S. government during the demonstrations. ... By being persona non grata in both countries, Jian-Wa need have loyalty to neither, and he, as Aihwa Ong might say, becomes a "flexible citizen- [3] able to negotiate transnational culture in a way a rooted, law-abiding, character with a legal visa or green card may not. ... Although on the right side of the law as a police officer, Sammo Law (Sammo Hung) of Martial Law (CBS, 1998-2000) [5] remains on the margins of American society as a "guest worker- temporarily on loan from the Shanghai police department to the LAPD. Unlike Vanishing So...

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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"" speech in comparison with George Wallace's inaugural address highlights the issue of segregation and seems to imply the philosophical views of the two men with regard to positive verses natural law, a subject's duty to obey the law, how law should or should not be used to promote the common good, the harm to others principle, and the roles paternalism, autonomy, and morality should play in determining the aims of law. ... King implies that until the morally unjust laws cease to be thrust upon generations of Negros they cannot be satisfied...

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The old Jim Crow laws governed all aspects of their existence, from the schoolroom to the rest room. ... The civil rights movement during the late 1800's and early 1900's provided the foundations for the current civil rights laws achieved throughout the 1960's. ... In the South, the Jim Crow laws emerged, segregating blacks in public places, including hotels and restaurants. ... Ferguson (1896), Jim Crow Laws, and the ignorance of black voting rights. ... Government jobs an...

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Thus the federal government could enforce the new laws. ... The Southern government devised ingenious ways to keep blacks from voting, made possible by the absence of federal troops (62). ... First, racism and white supremacy, for the most part, dominated Southern law. ... - Published literature against certain Jim Crow laws was illegal and punishable by six months imprisonment (83)... Ironically, the last two listed were not Southern laws; respectively, the last two were laws of Arizona and Maryland (84). ...

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Once people of color could claim equal protection under the law, they would predictably use their civil rights victory to help undermine the institution of slavery" (Jones, p. 25) Howard's prediction is correct. ... Black males are pulled over often, along with Mexicans and minorities alike, by law enforcement for simply being a person of color. ... Some law officials tend to fear the African American race because they are ignorant when it comes to the logistics of crimes. ... Reading the government's apology in class to the Native Americans still shocks me because it seems as i...

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Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. ... Aaron, 1958 v/s The court repeated that no law or policy of state or local governments could directly or indirectly have the effect of promoting racial segregation. ... The federal government intervened occasionally during the Kennedy administration as a "friend of the court," but these efforts were slow and achieved little progress. ... Racial isolation, established by law, was largely eliminated in the South. ... For many years, some people were not ready to accept that the time ha...

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This issue screams to be addressed by the government and abolished in American society if we truly desire our country to be "The Land of the Free," that we all know and love. ... It would seem that skin color alone may very well make you a suspect in America, and more likely to be stopped by our law enforcement personnel. ... According to our own governmental reports 80 percent of the country's cocaine users are white, and the "typical" cocaine user is a white middle class suburbanite. But law enforcement tactics remain concentrated ...

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All this works, which used to be the primary province of government, is now also performed by private corporations, whose link to government in the field of what is euphemistically called "corrections" resonate dangerously with the military-industrial complex. ...

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Key to the understanding of racial separation, as exemplified by segregation and Jim Crow laws in America and the system of apartheid in South Africa, is the understanding of race itself and the effects of categorizing people by skin color as to provide a benefit to one of the parties involved, usually the minority party. ... This unification was evident in the creation of Jim Crow laws that allowed all white superior lining conditions despite their northern or southern affiliations. ... To give a cliche analogy, the apartheid government was continually trying to put a band aid on a third degr...

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Southern governors and law enforcement officials argued that these tactics were criminal and that the Civil Rights movement was a breakdown of law and order. ... Conservatives could now hide behind these activists and say that race had nothing to do with their "law and order" agenda. ... " These highly racialized appeals targeted poor and working-class whites and were usually accompanied with promises to be tougher on crime and to enhance the government's role in combating it. ... Initially, there was much controversy regarding whether the federal government should play a ...

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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. ... In addition, conspiracy theory is an umbrella term encompassing myths, urban legends, and rumors and does not limit itself to government. ... Moreover, they are present in every aspect of life from sports to government and seem to have a never-ending life. ... According to the freedom domain website, in the 18th century, Masons, who later converted to Illuminati, sole purpose was to secretly create ...

