These persons are arrested, thereby reinforcing the belief that drug 3 trafficking is mostly limited to the black culture. ... The unfortunate result is the innocent people are often persecuted based on their skin color alone. ... Talk to almost any black person in the country and you will hear personal accounts of unjustified traffic stops by the police. ... For instance, 77 percent of motorists searched on the New Jersey turnpike were black or Hispanic, although 60 percent of all persons stopped were white. ... The evidence gets even more disturbing, an innocent black driver in the stat...

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But though she has great justification for what she has done, and the reader must partially sympathize with her, her action injures many innocent people and cannot finally be justified. ... Her child, now her master, becomes a sickly and pernicious person who takes particular delight in treating Roxana with open contempt. ... But the impossibility of openly addressing these sins by humans, who are so decidedly not innocent, forces society to operate within a web of lies that enables the civilization to limp along without complete anarchy. ...

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There Sharpton made repeated public appearances concerning the outrage of the brutal rape of the innocent young black girl and even went so far as to accuse a white government lawyer of being involved. ... (freedomoutpost.com) This suggests to any rational person that perhaps the leading black activist in the United States of America has no true credibility because he is willing to make up, sponsor, and campaign, a hoax that keeps a thing like racism very real. ...

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This case doesn't turn out well - although Tom's lawyer tries to convince the jurors and the judge that Tom was innocent, they still didn't believe him because Tom is African American. ... On the night of February 4th, 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed and innocent African immigrant, was gunned down in a hail of 41 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his apartment building in the Bronx. ...

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His first popular book was "Innocents Abroad- (1869), followed by "Tom Sawyer- and "Huckleberry Finn- (1876). ... This is a stereotypical description of small towns of the South in those days: "Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town, with a rich, slave-worked grain and pork country back of it."" (6) The reader soon learns that this innocent image is just upon the surface and in the depth we find slavery and crime. ... Is it "Chambers-'s ancestry or his less protected childhood that makes him a calm, decent person? ...

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Americans held a wide variety of opinions about the capitalist system because each American had a different role in society and the system affected them in different ways. The people of society were classified in different ways and the differences between the classes defined the way that each saw the system as helping or hurting their economic statuses and therefore each class people would hold a different opinion on the ideas of capitalism and what Eugene Debs though of the political system. Capitalism was though to be a perfect fit for American ideas because it was a system that was desi...

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Washington The first chapters of the book describe the narrator as an innocent and naive boy attending a black college in the South. ... With innocent optimism he moves up to the urban North where he has to discover Bledsoe's phoniness. ... But following the Communist theory "individuals [...] don't count" (236) for the Brotherhood whose leader Brother Jack, described as a very authoritative person "who snap[s] his orders like a general" (268), requires the invisible man to "accept discipline" (381) subordinating to the Brotherhood's aims - just as...

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While in school, Malcolm claims that his schoolmates treated him like a pet as opposed to a human person. ... In his speech, the author expresses vehemently about the practices of the white men on innocent black women. ...

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The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on looking back through our history books and reading about how our forefathers have continuously stood up to the most powerful, unjust, and tyrannical nations so that the world may be able to experience the fore granted notion of freedom. When the grip on the throat of the new Americans became too muc...

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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 ...

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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

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The Colour Purple Chapter 1 The first few pages begin Walker's narrative of the life of Celie, a fourteen-year-old black girl who lives with her dying mother and her sister, Nettie. Her stepfather, Alfonso, is portrayed as the villain of the narrative, first demanding sex from Celie's sick mo...

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SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. ...

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