ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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The Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE was leading the protests and later was accompanied by Dr. Martin Luther King. On December 15th, 250 of these peaceful protestors marched to city hall, and upon arrival all of them were arrested. While incarcerated, they refused to leave until all demands were met and promises were made. They promised to desegregate bus and railroad stations even though the law required them to do so. Instead of desegregating, they shut down these institutions, and after months of trying these protests soon turned violent. Resulting in the Albany movement being unsuccessful, much like they little rock story. One way these stories were both unsuccessful were by both groups of young African Americans trying to make a difference by integrating these public places. Although, they came into the situations with peacefully intentions they ended with violence which caused them to be unsuccessful.
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Within Little Rock, majority of the students had to transfer because of how much the violence was getting out of control. Another reason these historical stories are similar is because they both kept trying after many attempts to integrate these public places. Even though it was legal for them to attend these public places they were still treated very unfairly and still were segregated. Martin Luther King returned to Albany 4 times before these protests finally turned to violence, and the little rock students consistently attended their classes before things had gotten worse. In conclusion, both the “Little Rock Nine” and the Albany Movement, had a significant effect on the history of civil rights in the African American Community. Both situations portrayed the amount frustration the African American community had. Even though they approached these life-risking situations peacefully it didn’t matter if these protests were unsuccessful. These stories made history for their bravery and attempts and will forever be acknowledged for their efforts.
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The second problem with that term is that it gives the impression that the Puerto Rican culture is not legitimate and has no national purity and cultural authenticity. Maldonando supports her claims, by stating the cinema constructs these exaggerated identities and make people believe that having a nomadic nature is their national identity, but as a consequence it creates cultural discourse. The film created by Luis Rafeal Sanchez portrays in Puerto Ricans as always being constant movement from place to place.
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Bailey even went a step further and wrote an ethnography on six high school students and how they had to deal with discrimination from their peers. More specifically Bailey focused his area of study in Providence, Rhode Island. The reason why Bailey choose to do his observations is to see how Dominican Americans preserve their identity against a pre-dominantly white student body. Many Dominican families identify with their African ancestry, however, they are often times identified as African American, but they try not to be stereotyped that way, by speaking in Spanish. Second generation Dominicans have more boundaries to negotiate with European, African American and their own perception of their Dominicaness. Many Dominicans did identify with their African American counterparts because they lived in segregated neighborhoods and shared similar traits. What is the strategy of the United States for always segregating a new immigrant group?
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Garcia give evidence that Dominican youth have a hard time in assimilating into American schools because one their obstacles in a language and cultural barrier. In order to address the needs of New York Dominican youth, Gregario Luperion had opened its doors, by using bilingualism as strength for additive schooling. The authors Bartlett and Garcia make it point to highlight Dominicans make up the majority in New York, however, many are under performing in schools. As a response to this subtractive schooling, the Dominican community had come together to combat the way teachers and school administrators saw bilingualism as a handicap not a strength. Since there was a high number of Dominicans concentrated in Washington Heights, Manhattan and this actually created political power that would help improve the treatment of newly-arrived Dominican and pan-Hispanic immigrants. Bartlett and Garcia even state how Dominican students come into the United States educational system underprepared. Those differences play a huge part in how they perform in American schools, for example Dominican students only spend 5 hours in the classroom, but in reality classroom time 2.5 hours. Secondly, teachers in Dominican Republic expect students to copy the information given on the board and memorize it, but the culture of teaching is much more complex but the Dominican students would be expected to analyze, interpret and give their own opinions on the information they find. What are policies in place that actually benefit Dominican students that have bilingualism?
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Aparico gives evidence that many young, second-generation Dominicans participate in civic projects. These civic projects include finding solutions for problems such as globalization and racism in order to socially construct and identity of being politically active. Many Dominican communities in New York face obstacles of racial inequality within education, public assistance, unemployment and etc. However, in response to these racial disparities many second-generation Dominican have created projects that would combat the negative influences that have plagued their neighborhoods. As a result, of many young Dominican activists that have created campaigns of anti-racism, they also have started to slowly change the ideologies that were the foundation of these racist sentiments towards Dominicans. The strength of these movements also created a strong political voice for the Dominican community. Aparico wanted to find out how the second-generation was gathering political influence in order to positively impact local issues that were affecting their ethnic enclave. How did Dominican youth organize so rapidly in face of racial disparities?
