After becoming citizens, they were still not allowed to vote, and they also had to live in certain "red lined" areas of town where living conditions were poverty level at best. ... Our football club has recently joined a new football league in our area. The director of this new league has been discriminating against our football club since the first day we joined. Our team, along with another team that has Hispanic players, does not get the same benefits or acknowledgement as the other teams in the league. At first I really did not want to believe that it was racism or even dis...

• Word Count: 1550
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While almost everyone is capable of committing virtually any crime, certain ethnicities have tendencies to be responsible for certain crimes and offences than others, and police and any other authorities do keep this in mind while on duty, not because they are racists, but for the better safety of our town and country. ...

• Word Count: 577
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are multiple scenes in Django Unchained where Django is riding into various towns on a horse. It was difficult for white people within the towns to grasp the notion that a black man had the capability of riding a horse on his own. ... There is no way we will be able to combat the issue of racism in our country, if we continue to allow the use of objects such as the Confederate flag, which still carries a significant racist connotation. ... If we gave more sufficient opportunities to members of disadvantaged groups who suffer from discrimination within American culture, we would come to ...

• Word Count: 1597
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Discrimination has always been a large part of our society. ... 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. ... It is evident through these percentages that racial inequalities exist in the core of our judicial system. ... Our current state of affairs should focus on police brutality and to what extent their power should give them. ... A prime example of the problems racial profiling conveys to our citizen is in the case of Amadou ...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Our country is no stranger to riots that cause major civil disturbances, which often result in thousands of dollars in damages and mass amounts of both injuries and casualties. Since the end of slavery after the Civil War, race riots found their place in our country's history, and though it has been decades since extreme situations of racial segregation or discrimination have plagued our society, that doesn't mean either one has completely vanished. ... The riot in Chicago grew out of anger and resentment between two races, while the riots in Ferguson erupted out of resentment for th...

• Word Count: 1061
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Pieter's father is chairman of the local National Party and reportedly wields considerable influence in the Parliament at Cape Town. ... She speaks casually of the reserve "which our forefathers gave to Maduna when he yielded to them, a hundred years ago" (56), without questioning the precise nature of the giving and taking involved in the Afrikaner seizure of land. ...

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Understanding representation is vital to understanding identity, with the Michael Brown trial still fresh on our memories, it is important to remember that the actions and words of a few do not represent the beliefs of a whole. ...

• Word Count: 3543
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate