Native Americans, as a race, have suffered from the very beginning of contact with the English colonists. They once constituted 100 percent of the population in North America, whereas today they represent 2 percent of the population. ... Disease accounted for most of the deaths of the Native Americans. ... The Pequot name was later removed from all of New England's maps so that there was no recollection of their existence Statistics largely support the case of genocide against the Natives. ... To conclude, I firmly believe, based on statistical proof and actions by the colonists, t...

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But, what happens when the law enforcer turns out to be the lawbreaker by targeting African Americans for traffic stops? ... Imprisoning would punish the crime, which aimed at maintaining a free labor pool with these African Americans. ... According to the Bureau of Justice Standards (2001), among licensed drivers 12% of the black population and 10% of the white population was pulled over, (keeping in mind there are only 35 million blacks in the U.S. compared to 210 million whites). ... According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, the prison population in the past decade has s...

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African Americans, Hispanics, Caucasians, and Asian Americans are all primary examples of racial groups. Some of these groups are in the majority, mainly meaning the whites, while others are in the definite minority in the United States, such as African Americans. Statistics show drastic differences concerning population percentage between these particular groups. For example, in terms of percentage of total population, in 1990, whites made up 80.3% of the population, while African Americans made up only a mere 12.1%.... With an average salary of under $7,500 a year, high ma...

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Prison Literature in America. ... The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975. ... In the last two decades the population of black male inmates grew three times as fast as the number of black men enrolled in higher education. ... In a country less than 13 percent blacks, one half of the prison population is African American. ... Goods and services must be provided to keep imprisoned populations alive. ...

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Racial profiling is the police practice of stopping and searching African-American and Hispanic drivers at rates far disproportionate to their numbers on the road. ... Statistics confirm that African Americans-particularly young black men-commit a dramatically disproportionate share of street crime in the United State. ... In recent years, victims report blacks as perpetrators of around 25 percent of violent crimes, although blacks constitute only about only about 12 percent of the nation's population. Statistics such as these make it seem as if racial profiling is not the result of bigot...

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Legislation was introduced to cut down immigration and to promote equal opportunities for ethnic minority communities. 3.3 million Britons are now from an ethnic minority which accounts for 5.5% of the population, but there are numerous differences between the groups in their standards of living, access to opportunities such as jobs, education or housing, as well as in their belief systems, likes and dislikes. ... The first Afro Caribbeans arrived in 1948 to work in public transport, manufacturing and the National Health Service.According to the Office for National Statistics figures for 1...

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The startling statistics behind the death penalty and death row inmates is a large factor in their argument. ... It will not only focus on the statistics amongst the races but also will discuss the average age, social status, and educational achievement of the people sentenced to die, the difference in the crimes that got them sentenced, and the small amount of women who have been faced with this court decision. ... According to www.coadp.org, an African American is four times more likely to be sentenced to die than a white man. ... The race of the defendants executed since 1973, the race of...

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The white population was vastly outnumbered by the blacks, but the whites were able to keep control of the countries' economy and politics. In 1978, South African blacks made up about eighty percent of the nation's population but only owned thirteen percent of the land and contained a share of under twenty percent of the national income. ... Board of Education supreme court ruling in 1957 which forced desegregation of American schools, there was much controversy over the extent that blacks should be allowed into white-American culture. ... The white Americans had alway...

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The total population of African American females was 6,581,000 and out of the total they focus on about 300,000 females, this was the approximation of how many females had 9 years or less education. ... This rate is 13.75% of the sum of all suicide rates for African-American females aged 25-54 (Fernquist 1996). ... Race specific suicide data was provided to the authors by the National Center for Health Statistics. ... The largest being the size of the black male population (Burr et al 1999). ... It only focused on race and suicide rates, finding that Hispanics complete suicide more frequentl...

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Even whites are forced to admit that statistics indicate that the Black community is disproportionately affected by the American legal system. ... The decision as to what kind of conduct by African-Americans ought to be punished is better made by African- Americans themselves."1 The means by which Butler proposes for Blacks to implement these decisions is termed jury nullification. ... Although several commentators have voiced criticisms with the ideas of Professor Butler, most of these criticisms focus on what is best for the American legal system, what legal precedents dictate, or as is most...

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I used to hear some of my black friends talk about "how hard it is to be a black man in America." ... Kinloch, coined Missouri's first black city, was eventually comprised and controlled entirely by African-Americans (Wright). ... Racial isolation is often defined by a 90/10 rule representing that a block's population is made up of ninety percent like-raced residents and ten percent of another race. Thirty percent of black Americans live in all-black neighborhoods (Gillmor). ... Whether we like it or not we are a divided people, and yet we have the nerve to call ourselves the "Un...

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Instead of treating minorities like equals, it treats them like they are better than other members of the population and puts white males in a disadvantage like the minorities once were. ... A 1995 report released by the university said that "9.7 percent of all applicants were African-Americans. ... The average grade point average for an accepted African-American student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1030." These statistics demonstrate the reverse discrimination against white college applicants due to affirmative action. ... In 1860, only 15% of American women were in the paid labor force. ...

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