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In his work, Pine discusses the role that bodegas play in uplifting Dominican families. Pine also contrasts his finding by showing what a traditional market or neoliberalism is supposed to behave, but the functions of a bodega is different. Many bodegas are mainly distinguished by their bright colors of yellow, green or blue. Pine has found in his ethnographic work that a majority of bodegas try to cater to their customers by providing them with products that they could not find elsewhere. Bodegas also play a very multifunctional role, such as being a hardware and grocery store all at the same time. Also bodegas go above the norm of urban competiveness by maintaining intimate relationships with customers so returning to their store. Some store owners even try to conduct their staff that are their family to treat women with respect. The bodegas serve as a care sector because they are trying to provide the low-income residents with cheap alternatives. How do Dominican families balance running the stores and obtaining social mobility?
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Often times we perceive All Lives Matter as being associated with criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. Although most times their judgment is based upon assumptions, false accusations and mostly misunderstandings. In the book I Don’t See Color: Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege, Bettina Bergo and Tracey Nicholls discuss an interview between Bill O’Reilly and President Obama. During this interview, O’Reilly asks Obama how it makes him feel that so many people hate him (122). Obama replied, “The truth is that the people, and I’m sure previous presidents would say the same thing, whether it was Bush, or Clinton, or Reagan, or anybody, the people who dislike you don’t know you” (qtd.
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This is a comfort zone for most people because it takes race out of the conversation. Today’s society won’t progress if people are afraid to step out of their comfort zone. People in America are afraid to talk about race. The discussion of race in America centers around the protection of white people feelings. When bringing up racism individuals feel they are being attacked. They see racism as individuals although it is really a societal problem. People who feel attacked for being racist when we need to be considering how we can make society more equitable. According to the All Lives Matter website, “Our mission is to educate those who wish to know more about the movement for total equality for all.” We should team up with them to educate them about our mission and ideas that involve moving towards equality. According to the “About” page on the Black Lives Matter website, the movement expanded in response to the hundreds of deaths of young black men and women after Martin, who have died at the hands of police officers. This movement is centered around the ongoing injustices in America today.
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The Black Lives Matter website asserts, “Black men and women are being gunned down by police officers prior to any opportunity for due process and the judicial system to do its work, and then those police officers walking away with no consequences.” This is what we are angry about, however people who are on the outside can’t relate. They don’t understand that every time an African American is shot down by a police officer, and no one is held accountable it beings to send a message to our people that we don’t matter. Black Lives Matter is working to make this idea a reality: the lives of black people do matter. The movement is simply fighting the issue of criminal injustice. All Lives Matter is coming along trying to broaden the discussion. For instance, the web page All Lives Matter introduces the issues of black-on-black crime by stating, “Black on-black murder rates are far higher than white-on-black murder rates according to FBI data from 2013.” Seem like they are trying to make this a war against white and black, and in reality it’s not. This is a war against injustice and a corrupt judicial system. When we discuss race we have a tendency to pick and choose what issues we want to address.
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Yes, the black on-black crime rate is high, but 9 times out of 10 there is justices. So those facts that the website is presenting are irrelevant at the moment. Often times when speaking with white people about race it becomes a muted discussion which never really progresses. So for a period of time I thought it was because most of them were racist, although now I’ve realized its slightly different than that. Most times this conversation doesn’t go anywhere because white people don’t understand the minorities’ position in this world. We don’t talk about the things that upsets us within todays sociality often because we don’t want the people who identify as a majority to say we’re overreacting or that we make everything about race. But we have to look at it through their eyes, they don’t know the struggles that an average black person or any minority face every day in this sociality. Trevor Noah stated in an interview with the Breakfast Club, “There is a difference between claiming a victimhood and standing up and saying that the plain field is not leveled.” In Scott Morris’ 2014 documentary, White Like Me, Tim Wise, an anti-racist activist and writer of the book upon which the film is based, interviews people who say they are tired of people making things about race. If we could ignore race we would; however, society quickly reminds us of the color of our skin. Morris’ documentary illustrates that white people can enjoy the privilege of being free from this concern.
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Some white people don’t understand that the color of their skin makes them privileged. When using the phrase All Lives Matter people demonstrate a blindness to the privilege of living outside a painful lens that highlights their race. White people don’t understand the issues of race because they never had to deal with it. People think that if we simply become color bind to race that racism won’t exist anymore. Behind this statement lies a malicious ignorance of America’s racist past and present. For example, during Tomi Lahren’s 2016 interview on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, she stated that she doesn’t see color. In response to that Trevor Noah said, “So what do you do at a stop light?” Seeing race is not the issue, however, the problem lies with how we address it. Racism isn’t being aware of race; however, it is the active discrimination mainly by a majority identifier being against a minority. The fact that white means normal and anything else is different is an example of racism.
