ arise. Moreover, the colonies are now being flooded with uncertainty because slaves want slavery abolished soon, which creates tension within the lives of slave-owners. They do not have certainty anymore on what they know to be theirs and they do not risk opening new enterprises if they will not reap the rewards. This lack of entrepreneurship cause by slavery can also be seen in ‘Democracy in America’ when Tocqueville explains how the states of the South are much less prolific than the state to the North even though they have slaves working for free in their enterprises.
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The country — backed genocide perpetrated through Nazi Germany is an example of what happens when human beings who have immense amount of unchecked hatred achieve power. Hitler’s extermination took the lives of six million human beings only for the fact that they were Jewish or because they did not have blonde hair and blue eyes. It began with small ethnic jokes, stereotyping that used to be in no way challenged, and then restrictions, loss of jobs, civil rights, balloting rights, and eventually, the loss of life.
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Racists have very specific beliefs about their personal community and others. Columnist Ellen Futterman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says, ‘We are responsible of race prejudice. We may go out of our way to avoid sure words and phrases in our every day speech solely to find ourselves laughing at a racial or ethnic joke later'(St.Louis Post Dispatch, Novermber 2014). Even even though we may additionally say that we should not be racist or prejudice in opposition to another person, it is interesting how anyone can just say something hurtful and not even completely understand in depth what has just been said.
Topic: racism

Racism is the thoughts, beliefs, convictions, and behaviors that raise the value of a particular group or a particular group at the expense of other groups, based on inherited matters related to people’s abilities, character, or customs, and sometimes depend on skin color, culture, place of residence, or customs, or language, or beliefs. It can also give the right to a group that has been raised to control other groups in their fate and being, and to deprive them of their rights and disdain without a right or clear reason.
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Intelligence lies in being able to intensify people’s feelings. It has become very clear that thinking is not anymore limited to the mind only, but rather includes the heart with which and on its bases, we make our final decisions. Heart or emotions are the target part of audience to gain their sympathy and their support. The speakers make efforts in choosing the most influential words and most emotional. It was not hard for Goff to get his audience’s support and sympathy. He used powerful and emotional words that can do the job and help him influence and convince his audience. He started by asserting that racism is an important issue and needs to be solved. He explains that, although almost everybody knows how much immoral, unjust, and ignorant racism is, still people use it for different reasons, and those people realize that it must be stopped, but they in the same time know that it is impossible to stop racism ‘the way trying to fix racism usually feels necessary and impossible.’
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Not only that, he clarified that racism is a deadly problem from the beginning. It leads people to kill others and themselves too. What do you know about logic? Logic is what makes everything easily understandable and acceptable and far away from myth. The logical appeal in this video was obvious. He mentioned many statistics that supported his points of view and supported his topic that he was talking about. He said that ‘every year about one in five adults in the United States has contact with law enforcement’ and ‘out of those, about a million are targeted for police use of force’ and ‘ if you were black, you are two to four times more likely to be targeted for that force than if you were white.’
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What is meant, is that the statistics can be higher when it is about racism. These high numbers indicate that high actions of racism lead to higher and higher numbers. In another interesting point, he says ‘racism is about behaviors not feelings’ showing a live examples of the leaders of the civil rights movements -such as King and Lou Hamer- they used the language of love to fight racism, and to him it was wrong because ‘it is actions over feelings’ feelings will not change any thing but the right actions in the right times.
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It all comes down to this. Racism is a universal problem and controversial in the same time. Through history, leaders and activists played major roles to change it and stop it. Scientists and experts also, made and still making efforts to show that racism is a useless solution, and that it is not a solution at all. Phillip Goff used the three Rhetorical Appeals and were well applied in his speech. It gave full meaning of his ideas and taught us as listeners that only actions can stop something such as racism.
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Are all people and societies created equal? Anthropologists, scientists, and researchers have asked this question for a long time and throughout different time periods have had different answers. During the mass European colonization of the 1800’s, analysts used biology to explain the subordination of non-European societies. In 1964, Napoleon Chagnon’s observations of the Yanomami led people to believe that evolution and biology were essential to understanding their violent tendencies. Richard Lee and Irven Devore wrote Man the Hunter in 1968 which discredits the female contribution to the development of the human species.
