He stopped the car and got out to see what was causing the problem. ... The officer informed Brown that the car had been reported as stolen, which was true. Brown had reported the car stolen many months earlier after it had been hot-wired in front of his home in Albany. The Albany police had recovered the car a week after it was reported stolen. ... The officer eventually retrieved Brown's wallet from the car and discovered that the car did belong to him, and Brown was released. ...

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These records should include the person's race; the reason stopped; how long the car was detained; and whether a ticket was issued, the car searched, or any illegal goods or weapons were found when the traffic stop was made. ... When the trooper asked to search the car and its contents, Wilkins refused. ... According to the police version, the officers broke the back window of Russ" car and pointed a gun inside. ... A witness said the woman had her hands up and was getting out of the car when she was shot. In both instances the victims were in unarmed cars and the policemen approached the...

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In the short story "Child by Tiger," there are many different treatments of racial differences such as the treatment of the children, the car wreck, and the actions of the "mob." ... The next treatment of racial differences was made after the car wreck. ... Lon Everett, the drunken white man, got out of his car and went racing to Dick and started beating on him. ... The car wreck, the mob scene, and the treatment of the children were all actions of the racial differences that man had created for each other. ...

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In the short story "Child by Tiger," there are many different treatments of racial differences such as the treatment of the children, the car wreck, and the actions of the "mob." ... The next treatment of racial differences was made after the car wreck. ... Lon Everett, the drunken white man, got out of his car and went racing to Dick and started beating on him. ... The car wreck, the mob scene, and the treatment of the children were all actions of the racial differences that man had created for each other. ...

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The employer and the beer went in one car. ... When the wife and the two employees got to the car there was surprise waiting. The car had two flat tires and the windows were smashed. ... They jumped into the car and got it started (It wasn't expected to). ... The tires and windows on the car were fixed. ...

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They were pulled from their car, cuffed, and separated into two patrol cars while their vehicle was searched. ... He was pulled from his car, thrown to the ground, pepper sprayed and arrested. ... Items such as nervousness, out of state plates, rental cars, inability to make eye contact, lack of drivers license or insurance information, fast food wrappers, plates from key border states like Arizona and New Mexico, conflicting answers to questions involving origin and destination and maps. ...

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In this case, a 30-year-old black man named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the white car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy was only 1/8th black and 7/8th white, but under Louisiana law, he was considered black and therefore required to sit in the colored car. ... The State of Louisiana, that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. ... The judge at the trial, John Howard Ferguson, had previously declared the Separate Car Act "unconstitutional on trains that traveled through several states." ... He found Plessy guilty of refusing t...

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Rabinowitz believed that because of these actions, separate schools for blacks were created, poorhouse facilities were provided, and the Nashville Street Railway even started running a separate car for them. ... Rabinowitz stated that when blacks wanted to ride the train, they were forced into the dirty smoking cars with a rough class of whites. Rabinowitz felt that the law that provided separate cars and equal accommodations was right. ... "In their homes and in ordinary employment," as one observer noted, "they meet as master and servant; but in the street cars the...

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The mayor's wife, Miss Millie, lived a different lifestyle than Celie which did not require her to work and allowed her to have maids and fancy cars, yet she was still controlled by her husband who refused to teach her how to drive. ... "Mayor _______ bought Miz Millie a new car cause she said if colored [people] could have cars then one for her was passed due. So he bought her a car, only he refused to teach her how to drive it" (Walker 102). ...

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The state trooper ordered Wilkens, his aunt, uncle and a cousin out of their vehicle and into the rain, for the purpose of searching the car for drugs. Wilkens recalls seeing a young white boy, about six years old, in a passing car with his face pressed against the window and he couldn't help but to think what image will forever be in this little boys head? ... Ford was a member of Congress and that he was driving such a nice car. ... Kweisi Mfume, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was pulled over while driving the interstate at ni...

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They went into pursuit of the speeding car which was up to speeds of 117 miles per hour. ... Within seconds Los Angeles police cars and a helicopter arrived at the scene. ... Rodney remained in the car. Officers shouted for King to get out of the car, and he finally did. ...