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When a person is constantly incapacitated because of a quality, it is impossible to become blind to that quality. America needs to become color conscious. We must understand that black folks think in terms of black folks. We live in a society where the social and political structures interact with us as black people, so we think in the term of we. According to Wise, white people are not made to think about their race or in the terms of a group, because they have the privilege to interact with our society as individuals. According to Morris’ documentary, the system was made for white people; therefore, they are unaffected by it. For the people who support Black Lives Matter we must understand that white people are not affected directly by racial oppression even in their community, therefore whatever doesn’t affect them locally leaves a slight chance of it affecting them nationally. In order to get beyond racism, we must take account of race, so we cannot be color blind. So in order to treat others equally, we must treat them differently. We must understand that people come from a didn’t background and they are treated different within sociality.
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To live within institutional racism and then arguing about its existence is beyond frustrating. Sociality must acknowledge that black people are being oppressed and have been for some time now. Trevor Noah’s 2016 interview asserts that the problem with this conversation is that people feel like acknowledging racial discrimination means taking something away from them. Which in the case of white people it’s a sense of power. White Americans are worried about black people challenging their place in the world. Nonminority’s need to take into concertation that it isn’t just about them Black Lives Matter are addressing these concerns because they are not stating that we as black people are superior to everyone else nor are we the only ones struggling in America. However, we are trying to make the violence and system racism towards black people a reality. Black Lives Matter has never made the statement that all lives don’t matter. Recognizing the existence of one discrimination does not deny the importance of others. Being pro-black, doesn’t mean anti-white or anti-police. There’s a difference between something being true and something being relevant. We don’t have to agree with this movement but at least we are in a position to hear the opposing view. Changing our perspective won’t happen overnight. It takes time for these kinds of things, although now we don’t have to be so quick to shut them down.
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Colorism is an extremely large issue within the black community. It could be argued that it is as harmful as racism as it is from within. According to the Oxford dictionary, “Prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.” So instead of white versus black, the struggle is lightskin vs darkskin. Colorism is rooted in slavery and has caused harmful effects on the African american community. What is the true form of colorism? Many people would say that colorism is essentially rooted in internalized racism.
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They may cause that person to harbor a self hate within themselves for being darker or doing everything they can not to be associated with these stereotypes. This also includes believing stereotypes within their race. So a black boy who says that all black girls are ghetto is suffering from internalized racism. Or someone who sells out their race in order to please “the white man,” is also most likely suffering as well. An example may be a black person not hiring someone else of color because they look, “urban,” and considering it a bad look.
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A critique of this person may be that, “they want to be white.” Internalized racism conceives colorism which is rooted in slavery. Colorism has been around as long as there have been black people in America. According to Sarah Webb of Colorism Healing.com, “Colorism is a manifestation of the idea that even if one isn’t white, her worth may be determined by how close she is to being white.” Why is this? Because of the separation of slaves in the field and house. Back in the 1800’s, slaves that were lighter were often treated better and allowed to be in the house to work. A part of this is because often times the lightskin slave is the child of the master. These illegitimate children were taught that because they were closer to white, they were a little bit better than their dark skin counterparts but still not as good as a white person. This mindset still carries on today that pit dark and light skinned african americans against each other. This is seen modernly in hashtags such as #teamlightskin, #teambrownskin, and #teamdarkskin. Today colorism has taken on a very different look, instead of lights in the house and darks in the field, we see lights in higher paying positions and darks paid less.
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Especially among the younger generation, opinions on race are much more transparents because of access to social media. Before the rise of the internet, black women, and more specifically darkskinned women were insulted to their face. African americans were and are called derogatory terms such as coon, tar baby, and monkeys and women hear terms on top of those such as slut and whore. Insulting black women has become very popular. Many african american males have resorted to insulting dark skinned women ugly and disgusting as a whole and referring to light skinned women as ideal and foreign. Social media has allowed these harmful comments to reach a larger audience and therefore the rise in colorism. The rise of “teams” with similar skintones boasts that one or the other is better instead of all black women bonding over a similar cultural heritage. Not only is prevalent in social media, but also in visual media such as television where dark skinned characters are usually bad and light skinned good. Black people as a whole are underrepresented in mainstream media but, on top of that the representation that is seen is usually very bias. An example of this is almost any Tyler Perry movie.