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These examples show how the categorization of race, ethnicity, and gender can be used to justify inequality. These justifications are incorrectly based on the foundation that races and genders are inherently unequal. Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel explains what he believes caused some societies to progress faster than others, which led to the people of those societies dominating the world. European civilizations in the 1800’s were the power houses of the world.
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This type of justification could also be paralleled with the American slavery of black people. Edward Drinker Cope wrote that the ‘inferior character of the Negro mind in the scale of evolution made him unfit for American citizenship’ (Haller: 198). Today, it is more commonplace that these ideas were wrong. In these racial systems of inequality, the physical qualities that are being pointed out are simply scape goats to reason. The racist justification of this time is more of an effect of colonialism than a cause. The Europeans wanted to believe they were morally correct in the way they were treating the other races. Ashley Montagu wrote in his book Man’s Most Dangerous Myth that ‘such a conception of race’ has no basis in scientific fact or in any other kind of demonstrable fact. It is a pure myth, and it is the tragic myth of our tragic era’ (8). The racial thinking that ties into the conception of race is a result of taking biological differences to explain cultural differences.
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They are essentially caste and class problems being masked as racial inequality. The next topic is another example of racial thinking that stems from the work of one of the most famous and most controversial anthropologists. Napoleon Chagnon started his ethnology of the Yanomami in 1964. He described them as living ‘in a state of chronic warfare’ (Eakin: 3). He believed biology was essential to understanding Yanomami warfare, which led others to believe that evolutionary causes could have been the reason for their violent tendencies. The idea of biological determinism came to fruition, which closely relates to the 19th century European tendencies of racial thinking. Some people started to think that the Yanomami could be violent because of their race, which lends to the idea that people and societies are not created equal.Academic debates ensued as to whether biological determinism was correct. Other scholars believed that Chagnon’s gifts to the Yanomami, which were given to easily acquire information, could be a catalyst for their violence. Some even challenged the accuracy of his findings, calling his gift giving bribery and accusing him of fabricating his data of battles. ‘There is little clarity in regard to the term race’…it is well-nigh impossible to determine with certainty the hereditary traits in mental behavior’ (Boas: 50).
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Through his work, Boas concluded that the differences of personality and intelligence were a product of culture, not race. This idea lends to agreeing with those that challenged Chagnon and the idea of biological determination. It is apparent that race is not inherently a cause of inequality, but rather the categorization of race is the cause. The last topic will focus on a different section of inequality, gender.Historically, a large part of the world’s societies have been patriarchal. We can see this in the marriage residence practices. Matrilocality, where the couple lives with or near the wife’s family, is observed in societies almost five times less than patrilocality, where the couple lives with or near the husband’s family (Eller: 155). Richard Lee and Irven DeVore in their book Man the Hunter state that the ‘biology, psychology, and customs that separate us from the apesall of these we owe to the hunters of time past’ (38). Since males were hunters and females were gatherers, we can tell that they attribute virtually all the development and progress of our species to men. This shows just how male dominated the societies up to the 1960’s were. Similar to racial thinking, this outlook on gender could have been used to justify why society was male dominated.Even at the time that Lee and DeVore published their book, female anthropologists had issues with their take which marked the rise of feminist anthropology.
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As a response to their book, Annette Weiner revisited Bronislaw Malinowski’s ethnography of the Trobriand Islands. She found the women’s activities and objects as important as the men’s and concluded that they were ‘active participants in the exchange system, and thus I accord them equal place beside’ (Weiner: 11). This also parallels the relationship between male and female in foraging (also known as hunting and gathering) societies. Females gathered a larger portion of the food for their society than males were able to hunt, which caused an egalitarian outcome. Both examples show that men are not naturally above women. It could be that the categorization of gender is what led to the reality of patriarchal society and not the inherent differences between genders.Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel looks to answer Yali’s question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” (14) He proceeds to point out that the key to the progression of ancient civilizations was in the domestication of plants and animals. Being able to have a sustainable food supply, as opposed to foraging societies, led to larger populations, which in turn led to power. Two important factors in the ability to domesticate plants and animals were the types of plants and animals available to that society, and the type of environment.
