Everyone wants their school to be the best. ... This is what the University High School admissions board has in mind when looking through the applications usually numbering around 750-900 for the next school year to offer admission to only 150 of those applicants. ... I come from an upper middle class, white, Christian background. ... This is not what the purpose of University High School was intended to be. ... This would still ensure that University High School is as diverse as possible, while still holding the well-earned respect as a wonderful, challenging school with the most qualified...

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Although I was not surprised to hear that those who are white, male, heterosexual, and Christian are in a privileged status in the society, it still bothered me to hear about it. ... I had heard about separate schools, buses and so on in a broad sense, but never actually listened to someone give specific examples of it. ... For instance, there were separate elementary schools for people of color. ...

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In Islamic world, Gypsies were considered as Christian because of their different religion believes and culture; but their dark skin and foreign-looking faces made them "Islam" in Christian society. ... They were alienated in the early development of Christian theology, and was accused guilty of the death of Jesus in a conspiracy with the Romans. This label of "Christ-killers" marked the "immorality" for the Jewish people in the Christian world, and became a symbol of against law and order. ... "( Lewy 57) Gypsy children were no longer being allowed to attend primary school. ...

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Right now, there are many active hate groups in the United States such as the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazi, Skinheads, Christian identity, Black Separatists, etc. ... Another example is a group called Christian Identity, who describes a religion that is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic; and other are the Black Separatist groups, who are organizations whose ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred. ... Many people think that the reason young people are willing to join hate groups in high school and in college is that they are uncertain about their own futures. Often people believe that...

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In school, Martin was a very intelligent and thriving student, he graduated from Booker T. Washington high school, doing good enough to skip 2 grades and graduate at 15 and finished college, top of his class at 19, getting a Bachelor of Divinity following it up with becoming a minister just like his father, preaching tolerance and the Christian belief of loving your neighbor. ... Malcolm had many troubles his father was killed by a white mob and his mother institutionalized; although he was advanced in his studies and wanted to be a lawyer, he became discouraged by the discrimination and the r...

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There were Christian salvation, plenty of schools, dormitories, stores and barns. ... He made a relationship with the whites and at 50 years old, on March12, 1750 he and his family were baptized a Christian and all took new names. They were not Christian Indians and lived as whites at Ghadenhutten. ...

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As a primary school teacher, she went far beyond simply instructing her students. ... Elliott invented would be spread to all schools around the world. ... It is a program documents both the use and the effects of an exercise in discrimination based on eye color with two distinct groups: 1 – children in a third-grade classroom in an all-white, all-Christian community in northeast Iowa; and 2 – adult employees of the Iowa State prison system at a daylong workshop on human relations. ... Jane Elliott, at the school building in Riceville, Iowa, fourteen years after she had involved t...

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A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. ... Schools, the workplace, our community, our friend's house, even our homes. ... No less than one month ago, two teenage boys committed the worst school shooting this country has seen, killing 13 helpless teenagers and 1 courageous teacher. These two boys made it clear, that they hated blacks, Christians, athletes and foreign people (O"Donnell). They killed a black for his color and a Christian for saying that she believed in God. ...

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As a result children attend schools with high numbers of ethnic groups and different religions. Children are brought up to respect people of other backgrounds and the schools are the first place they can test this new ability to treat everyone as equals. ... She believe those coming to Australia should speak fluent English and be Christian. ...

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The Separate but equal" decision of 1896 confirmed the segregation in the South and soon everything was being segregated, the churches, schools, restaurants, even the toilets. ... With the help of the Christian church they managed to start a kind of non-violent revolution which finally made the white people understand the injustice of segregation, so that discrimination by law was finally abolished. ... The family sent Coretta and to school to get a good education. ... King set about organising the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which gave him a base of operation throughout th...

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Race is a classification system that divides people into groups based on descent, ethnicity, culture, geography, history, language and/or socioeconomic affiliation. Race can be related to history. In history, there are multiple perspectives on every issue. In race, there are multiple components to ...

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This representative of how Ruth and James McBride were accepted as Christians solely, therefore avoiding any difficulties having to do with race, at least when speaking about it with religion. ... James encounters racism in school, where everyone thought that he could dance. ... Also, another incident in school is when James was called a, "nigger," and everyone in the classroom laughed. ...

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This is where the school of thought that the "white man's floor is the black man's ceiling" comes from. ... This group was made up exclusively of whites, and did not just persecute blacks; it was against any non-white, and non-Christian, such as Jews. ...

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As well as growing up in certain schools can change even the most reserved kid to an outspoken individual. ... When she is living with Starr, Astrid is baptized in her pool to become a born-again Christian and starts to wear a cross around her neck. ...

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African-American's were also kept apart from the whites in schools, hospitals, churches and housing and all forms of public transportation. ... The "No Irish Need Apply" signs of the1840's were succeeded by "Christians Only" job ads of the 1930's. ... e tests for high schools and colleges. ...

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In seventh grade black students at my school began wearing t-shirts with "Malcom and Martin" printed on them, I did not know who Malcom was. ... He was also the only black in the neighborhood and school. ...

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