Before the affirmative action law was put into place, on television there were only Caucasian actors and news anchors. ... For the points that they give to African Americans and Latinos, Caucasians receive none. ... There are definitely a larger percentage of poor minorities than there are poor Caucasians, so they are minorities. ... He also told me that the school was paying for him to live and attend college, and then he started to laugh. At first I was mad; I found none of this funny. ...

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When the Europeans came here, there were more than 10 million Indians populating North America and they had been living here for quite some time. ... The Indian's were then herded into reserves and coerced into signing their land over through the use of unfair treaties. ... As children, most of us were given a playground definition of racism. ... None of these parts of individual identity are directly tied to race. ... The real racist is irrational, because he comes to conclusions about racial identity due to false assumptions or none at all. ...

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Finally, I believe that none of them would ever consider removing affirmative action because they benefit so much from it. ... These people I targeted were majority college students ranging from age eighteen to twenty seven. ... None of the people I asked refused to take the survey. ... If it takes affirmative action to ensure that minorities are represented, then let it be. ... Thus, even if every unemployed minority worker were to take a White workers job then less than 2 percent of Whites would be affected. ...

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There are multiple scenes in Django Unchained where Django is riding into various towns on a horse. ... The white man then proceeds to ask Django to spell his name, questioning Django's intellectual capacity. Django then spells his name for the man clearly and effectively. ... There is still a significant amount of tension amongst whites and blacks throughout the United States. ... Observing this scene on top of a building, Colonel Shaw is shocked at first but responds with an adamant claim that if none of the black soldiers accept a monthly wage, he won't either. ...

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Marx then looks at how slavery and racism developed in each country. ... African slaves were brought in to fill there space. ... The Dutch were integrated with the native population at first but then began to fear that they would lose control of there power once diamonds and gold were found. The Dutch Then began to enslave more natives to work these mines. ... The change of hands between the to leaders was slow but revolutionary for the region none the less. ...

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Pieter receives more than his share; Nella receives very little; Stephanie none at all. ... There are three features of South African society that are presented in Too Late the Phalarope: first, Afrikaner nationalism as seen in Jakob van Vlaanderen; second, moderates like Sophie who outwardly appear to offer an alternative to the ideology of apartheid but inwardly live with it; and third, there is a sense of hope or potentially resistant forces at work within South African society. ... "Then I went off to the kitchen," she writes, where old Izak and Lena, who for all their blackness were good...

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In some situations, there may be a sense of oddity present, however those situations are very likely to be seen in reality. ... None of his mother's actions is free of racial overtones and she is ostentatiously racist in disregarding the wishes of Carver's mother. ... The narrator describes her eyes as "sky-blue, [they] were as innocent and untouched by experience as they must have been when she was ten" (397). ... O'Connor's use of violence is almost as though she were trying to shake the reader awake, since it is so sudden and stark. For example, "Then all at once she ...

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Celie is then married to a man who beats her and sends her sister away, never again allowing the two to communicate. ... Black female reviewers were not so critical of the film on gender issues. ... Even before the film's release, there was controversy about a white director, Steven Spielberg, directing the film. ... Then there were those, black women included, who objected to the lesbian relationship (albeit significantly watered down from the book) between lead characters Celie and Shug. ... They were never lovers. ...

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This quote demonstrates the idea that there was a lot of discrimination and prejudice against the blacks, the fact that white individuals treated these black soldiers in a lowery manner, demonstrated how blacks felt hatred against whites and felt as if they were lesser beings. There was also a great amount of generals who did not think that the blacks were capable of being relied on to defeat the enemy in the south, but Colonel Shaw always maintained his faith and defended them. ... "If you men will take no pay... then none of us will." ... As time went by, the 54th regiment began assimilati...

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So why then are people of a different race, color, culture, or religion treated with disrespect and hate? ... (John Tateishi pg. xiv) There were no grounds for evicting the Japanese Americans so west coast politicians and pressure groups turned to racial attacks that questioned the loyalty of the entire Japanese community. ... Even though all the Japanese people were accused of being traitors not one Japanese American was ever brought to trial for disloyal activities, none was ever charged with any kind of crime, except being ethnic Japanese. ... Another reason white children couldn't use...

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The boys were frightened by what had happened, and, fearing violence, told Mose Wright, the town's preacher. ... Till may have not even been whistling at Carolyn Bryant, but none of these facts and circumstances stopped three grown men from brutally assaulting the fourteen-year-old in the middle of the night, and murdering him. ... According to Bryant and Milam, they had intended to beat Emmett and throw him off an embankment to frighten him, however while they were beating him, he called them bastards and declared himself as good as they were (Huie). They then put Emmett in the truck...

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There are two versions of the movie; one directed by John M. ... This caricature is used to posit proof that blacks were contented, even happy, with their societal position. ... She then goes on to run away and become a burlesque dancer, and she seeks acceptance from white men by aiming to become the focal point of their sexual desires. ... She claims she doesn't want to own a car or a house and would rather gift the recipe to Bea and see none of the profits than stop working for her. ... In conclusion, while there were ...

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There is just one problem. ... Sam's journey, however, provides a paternal influence where there is none, and clearly it succeeds much better when Hally is a little boy than it does when Hally grows up and realizes that in his cultural milieu, a middle-class white boy cannot have a black man for a father. ... Then Hally recalls the incredible joy he felt when the kite took to the air: "I don't know how to describe it, Sam. ... I wished there were hundreds of kids around to watch us- (Fugard, 30). ... Hally's life is simply better without his father there. ...

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King and Malcolm were both African American civil rights activists. ... After he got sentenced ten years of prison, he met some people who were already in the Nation of Islam. Then those people introduce him to their leader, who is Elijah Muhammad. ... Elijah Muhammad believed that blacks were the original human beings and the white were the devils (pp.122). ... In his speeches, Malcolm always tried to make black people understand that white people were the devil. ...

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