Topic: racism

The superiority of one race to another race caused racism in different eras among different societies, especially these people had been judged by their facial features and color of the skin. Throughout history, light complexions were considered as superior over the darker color. Therefore, darker complexions communities had been through slavery, dicrimination, and hatred. They were treated as second class citizens in various countries. In Shakespeares’s act, Othello, racism had been discussed by the playwright that caused obstacles and prejudiced towards its main character, Othello.
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First of all, Iago could not tolerate Othello’s choice due to his race and considered him incapable. Othello had the command of the military and he had the power to promote his soldiers’ rank. Therefore, Cassio was raised to the position of general’s second in command by Othello. This was not acceptable for Iago that a person with a black complexion had given the power to choose his soldier’s rank and according to him, Cassio had no ability for this position and the decision taken by Othello was based on favoritism.
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Evades them with a bombast circumstance. Horribly stuffed with epithets of war, And in conclusion. Nonsuits my mediators. For ‘Certes, ‘ says he, ‘I have already chose my officer.’ And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine (A fellow almost damned in a fair wife) That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows. More than a spinsterunless the bookish theoric.’ (I.i.10-25). He was furious on Othello for selecting Michael Cassio instead of him, because he thought himself more deserving and more skillful than Cassio. In his opinion, Cassio was a weak person with less experience in battles and he has no ability to control his own wife.
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He considered it as an unfair selection by a black complexion person. For this reason, he further said to Roderigo, when he asked him that he should quit following him, but in response to this, Iago said, ‘Why, there’s no remedy. ’Tis the curse of service. Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th’ first. Now sir, be judge yourself, Whether I in any just term am affined. To love the Moor.’ (I.i.40). Iago described his feelings regarding Othello that he was not loyal to an African man and he is using Othello for his own personal benefits. Taking advantage of him was his only affiliation. Racism made Iago jealous of Othello’s rank and stand and he was seeking personal interests in him.
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For this reason, Iago could not bear it and made evil plans in order to destroy their relationship. He started shouting outside of Desmondea’s father and told him about his daughter that, ‘Even now, now, very now, an old black ram. Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise, Awake the snorting citizens with the bell. Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you. Arise, I say!’ (I.i.90). Iago informed Desmondea’s father about her marriage with commenting racists remarks on him like her white and beautiful lamp, got married with a black ram without his knowledge. He wanted to provoke Desmondea’s father against Othello and he is reminding him Othello’s ethnicity. Othello was called as a black ram to make him look like a rebel and beast. Additionally, Iago became hypocrites and went to Othello in order to present himself as a loyal, sympathetic and honest friend of him. Iago informed Othello about Desmondea’s cheating and affair with Cassio.
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During the peak of racism in post-Civil War America, innocent African Americans were seven times more likely to be convicted of murder than innocent white people. Additionally, many times convicted African Americans were given the death sentence after court hearings. This is the overarching topic in Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying. After being wrongfully imprisoned after a convenience store murder, a young man (Jefferson) questions his self worth, and is mentored by Grant until his exection. Towards the end of the book, Grant gifts Jefferson with a notebook to write his thoughts in while in jail.
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Towards the beginning of the book, readers see Jefferson as a mundane, dreary character who makes no effort to improve his self worth before his execution. He does not accept anything his mentors have to offer, and he barely acknowledges the people who are taking the time to visit him. Throughout the book, we see small improvements in Jefferson’s character- all having to do with what Grant extends to him. Grant almost acts as a father figure to Jefferson- guiding him, supporting him, and listening to him throughout the novel.
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However, at the end of the book we read in Jefferson’s diary that nobody else had cared about Jefferson as much as Grant had, and that Grant really made Jefferson feel like he was somebody. Then, we see Paul give this journal to Grant after Jefferson’s execution. Before reading the journal, readers are lead to believe that Grant still does not feel like he had that much of an impact on Jefferson’s life. However, after reading what Jefferson wrote, Grant is touched by emotion as he learns that Jefferson has a place in his heart for Grant. Every day, we have the chance to let someone know how much they have impacted us. When I was in eighth grade, at the end of the year we had to put together an Exit Presentation for when we graduated from middle school. One aspect of the presentation was to create a section on someone who has impacted or motivated you during your years in middle school. I selected my mom, because she had really helped me through a lot, even if I did not always show it. She has taught me so many things, and she deserved to know how much she impacted my life.
