"Racism consists of both prejudice and discrimination based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples".1 The refraining of the foreign and unknown, for example other cultures, is probably as old as humanity itself. ... This in turn would prove the Whites intelligence and superiority. ... However, just because you have come to the conclusion that a certain ethnic group has lower intelligence does not justify murder, slavery and harassment. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

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The film that was shown in class also discussed this - how different research organizations tried to correlate how African-American brains were smaller, and therefore they were of lesser intelligence. ... THE BELL CURVE attempted to prove the thesis that there are substantial group differences in intelligence among various races in American society and that African-Americans were on the bottom, and conversely, at the bottom caste. ...

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1. INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. He then hires the white street lawyer Jake Brigance as his attorney, who also defended his brother in a different case. A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan ...

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