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When patrolling the streets, the police stop cars for traffic violations, and sometimes engage in undercover operations if they think is suspicious of more serious crimes such as drug trafficking or prostitution. ... Moreover, minorities were detained for longer periods of time per stop than whites, and were 80% of those whose cars were searched after being stopped.7 Showing the similar statistic to the previous two, a study of traffic stops on the New Jersey Turnpike found that 46% of those stopped were black, although only 13.5% of the cars on the road had a black driver or passenger and alt...

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American History X Imagine this, you are lying in your bed trying to fall asleep when you hear a sound as if a window just got shattered, you look out your window to see a black man breaking into your brother's car. ... He draws his gun and proceeds out the front door gunning down the look out guy and wounding the man that was breaking into his car. The perpetrators get away car screams down the street at the same time as your brother is firing at it. ...

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In the 1980's, American cars were marked with a distinction of poor quality. Since then, our cars have vastly improved, but the distinction is still planted in many people's minds. If we lower our standards in the white collar force, we may develop the same distinction in our corporate businesses as we have in our cars. ...

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Chesnutt makes specific reference to three monumental forms of racial discrimination and immense Black hatred that permeated the South: the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan in Wilmington (Wellington), the "American habit of lynching" and the separate car rule. ... While on a much lighter note, the third and final demonstration of discrimination and hatred towards the black community of Wilmington (Wellington), the separate car rule, allows us to see the concept of de jure segregation in action. ... Burns and move to the separate car for blacks. ...

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Racial profiling is being a set on many young blacks and Hispanic males being stop due to the smuggling of drugs, driving fancy high priced cars with fashionable accessories, or being a suspect of criminal encounters. ... Consequently a majority of males who drive nice, exorbitant cars are not gang bangers, drug dealers, and thieves. ... As a result, Mayor Greg Nickels states in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that he plans to address racial profiling by adding video cameras in every squad car, holding quarterly community forums and improving police training. ...

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They see these athletes and rappers with this incredible amount of cash, big houses, nice cars, and all the girls they want. ... A black kid thinks a drug dealer successful since he is making bank and has these nice things that white people has, as a car. ...

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"Attaining the street-car conductor's job becomes not only a victory for civil rights, as a result, but also a personal victory for Maya's sense of self" (Walker). ... Anyone can have the cars, the big house with the white picket fence but all of that means nothing if you are not at good terms with yourself. ...

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Courtney and his friends " people of mixed European and African blood" were riding on a train to a wedding, when they were approached by twelve white men with revolvers, One told Courtnet: "Say, you look like an intelligent nigger, Don't you know any better than to ride in a first class car?" For the rest of the trip Courtney's group had to ride in the "Jim Crow's car reserved for people of colors. ...

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A man named James Earl Ray was in his car. ... He got out of his car and stroll across the street, where he rented a room at the Bessie Brewer's Rooming House. ... He got into his car and sped away. ... The investigation cooled down a little bit after the discovery of Galt's car in Atlanta, and the FBI turned to its extensive records division for assistance. ...

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Although some saw stupidity in the situation and mocked it, "If there must be Jim Crow cars on the railroads, there should be Jim Crow cars on the street railways. ... If there are to be Jim Crow cars, moreover, there should be Jim Crow waiting saloons at all stations, and Jim Crow eating houses," (Woodward, 67), the divided South soon became a reality. ...

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For our final dramatic criticism, I chose the film, Monster's Ball. This film illustrates the joining of two races and cultures in a small segregated town. The plot revolves around a white racist police officer, Hank (Billy Bob Thorton), and a black, soon-to-be widow of a death row inmate, Laticia (...

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Rodney King's Question In Allan Johnson's book, "Privilege, Power, and Difference," Rodney King's question he asked was, "Can we all just get along?" In all actuality, I do not believe that this world will be able to get along with one another. There is still slavery, discrimination, p...

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Tim Mclauren's except from Keeper of the Moon, depicts the joy and sadness of interracial friendship. These kind of friendships are normally good depending on the kind of bond between the friends. Friends that have grown up with each other and have been together for a long time, like Tim and LJ in ...

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He dreams of winning a horse-race bet and returning back to his parents, whilst in the second piece of writing Brille, as he was called, demonstrates his hopes for the future of South Africa when he tells the Warden of how his son will be ruling the country and the warden would wash his car. ...

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