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Like Grant, my mom probably felt discouraged at times when I would continuously make the same mistakes over and over again. However, I gradually became more and more mature as the years passed, and I wanted to give her credit for helping me along the way. While Jefferson wrote about his accounts in a notebook, I had recorded my middle school experiences on a slideshow. Additionally, Jefferson dedicated a paragraph to Grant telling him how much his words meant to Jefferson, and I dedicated a portion of my Exit Presentation to crediting my mom with how much she has helped me grow over the years.
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Each day, we are affected and influenced by everyone around us- some for the better, and some for the worse. Yet a lot of times, these people who are affecting us have no idea the impact they have had on our lives. Ernest J. Gaines does an excellent job of showing readers how much their words thank-yous’ mean in A Lesson Before Dying, by giving readers a look into Jefferson’s perspective, and how much Grant has helped Jefferson. In this novel, Grant does not believe he had much influence over Jefferson’s thinking or mindset. However, with some insight to Jefferson’s inner thinkings, Grant can see all of the improvements Jefferson has made- all credited to Grant. Similarly, my mom has acted as a mentor to me for several years- helping me through several things and teaching me how the world works. I do not believe my mom to have known how much I learned from her, until my Exit Presentation where I showed her what all she imprinted on me. We all should take just a little bit of time to thank the people who have changed us, and to tell them we walked.
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All the time we read articles and books about racism we have this question, Is racism a thing of the past? Is color-blind racism perpetuated inequality? According to a Sociologist Eduardo Eduardo Bonilla Silva found something interesting about whites, he found that they use four types of color blind; abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism, minimization of racism. The First type he name’s as abstract liberalism it justifies racial inequality, this type is around liberal ideas such as equality of opportunities.
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Although many steps forward have been taken against racism against the indigenous peoples of Canada, it still is prevalent. Many Canadians still maintain their view that the native people are ‘lazy’ or ‘drunks’ or many other common stereotypes. However, this blatant racism is incredibly unfair to the indigenous people. For example, in April raintree Cheryl notes that because she is a native, she will undoubtably become like all the other homeless people she sees on main street all the time. This is very likely what discouraged her from accomplishing her goals and moving towards a higher education.
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America’s Promise Ministries is an anti-Semitic religion that hides behind Christianity. This organization is in a position to create the perfect storm. They are a church that feeds their interpretation of what God’s intent for humankind is and able to distribute right-wing racist material anywhere in the world. Is it wrong to want one Nation under God and be with your kind? Oh, wait! That’s America and what the founding fathers believed built this country with just that same thought in mind.
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America’s Promise Ministries was established in 1967 and found fuel for their fire when the founder was able to spread his agenda across 300 gigahertz just when radio was the main avenue to reach people worldwide. The organization started in Minneapolis to Phoenix, Arizona. Once the founder died in 1985, the organization was moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, by his Son-in-law. The organization is known for popular literature such as; Heirs of the Promise, Who killed Jesus, the anti-federalist papers, and Holocaust denial work; did six million really die? (Center, n.
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Their main mission is to send Israel back to the middle east and to separate white people from non-white people and live isolated amongst themselves. Christian Identity believes Israel serves the devil, and white people of European descent are the one true Israeli tribe’s God speaks about in the bible. America’s Promise Ministries like to stay low key and do most of their influence through the church, radio, pamphlets, assemblies, and through social media. America’s Promise Ministries also believe Caucasians
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Dave Barley took over America’s Promise Ministries from his father-in-law Sheldon Emry in 1987 as the Senior Pastor. Barley moved the extremist group to Idaho. Barley was able to distribute propaganda and speak to numerous citizens in the area. Barley truly believes God’s elected people are the Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, German descent, and Kindred people. (Barley & Barley, 2019) David Barley believes in his ideology and that he is spreading the truths about the bible and its full interpretation of the righteous people. Barley met with Vincent Bertollini & Carl Story, two entrepreneurs from California. ‘They moved Idaho to help the Christian Identity build an all-white homeland.’ (Center, n.d.)
