...and all other people who have fought and served for this country. By no means did Kaepernick intend to disrespect those who have fought for our country but bring light to the fact that the flag/country we give so much respect and worship to does not meet the reality of how this country really works. After speaking with an army veteran, Nate Boyer, Kaepernick still wanted to give honor where it’s due so instead of sitting during the national anthem, he began to kneel but for America that still wasn’t enough. It seemed as though the protest was working more towards dividing America than making it a better place. Kneeing did not lighten the situation at all but that is not the real issue at...
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...The collection of short stories ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’ written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that in Nigeria, men women, boys and girls are treated differently, and these relationship in which gender inequality exists leads to family conflict. And corruption exists in Nigeria and also the violence. These issues have lasting impacts on the characters. Many of the characters experience violence, some due to civil war and conflict between religious groups, and others due to corruption. In the story ‘Cell One’ Nnamabia both witnesses and experiences violence in the Nigerian jail. When Nnamabia has been caught and put in jail, his family bribed police and guard to see Nnamabia. Also Nnamabia paid police to treat him better. These actions demonstrate that corruption is common thing in Nigeria. In addition, it shows the violence in jail. An old man is arrested because the police couldn’t find his son. ‘if they don’t find the person they are looking for, they will lock up his father or mother or his relative’. This shows how the violence exists in Nigerian society. Also Nnamabia is severely beaten when he tries to protect him. At this point, the writer uses the symbolism to highlight Nnamabia’s decline. ‘…he looked oddly sobre, an expression I had not seen before’. And author also highlights that the violence can change the identity of the person. At the end of story, Namabia has changed that no longer tells stories in a cheerful way and feels great compassion for old...
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...in the African- American community, that campaigns against police killings of black people and broader issues of racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the USA. Black people want all the people to hear their voice. So, the government can’t ignore them. African American realize if they can’t strong, racial discriminate will aways insist. That’s why they need to create the movement, and they know they can’t keep silence. When the murdered killed Trayvon Martinm, and the murdered is acquittal. In “The Challenges of Teaching about the Black Lives Matter movement: A Dialogue” Troka and Adedoja demonstrate the historical are...
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...turning point in the evolution of racism and fueled the issue of racial inequality in America. Students walked into the school bathrooms to find the words “for whites” and “for colored people” written along the stall doors. Staff members and the student body witnessed the heinous presence of racist graffiti on the white tinted walls of the school bathrooms. Blacks were pressured to enter separate stalls than whites and reexamine their status in society. Students and faculty members were compelled to analyze the role of white supremacy and the effects of racial prejudice throughout our nation. The notions of race and ethnicity have been negatively...
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...Race and Inequality Race and inequality have gone hand and hand in the United States since the U.S. was established. What this is still a major concern in today’s society and will continue because it is de jure. As an African American male I have experienced inequality because of my race first hand on multiple occasions. There are social stigmas that come with being a black man in America; some are that we are aggressive, ignorant, or associated with crime. In my case a few police officers assumed that I was all three and attempted to pin a crime on me that I did not commit. When I was seventeen years old I lived in San Diego California in a small town called Tierresanta. My home was in a military housing complex due to the fact that my dad was in the navy. One night I was standing on a corner of a street waiting for my dad to pick me up from a friends house when a police officer pulled up and asked what I was doing. I explained that I was just waiting to be picked up by my parent. Another police car pulled up next to him and asked where I was before this and began to bombard me with questions, I answered all questions calmly. As soon as I finished one officer looked at the other and said I looked like I fit the description for a kid who was selling drugs, and they began to get out of the car and reach for their handcuffs. I asked why I was being arrested for something I didn’t do and he told me I was being detained for further questioning and searching. As this is happening...
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...Managing Diversity Final Research Paper Why is Discussion of Race Taboo in America? America is said to be a melting pot of cultures, a country of not one nationality but a diverse mixture of all different types of people melted into one nation. This term became famous in America from the 1908 play of the same name, “The Melting Pot.” The basis of the play was how immigration to America caused the nation to be a fusion of nationalities, cultures, and ethnicities. What the play failed to mention was that although some nationalities were indeed melting together, American’s that were of different races were being excluded. The physical differences in races, such as African Americans, had caused them to be excluded from reaping the benefits of all that America had to offer. The worst part about all of this is that the people being excluded from “The Melting Pot” were decedents of individuals who did not come to this country by choice. Instead they were brought to this country through kidnapping. Flash forward a hundred years to Nov. 24th, 2008. America elects its first African American president Barack Obama. Article after article published around this time had headlines reading, “Barack Obama: The End of Racism in America.” We finally did it! Racism in America was able to be totally eradicated through the election of an African American as our nation’s president. If only it was that easy. Now in 2014, eight years after the election of our nation’s first African American...
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...African-Americans teenage boys have been the trending topic lately. It is hard to distinguish why these events happen. Certainly, there is no one, or race, to blame for this happening, however, understanding the root cause may help. The high incarceration rates of minorities is an examples and the killings proves how the criminal justice system is extremely flawed to this day and has always been built off of the privilege whites inherited and that blacks do not have. It has been proven time and time again that black and whites are not equal within the criminal justice system. History even says that the early conception of the criminal justice system and punishments were formed under conditions of colonialism and slavery. An example is white police offers repeatedly killing African American Males and being found not guilty; from Emmitt Till to the Ferguson case. Which is history repeating itself, the more things change, and the more they remain the same. In each generation, new tactics have been used for achieving the same goals—goals shared by the Founding Fathers (Alexander). Which is also known as institutional racism, which is systematic domination of people of color, embedded and operating in universities, corporations, legal systems, political bodies and other collectivities. History has shape the way African Americans are treated, and how people perceive them still. Which conveys that skin color and physical characteristics explain the differences amongst...
