Black Americans, like oppressed groups elsewhere, have rarely accepted the subordinate position forced upon them by the larger white society. American racism and exploitation have generated black protest. ... Like the slave revolts, the Garvey Movement, and the March of Washington Movement, it was highly organized. ... Last, in 1923 the court overturned a murder conviction against a black, because blacks had been excluded from the jury that had convicted him. ... February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman shot an unarmed black teenager resulting in taking his like due to racial profiling. ...

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Dad blame it, why doan he talk like a man? You answer me dat!"" ... Although modern society largely scorns racism, racism still continues, making books like "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story about slavery and racism, still relevant to today. ... In justifying slavery and racism, whites would attribute to themselves many positive traits, like empathy, reason, education, and civility "such traits would then allow them to seem more human than and far more superior to blacks. ... On one hand, Huck considers the lessons he has learned in Sunday school and what happens to people lik...

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(Staples) These examples from the author's life demonstrate to me how black people must always be on the defensive, and constantly be prepared to be accused of something or be mistrusted by white people. ... In "A Black Man Ponders His Power To Alter Public Space- Brent Staples eloquently conveys what it feels like to be subjected every day to racism and prejudice. ... Brent Staples helped me see what racism feels like from the receiving end. ... In "A Black Man Ponders His Power To Alter Public Space- Brent Staples eloquently conveys what it feels like to be subjected every day ...

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This is essential to understand because as I interact with a black person they do not know me from any other white person. The burden of my white, oppressive heritage is mine to bear, yet can in the least cause distrust for a black person who does not know me, but that distrust can also be anger or fear. ... A middle-aged black woman stared back at me and deliberately turned her head. ... The five minutes before check out felt like hours. I could not find the proper words, so the women could understand "I am not like other white people". ...

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Everyone's eyes are fixed on my mother and me. ... As I sit down at my seat, all of my so-called friends start to call me names and tease me. ... Situations like this are hard for a young child to deal with. ... Her answer to this was, "I"m neither, I"m like a cup of tea," (Tizard and Phoenix 55). ... One girl wished to be darker like her African mother. ...

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After reading the work of John Howard Griffin "Black like Me", I decided to write about how discrimination effects the people who's receiving it. ... While being a black person, Griffin has witnessed many things. ... I was really dumfounded by this deep fury that possessed her whenever she looked at me"(52-53) He explains how shocking and embarrassing it is for him being in a situation like this. ... That shows how Negroes always are forced to look like they are poor, even if they are not. ... They judged me by no other quality. ...

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Racial profiling to me is a lot like any other problem in our society today. ... It seems to me that racism is still part of our society, and sadly, I think it always will be. ... Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that these groups are lying. ... (www.aclu.com, Driving while Black, David A. ... (www.aclu.com, Driving while Black, David A. ...

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One of the first mentions of this was when Kate Chopin described Armand's love for Desiree as "sweeping over him like an avalanche (Chopin)". ... Chopin related L'Abri with darkness when she described it as melancholy and the buildings "black like a cowl" and Desiree "shuddered at the sight of it" (Chopin). This negative association with black images made me view black objects throughout "Desiree's Baby" negatively. ... This revealed to me that her strong emotions initiated her physical exhaustion. ... When she was forced into the role of a t...

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Blacks are used for cheap manual labor. ... It is a fact that the food that is processed like chicken, beef, and pork inside schools "have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an invisible American workforce: prisoners" (Elk and Sloan, 2011). For example, I would argue how there is more labor jobs given to Blacks in jail than Blacks who live in poor communities. It makes me wonder how the mass incarceration of black males in society is so extreme, because of the poor communities many lived in. ... Is it ironic that a black m...

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The dependence that the white people have for the black paint is a metaphor exposing how critical it is to have a balance of opposites functioning together in order to keep a society running like a powerful machine. ... The description of the "cast iron bank" that IM finally notices in the corner is rich in providing evidence of the physical characteristics of the bank: "black, red-lipped Negro, whose white eyes stared at me, with an enormous grin.... Wheatstraw connects with IM when he says "why are you trying to deny me?... Once individuals like IM receive that money, the...

