...Donnie L. Spafford ETH 125 Week 9 Final Assignment 04/10/11 Race and My Community The Pros and Cons of Everything I live in a very small town in Western Wisconsin, by the name of Grantsburg it is a very close knit community where everyone seems to know everyone or related to someone who knows their neighbors. My wife and I just purchased a home in this small rural town, and we are still getting to know everyone and how the town really seems to function as far as, how community members get along and mingle with each other. But I personally feel that there are many people in my community whom look a lot alike one another. I say this because we do not have many people who are not Caucasian. I also think that many of the people in my community come from the same or similar ethnic backgrounds. There for we all have similar facial characteristics as well as often times the same or similar hair and eye colors. If I were to give a best effort guess, I would say that 85 to 90 percent of my local community is of the Caucasian race and the other 10 to 15 percent are of another race, whether it be Asian, African American, Chinese, Japanese, or Mexican. If you cannot tell I was not kidding when I said that I live in a very rural area which is also close knit and everyone knows everyone. There are very few people of different races or ethnic backgrounds that reside in my community or for that matter even in my state. I would personally have to say that the leaders...
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...This is what led me to interview my roommate Aban Morisetty, about how he feels about the color of his skin. The interview took place in a small study room, where it was just me and him. I first asked the main question. Have you ever experienced racism? He looked at me weird, but then he went on to state that he does experience it. He said “every time I go to the airport people always eye me.” Aban grew up in Multan a small country in Pakistan. As you know people in America these days look at his race to be the cause of 9/11. See, the one thing done by one person in your race pretty much determines the outcome of how people view you in the future. The next question comes up “How does it make you feel every time you walk in a airport?” He goes on to say that “he doesn’t like the way he is looked at because his skin color. People automatically suspect me to be a terrorist. I even do the simple things, like try to dress like a regular person that’s trying to fly somewhere. No matter what I do, people will always view me the same.” He is not the only one that deals with this type of stuff. For example an African-American is always suspect of selling drugs or carrying a gun. The reason is because in the past African-Americans have done just that. They ruin the chances for everyone just because they want to be...
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...Racism has been a problem in the world for many years. People of all races have to deal with this; Racism can cause major emotional damage and physical damage to a person. In this book we can see many examples of racism, the self esteem damages it causes, the inappropriate names used and the result of growing up near racism; Insecurity. Racism can cause major self esteem damage to a person, no matter what age they are. If others are being racist towards someone, In order to deal with people who gave him a hard time, T.J.’s parents gave him some helpful advice: “To be loud when I run into racism, but I cannot expect it to be loud when it comes to me” (pg.3). T.J.’s parents want him to realize when he is being racially discriminated against and not to let it slide; he will have to stand up for himself....
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...Affirmative Action,” from the October 4, 2012 edition of the New York Times. Author Thomas J. Espenshade is clearly biased against conservative views of affirmative action and the role it plays it the admission process for higher education. In, “Moving Beyond Affirmative Action,” Espenshade chronicles the court case regarding Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas and shares his views on affirmative action and whether affirmative action is effective in the admissions process. The court case, Fisher v. University of Texas, regards a white girl (Fisher) who was a highly qualified applicant for University of Texas’s undergraduate program. When she was denied admission after an evaluation that considered an applicant’s race, she decided to sue the university. Considering an applicant’s race in the application process is an example of affirmative action; policies taken on by many companies and institutes of higher education that emphasize hiring, or accepting, minority applicants in an attempt to promote diversity as well as to prevent discrimination. Espenshade shows a liberal slant in his writing and opinions on affirmative action but also realizes affirmative action is not an effective remedy to the problem. A man of Princeton, Espenshade received his PhD from Princeton in 1972 and joined the Princeton faculty in 1988. (princeton.edu) Princeton is widely known as a liberal school and as a Professor of Sociology, Espenshade has the opportunity to not only influence young minds but to conduct...
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...shooting trials. Therefore, the race of the police officer and the race of the victim creates different punishments during trials. To start off, it might seem that African Americans feel that they are treated inferior to Whites, so they might say that they are often singled out in criminal circumstances and trails even. Some might claim that America has not yet...
