Law enforcement officials across our great nation deny that racial profiling occurs, but an over whelming majority of the black community believes that racial profiling is practiced on a daily basis. ... The war on drugs has given police a license to target those people who they believe fit the "profile" of a drug dealer or a gang member. ... Statistics prove the use and selling of drugs are not limited to minorities in America; in fact, five times as many whites use drugs. From the outset of the "war on drugs," minorities have been targeted. ... When the policeman exa...

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Many white people do not like to hear this fact and refuse to believe it, but the truth is deeply embedded within our society's political framework. ... Many black Americans believed that through the installation of America's first black President, Barack Obama, a change was really going to come. ... This lead individuals to believe that slavery was good for the slaves, and good for the American people as a whole (Alexander, 26). ... This approval provided white slave owners with a lot more power which lead individuals to believe that white supremacy was not only the new belief syst...

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However, it is astonishing that people do not believe that the political and social dynamics that purport to color blindness would create a new caste system- the one all Americans live in today. ... In October 1982, Reagan announced the War on Drugs. ... To justify the War on Drugs, the Reagan administration launched a media offensive. ... According to The New Jim Crow, Portugal responded to drug addiction and abuse by decriminalizing the possession of all drugs and redirecting the money that would have gone to putting drug-users in cages into drug treatment and prevention. In ten years, rates...

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Some believe there are two justice systems: one for whites and one for people of color. ... Since the onset of the "war on drugs" in the mid-1980s, Black Americans have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for drug law offences at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. ... Records of past statistics make officers believe they have a...

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However, these groups speak of drugs and living in the slums also. ... She argues that Tupac is a negative force in the world of Hip Hop because of his glorification of drug use and promiscuity. ... Furthermore, The Fugees often speak of drug use and street culture in songs such as Ready or Not. ...

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Among Black South Africans, a fifth of the population believed that one could tell by a person's appearance whether they had the disease. ... The survey asked the participants whether they believe that AIDS was a genocidal plot targeting African Americans. ... Twenty-seven percent of Louisiana residents believe that AIDS is a form of genocide, while 70 percent believed that the government was not telling that complete truth about AIDS. ... It is widely believed that through IMF, the World Bank, and national debt, they control the economies of many nations. ... Communist ...

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It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. Much of this improvement has been achieved through various court decisions, and other improvements have been made through federal and state legislatures. Despite these facts, the development of the legal system with regard to race ...

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Janice was involved in church activities, she believed that sexual activity before marriage was forbidden, and she was determined to not fall into the trap like some of her friends. ... During her elementary and junior high years, Janice saw drugs and gangs infesting the streets of her neighborhood. ... Janice believes watching her mother's resilience and independent nature has fortified her independent familial beliefs. ...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people ei...

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Although he believed that time would reverse the blackness is ideologically linked to criminality in ways more insidious and complex than Douglass could have imagined. ... Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with then are relegated to cages. ... Or rather the people who continually vote in new prison bonds and tacitly assent to a proliferating network of prisons and jails have been tricked into believing in the magic of imprisonment. ...

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Martin Luther King addressed the nation with his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, King believed in the power of natural law to propel the free flow of justice in a color blind society. ... King implied that he believed in the utilitarian theory of happiness through no harm to others when he said that "in the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. ... This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. ... We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believ...

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After this, he went to work hustling drugs, which eventually led him to live from place to place, fearing for his life if he stayed in one apartment too long. ... He was suffering from drug withdraw and tried to spend most of his time in solitaire. ...

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I believe that there were a few amendments that helped blacks to gain some of their rights in the future. ... He was a drug addict and also sold marijuana. ... He believed that evil was and inherited characteristic of white men. ... He believed that violence was the key and that by advertising nonviolence nothing would be accomplished. ... Malcolm also believed that freedom or, independence comes only by two ways; by ballots or by bullets. ...

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All though, it is just a stereotype to say all African-Americans are lazy, African Immigrants that come in contact with African-Americans may sometimes believe this stereotype is true just based on their interaction with one person. ... They believe Africa is a whole country rather than a continent and they believe to live in Africa and to be an African means you live in pure poverty and starve like the children we see in commercials. ... Another thing that may have been connected with African-Americans not realizing Africa has whites too, is believing Africans have not experienced racism in ...

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When the black students asked them to quit with the verbal assault, the football players drug them out to the football field and began to beat them until someone saw it happening. ... They are always in the worst neighborhoods and are filled with drugs and violence. ...

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The National Mental Health Association has recorded that 63% of African American believe that depression is a personal weakness, 31% believed it is a health problem, 30% could handle it themselves, and 20% would seek help from friends and family. ... Some believe that depression in black women is due to how she has been treated over the years of her existence from slavery to present. ... Some also believe that corporate racism; single motherhood, consumer debt, drugs and poverty are contributing factors of depression in the black woman. ... The NMHA states, "two thirds of the respondents su...

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Even in the 21st century, racial discrimination and stereotyping continues to exist. Most minorities experience racial discrimination. However, Black men are more likely to be victims of police violence, racial hate-crime violence and urban gang violence than any other major ethnic group; it should also be known that homicidal deaths contribute to lowered life expectancy for African American males (Harper, 2009). Furthermore, Black males have the highest rates of murder in the United States compared to other male ethnic groups. Black men are affected by the issue of racial discrimination and s...

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'CME' stands for Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, a branch of the methodist believe founded by former slaves in 1870, which up until today describes itself as "[c]omposed primarily of African Americans" (Lakey), seperating itself from the white majorities. ...

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