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Like Bigger, he was brought up without a father; like Bigger's family, Wright's also left the South for the urban ghetto of Chicago; like Bigger who was schooled only to the eight grade, Wright finished with the ninth, and like Bigger, the author of Native Son grew up a loner and a rebel, whose devoutly religious family assumed he lived a life of crime. ... Even as an adult, Wright felt discrete to both whites and blacks, and several of his major characters share this sense of being isolated, like he did. ... To be forced to go an extreme like that on one of his best friends, ho...

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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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So what charge did this black racist get? ... Are you telling me all minorities are incapable of being racist or discriminatory? ... Any crime committed by a white, is like a dream come true for the media. ... And don't even get me started on the case of the black street punk who got punched by the cop. ... Whether a white man kills a white, a black, or a black man kills a black or a white. ...

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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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Just like in previous times, interracial relationships weren't excepted. ... Have you ever liked someone that who not your race? ... I think in New York, you find more Black women that date outside of their race. ... I think Black women need to open up. A lot of Black women still carry a lot of pain when they see Black men with women who aren't Black and that's really unfortunate that that could make us so upset. ...

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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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The rise of black ghettos in northern and western cities may have complicated the problems of segregation and discrimination, but they also were grounds for encouragement for movements like the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. ... And since I"d been made a leaderman out at the Atlas Shipyard it was really getting me. ... Most of "em didn't say right out they wouldn't hire me. ... Because this opportunity to be that "other person" came to very few, it seemed almost crazy for a person like Alice to deny it. ... (Page 51-52) And like Bob said, "The white folks win again." ...

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This occurred in many situations, "Being there(Wagner's) wasn't any more fun than being at the Imperial, but it made me feel more powerful"p.264. ... Nana had an idea that there always had to be competition with whites, "All those white folks down on that job and you get the promotion, and you tellin" me not to brag?" ... If somebody is not educated, that should not be labeled as acting black, or talking black. ... When Bebe's grandmother put her down, because of her changed, different hairstyle, Bebe felt discouraged because she just tried to prove that she could be different...

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Dennis is murdered by a black crack dealer. ... He is upset because he feels like the government is just ignoring the problem. ... Derek explains to Danny that, "it was wrong, it was eating me up, and it was going to kill me. ... And it didn't make me feel any different. It just got me more lost and I'm tired of being pissed off, Danny. ...

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Many believe that racism is being cruel to Blacks, however today being racist does not mean only to be cruel to Blacks, it also includes being unfriendly to Hispanics, Asians and even White people today feel discrimination from others. ... Just like in Pennsylvania, many other states have seen this in their schools, and in their community. ... And some are just fighting each other, like the on going battle between the Bloods and the Crips. ... It is really depressing when people come to me, not knowing who I am; yell to me "Go back to your country, you Mexican." It is sad that ever...

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He mentions that "[a] want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me"(Douglass 310). ... Jacobs would have liked to believe that the bond of gender was stronger than the racial differences, so she tried to evoke agency among the white women of the South by asserting that while they remain inactive, they participate in the enslavement of themselves. ... It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free"(Douglass 343). In the fi...

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His music has done what no others have; he built an unbreakable bond between whites and blacks. ... Another aspiring white rapper of todays generation known as Macklemore even talked about Eminem in an interview saying, "Me being a white person at a hip-hop show, I was not the majority, when I first started to go to hip-hop shows. ... This was never the case with any black rapper representing the art form and culture to white crowds, certainly not one like Tupac, who was at one point the black hip-hop artist of the counter-culture. ... He knows that as a white kid growing up with black h...

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We, Blacks are people just like the whites, we had families that we loved and wanted to best for them. ... I was anger because they treated us like we did not matter. ... This was a whole new world for me. ... So to me I call it a Dominos Effect. ... The Lincoln Way schools look like college campus while the Rich Schools look like the grade school for the people on the west side of Harlem. ...

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In 1968 unable to fight the discrimination aimed toward homosexuals and blacks, Baldwin moved to France. ... Baldwin grew up in New York City, as a young black homosexual. ... In America at least, Baldwin and many other black artists found reprieve in the "Harlem Renaissance" in Paris, France. ... In 1968 his fourth novel Tell Me How Long the Tran's Been Gone, he takes a different approach addressing the subjects of race and inequality. ... Much like the narrator and Sonny, Baldwin had tempered some of his anger and replaced it with a sense of hope and understanding. ...

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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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