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...the Budinsky case about classification of race being stupid and inaccurate? Explain. The Budinsky case shows that the terms "race" and "racial discrimination" maybe of such doubtful sociological validity as to be scientifically meaningless, but these terms nonetheless are subject to commonly-accepted, albeit sometimes vague, understanding and the conclusion of the concept is seemed unscientific. And also in Budinsky case victims of group discrimination are commonly subject to a "racial' identification as "non-white". But in Alonzo's case, they should focus both on national origin and race and it will relate to specific concepts of race and racial discrimination, the Budinsky could not help with this case. Do you think it matters someone's category is called "race" vs. "ethnicity" Explain. Race is a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by heritable phenotypic characteristics, geographic ancestry, physical appearance, ethnicity and social status. But ethnicity is not just a person's race. Ethnicity is about tradition, learned behavior and customs. It is about learning where you come from, and celebrating the traditions and ideas that are part of that region. Ethnicity gives us rooms to change because we can reject our own and embrace another, but race is more about biologically engineered features. So I think that it really matters someone's category is called "race", people will judge the person's appearance...
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...The Big Fight Improving race relations in the United States is a battle that we have been fighting since the start of this great country. The issue of race has evolved over time, but still continues to affect society. The Trayvon Martin shooting, Donald Trump's campaign, and the Duke Lacrosse team, have sparked racial controversy in America. The split between races is becoming more evident than ever. Trayvon Martin, an African American, was killed by an armed gunman in Ferguson, Missouri. Race was forced to the forefront of social media after this senseless act of violence. The phrase “Black Lives Matter” became the unified slogan by many African Americans and was mainly used for peaceful, and sometimes violent protests. This shooting received nationwide attention and soon turned into what social media would say was a race crime. Most of the evidence in this case pointed to Travon Martin acting as a suspicious character in a quiet community. The way he walked and dressed would end up being his downfall. The real question is why did America make it seem like a racial shooting rather than a careless act of violence between a Hispanic male and an African-American male. Social media hyped this shooting to another level and made it about race where everyone had to pick a side whether they wanted to or not, causing huge racial tension throughout America. Recent elections have brought racism back to the limelight in America with the help of social media, and front runner...
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...replications on anthropology and racism today. The essential to answering the question of what is Anthropology is the real mystery? In this essay we will discover how anthropology and racism are intertwined and affect our lives. Racism today takes the form of financial and political differences, arranged along the collective group of race. These two things are both facts and still very much present. Before saying anything about the human evolution and biology, it would be necessary to understand ideas of the race shape scientific investigation. The human evolution to categorizing hominin species to discussions about Neanderthal and denisovan breeding and potentially entering the race of ideas, configurations of anthropology and racism today. I like to give you a little insight to how we will look into races the black race is a race that has been abused in time past. They tend to be violent especially to themselves. They are group of that have some that think only of themselves or do anything to move up the latter. The things that is so amazing about this group of people is how they will come together when one of there on has been wronged be another race but they turn around and do it to themselves. Figure that out and let me know. Nacirema are culture that is very superstitious and are determined to live a quality of life. The central belief underlying the Nacirema is that the human body is very ugly. The natural habit is to keep away weakness and disease. Imprisoned in a body, man...
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...Race is not Biological People use the term race to indicate a group of people that share similar physical features that are believed to come from their ancestors. As a result to this, people then think that race is a matter of bloodlines, it is biologically passed down from ones parents. Jenell Paris suggests that race is actually a socially constructed phenomenon, a way to categorize people for social purposes based on one’s physical appearance and differences. (Priest, Robert J.2007) Many do not realize this. Most people do not know that race is a social reality, they believe that it is a biological reality. The way race should be seen is that is just plainly does not exist. The human species evolved from the people in Africa. The migrated to different parts of the world and the geographical environment causes us to have varies physical traits. These differences in appearance are due to mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift (Fisher, Jefferson1995). Because the environments where drastically different in these geographic regions, the human traits changed for...
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...me” is untrue. Sometimes words are what hurt us the most, whether it’s about our race, sexual orientation, or physical appearance. Firstly people make jokes all the time about different races. If you’re Indian or Mexican people will make fun of your heritage, the way you talk and the way you dress. This can be really offensive to people. Just because they talk or dress a different way doesn’t make them any less human. Secondly joking about someone’s sexual orientation is never okay. If you love someone it shouldn’t matter what gender they are because, at the end of the day, it still means the same thing and just because someone isn’t straight doesn’t make them any different. Lastly, people tend to joke around a lot about other people’s physical appearance. It seems like if you don’t have the right haircut, or if you’re not stick thin like a model then it’s okay to be a target of someone’s joke. But just because not everyone looks like they came off of a magazine cover doesn’t give anyone the right to criticize the way you look. Words cause people to go to drastic measures to change themselves, for example, if you call a girl fat she may go to a great extent to try to change that to be more “socially acceptable”. Words also make people feel like outcasts, and sometimes even to the point where people commit suicide or have suicidal thoughts. So, in conclusion, I believe that “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is untrue and sometimes words can even...