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The romantic storyline is usually along the lines of a struggling brown/light skinned african american woman who is a harmful relationship with a dark skinned man. Then as the move goes on, she learns to love herself a lightskinned man swoops in to save her. Even though this is not as drastic as some other examples, the dark man is consistently portrayed as a cheater, liar, and abusive while the light skinned man is portrayed as the good guy. This colorism within the media subconsciously leads on to believe that all dark skinned men are bad. Another example of this is in many crime television shows. The token black character on the show is most likely light skinned, such as Ice-T, and the criminals are often darker skinned males. This is an issue in fictional media but also the news. Although crime has gone down within the last ten years, the amount of crime shown on tv is on the rise and majority of these crimes have been allegedly committed by black men. This raises a fear in the larger community against dark skinned men being dangerous. This bias toward lighter skinned people in and outside of the african american community has cost many lives and families the opportunities they deserve. Because colorism is so abstract and often ignored, there are not many group out that look to rectify specifically that problem. One group that is seeking to do more research on it though is is the Intraracial Colorism Project.
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They study and report the effects of colorism around the world such as in Latin America, the United States, and Asian countries. They then, “develop strategies to educate, enlighten and eventually eradicate colorism,” with that information. (The Intraracial Colorism project) To do this, they have shared information in various medias such as having a talk show, having written a play about colorism, and releasing a magazine. This organization was founded by Dr. Donnamaria Culbreth in 2009, and since then the organization has also established a national colorism survey and held a conference on eradicating colorism around the world. Their work has established more available information on the issue and also spread awareness. Colorism within the black community is more harmful because it comes from your own. The very people that one is supposed to bond over a shared history with is being insulting due to the hue of their skin. Stereotypes associated with light skins such as being stuck up and dark skins as being dangerous have harmful psychological impacts within the community. This form of racism has caused many children to grow up thinking that they are better or worse than one another when in the end, we are all black. Colorism is dividing the african american race when unity is what we need the most.
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Racial Caste System: It is a stratification where colored people are kept in inferior positions. It is a system that causes segregation amongst different ethnic groups (Color people and white people). White people are seen as the most inferior race within the society we live in. The roots of this system are to deny blacks their freedom and equality (Direct response to the civil rights movement). Racial Caste System predicts there’s a likelihood of African American and black males ending up in federal or state prisons.
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By this Alexander means that race is a form of power and used to treat human beings based upon the color of their ethnicity and skin color. Splitting things amongst race just makes white supremacy succeed within society. “The Death of Slavery” Alexander talks about how predominantly white individuals were trying to find ways to keep their power (White Supremacy) after the civil war. Also, the author states that the criminal justice system is “colorblind” (Belittling black individuals, discrimination, willful ignorance from the public eye).
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The criminal justice system views the world based on bias, ideologies, and stereotypes. Race is seen as a primary guide to different opinions and actions behind criminal behavior. The fact that federal and state prisons have a higher population of blacks and African Americans speaks volumes when it comes down to our criminal justice system. Why? Because it shows racial bias amongst all ethnic groups and it shows how African Americans and minorities are the center targets when it comes to delinquency. During the war on drugs era, there were required sentencing for drugs (crack cocaine) that were found in African American Communities. Law enforcement officials sent messages out on who deserved to be penalized more blacks or whites. It then became acceptable for society to label blacks as criminals (Drug dealing criminals) knowing that the selling amongst both ethnic groups (white and black) is the same. The criminal justice system, law enforcement officials, and courts became stricter on crime. The government made it a gratifying experience for police officers to target drug offenders, leading the courts to discriminate against minorities, and blacks. Within the “War On Drugs” era there was a racial control force behind the war on drugs rather than drug control.