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Richard Butler, an aerospace engineer and founder of the Neo-Nazi Aryan Nation opened his doors felons and ex-convicts after an unsolved bombing incident destroyed his property, Richard Butler invited skinheads and eventually held numerous conferences for white supremacists in the Northwest region of the United States. Louis Beam, the Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan in Texas and then later an active member in Neo-Nazi Aryan Nation, and that’s when Louis Beam met Richard Butler, and at one point Louis Beam was going to take Butler’s place leading the Aryan Nation. Both Richard Butler and Louis Beam spoke numerous times at the Christian Identity assemblies. (League, 2002)
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Jay Merrell, a Neo-Nazi and part of the Phineas Priesthood, holy warriors for the Christian Identity. After visiting numerous America’s Promise Ministries gatherings. He, along with two other members, robbed banks, blew up an abortion clinic, and a newspaper building in Seattle. David Barley was grooming Jay Merrell to be a prominent figure for America’s Promise Ministries by allowing Jay Merrell ample speaking time at America’s Promise Ministries camps and gatherings. (Center, n.d.) Jay Merrell considered himself a minister and a writer.
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America’s Promise Ministries are not violent; however, they don’t mind other people carrying out violent acts for them. Jay Merrell a ProtГ©gГ© of Barley along with three other people who associate themselves with the Christian Identity but call themselves Phineas Priesthood. They damaged abortion buildings and certain newspaper companies with pipe bombs in Washington State. (Center, n.d.) Phineas Priesthood is a group of racist individuals who feel that people who support abortion clinics, marry outside of their race, or engage in homosexuality are breaking God’s laws. They feel as if they are doing God’s will by committing violent acts against them.
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What causes a person to join an extremist group. What we have learned over the years is, some people are angry after a stressful event as in Timothy McVeigh blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building on April 19, 1995, due to the federal governments’ actions in the Waco massacre February 28, 1993. People disagree with the government, hate other groups of people, or lack personal value makes them an easy target for these far-right-wing groups to recruit. ‘Vigilantes of Christendom’ If I persecute you, it’s all in the name of God. The FBI has investigated terrorist activity. America’s Promise Ministries, Phineas Priesthood, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Aryan Brotherhood although, a group or organization, operate independently as well.
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Many of these groups operate as long wolf’s. They radicalize online but quickly blast to violence. Making it difficult for law enforcement and government agencies to investigate and disrupt an individual’s actions. These individuals want to belong to something or be a part of a movement they feel are accomplishing what they believe to be accurate and true. The FBI documents the organization’s actions, but need the public to identify and report any suspicious behavior. (U.S. government, n.d.) As the 2020 Presidential Democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders said, ‘we are one people, Black, White, Indian, Mexican or Asian, we are all one people!’
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In addition to that, the virus is deadly, and the most dangerous part is that many people don’t show symptoms of the virus. During the SARS outbreak, it almost ruined the Chinese communities in Canada. Racism is everywhere, but the SARS outbreak gave people a chance to enhance it. People would go around telling Chinese people to go away because ‘all Chinese people have SARS.’ Throughout history, people have always been scared of dying. During times like these, people should be helping each other out, instead of making hurtful racist comments. Those comments cause people to feel excluded and invalid. At that time, people started staying away from Chinese restaurants and grocery stores, and businesses in Toronto’s Chinatown reported their customers dropping by 70 to 90 per cent. Now, with Covid-19 going around, Chinese people are having to repear the same situation and will have to go through the same discrimination again.
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Except, this time around it’s made so much worse by social media. Anyone can say anything they want, whether it’s trying to take advantage of it for views and making these fake claims, or it’s people like this who are spreading a racist message. At the time of the SARS outbreak, cellphones and texting were not used as much. However now, social media is everywhere and it’s helping to amplify existing prejudice. On January 29th, Toronto’s mayor, John Tory, and health officials took a stand against xenophobia toward Chinese Canadian. Tory said the city supports the Chinese Canadian community by releasing accurate information as often as necessary. And “we stand up as we are all doing here today to stop misleading or damaging or stigmatizing comments or actions that are directed toward any members of our community, ” he said. Discrimination is never acceptable. It is not helpful, and spreading misinformation does not offer anyone protection.