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The government gave them no work and many Black refugees got rocky and barren land to farm. ... Blacks mostly settled together because it was a form of support because the government did not help them out much. ... On August 28th 1833 Britain passed a law freeing and ending slavery in all of its thirteen colonies freeing over 300 slaves. This law came into effect August 1st 1834. ... In 1911, the government and Blacks were having problems in the prairies and this eventually led to ending Black immigration to the prairies. ...

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During the last half of the nineteenth-century the government formed strict laws to thwart the strong beliefs of polygamy until church leaders denounced the practice. ... Government officials, mainly the Republican Party, began to pass strict laws concerning anyone practicing plural marriage. ... Leaders often referred to passages Smith had written about a close descendant of Ham that established the first government of Egypt; He became a very wise and righteous ruler but because he was an ancestor of Cain he was "cursed pertaining to the Priesthood"10. Republican Government officials conti...

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The southern slave owning states made it clear that they did not want the federal government to interfere with their ability to own slaves. Therefore the Constitution was structured to allow the caste system of slavery to not only continue, but also gave the stamp of approval of slavery from the newly formed government (Alexander, 25). ... Vagrancy laws made it illegal to not have a job. These laws were mainly directed toward blacks (Alexander, 28). ... However, these Amendments turned out to be false promises when the government stopped protecting these rights of southern black Americans. ...

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Although numerous articles and books have been published devising means by which to reduce variance within the system, the most recent, and probably most contentious, is that of Paul Butler, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, and former Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. Butler's thesis, published in an article in the Yale Law Journal, is that "for pragmatic and political reasons, the black community is better off when some nonviolent lawbreakers remain in the community rather than go to prison. ...

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There are many different cultures throughout the world we live in. There's no one to say who's culture is better than another, but I will say that I love everything about my culture and how we live. In this paper you"ll get an understanding of how I was raised as a black man in America. You"ll also ...

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Especially in the South of the U.S. the law did very little to protect blacks. In fact, some laws, called segregation laws, often limited their freedom and discriminated against them. ... These laws grew out of a racist attitude toward blacks. ... Seldom did a court of law convict a white person for harming a black. ... Eisenhower forced the state to obey the law by sending in army paratroopers and the Arkansas National Guard to protect the students. ...

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Since the government came up with the "brilliant" idea of exclusionary zoning, blacks and other minorities have suffered the most. ... Upon entering a unit provided by the government, one may find holes in the floors, neglected utility pipes and fixtures, and infestations. ... Because the government nearly refuses to build housing in nice middle or upper class neighborhoods that is priced for the lower class, minorities are essentially stuck in the inner-cities and high-crime areas. ... They built their own schools and churches, formed their own police and fire departments, and even made up...

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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. ...

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These groups dealt with the harsh laws and crimes that were committed against African Americans during the mid 1900's. ... Milam, his brother-in-law, took Emmett at gunpoint. ... This followed the laws that were enforced to segregate African Americans during the mid 1900's. ... After further protest of the ridiculous law, the bus driver called the police and Rosa was taken away in hand cuffs. ... The American public saw the conflict created between nonviolent protesters and brutal law enforcement. ...

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As a result of the racial segregation laws black Americans were permanently abased in busses. ... As a consequence she was arrested for violating the city's segregation law. ... The marchers demanded equal justice for all citizens under the law. ...

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It also barred any state from taking a persons life, liberty, and property without due process of law and from denying equal protection of laws. ... With all this happening the government was forced to protect many black Americans and to guarantee them their rights. ... The decision from the Brown case placed the federal government on the side of those people who saw segregation as something bad and evil. ...

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The Safety of African Americans During The Civil Rights Movement: From A Literary Perspective There are many literary works that address the violence associated with the civil rights movement. These works, though written for different reasons, essentially serve the same purpose. Two such works are a poem "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall and an essay by Martin Luther King, Jr. entitled "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Though these pieces of literature were written for different reasons and have many differences, they both in their own way bring attention to and shine light on ho...

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The economic welfare of farmers suffered badly; many believed that the management of currency was at fault and that the government's currency policy was determined by Eastern bankers and industrialists. ... Addams made a huge change by examining child labor and eventually executing a law that would prohibit child labor. ...

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The governor of Mississippi strongly opposed him attending this school and even went as far as to have the state legislature pass a law prohibiting any person who was convicted of a state crime from admission to a state school. ... Despite harassment during his two semesters on campus, Meredith graduated in August of 1963 and eventually went on to earn a law degree and have a very successful life. ... President Kennedy originally discouraged this march in fear that it could make the legislature vote against the civil rights laws due to a perceived threat but Kennedy would soon offer his full s...

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