Once on their way to town, it was like crossing a barrier, where differences were very noticeable. ... I believe Clifton now realizes what went on back then, but for him at that time Saturdays were the days to go up to town for frozen custard with Poppa. ... Schools at that time were not integrated, so he attended a colored school. ... They were treated much like slaves in the field, but to them there were not many choices. ... Uncle Cleve took Clifton on trip to Jackson, his excitement had no words, once there they went to a show, and got in, he could not believe that he was in a big city...

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Colonialism was greatest during discovery trips time (1400s), because Europeans traveled around the world to take control of areas, and sometimes there were people even in those places. Then they became colonies and had no power to resist the richer countries' power and weapons, the only way was to obey. ... British imperialism had two effects on India: first, it ended India's development, then underdeveloped that country against their will. ... Before the colonial times all cotton were woven in the country, there were a lot of people lived on at the time. ... There was absolutely n...

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Then there are your level 1's, first time offenders. ... There are guards high up on the walls, but if I were to be stabbed right now there is no way they could tell who did it, and we are just a group of sixty. ... It worked for the time being but there were problems still ahead for me. ... Then it goes even deeper and these rules were established just in case there was a riot so you would know who was on your side. ... Then there are the others, those who do not fit into any of the above categories and who in case a riot broke out were on their own. ...

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So poor in fact, that there wasn't any. There was no school bus, so pupils had to walk miles, just to get to school. ... Then white people were taken back considerably, but what did they expect? ... ""It was then when I bumped into Lillian Jean Simms." ... White people, in theory, had no opportunity to be kind to Negro people. ...

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When asked if their interracial marriage had effected their primary focus friends the majority said no. ... They were then asked, if theses kinds of reactions from people weakened or strengthened there marriage. ... Some reasons they gave of how it strengthened their marriage was that it motivated them to be even happier then they were when they first met or that fact that people want to see their marriage fail is what keeps them going. ... However, when asked if they might one day be in a relationship with someone of a different race, all but 1 said no. There was a tendency for those whos...

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Miss Watson has no remorse when it comes to Jim being separated from his family. ... This just goes to show that back then people viewed white people as superior to blacks, which allowed whites to act out and then walk away free. They looked down upon the opposing race when in reality; there were white people who were a bigger disgrace to society than most of the black population. ... Including this friendship in the story represents the idea that race plays no factor in determining who a person really is. ... He takes a humorous approach as he clearly portrays how blacks were treated back t...

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If that is true, then that point was definitely shattered by Sherman Alexie. ... No stories, no songs. ... In Reservation Blues, there were many stereotypes. ... But Father Arnold insisted that there would be buffalo because on television there were Indians always hunting buffalo. ... They are going to see that there is no way of escaping stereotypes except to stay on the reservation in order to stay normal and not be persecuted. ...

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African slaves were brought in to fill there space. ... Thus there was no need to create segregation or apartheid because Afro Brazilians were easily integrated into society. ... There was no civil war or Boer war. These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The Dutch were integrated with the native population at first but then began to fear that they would lose control of there power once diamonds and gold were found. ...

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Today, racism is a problem that everyone must face no matter what race a person is. ... In the 1950's there was segregation in the schools upheld by the Supreme Court decision, Plessy vs. ... Then in 1953, Marshall and the teacher appealed to the U.S. ... In the movie, Separate But Equal, a black chauffeur was forced to sleep in the car because there was no hotel for him to stay in within a twenty mile radius of his bosses hotel. ... I do not believe that there are inferior races in the world but I do believe that there are inferior people. ...

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Since the mother died during childbirth, there was no mother figure in the children's lives; therefore, their father, Atticus, raised Scout and Jim. ... This form of payment, a bartering system, is still used to this day, but is not as prevalent as then. ... When Scout and Jim are shown at school, there are no black children playing in the schoolyard or attending school. Back then, schools were segregated; white children and black children did not attend school together! ... There were schools for black children, but they were very few and quite distant making it almost impossible to...

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There were two black men not doing their job. ... These types of scenarios were appalling. Then we started to see how the judicial system was no different than being out there in the communities with lynch mobs. ... Although some inequality still exists, it is not as bad as it was back then. Somewhere on the America's timetable there was a turning point and I think professor Kreus expressed that quite well with a song from Billy Holiday about lynchings....

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During the novel there are various points showing that racism was very accepted, and common in that era. ... Then there was the incident where Mr. ... If he was really such a threat to the community, then why did they all shrug it off? It was a though they knew he wasn't able to hurt anyone, and there was no point in shooting him, but even if he was shot, it wouldn't have mattered. ... There was fact after fact saying that he couldn't have done the crime, and that her father did it, but everyone knew that there was no chance for Tom Robinson. ...