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Racism is bad because it is a major cause of violent and repressive behavior, which is an obvious and inherent trigger for all kinds of very bad social consequences. Spreading hurtful and false information does not help the situation. Therefore, just like what Tory said, we must stop making racist comments/actions. Many people are unaware how constant racism has been throughout the years. It is important to understand the problems of racism because it is relevant to society. Racism is very real, and people should become aware of it. Racism is a struggle, and to this day, it has continued to be a major issue in our society. The colour of someone’s skin alters how a person is perceived by society.
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I feel this way because in the song Tupac had said that they have been physically and emotionally abused. For example, ‘cops give a damn about a negro. ‘Pull the trigger kill a nigga he’s a hero”. Shooting unarmed people is not a hero, it is actually being a coward because there are a lot of ways you can solve problems, but because that person is black, it doesn’t matter. I hope that other communities support each other and make sure that they are all safe because I think it is about sticking together.
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I think that a connection between this song and the world is the theme of racism or social injustice. Tupac is talking about how the black community in the USA is being treated with no respect. This happens everywhere around the world. In my country, the native people are being judged because they are brown. People think that all Maori people are in a gang and that they steal. I have friends that are Maori and they aren’t in a gang or do they steal. Society should start to accept everyone for who they are and not judge someone from the colour of their skin. We all come from different places, but it is good to learn about the different cultures there are and be happy about it.
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Anyone who doubts this needs to think of Othello from an imaginative point of view and the idea that it was written way ahead of its time. In the play, Shakespeare made the bold decision to tell a tale of a bewildered and doomed mixed-race marriage and ended it with a heart-breaking tragedy. When the premiered in London, few in the city had seen a black person but Shakespeare was able to bring the reality close to his generation, centuries before the same problem would fuel the tragedy that presses the modern society.
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Othello and Desdemona put up an act that demonstrates that a black man from Africa has every right to fall in love with a white woman from upper-class Venice. Hollindale (1989, p45) writes that the two behave like they are from a free and civilized society and not like prisoners of a time when racism would taint such a move. The act was aimed to demonstrate to the then society that it was possible, in the distant future, to have a romantic relationship between a black person and a white person even when the same was culturally unfathomable.
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Othello is a tragedy dominated by racial conflict. Through the play, it is clear that racial prejudice is poisonous and can easily transform lives into hell. Othello as a character is a perfect representation of this. He is a decorated soldier, a Moor, who has dedicated his life to the service of others and has demonstrated the same beyond reasonable doubt. His service is as good as his avoidance of crossing cultural and social barriers more so, through marriage as examined by Vaughan (1996, p.7).
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Othello must always remember that he is a black man whose society looks at using its racial eye. The language that is used to refer to Othello is foul and characteristic of racial prejudice. Characters like Iago, consistently remind and erect barriers to Othello and cannot bear his success and race, leave alone marrying a white woman. Adelman (1997, p125) calls the behavior of Iago as eroticizing and racializing’ when viewed from the perspective of Othello. When Othello committed that one cardinal sin, it suddenly became the color of his skin that would be used to interpret all of his actions. His life was turned around and made miserable.
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To put the place where blacks were held by the cultural and social context of Venetians into perspective, it is important to explore the venomous rage of the society whose moral fabric was threatened by the mere relationship of Othello and Desdemona. In the Venetian Senate, Brabantio fired the first salvo and said, ‘Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be’ (98-99). At the senate, Brabantio painted a picture reflective of the perspective that more would be at stake by allowing the union, not just dishonoring Desdemona’s father. Should the union be allowed by the society to proceed, Brabantio was convinced that the inferiors (black people) would be elevated to a level where they would be Venetian equals. His sentiments were seconded by Roderigo who sarcastically refers to Othello as ‘the thick lips’ (1.1.66), his skin and other features as expressed by Braxton (1990, p7). Much more vulgar language was used in reference to Othello to show the societal disapproval of his bold actions.
