In stanza one, the whites "apprehension showing" contrasts in the third stanza with the blacks "tension growing". ... Deadly Unna is seen through the eyes of the narrator, the main character Blacky, who is a 14 year old boy growing up in a white community who discriminates against Aborigines. ... "Fear fills his mind, prejudice in his heart, thinks - those black bastards - bastards of the dark." ... The repetition of "those black bastards - bastards of the dark" reinforces his hatred of Aborigines. ... However in "Redfern at Night", the stereotypes of the black community are accepted and ...

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The American business culture perpetuated discrimination against blacks rather than attempt to desegregate as a whole. ... The enslavement and oppression of blacks over the last few hundred years left them without land. ... Steve Ripley was not a victim of a white male corporation, but the victim of a racially one-sided good ol" boy system still present in this country today. ...

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For example, if an officer in a fairly rich neighborhood pulled over a black male wearing a nice business suit in a very expensive car and doesn't think anything of it. But then pulled over a younger black male wearing a FUBU sweat shirt in the same expensive car but did a back round check on him. ... Massey and Denton note, "no group in the history of the United States has ever experienced the sustained high levels of residential segregation imposed on blacks." ...

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At the time segregation of whites and blacks was legal, as part of the governments "separate but equal" stance. ... Currently the US population is 77.9% white and 12.9 % black, yet the unemployment rate is 5.1 for whites, while its 10.7 for blacks. Statistically, if affirmative action is ever successful, 80% of the company would be white, 13 % black, and 7% other minorities. ... In the process, many white firefights were passed up for advancement as less qualified, sometimes much less, blacks were advanced. ... When black's qualifications are as good as whites, then employers will want t...

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The jurors didn't care about the boy's age and his family - most of them only wanted him to be sent to the electric chair because he was a foreigner who also lives in one of the worst parts of town. ... The most recent statistics show that blacks are arrested and incarcerated for drug use at a much higher rate than can be accounted for by their rate of drug use. Blacks constitute some 35% of those arrested for drug possession, 55% of those convicted of possession, and 74% of those sentenced to prison for possession. ... The study also found that black-on-black crime or Latino-on-Lati...

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