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I agree with the author’s analysis because the criminal justice system operates off racial bias, stereotypes, ideologies and more. Bases of the case Brown Vs. Board of education, where African American students were denied access to particular public institutions based on laws (school was segregated by race). Segregation violated the 14th Amendment (The Equal Protection Clause). The court then seen school segregation instilled in a sense of subsidiarity which harmed African Americans’ education and their growth within themselves. Also, African Americans are the sources of why government officials win elections because black individuals are targeted the most by law enforcement officials. African American is the centerpiece of why the criminal justice system is functioning (creating revenue). They’re sentenced to longer times than any other ethnic group. Until this day African Americans and minorities are the most targeted, harassed, racially profiled, stereotyped, and more by police officers. Not every black person is a criminal, drug dealer, murder, or burglar. The inequality amongst different ethnic groups is the root cause of mass incarceration. Blacks are continuing to suffer from battles of oppression. The criminal justice system is built on injustice rather than justice, it doesn’t address the root causes of delinquency, and it is punitive rather than rehabilitative. Not providing resources to fit back into society will cause an individual to enter back into the mass incarceration system.
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Lastly, we live in a world with a corrupt criminal justice system that punishes many blacks innocent minorities. In society, 97% of federal cases and 94% of state cases are plea bargains with defendants pleading guilty for a guaranteed lesser sentence. Many of the defendants who are minorities or black and have little to no resources take up a plea bargain from their (oftentimes) public defender. Pleading guilty violates the 6th amendment which states that I have a right to a trial by jury. Racism isn’t just a key component to the criminal justice system but it is the heart of history within the culture of countries, and states.
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Society stereotypes hip-hop music, declaring it as lacking substance and appealing only to low-cultured individuals. However, there is an underground formation of rap collectives who consistently disprove this stereotype, yet are overlooked because of their minimal popularity, even more so when we see popular rap artists portrayed negatively in the media. Kanye West is one of the most popular and successful rappers of our time. Most of America knows him for his childish antics, arrogant speeches, and, last but not least, his music.
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In New Slaves, West writes the lyrics: “My momma was raised in an era when / Clean water was only served to the fairer skin.” He uses his mother’s history of growing up during times of immense racism, and even segregation, to compare to the type of racism he finds today. Growing up relatively poor in Chicago, West claims experience to, as he calls it in the song, “broke nigga racism”. This type of racism, West asserts, stems from the stereotype that blacks are not rich, therefore owners tell them “Don’t touch anything in the store.
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” However, as West has elevated his monetary status, he now experiences what he calls “rich nigga racism,” or the stereotype that rich blacks want “a Bentley, fur coat and diamond chain.” In addition, New Slaves not only deals with the idea of slavery still being present in our time, but argues that blacks are slaves to consumerism. He believes that by blacks investing their money in expensive brands such as Alexander Wang, they contribute to the stereotypes and assumptions made about them by society.
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Furthermore, apart from informing youth of modern day oppression, he also creates inspiring music. However sound can be interpreted as an opinion, I believe the lyrics he writes can be inspiring for all people, despite their taste in music. His song “I Wonder” off his album Graduation is one of these songs. Detailing his struggle to find himself, “I Wonder” tells a story any person can relate to. Its chorus goes: “And I wonder if you know / What it means / What it means to find your dreams” For me, I always felt that this was a song meant to ask listeners to question themselves, to ask ‘What are my dreams? And how can I achieve them?’ Kanye has always put incredible emphasis upon the mind and preserving ones creativity, which is something I relate to. When listening to “I Wonder” I hear Kanye telling me to wonder, to reach and establish these dreams hidden within my mind. We often find solace in art. We read books to escape our reality.
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We study paintings to envision a different picture. We listen to music to whisk us away from the present. Within this art we also find what inspires us, what motivates us, and what we wish to emulate. Listening to different types of music, I personally find myself constantly enthralled by what rappers create. Typically stereotyped as low-cultured music because of what we hear on the radio, hip-hop has acquired a negative reputation. Artists such as Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, and Lupe Fiasco are apart of a class of rappers pushing the envelope, bring hip-hop back to conscious ideas and themes. I strongly believe Kanye West is a positive role model for all people because of his commitment to discussing modern day issues, to inspiring fans through his lyrics, and to holding on to his individuality in a business that demands conformity.
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By listening Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous speech, I have a dream, I felt a strong, justice desire of rising up a nation from quagmire of racism. When the nation of U.S.A just survived from WWII, people around the world just succeed in escaping from radical racist Adolf Hitler, African-American in the U.S land were struggling to fight for their equality. He had a dream that let freedom ring from the U.S land, when black children and white can play and learn and grow up together.
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Whenever people from China mention my homeland, first things they can think of are undeveloped, disordered, and ignorant, which noun of them are truth. My dearest hometown has no differences from any of yours, we have vibrant city and fertile pasture, we have sumptuous fruits and white cotton like snow, we have continuous mountains and boundless prairie, barren desert is a part of us as well as those beautiful lakes embellish our land like sapphire.