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His encounters prove that there is no difference in humans based on skin color. ... There were certain states that he went that many whites were friendlier than others. ... There were contrasts when he described what he saw as a white man and then as to what he saw when he was black. ... It encourages me not to be fearful because then I will not be able to see the good points in life. ... This showed that everyone was living in a fear, causing no one to see the sunlight. ...

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Black people think they've had it bad with racism from whites, and then there are those of both races. ... If there were an all white college or school, black people would raise hell, and say that's segregation. ... There's black history month, but what if there were white history month? ... Quite frankly, there may never be a solution. ... No one will be able to stop racism. ...

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Most live in urban, violent and cracked infested areas with no daddy and live in a single parent household with a lot of bothers and sisters, to many for the mom to support. They don't have a chance to grow up in a nice neighborhood where there is no crime, no drugs and have successful black people to look up to. ... But a child that grew up in the ghetto and then put in suburban neighborhood will bring there ghetto heritage to the urban life. ... They don't want to get an education, then go through college, then law school, to finally become a lawyer then start making the money at 3...

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For weeks, he struggles to save his clients life and then his own. ... Any father would want them dead with no questions asked. ... There were people not getting the rites they deserve. ... If you were white you would be getting a different trial then if you were black. ... In my eyes there is no difference from a black father killing murders or a white father killing murders. ...

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And then conclude with what I think. ... Although he is very clever, everyone thinks that he is no good. ... I know this because he says "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win" This means that there is no chance that he is going to win the case because of the way Maycomb thinks about black people, but he is still going to try his hardest to win. ... She is brave because she wants to die with no drugs in her system. ... The "pyramid" has blacks at the bottom; the Ewell's are next, then the Cunningham's and then...

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Even though politicians might say that there is no more racism going on, the fact remains that racism will always exist. ... Some white people still think that black people are no good for anything but being slaves. Even though there are still some KKK organizations some white people are just racist against them because of what they were taught by their parents. ... However the governor of Staten Island said that there is no proof that it was an act of racism, while most people said that is was clearly racism. ... Where she moved to were only some Asians and Spanish people. ...

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"You see, once, way back when, back when there were still more buffalo than white people, I made that little joke about the rock." ... Until one day I looked up & saw there were more people than buffalo. ... Other four-leggeds, and six-leggeds, and no-leggeds were coming up missing every day. ... And then almost no buffalo altogether. ... No big hunters. ...

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On the Boulevard (chain gangs consisting of blacks were often seen here) as the road division was called there were a lot of businesses. ... They then left the party to go on home. ... She was dropped of there. ... Then he ran. ... No one was seriously hurt in this episode. ...

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Until they come to grips with it, there is no problem. ... And they are not supposed to harm anyone through "reverse discrimination." 3 Then there are those who are completely unaware of racism in the world. ... No one could know. ... And in their earlier years were known to ride on horses and kill blacks for no reason, just hate. ... Where there is a problem, there is a solution. ...

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Then at the end of the scene his fathers said don't give in to Sweeney's trap. 3. ... Lamont told Derek one day while they were folding sheets that there are more of him than they are of you in the prison. ... When Derek breaks from his group in prison the person who came there to support him was Mr. ... Another thing is that he were to change it would take along period of time. 17. ... On the other hand I like the overall theme of the movie, which people can change no matter how they were socialized. 18. ...

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In the 1600's, white men used Africans as slaves and treated them as if they were not human. "Black" people were not even allowed to use the same drinking fountains as white people until the mid-1900's. Hitler and his men killed over five million people because they were Jewish or were not their definition of "normal". ... If we raise our children to believe all people are equal from the start, then prejudice will slowly vanish over time. ... Parents and schools need to teach children that people need to have courtesy and kindness towards others, no matter what. ...

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Robert then told his cousin that he did not have to sign the form and that the officer was violating there constitutional rights. The officer said he would have to get the dog out there to make sure there were not any drugs Racial Profiling Isn't That Bad 3 in the car if Robert" cousin did not sign sign the consent form. ... The book then shows that the police had a good reason to stop and search the car. ... (City journal vol.11 no.2) This case was also talked about in the book Driving While Black but...

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"There was no place for Cholly's eyes to go. ... (Bluest Eye, 148) As you well know Cholly then left to go to Macon so he could find his father. He then finds freedom being there because he ran away and there was no one there to tell him what to do. ... He then meets Pauline and he is again happy but when he realizes that he must carry the "sheer weight of sameness" while being married, he is lead to being despair and becoming a drunk. ... He didn't hit me too hard, "cause I were pregnant I guess, but the fights, once they got started up again, kept up." ...

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