Both girls are obviously black, and are not ashamed to be. ... For example, Hazels tells us, "Them teachers that don't like me cause I won't sing them Southern songs or back off when they tell me my questions are out of order." ... Everybody knows that - except for two people who know better, my father and me. He can beat me to Amsterdam Avenue." ... (These two are children her age, who she is not particulary friends with - infact, they are more like enemies, "I don't think you"re going to win this time.") ...

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How would you like a doctor that was accepted into a medical school because of a racial quota program that was in place, and the doctor was to operate on your heart, even though he graduated at the bottom of his class? ... It is wrong for the government to favor blacks and other minorities because they are not white. ... To me that is racist in its own. ... On the counter part I might be able to see how blacks and other minorities can feel like they deserve more because of the way they have been treated in the past, but in all realness we are not living in the past. ... This, in turn, incl...

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(Black Entertainment Television), the channel specifically made for black people." ... I would be cast as a bigot or a racist if I had a television channel like W.E.T., but who's to say that their response is wrong? ... When schools discriminate like this, it seems to me that it is exactly the opposite of the Affirmative Action Law. ... He proceeded to tell me that he had a personal tutor every day of the week that would help him on school work whenever necessary, at no cost to him. He also told me that the school was paying for him to live and attend college, and then he started to laugh...

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For the purpose of the position paper I would like to state my definition of affirmative action so that it is clear what I am defending. ... Stanford ruled blacks as "subordinate and inferior beings". ... Ferguson declared blacks the right to a "separate but equal" legislation. ... This is where the argument that affirmative action should be discarded really bothers me. ... This tells me that it is after over two-hundred years still an issue. ...

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The first interaction I had with a black person was when my family and I took a vacation to the Bahamas. ... "Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is, in fact, permission to escape or to dominate." ... www.apa.org/pi/oema/wcarplenary.html Racism is not a big thing to me; it does not affect me in my every day life. ... If I had to think of some kind of way that it would affect me I would have to say the only way it could affect me is through my friends. ... I would never want anyone to treat me like that so why would I treat them like that. ...

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Many ethnic minorities, such as blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans, wouldn't have been in college if it hadn't been for the affirmative action plan.. ... Affirmative action sounds like a pretty good system, doesn't it? ... This legislation, along with an executive order in 1965, helped blacks by forcing businesses receiving federal funds to stop using aptitude tests and other criteria that tended to discriminate against blacks ("affirmative action"). ... This has given a chance for both inner-city blacks and rural whites to be accepted in colleges that they wouldn't ne...

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Her book is a startling depiction of what it was like to grow up a poor, southern African American. ... Like overt racism, it can occur individually, institutionally, and culturally. ... Thus they never did really see me". ... Many Whites view Blacks as being different from themselves. ... It almost impossible for two southern white men to murder an African American teenager like Emmett Till was in 1955 in Money, Mississippi. ...

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Everywhere in the south a distinct separation between the black and white fraternities and sororities exists. ... (and)If we had a black girl in our sorority, none of the fraternities would want to do anything with us? ... I am positive those members of the sorority would not like it one bit if they were told they could not be a part of something because they were white. ... It came as a shock to me when I learned that the reason for all of this was because of the color of his skin. ... Even more upsetting to me was the fact that the entire time Kevin knew he was never going to be accepted. ...

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This I felt made me skeptical on whether affirmative action is a good thing or a bad thing. ... All of my work in using survey helped me a lot on finding out about people's thought of affirmative action. I used a lot of my data sources to help me find out whether or not affirmative action should continue. ... Although college-educated black women have reached earnings similarity with college-educated white women, college- educated black men earn 76% of the earnings of their white male counterparts (Do Racial Preferences help). ... Just like the way women have ability to work like ...

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In a time where blacks had to be escorted into schools to prevent them from being physically harmed, it was an absolute necessity to pass legislation to allow them an equal opportunity at success. ... This ruling allowed the school, and others like it, to operate "in good faith" when determining student eligibility. ...

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This was during the time when blacks were emerging from the chains of segregation resulting from slavery. ... Affirmative action is defined as a policy or a program that seeks to redress past discrimination through active measures to ensure equal opportunity, as in education and employment, which brings me to my point. ... In such cases, affirmative action is not working for the good of the public like it was meant to. ... At the University of Texas Law School a minority admissions program is set aside for blacks and Mexican-Americans. ... As was stated, affirmative action was designed in cons...

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Hansberry uses the civil rights aspect that most blacks fought for in the early part of the century in the background of the play. ... The plant that Lena waters everyday symbolizes hope: "Well, I always wanted me a garden like I use to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home. ... Yeah you tell me then!... Walter does not put some of the money away for Beneatha like Mama asked and loses it all trying to give his dream life. ... I want you to believe me when I tell you that race prejudice simply doesn't enter into it. ...

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Still in some states being black can cause some difficulties. ... The acts of some should not spoil other Moslems" reputations; they are also human beings like anybody else who can understand, suffer, enjoy, love and be loved. ... They would like to be part of these people and be known as one of them. ... She believes since she is living in this country and she is like anybody else, she deserve to be known as an American, considering she doesn't want to deny her origins either. ...

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Prior to Title VII, there was an abundance of laws segregating blacks and whites. It is astonishing now to examine that less than 50 years ago in many parts of the country, blacks and whites ate in separate restaurants, were treated in separate hospitals, and were even buried in separate cemeteries. ... If most of the high paying jobs in our country continued to go to white people, then blacks would still be unable to send their children to expensive universities treat themselves in nicer hospitals, eat in nicer restaurants, etc. ... People began to realize that they were deserving of bette...

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