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The following are some of the policies as cited by Gallagher and Lui to counter racial inequality in order to have a balanced or equal society: Increased awareness which is achieved through communication to other people over racism and without judgment making an inquiry of the shared thoughts and the reason of animosity to a given race. Awareness also enlightens individuals on the importance of not engaging in this type of activity. Furthermore, this enhances the relationship between individuals from different races thus reducing racial inequality according to Gallagher.
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Because there was an initial group of people that was targeted and put to use for free labor, it made it seem like it was okay to treat a certain race this way and further gave way to class distinction based on race. Racism was a result of slavery, and while the forced labor did physically end in the United States by 1865, its racist mentality caused by the white landowners and the rest of society remained. To this day, racial class distinction still exists all because of slavery.
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This piece was basically about the origin of the social construct of race as it began in European culture. Since 1749, scientists have been trying to study racial differences to try to understand humanity and culture better. Most of those proposed theories originated from a place of science and religion mixed together. All of the theories were constructed by European scientists however, so Europeans were always at the top of the list. Between 1770 and 1781 Johann Blumenbach distinguished five races, and his five-part racial system became the accepted science of its time and lived on for over 250 years as the accepted theory in which society lived by.
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Europeans were believed to be the only “pure” and completely human race in the scientific community. As scientists struggled to figure out the origin of man, a new debate came to light and it would become the main debate in the question of man’s origin. Monogenists believed there was one single origin of man from Adam and Eve and that race was white European, therefore all other races were not human. Polygenists believed there were separate but still unequal origins of man citing the story of the Tower of Babel, whereby God dispersed different groups of men with different characteristics, thereby claiming that there were multiple human races (although not necessarily equal).
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Theories of race constructed by man have always held Europeans at the top of the list as the most desireable, respected, and pure race and have always held the African race as the lowest, more barbaric, and most undesirable race to be. Blumenbach’s five races were simplified in the nineteenth and twentieth century to the three great races, which are still used today: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid. Caucasoid is considered the superior race type on the pyramid and referred to as “the white races.” Mongoloid is considered more superior to the Negroid race, however not as desirable as the Caucasoid race type and are referred to as “the yellow races.” Negroid is referred to as “the black races,” and is the lowest and least superior of the race types. These race types and rankings were introduced Arthur Gobineau and were adapted from Blumenbach’s three great races. Blumenbach coined the term Caucasian in the 1790s when he found a single skull from the Caucasus region and found that its measurements closely resembled those of some German skulls he had previously found. He wrongly hypothesized that all European peoples must have originated from the Caucasus region, and coined the term Caucasian to describe people of white European decent instead of calling them European. Today, we still widely associate the term Caucasian to describe a racial category for whiteness from Blumenbach’s scientific mistake.
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My article studies the prison system and race. A recent study found that there are more adult Hispanic prisoners in private prisons than public prisons. This can lead to lawsuits regarding prisoner equality and racial disparity. In the U.S. prison system, there are public and private prison facilities. Public facilities are owned and operated by the government at the state or national level. If more resources are needed in a certain area than the government can provide, or costs become too high, the government may outsource prisons.
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A prison with a majority of one race is more likely to form gangs, leading to higher rates of inmate misconduct and grievances, as well as escapes. Sociologists involved in the study felt the disparities found were extremely dangerous to inmates as well as staff of private prisons. I did not know there was a difference from one prison to the next. I assumed all prisons were run by the government but it makes sense that the government cannot handle all of these facilities and contracts work to the private sector.
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” paints a gruesome picture of contemporary racial inequality of the 1930’s; perhaps more gruesome that I would ever imagine. I always depict racial inequality concerning blacks in my mind to be centered around segregated bathrooms and water fountains, the backseats on a bus, or riots for black rights filling the streets, led by Martin Luther Kings Jr. But to read regarding nine black youths convicted of alleged “assumed”-rape charges and sentenced to death without bail or trial; well, that was hard to handle.
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Some help there, right? Later on, the convicts are sent to the local jail, where the locals are ready for a lynching. I feel it is sad that the mayor hadto send in the National Guard just to leave them alone. I was disturbed on how they were so fiercely determined the locals were to lynching the blacks, even though the rapes were a lie. I then thought of the trial to be completely disagreeable. A completely white jury-so much for “unbiased”-a white judge, and extremely poorly educated and unprepared defense attorneys; recipe for disaster. They were all sentenced to death but one, but later on with mutliple hearings, they were all eventually appealed. I found the material within the article to be completely disagreeable. The actions taken to secure the blacks, the false accusation of rape by the two white women, the poor chance for a good defense, and the unneccessary effort to be appealed to be very sad in this day of age. Thomas Jefferson
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In the classic historical novel, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, the symbol of the toilets represents all the flaws in society, specifically regarding segregation in this era, while sparking Skeeter‘s motivation to influence the public’s eye of race. The bathrooms are a constant reminder of the strict divide between black and white people. They are referenced in almost every chapter as a symbol of dehumanization for the black maids and workers living in Jackson, Mississippi in the 19605, The wealthy, white men and women strive to justify their need to build a separate bathroom by claiming that using mixed toilets will spread the “blacks disease”, This is extremely false and depicts just how blinded the society is to the cruelty committed towards the African Americans, The bathroom issue is heightened when Robert Brown, an innocent black man, accidentally uses a stall for white men and is brutally beaten, then few chapters later Mae Mobley is abused in Abilieen’s restroom.
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After the toilet debacle, she makes the symbolism vivid when she states, “But then I realize, like a shell cracking open in my head, there’s no difference between those government laws and Hilly building Albileen a bathroom in the garage, except ten minutes’ worth of signatures in the state capitol” (92), Skeeter blatantly expresses here that the Jim Crow Laws she read have a strong correlation to the segregated bathrooms, marking the beginning of her tedious journey towards publishing the column to expose “the help” perspective.
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As soon as I saw what our opening exercise would be, I knew that this would be a unit that I would be fully invested in. Since then, I have participated in and thoroughly enjoyed each and every class discussion on racism, bias, prejudice, and other evils pertaining to this unit I have struggled with these issues both internally and externally, sometimes being the victim and sometimes seeing friends victimized, so I was glad to have this class as a way to speak my mind and learn others’ opinions The media is a catalyst for stereotypes, Obviously, there are no unbiased news sources, especially when speaking about sources that cover the more problematic issues caused by our world, The two images were both of the exact same situation; both people took the groceries from a flooded store, obviously not paying for them, as there was nobody to work the register.
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I had seen this video and many like it before, and watching each of them I had the same reaction: “I would definitely call this guy out and ask him to leave“. I don’t tolerate serious infringements upon basic human rights such as equality, Of course I’m not perfect, I make racist jokes with friends every now and then, but when my black friends make white jokes, I laugh at them. It’s a mutual understanding that we aren’t being serious. However, when people are serious, it makes me incredibly angry. It warmed my heart to see the people who stepped up and began to yell at these racist actors, but when people starting agreeing with them, it bothered me. Even when the producers came out to question these people, they either stood behind their beliefs or ran away, none of them took a moment to realize how foolish they truly were. Two of my best friends are students, I went to middle school with one and met the other within the first month of Freshman year.
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That being said, I have never looked down upon, as I had always accepted them as regular people with a need for minor assistance when it comes to the standard format of test taking If tests were in non»written formats, I’m sure these students would excel, even without assistance. I don’t have much else to say on this subject, as I had already believed everything that this class taught about learning disabilities, I had seen Jane Elliott‘s experiment before, I believe it was in Morality section of Theology. I personally think that, while light hearted and almost comedically produced, this shows how truly horrifying human beings as a species can be. Young minds can be shaped and skewed more easily than wet clay, and this is scary, As I said in class, I was told as a child that white people can’t dance, and therefore it has always been held in my mind that there was innate reason that my body would look odd when dancing, It took me some time to find a bible verse that I truly related to in terms of racism, bias, and simply being judgemental. However, the one that truly stuck with me was John 7:24: “Do notjudge by appearances, but judge by right judgement”, In this instance, the word “appearances“ can be swapped out for many other words, such as “disabilities” or “struggles”. I do my best to judge based on right judgement, however, it is hard to do when I am sometimes forced to judge those considered “minorities“ more forgivingly due to the fact that many think that I am judging based on that fact and not based on merit, when in reality, any judgements or decisions I make are made as equally as possible.
