According to Henry Jenkins it saud: “I recalled that the LA Riots were not only about conflicts between angry blacks and the LAPD but had also revealed other conflicts within and between the multiracial groups inhabiting South Central”. Protests in Los Angeles have caused the city to revisit its legacy of racial problems arising from police brutality. Underfunding the police,...
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I want to start this essay talking on this subject with my understanding and how I view it. I think and feel that people misconstrue and don’t understand when this agenda is pushed and protested for. It's being pushed to a racist category when its nothing like that at all. To say that any life matters whether its human or...
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The Black Lives Matter movement is a devolved movement supporting for nonviolent civil misconduct in protest against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against African American people. The Black Lives Matter movement first started on the 13th July 2013; the founders of this movement were Alicia Garza Opal Tometi Patrisse Cullors. For several of years Africans Americans...
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“Great lines of patient people snaking through the dirt roads of towns and cities, old women who had waited half a century to cast their vote, saying they had felt like human beings for the first time in their lives, White men and women saying they were proud to live in a free country at last..., it was as though...
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During the 1800s, African Americans were not the only people segregated against by the whites. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed on the west coast: this prevented the Chinese from working in the U.S. and immigrating to the Country. The Chinese Exclusion Act began when an Irish immigrant by the name of Denis Kearney blamed the Chinese for...
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The Bacon Rebellion is a revolt caused by the settlers of Virginia in 1676. It was a war fought by the native against white colonizers. The revolt caused hundreds of dead whites and Native Amricans in Virginia and Maryland. In the process, Virginia’s capital Jamestown was burned down by Nathaniel Bacon and his followers. The leader of the rebellion was...
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It is likely that you have heard or read the phrase ‘black lives matter’. Everyone observes it differently. Some people who are not African-American might want to say, ‘all lives matter’. Some read the phrase and realize that there are problems with how society views African-Americans. The United States has a problem with labeling people based on their skin tone...
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The issue of diversity has been present for a very long time and it has been subject to many debates with various leaders taking a different position regarding the matter. The world today as it was many decades ago is a diverse place with people coming from diverse backgrounds in terms of their culture, political and religious views, race and...
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This white privilege essay is about the main point of view that McIntosh discusses in her work, focusing on white privilege. “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group”, this is one of Peggy McIntosh famous quotes in her article ‘White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack’. There...
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In 1992, Los Angeles City experienced one of the worst citizen disturbances, riots. After the Civil Rights Movement many riots exploded in Los Angeles due to police-community relations. After the end of the Civil Rights Movement tension between the African-American, Latin, and Korean communities and the Police force simmered in American cities all across the country because many kept experiencing...
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The protest group black lives matter was founded on july 13th 2013 subsequent to when the young 17 year old, trayvon martin was shot and killed by a local police officer, Geroge Zimmerman on february 26th 2012. There are based on the majority of us, because America is where most black people police related deaths are located. The statistics show...
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As an administration of justice major at CSM, a topic that interest me was one of the biggest cases of police brutality that has ever happened in the United States and how an event like this will affect the whole nation not just the city where the event took place. People of the United States are outraged over police brutality...
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The struggle of racism has hurt many people of color, but has brought upon good fortune from their actions to be treated as citizens of the U.S. The movements that occurred during history, have shaped the black community, giving them hope for the future. These movements have also changed the minds of many whites to see the error in their...
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Justin Bieber has committed crimes but gotten away easy. He was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and while underage, but released from jail the following day--even though he was arrested on a $2,500 bond. Authorities found marijuana and Xanax in Bieber’s system, yet he still pleaded not guilty to all charges. Also, Bieber was charged for egging...
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This paper will examine the idea of social justice and the global moral theories used to achieve it. It will defend Mohandas Gandhi against Martin Luther King Jr. The reason why is because Gandhi uses cosmopolitan theory in a nonviolent way to fight for freedom and segregation on a national level, while King uses purified patriotism to end racism in...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, leader in the Civil Rights Movement, in his letter ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ (1963) argues that white moderates are the real barrier to equality for black people. King develops through use of various pertinent examples, both extended and hypothetical supplemented by thought-provoking rhetorical questions and effective references to outside literature. King appeals for the unity...