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...dive into the racial history of the United States. In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander states even though slave owners, Ku Kux Klan members, and unjust police men, didn’t exist in the same period, each group of men is responsible for many of the lives lost due to the fear of intimacy created by the different racial caste systems—a system that has survived the test of time and continues to affect many black men in the United States but is now more imperceptible to the American public.( (Alexander 2012). History has repeated itself, but also brought something new to consider in each moment. She makes a point and expresses that different racial caste systems appear to fade, but then new systems take their place with the needs and limitations of their generation. As the names of the racial caste systems change, so do the names of the victims and their murders....
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...Alexis De Tocqueville believes that African Americans and White people should be equal, however when rights were given to the African Americans there was still a divide between the two races. Racial inequality did not only happen in Alexis De Tocqueville’s era, however it occurred from the Civil Rights Movement and current time. Police brutality occurs a lot in recent years because of racial tension occurring between a white police officer and an African American male. These occurrences happen in the low-income neighborhoods because crime rates are higher. African American people are in lower income neighbors because of racial inequality in workplaces and society. In society, African American are hired far less than any other minority individual in this country. Poor conditions forces more African Americans to be pushed out of cities creating gentrification in poor neighborhoods. These actions occurring, such as the system pushing African American down and police brutality creates anger from Black Communities. These tension between the two races created the Black Lives Matter movements. These protest occur all over Americans, which provides insight that racial inequality goes against Aristotle’s view on happiness in democracy. A group of minority protest against the system creates a clear vision that our government and democracy creates a division from the African American community and the White community. A unity needs...
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...In the 1960’s, the Camelot era, everything was looking upwards for the U.S. First, a man was on the moon by the late 1960’s and scientists were advancing in every way. Jim Crow Laws were abolished and racism was finally overcome. The March on Washington, Civil rights movement, and great leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. were prominent in ending this secondary to nothing crisis. Bravery and overflowing pride outlined the 60’s for all African-Americans. Proud individuals fought and struggled to make America the land of the free. People were hopeful, they knew America could jump over their obstacles to be the world's greatest nation. First, televised debates, then rock and roll music and computer technology and America was finally starting to...
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...Racial disparity in u.s prisons MBOGO .W. APOLLO (MOI). Professor: Institution affiliated Date: Racial disparity in prisons in America can be conceptualized as a situation where the population of a specific group of people is the most in the criminal justice system as compared to the general population. Prisons in U.S.A are a significant constituent of the criminal justice system. The main function of the American prisons is to protect society from violation of law, to rehabilitate also punish the law breakers in order to assist them to be responsible members of the society. The prisons in the state continue to grow in order to meet the demands of the correctional and the criminal justice system in general. However, the trend in the justice system, especially in the prisons, is characterized by ethnic disparity. This normally compromises the level of justice dispensation. It has been a controversial issue for several decades among the prisons in the state. Some individuals seem to defy the concept of existence of disparity in the justice system. They believe that it does not exist. For instance, statistics that were presented by Marc Mauer proved that if the argument that there existed racial discrimination in the prisons, then the extraordinary rise in the American prisons in the past three decades would be explained in six fold increase. This to him would eventually lead to incarceration of two million Americans. For instance, “one in every eight African –American...
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...Joe R Feagin states his idea in the book Racism America, “every part of life cycle, and most aspects of one’s life, are shaped by racism that is integral to the foundation of the United States” ( 2 ). According to The New York Times, the research have found that blacks often got wrong diagnoses more than whites, school administrators treat blacks more strict and police arrest blacks much more often than whites. In addition to the effect, even a company judge and choose résumés by common white-sounding name or black-sounding name (Kristof). These factors make us realize racial inequality makes an actual difference in social status. According to Charlene Crowell in The Louisiana weekly, the gap between black family median income and white family median income had narrowed $48.106 to $28.000 in past two decades, but significant racial income gap is still exist in our society (Crowell). And when the wage gap is growing, it influence on education, health and crime rate like a negative chain. Urban Institute declares, “higher education gap between black and white...
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...Cullen Smith U.S. History Mrs. LaPietra 5 April 2024 The Inequality of Race in America The first slave in the English colonies was a man named John Punch, who was believed to be a runaway indentured servant; as a punishment he was sentenced to lifelong servitude in 1640. This is an example of how the origins of race in America relate back to the terrible transformation of slavery in the English colonies. The inequality of race was used to establish laws to keep non-white Americans separate from the American society. Slavery is one of the main causes of inequality in America. The start of race-based slavery was the “terrible transformation” in the English colonies; this was a law that stated the freedom of a child born in the U.S. is based on...
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...Black and White: The Problem with Institutional Racism In recent times the media has contributed to racism by only showing the acts of cruelty of Caucasian’s towards the minority in the United States. This is an example of institutional racism. Just what is institutional racism? Institutional racism is a pattern of social institutions, such as the media, government, schools, banks, and etc. This leads to the issue of inequality among the citizens of the United States. One key detail about institutional racism is that a person does not need to discriminate intentionally to have the label attached to them. For example, judges in the court of law might intend to impose similar sentences for similar crimes; yet if Caucasian citizens receive a...
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...afforded to every American as of the pivotal ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment on July 9, 1868. This amendment guaranteed every American equal and impartial treatment within the justice system. However, within the flawed institution that is the United States justice system, race is undeniably a pivotal factor in the outcome of the legal process. From the disproportionate rates of police stops to the severity of prosecutions and even the likelihood of facing the death penalty, race has evident and extensive influence. The deep-rooted prejudices held against minorities within the American justice system stand in direct opposition to the fundamental respect for human rights that is vital in the maintenance of democracy. Prejudice...
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