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In fact, he felt that a black man courting a white woman was tantamount to controlling the white world. Historically, by the mere fact that blacks were slaves, the society expected them to remain subservient so as to remain at the pace set by history. Racial prejudice comes strongly as a precursor for sinister plans. Iago makes Othello suspicious of his wife. At the beginning, Othello was an individual who had a strong conviction of his persona but as he gets castigated due to his race, the feeling of inferiority sets in. Iago manages to turn other people against Othello through his weird and twisted concept of what being black means and he even makes an attempt to direct Othello’s mind that he is being cheated.
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The alienation that he faces, as expressed by Г—zen (2004, p3) is directly related to his ethnicity, culture, and race which makes him feel alienated by the white society that he lives in. The feeling of mistrust spirals down to Desdemona, whom he thinks is not of his caliber. Towards the end, as expressed by Little (1993, p 306), Othello kills Desdemona as their marriage was the source of his blackness. In conclusion, it is clear that racial prejudice was deeply entrenched in the Venice’s society. Othello as a representative of the black race is seriously undermined despite his service to his community.
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He also runs a cookie business, but not any old cookies. They happen to be pot cookies. He makes a good profit off of them too, so much so that he has students at school threatening to kill him if he doesn’t bring them cookies. Jared’s home life is awful. His mother, who has a homicidal temper, likes to torture her boyfriends by stapling their arms to the floor when they threaten Jared. This book definitely doesn’t cut corners when it comes to detail and description.
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Personally, I really enjoyed this book, but that’s because I’m not easily affected when it comes to talk of drugs and alcohol. A lot of people I know am and they wouldn’t want to read this book if they knew how much drug and alcohol talk there is. This story does mention drugs and alcohol in the beginning of the book, but that’s in the prologue and nobody that I know takes the time to read that. They go straight to the story part. If I were someone who is easily affected by drug and alcohol talk, especially if I was under 14, I would definitely want to know that there is that type of talk in the story before I read it.
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This book has quite a lot of violence as well. From Jared’s mother stapling her boyfriends arms to the ground when they threaten Jared to Jared’s friends explaining to him in detail what they would do to him if they didn’t bring them pot cookies. This part of the story kind of irked me. I can’t stand violence so it really disappointed me when I read the first little part of violence in the story. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of violence in some form, but I didn’t realize that it was going to be so much and in such detail. For example, near the beginning of the story, Jared is waiting at his bus stop for the bus to arrive, when one of his mother’s ex-boyfriends spots him from across the road and lets his dog loose at him. Just as the dog was about to attack Jared, his mother comes out of nowhere and runs the dog over with her car.
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That part was very sad to me. I’m a huge animal lover, and even though the story is fiction, it was still very depressing to hear that somebody would run over a dog. I am a little bit of a sensitive person when it comes to violence. Every time I see a fight, even if it’s on television, my anxiety levels shoot up. I want to help the victim but I’m scared that I’ll be the next victim if I get involved, so I try to get help from someone who knows how to properly deal with the situation. I think that I speak for a lot of people when they say that they want to help victims of crimes but don’t know the proper way to get involved. That’s why I believe that only people who are mature enough to handle the act of violence at least once in every chapter should be allowed to read this book. Violence is a serious offense and it can frighten anybody just seeing or reading about it let alone actually being in it.
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Whenever I opened this book to pick up where I left off, I had to mentally prepare myself for all of the explicits I was about to read. On almost every page of this novel, there is at least one explicit. I’d say 90% of the time, they are f-bombs or racial slurs. To me, swear words don’t so much affect me, they just sometimes surprise me because some of these words I wonder how people even know what they are. The only swear words that disturb me are racial slurs. I get sort of freaked out by people who use those words like any other words. To me, people who use racial slurs are obviously racist, but I feel like they just don’t care about anyone else except themselves.
