The racist illness of the past has trickled down into our generation which is evident in poverty rates as well as conviction rates amongst African Americans in comparison with Caucasians for similar crimes. ... I was unaware of the racial tensions that occur in front of me on a day to day basis. ... The cycle of socialization affected me since birth, as it does everyone else, because I was born into a world with people that taught me to respect those around me, respect the differences that separate us, and to appreciate different cultures. ... My idealistic thinking was reinforced by parents w...

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In Kindred, Dana disobeys Tom Weylin, Rufus father, when he clearly warned her not to read anymore and suddenly one day Dana gets discovered, Weylin says, "Didn't I tell you I didn't want you reading' 'I treated you good' said Weylin 'he snatched the book from me and threw me on the floor' 'I never saw where the whip came from; never even saw the first blow coming. But it came like a hot iron across my back, burning into me through my light shirt, searing my skin" (106,107). ... Diseases such as malaria were spreaded rapidly around the plan...

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At the University of Michigan, perhaps the finest public university next to Cal-Berkeley, "the admission rate exceeded 90% for all 'underrepresented' minorities with GPAs above 2.8 (a dismal B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the test. ... Out of 4675 applicants who checked the "white" or "asian" box (which are considered non-minority), only 140 were accepted, giving an acceptance rate of 3.0%. ...

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This intriguing quote by Aaron Powell really sparks a fire in me and gets my thoughts turning. ... Working class whites believe that affirmative action has lowered their success rate in the office, causing more tension between races. ... Higher education is such a competitive process, and for others to get accepted somewhere I didn't just because of their skin color, despite my scores being higher than theirs, is inequitable and causes me to resent the people experiencing preferential treatment, just as Wilkins is shining light upon. ...

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For example I can go back to the history of African American which will lead me back to Africa. ... Urban cities have the highest crimes rates and violence gangs robbing killings, and the most people that in live that type of environments is African American and Latinos. ...

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