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During the 1920’s there were a series of social changes, such as: prohibition which was heavily debated as having a large impact on society as it made the majority of people in the cities “lawbreakers,” the culture war between rural and urban America along with racial tensions in terms of the KKK and the Scopes Trial, the changes in Women’s...
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During the 1900s, there were lots of controversy between America and other axis countries. There is so many reasons why the Japs and Americans were at each other necks. First, the Japs had attacked Pearl Harbor and this was one of the brutalist attacks that has ever happened. The Americans didn’t react fast enough and didn’t know what to do...
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Whiteness has, until recently, been an issue which has laid dormant in my mind for almost my entire life. And when one considers all the times I didn’t have to think about it, for example when I was not arrested for public intoxication, having a party at my house, or driving with loud music, this fact makes more sense. I,...
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African Americans struggle daily with racism or racial slurs. Black lives should be respected and not taken as a joke or being harm by other races. By the color, of their skin, etc. African Americans are being attacked everyday by police or sociality. It should not happen because we are all equal. It does not matter by the race or...
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Christianity has remained one of the strongest and well-known religions for ages dating back to Jesus’s birth. Christianity is the religion established on Jesus Christ the person, his teachings and story. Numerous people partake in and follow Christianity, however there have been individuals who lived their whole lives faithfully and expressed their religions values and beliefs through Christ like actions....
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America’s demographic has been skewed to the advantage of white people throughout its history. From slavery to Jim Crow laws, the systems in place has always valued the white majority. As recently as 2018, the US census has shown that white people make up around 62.4% of the United States. As a result of this, people began to believe that...
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Many skinheads and racist whites have been prosecuted for violence against African Americans, Asians, and other racial or religious minorities. People are not aware of any of them arguing that they should be acquitted because of their hatred of other races or religions. However, there is a famous case in which white rage was a determining factor and which allows...
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In the words of Marilyn Frye (1983), “The word ‘oppression’ is a strong word. It repels and attracts. It is dangerous and dangerously fashionable and endangered. It is much misused, and sometimes not innocently”. In this reflection statement I will try to define what oppression is and how it intersects with privilege in my personal life and experiences. I will...
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The United States at large was prospering in the decade of the 1990’s. This era had a strong economy growth, a boost in job creation, and a booming stock market. The unemployment rate dropped from eight percent in 1992 to four percent at the end of the decade (Census Gov). The average American household income increased by nearly ten percent...
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The Republic of South Africa, is a nation located at the Southern most tip of the Continent . It has a population of fifty seven million making it the twenty fourth most populated nation in the world covering an area of 1.22 milion square miles. A majority of its population belonging to Sub-Saharan African ancestry.The remaining consists of Africa’s largest...
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History is always told from the side of the victors; as a result, US history textbooks are usually written with a European bias. The founding fathers are glorified and their wrongdoings are glossed over through the rewriting of history. The stories of enslavement, racism, and internment camps are all censored to protect the reputations of our white forefathers. In 2007...
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The term “Apartheid” is an Afrikaans word meaning “separateness” and is the name for the system of racial segregation that governed South Africa for nearly 50 years, where rules were put in place to protect the domination of the white South Africans over the non white South Africans in every aspect of life. The Afrikaans are Dutch white people who...
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Racial diversity refers to the variety of different races that differ from one another based on their characteristics and ethnicity. It is prevalent when a group of different races occupy the same space or area. For example, a racially diverse community contains citizens who are of different races and have different values. Currently, Papa New Guinea, Tanzania and Uganda are...
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In the 1900s many African Americans suffered prejudice, violence, and the devastating effects of racism. During the 1950s and 1960s it was a time of growing groups of African Americans speaking out against inequality and injustice. This struggle lasted for decades. Many strategies were used by the civil rights activists and organisations, and all contributed to gain constitutional and legal...
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