The results were shocking to me, because I never thought about myself as being racist. ... Living in an area of not many black people I have shrink my bubble and let stereotypes influence my thoughts about black people and unconsciously assuming that all blacks are violent. Also, I don't agree how people often say that blacks "are just being sensitive " when someone is racist against them, because they probably don't know what it feels like to be hated on. White people probably don't have a clue of what it must be like to be a black person or in a minority group and that's ...

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It was later adopted by many young black fans of rap and hip-hop, the word had been used by black comedians, like Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy and movies about urban culture. ... Plaskett stated, "You see, I"m a Southerner and the word offends me," she says, "Because when I was growing up it was a very hateful, very hurtful word. ... So I would like to never hear the word again." ... The Civil Rights Era in America was about Black people who struggling in all levels not to be called or treated like "niggas." Blacks fought to be treated like human beings with an equal rights for freedom, justice...

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Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... Relying mainly on emotion and charisma, black preachers could speak confidently to their peers even with their limited knowledge of t...

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Other chapters were more random and the examples went back and forth in time which caused me to re-read the introduction to refresh my memory on what the chapter set to prove. ... Binns excluded blacks from the category of citizens and said the Philadelphia blacks were, "numerous and useless". ... He was criticized for supporting the blacks because blacks were able to "perform the tasks that were too low for whites". ... The rioters were at an advantage over the blacks, they were allowed to have a militia to help protect them against any retaliation by the blacks. ... The Protestants in...

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The article you authored, Ag Funds, troubled me on several levels. ... 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. ... A process so ingrained into the business climate would have to be forced into a different behavior to achieve the quick results that a program like affirmative action has received. ...

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Perhaps, however, we will be known as a choppy period in which society has been broken into groups and fractions based on things like: race, religion, culture, gender, age, and sexual orientation. ... Don't ask me why: in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now."" ... In letting a rural black woman with little education tell a story that affirms the value of her heritage, Walker articulates what has since become two central themes in her writing: the importance of the quilt in her work and the creation of African American Southern women as subjects in their own right. "I did s...

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"Different strains of corn may grow to different heights when equally irrigated, but a plant from the taller strain might end up shorter if deprived of water" (Pinker 10); Philosophy like any other social science will never have any answers that are concrete, solid, or always correct. ... This discussion has been taking place for centuries, and with good cause as the outcome of experiments has or should have an effect on how we treat crucial parts of development like parenthood and education. ... For example, in America, a black man would experience a different environment than a whi...

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Long before marijuana was even known to most of the American Society, hostility towards it became evident within the next two decades because of reports that offensive minorities were using the drug; Mexicans in the Southwest, Hindus in San Francisco, Syrians in New York, urban blacks, and jazz musicians (Berendt 21). ... For one thing "giving a pill to someone with extreme nausea is like giving a suppository to someone with diarrhea," says Lester Grinspoon, Harvard psychiatrist. Another thing that Grinspoon points out is that these synthetic drugs like Marinol cause some people to be anxious,...

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Who hasn't ever wondered what it's like to hit the lottery and live lavish? ... If it were not for the educational benefits granted to me for my honorable service in the United States military, I too would be part of the statistic of individuals that do not seek higher education. ... As many would like to believe that everyone has an equal chance to succeed, that just isn't the case, and research clearly shows that. ... I am very optimistic that the continued debates of social class and education will continue to inspire individuals like myself, to see that we as a nation have ...

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Big earrings that look much heavier that they really were, seemed like they were pulling down too hard and adding that extra weight on her head. Hair tied up and half of it hidden under a piece of red and blue fabric, made it looked like she was trying to hide herself in it. ... (Korhonen 339) So who shapes the images of how attractiveness looks like and why are they so important to the people and their societies? ... With all beauty industries raising up and changes in the cultural and social aspects, for black people in nineteenth and early twentieth century in the urban upper south skin ...

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Britney's songs include "Hit me baby one more time,"" and "Oops, I did it again."" ... She dresses like a street prostitute, and yet practically all teenage girls adore her. ... I need that, uh, to get me off Sweating till my clothes come off . . ."") the video that accompanies it is equally as raunchy. ... Then parents wonder why their daughters are looking and acting like tramps. ... A suburban white middle class girl will most likely not watch and relate to the plights of an inner city black youth i.e. ...

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Marijuana Prohibition is a Violation of First Amendment Rights "Let me ask you something if you had a choice, what would it be: Marijuana or Martinis?" ... This prohibition led to a rise in a black market trade of narcotics and alcohol. ... Much like the money spent on maintaining the prohibition of alcohol, since 1981, $150 million tax dollars have been spent in the attempt to prevent Colombian cocaine, Burmese heroine and Jamaican marijuana from entering U.S. borders. ...

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The imposing sound of Black Hawk helicopters flying overhead, rumors of snipers perched atop our humble Walsh Hall residents, and the police officers standing guard outside created an atmosphere I can only compare to what I assume a warzone is like. ... Those who had American flags wore them around their necks like capes and joined the rest of our Boston College compatriots. Thousands of students mobilized, all dressed in their best display of American pride like ourselves, and descended upon the social epicenter of Boston college-the senior modular housing -- mods for short -- located in the ...

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I then inquired if he had a place to stay for the evening and he informed me that if he didn't get to Parkersburg he would go to a friend's house. ... Thus, we employ it to describe those sleeping outdoors in any of a variety of makeshifts, or residing in temporary accommodations like the police-station lodgings of earlier generations or the emergency shelters of the present day (Baumohl 3). ... Black and Hispanic people live in urban ghettos that resemble areas of the Third World in terms of their poverty and degradation. ...

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