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The racial bias that a person has grown up with must be questioned What I mean by this is that more people need to step outside of their own perspectives to put their selves in another person’s shoes. In study from the Pew Research Center statistics show that 6 in 10 blacks say that racial relations are bad, whereas 6 in 10 white say the polar opposite. When I see this statistic I think that those 6-10 black people are saying that racial relations are bad because they have personally experience racial bias, or a have witnessed a close friend or family member be subject to racial bias The 4 out of 10 black people maybe just are not as aware of this, or choose to be optimistic.
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The huffpost says it too when they say ““Black Lives Matter“ makes us uncomfortable Why? Because it reminds us that race exists, It reminds us that our experience as white people is very different from the experience of Black people in this country It reminds us that racism is alive and well in the United States ofAmericai” So I supposed that what I really am trying to say here is that more white people need educated themselves on racial bias in America, rather than jut turning their eyes away, or trying to justify the situation with unjust reasoning.
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This means too things, We need to stop assuming the worst of every black person that looks suspicious, and we also need to not assume that every police officer is racismr Although it so hard to do, especially in times like these, we have to remember all the good encounters happening that we don’t hear about, This alone is reason enough to generalize less and focus more on the isolated incidents. In light of my former statement I choose not to say “Police assuming that All blacks are violent” Because this cannot be not true, However in light of the shootings that have happened, there seems to be a pattern of innocence in the black victims.
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An article on CNN website states that in El Cajon California a man was shoot due to the fact that he was “acting weird,” also the fact that he reached in his pocket to pull out a vape and began to hand it to the police, It was immediately following that movement when the officer shot this man. Apparently he was mourning the loss of a friend, yet these officers saw him reach for his pocket and automatically assumed that he was going to shoot them. This has sadly been the case in more than just a few shootings The response to this problem is typically the assumption that All Police and racist and unnecessarily violentt This is also not the case. Yes most of the police involved in these shootings did not have reasonable evidence to shoot these black victims.
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Yes that is detestable, butjust like we are asking that the police show respect to black people, we must show the same to the police. 1 think it is acceptable to isolate those few police officers and say that their actions were unjust, assumptive, and completely detrimental, however it is wrong to assume that all police are this way. It doesn’t make sense when people say “all lives matter” in response to black lives matter. When the black lives matter movement started, many people were suddenly offended because they believed that Black Lives Matter was somehow excluding all other races, and drawing attention only to black lives. These people were looking past the tragic circumstances through with it was necessary [0 form the Black Lives Movement, and instead they were just seeing the so-called exclusion in this movementt Then in response these same groups of people began to fight for “All Lives Matter.” They think that this statement somehow combats the “selfishness” of this Black Lives Matter movement When in fact this argument makes truly no sense at allt.
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In theory all lives do matter, yes all lives matter. But Black lives make up a portion of All Lives, so when people state All Lives Matter in response to Black Lives Matter they are actually contradicting themselves, If all lives matter then each life matters, so when we say “black lives matter” we are simply zooming in on a portion of All Lives that happens to be in a state of tragedy due to a the most recent shooting Huffpost states ”It distracts and diminishes the message that Black lives matter or that they should matter more than they do.” In their article they highlight the fact that some white people might say this because of stigmas they grew up with. Stigmas that make them feel uncomfortable with the word “black” I think that racial bias is more real than ever in America, with half the population believing completely different things than the other half, Some people are getting better are seeing outside of the own perspectives, some are only getting more narrow minded. This racial unjustice in regards to the police shootings is unacceptable and more people need to be fighting for it. All lives matter, so Black lives matter too and people need to realize this and not be offended over this movement Racial Bias has come a long way with improvement in some areas and likewise worsening in other areas. America has a long way to go.
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Now almost 70 years removed from the civil rights movements that people such as Claudette Colvin stood for, minority groups still battle with systematic disadvantages in their daily lives Despite the progress that has been made for African» Americans in America there is still racism that is institutional and quantifiable. The #blacklivesmatter movement marks a revival in civil rights activism. Activists today adapt strategies from precedents set by civil rights predecessors. However, it is now much easier to reach the masses and spread information to the masses Activism derives its strength from a concise message and strength in numbers.
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In order to achieve tangible progress, activists need a clear message and a unified group. In the civil rights movements of the past, this meant organizing marches and rallies. Gathering like-minded individuals to join together and express a common concern is paramount to achieving change. The need to gather and organize has not changed, but the way in which masses assemble is the interesting difference between civil rights movements of the past when compared to #blacklivesmatterr Individuals have much more of a global voice than they did 50 years ago.