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I find that they are very self-absorbed and just don’t care about what others say about them, which is usually a good thing, but not when it comes to using racial slurs. I’d say most of the people I know is offended when people use coarse language, especially racial slurs, to them or even around them. The fact that the main character of this novel is of aboriginal descent and his friends and even his own mother are using racial slurs to his face is sickening. Like I said before, I know that this book is fiction, but the reason I find it so sickening is because there really are people who say racist things to people’s faces in the world. I think that explicit language shouldn’t be used at all, but since it is, I feel like people aged 14 and up should be allowed to use it and be able to be around people saying it.
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I’ve seen a TV series that is similar to this novel. It’s called Shameless. It’s definitely not a TV show that people under 18 should watch, but I’ve heard a lot about it and decided to watch one episode. I absolutely regret watching it. It’s all about sex, drugs, and alcohol. The way that people described it made it sound like it was relatively clean, with only a little mention of drugs and alcohol, and I was okay with that. No one ever mentioned anything about sex though, so when I went to watch it, I was completely shocked to see a full on sex scene almost right away.
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I don’t mind watching sex scenes as long as I don’t see anything that’s extreme, although it is a bit awkward. But these sex scenes were full on nudity and I felt very uncomfortable watching it. I think anybody would. The reason I made this movie connection to the book is because there is quite a lot of talk about drugs, alcohol, and even sex. I don’t mind the drug and alcohol talk, but like I said before, I’m not a huge fan of detailed sex, especially in a book. The overall show is very good and I would have definitely kept on watching it if it wasn’t for the amount of sex involved.
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Attitude, opinions, and the way we treat every other living thing is mostly centred on our own beliefs. Most people believe that if our thoughts are prejudiced, then our attitude and behavior will result as the same. Racism is a belief based on non-factual generalizations. Stereotyping, as the same as racism, also consists of title calling, objectifying slurs, and dehumanizing jokes. Victims of prejudice frequently develop an erroneous faith, and this is how children learn to be prejudiced.
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During the early 20th Century, both Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde write about their experiences as strong African-American young women facing extensive racial discrimination, recounting similar but very different stories in their essays. These accounts are diverse in the management of their plight but typical for the voice of the generation and an unfortunate but accurate reflection of historical times. They both employ figurative language and bright imagery, taking the reader on a colorful journey through their childhoods.
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While her family was trying to get a little something to cool off at Breyer’s (ice cream and soda fountain), her white waitress at the white counter refused to serve her white ice cream to escape the white heat on the white pavement, where she wasn’t able to appreciate the white stone monuments offered by the city. She also repetitively uses the words, “colored”, “black” and “negro” to define herself and others like her. By use of these labels, it is apparent Audre sees that her innocence is diminished, and that the world is nothing more than black and white.
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These women have different points of view, however. Zora Neale Hurston explores the discovery of her identity and self-pride through the extended metaphors she writes and does not consider herself “tragically colored”. She says that African-Americans have had to minimize their racial identities to force others to treat them as equals or to lessen the discrimination they suffer. From all of her hardships endured, she emerges stronger whilst she “sharpens her oyster knife”, getting ready for the world – rather than weeping for it. Zora acknowledges racial differences, nevertheless, when she describes a moment she had in The New World Cabaret (a music club), marking further distinction between colors. While the jazz harmonies begin to play, her soul is engaged and she feel “like she is in the jungle, living in the jungle way”, whereas her white male friend sits motionless, smoking a cigarette. She remarks, “he has only heard what I felt”.
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Alternatively, the inherited superiority of white people has scarred Audre Lorde, and she understands that she is not equal – according to her essay. She struggles with her classification and identity, separating American citizens into different categories. Since racism is very prevalent, her newfound adulthood coincides with her revelation that America is not the country she thought it was. She feels exposed to the realities of life; from a child to a woman. What was once a thought of a perfect country is spoiled by injustice and racism as she faces discrimination and oppression.
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The change between childhood and adulthood is quickly felt for Lorde as her family is denied service at that ice cream parlor in Washington DC. Without protest, they quietly get down from their stools, outraged, as if they “had never been black before”. Her parents felt they could have avoided the situation had they anticipated it. When the true racist America is revealed, the tone of her tale quickly shifts from excitement to disappointment. Her parents and sibling do not feel the waitress’ act is anti-American but Audre is so moved that she writes an angry letter to the President of the United States (all by herself), disappointed and sickened by the graduation gift she received.