Crime and imprisonment rates are higher in segregated black communities, which also exhibit higher levels of poverty (Burch, 2014). ... Lack of role models from the middle class due to limited interracial interaction has also been raised as an explanation for higher crime and imprisonment rates (Boustan, 2013). ... Boustan (2013) categorized policy solutions to racial residential segregation into people-based solutions, place-based solutions, and indirect solutions. People-based solutions focus on enabling blacks to access homes in the neighborhood of their choice. ... Place-based solutions ...

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The reasoning behind the statement is that within this justice system defendants would rather do a short term sentence for a crime they did not commit rather than take a risk resulting in a long term prison sentence of upwards of twenty five years for the same non committed crime. ... Sentencing Commission (2010) reports that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10% longer than white offenders for the same crimes. ... A poor, uneducated person from a high crime area maybe more easily manipulated and intimidated by the police than an educated white person with ques...

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Atticus elaborates on this idea during his closing argument at the trial saying: "She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time honoured code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with...she tried to put the evidence away from her.... Bob Ewell is left handed and given his violent nature, it is clear that he commits the crime. ... Tom Robinson faced the death penalty for a crime that Bob Ewell commits. ... Obviously prisoners are forbidden from escaping the prison, but his desire to escape is understandable ...

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Affirmative action decisions are generally not supposed to be based on quotas, nor are they supposed to give any preference to unqualified candidates (Froomkin). ... Every hate crime that happens has to do with race or being prejudice. ... History has had their share of hate crimes, dating back to the start of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), a group of whites that hate and terrorize blacks. ... The KKK committed hate crimes such as burning down of black churches, and putting crosses to fire. ... The two men who had many white-supremacist tattoos were charged with a capital crime offense (Boven). ...

• Word Count: 1961
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Wright's apparent honesty, however, is intended to arouse awareness to the ignorant and racist part of society, divulging to them that they are part of the problem concerning African American commited crimes. ... His crime of violence is as much the crime of the people around him, who stifled his soul and nourished the other, baser side of him that was the only way he had of self-expression. ...

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Based on this definition, one of the clearest examples of a real-life mockingbird in history is Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy brutally murdered in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Emmett exemplifies an unjustly persecuted innocent person in that key facts and circumstances were ignored, he was horrifically killed for his "crime", and in that the reaction and behavior of the juries-supposedly representing truth and fairness-ignored facts, logic, and justice. ... Later, the men openly admitted to having killed Emmett, but as they had already been acqu...

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Surely the piece is based on the many black families in Harlem that lost their houses, jobs and self-respect. ... He won't admit to a crime he did not commit. ... Only if the white jury can end the burning shame he feels, will he admit to the crime he did not commit. ...

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Second, voters were disqualified if convicted of any crimes. ... Washington, an African American man who graduated from a leading college, encouraged the black community to not only establish an economic base, but also create good relations with the white race. ... In part he reminds the white race, " We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third of its intelligence and progress" (42). ... She feels as though these spectators are just as guilty as the men committing the crime. ...

• Word Count: 1894
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Racism is a crime of hate, hate against another person, or race because of color, culture or beliefs. ... The government had no proof any Japanese person becoming a traitor " The governments policy was based on the incredible notion that this group of people, solely on the basis of ancestry, had to be regarded as inherently disloyal to the United States." ... 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. ...

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We must look for the source of the disagreement in what they tell us they see - what they base their most fundamental premises on. ... In the case of slavery, his talent with words allows him to shuffle off the guilt of the crime onto a separate entity - the institution itself. ...

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In order to avoid being persecuted for crimes he was innocent of committing, Staples describes his efforts to make himself appear less threatening. ... By using more technical speech and citing other author's works, Staples creates a more intellectual tone in his story which gets his point across, and has a fairly strong emotional base. ...

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He has no remorse for any of the crimes or any of the violent acts he was involved in. ... Thus, as multi-culturalism, consumerism, Jewism and Jewish Christianity, crude capitalism, and prostitution became so rampant in the government that the "tax base" of the government could no longer support the needs of the white people. ...

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Highly esteemed scientists not only helped phrenology to sound factual based, but each added their own input as to why ethnic peoples differed so greatly in the hierarchal chain compared to the so-called superior Caucasian race. ... A belief, though, had given them a sense of obligation to their heinous crimes. ...

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According to members their religion and philosophy called "Creativity- is based on the external laws of nature, the experience of history, on logic and common sense. ... The site things such as black crimes, growing acceptance of homosexuality, interracial marriages, increasing drug use, and a lack of racial identity among white people of items to help back there belief. ...

• Word Count: 1899
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While it can easily be argued that the southern motives against slavery were solely based on embedded racism, it is important to note that most Americans felt the exact same way about the issue. ... Nonetheless, African Americans are disproportionately targeted, arrested, and jailed for drug related crimes....

• Word Count: 1706
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