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...Atticus Finch fights the good fight, no matter the effect it has on him. Atticus is a respectful and compassionate man and he is the word courage and sees everyone equal. Within To Kill a Mockingbird there are some very instinctive quotes that really shine out to show what he was meant to be in the story. By sharing five quotes revolving around Atticus the author shows that he takes pride in his work and he stands for what he believes in and doesn't know how to give in. Speaking of fighting the good fight, one of the quotes that shines brightly on how much he cares about other people is when he says, "This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home." By this quote the author wants you to know that he does not mean to offend or take part in any wrongdoing against another person. He shows that in order to get what you want you sometimes have to go against the ones on your side, but for the right reasons and to keep respect. This quote also shows how brave he is, not a lot of people would go against the people of their own home town, but he does not care as long as it's for the right thing. A very motivating quote he speaks in...
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...together can bring silence across an entire room. Why is that? What is so wrong with ones race and profile? We are taught about race and the successes of our ancestors at a very young age. Our families celebrate and rejoice about the success and good that our families accomplished while occupying the earth. We profile every single day of our lives, it is engrained in us, and it is part of the fight or flight syndrome that we are born with. Profiling is how the human being was able to survive and continue to procreate. So why is it when law enforcement attempts to dismantle a criminal element or disrupt criminal activity, people are quick to say the police were racially profiling? Is law enforcement racial...
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...University of Phoenix Chris W. Poe MGT 434 Race Discrimination Galen Bland Race Discrimination Two truck drivers employee’s are found to have stolen goods from the cargo they were carrying. The black employee is retained and reprimanded. The white employee is terminated. The white employee sues the employer for race discrimination under Title VII. The scenario above happens company wide around the United States and other countries. This is the new millennium, we sometimes think that race discrimination is from our past and not in our future. But claims keep on piling up in every company from different races that claims that they have been discriminated against. People sometimes used discrimination to get back at people in their company, who were about to fire them or to get a fast buck, so they can live the easy life down the road. An example of this would be the Wall Street Journal that showed a Eastman Kodak Company agreed to pay $13 million in retroactive and current pay raises to 2,000 females and minority employees in New York and Colorado. The pay raise allocation was not in response to a threatened lawsuit or a settlement to a prior action. Employees had raise the issue when they complained to supervisors the year before, so Kodak conducted the study and determined it would make the raises, which did not prevent them from receiving their routine performance-based raises. All these were the driving force of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act help pushed the...
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...concentrate their efforts on investigating members of the racial group in question?” (2011, p.34). It is not right when police officers, political officials, and judges make decisions based on predetermined racist and some would say ignorant beliefs. For example, my friend was in McDonald’s parking lot and he was in the process of switching seats with his friend because he was exhausted of driving. . The term “driving while black has been used to describe the practice of law enforcement officials to stop African-American drivers without probable cause” (Weatherspoon, 2004). This is one of the leading minority men are pulled over in their vehicle. Which usually leads to a unwarranted stop and either summons or sometime even arrest depending on the situation. To make matters worse, once the individual is unjustly cited or arrested its almost impossible to fight the case. The justice system usually sides with the officer. Currently, the mis-education of children in our school systems has played a huge part in this problem. Racist beliefs are an acquired trait. No one...
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...Race and Crimes Raymond Washington Strayer University CRJ 105 Crime And Criminal Behavior Dr. Robert Roth October 19, 2015 In America today race plays a major role on how disciplines of criminology and criminal justice are used. Especially for African Americans who made up roughly 27 percent of arrest in the United States which is 1 out of 4 of every young black male. Research shows that this problem it’s only becoming worse and the outcome of a racist criminal justice system could lead to more unwarranted arrest. Race is a relatively arbitrarily social defined status. In the United States race and ethics classification system have inherent a problem of biased, racial profiling and discrimination. This contention revolves on why and how some racial minorities has been over the years, which as led to a persistently disproportionate representation in the natures crime figures including the prison population. For example, arrest for violent crimes in 2002 were a disproportionately 38 percent for Black whose portion of the National for population according to the 2000 census data, stood at 12.3 percent. Also race plays a part in how policing and racial profiling to sentences and corrections are conducted. An example of racial profiling comes in from Maryland (Prince Georges County) according to The Washington Post reported that, "in May 2001 federal prosecutors charged a county police officer with releasing her police dog on an unarmed Mexican immigrant as part of a pattern...
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