Kaplan begins her essay on a personal note discussing her happiness at his election win and the idea of, "how Barack was close to me he could have been in third grade with me. " Kaplan is explain the President Obama grew up and experience what other typical black children experience. She talks about how "he was 5 hours across the water in Hawaii. " I disagree that Obama was like any other black child growing up. ... White voters didn't have to vote for a "regular " black leader like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. ... This brings me back to my idea of the different dynamic of Obama's ...

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Much like this action taken by Frederick Douglass in "The Battle with Mr. ... Covey] came to the spot, and, after looking at me awhile, asked me what was the matter. ... He then gave me a savage kick in the side, and told me to get up. ... He gave me anther kick, and again told me to rise. ... People like Malcolm X, who led black Muslims in their fight against oppression and prejudice; Martin Luther King Jr. who led a nonviolent movement to change the ways in which black Americans were treated, and essentially to end segregation; and Rosa Parks, who refused to relinquish her seat to a white ...

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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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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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 In the book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen, he uses ways as well as examples from history and other books to help readers become informed of their true United States history. ... Heroification as well as race, slavery and social class is also brought to be a major issue in American history because text books try to avoid those topics as much as possible just like they try to avoid facts about the past as well as the recent past. ... His book made me think further into details and do further research on the lessons taught in history books and classes. ... In addition, thro...

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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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She asked me what race I am and I told her that I am Chinese and she told me that I am not Chinese, I am Vietnamese because I once told her that I was born in Vietnam. ... She responded with, "Most of them have slanted eyes, jet black hair and thin lips." ... Another categorizing confusion is the black people in the United States, why are they called African-American when most of them are just simply American? They are just like the White people in the United States but with a caramel complexion. ... This part of his life, was when he wanted to be White, like everyone else so the White kid...

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For me the American dream is not only about me or my success and happiness but also the success and the happiness of those who surround me. In my American dream, my mother is retired but with strength to be able to relax and do those things that she missed out on because she was taking care of my siblings and me; like being next to my stepdad who lives in the Dominican Republic. ... I want to be able to walk around with confidence of the person I have become which will not only give me confidence but will give me freedom. ... Vargas like me, never imagined how hard it would be to earn an edu...

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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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At times I also wanted to be black, because I loved playing sports and I wanted to one day become a professional football player.go pro to the NFL one day. ... He had black hair brown eyes, and for that he had water spilled all over him, which woke him up to how America still hasn't changed through the years... While I may have Asian physical features, I refused to have others intimidate me or dictate who I could associate with.For me fighting back helped me to let the ignorant people know that we were not passive and to help them watch what they say to the next Asian person. ... My fri...

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Another incident that happened was in Jasper, Texas where a black man in his early 40's was dragged behind a pick up truck to his death just because he was black (Newsweek June 14,1998). ... The Ku Klux Klan did show up to march and so did the Black Panthers. ... We talked about the leaders from the past like Martin Luther King Jr., John F. ... Knowing that there are laws out there and me not being able to find exactly what I needed makes this paper incomplete. ... And to know that there was someone who wanted me dead because of the color of my skin scared me. ...

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Black people were looked lowly upon during World War II. They were thought to be ignorant and like animals. ... But the democracy I want to fight for, Hitler is not depriving me of. I know the people the people who have kept me away from it for seventy-five years by rifles and revolvers , by state law and lynch law. ... Of the black people that chose to serve in the war there were about one million black men and women. ...

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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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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." ... My name spread like smoke in an airless room. ... Tell me the truth!" It was as though he'd struck me. I stared across the desk thinking, He called me that . . . ...

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The black community is represented first by the Finch's maid, Calpurnia. ... One thing that impressed me about Reverend Skyes was that he never described himself or his congregation with the word "nigger/s". ... It came down to the word of the "poor-white trash" Ewell family against an upstanding black citizen. ... Although the book is fiction, one does think that trials like this probably did happen. ... For drug offenses, why are black children 48 times more likely to be sentenced to prison for drug offenses than white youths? ...

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Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence is, to me, the founding document of America. ... "Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? ... Here you will see men and women reared like swine for the market. ... " (1886-1887) To Douglass, American identity did not include slaves or even freed blacks. ... Yet women felt they were Americans, and blacks knew they weren't. ...

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"You should have told me." ... "The books are full of black curves, dots like the eggs the boll-weevil lays each monsoon in furniture-cracks in Ludhiana. ... Is this what it is like to be an American? ... I never had to go through anything like that. ... I did not ask for this pass it was engrained on me when I was born. ...

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In a final entry he wrote that "a couple of men who had talked to me before, drove up and questioned my religious and political beliefs and was sure I'd e killed for them."... Lipsitz writes, "I think I know why Bill Moore's murder affected me so deeply in 1963. ... "During colonial times, colonials gave rewards to the Native Americans for the capture of black runaway slaves. The reverse was also a consequence of the investment in whiteness, black slaves were recruited into militias in order to fight the Native Americans (Lipsitz 3). ... Even though the federal government has passed ...

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Although, this might seem like a well- planned system, it had its flaws. ... As a result, many blacks and whites owed large amounts of money. ... The disenfranchising of blacks during the 1890's was partly political. ... Although the right to vote looked promising for blacks, the "Redeemers" fought back with racial issues and argued that the black vote should be completely eliminated. ... Du Bois focused on the education of blacks. ...

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Or like Michael Mooore states in the the book media to frighten the general public, not on purpose but violence, horror and bloodshed gets ratings and entertains the general american public, examples of this are shows like wildest police chases II, whree the whole point of the show is to show some black guy driving really fast and then crash into something. Example "let's see that black guy crashing into something and mortally wound himself in the process for the fourth time in slow motion". ... You don't have to run for president, that's somebody's graduation gift anyway, ...

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In his novel Native Son Richard Wright uses his main character Bigger Thomas to specifically describe the human emotions of whom most white Americans of the time saw as a run of the mill black delinquent. ... In the beginning of the book Bigger's feelings of distrust towards himself in a world controlled by whites are obvious when he states "Every time I get to thinking about me being black and they being white, me being here and they being there, I feel like something awful is going to happen to me-(Wright 20). ... This is evident when Bigger reveals that "never again [does] he want to...

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In the play, Hansberry also expands the idea of Langston Hughes's famous 1951 poem "Harlem " by showing the deferred dreams of people like the main family in the play, dreams that should not be allowed to dry up. ... The tension between the need for black expression and American society's oppression of its black population that causes the impossibility of that expression was progressively reaching its peak. In addition to excluding its black population from equal participation in many areas of public life such as living areas and education, white society also kept blacks in a positio...

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Something that has always astounded me about the human race is how little we truly think about our future. ... Despite what we may like to trick ourselves into believing, we really are subpar when it comes to long-term thinking. ... Though this proved to be one of the largest oil spills in United States history, even minor oil spills negatively impact the environment in a huge way, spreading black sludge throughout the ocean, and consequently killing the species that become entrapped and covered in this murky blackness. ... While these temperature increases may not seem like very much, over t...

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