The article includes your opinion that affirmative action should be abolished and that lower education should be looked at to solve such problems. ... You might start by saying that these laws make it unbalanced and begin to favor the minorities in America. ... So any comment about how minorities are favored due to affirmative action does not hold any value. ... This is not because they are minorities and definetly not because they were accepted due to any laws. ... Not to mention that not only minorities drop out of school, but many white Americans do so as well. ...

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Many believe that affirmative action is a very effective plan; however, the population which opposes such action frequently includes people of various minorities, as well as many others who have been wronged by this plan. In several cases, this plan causes minorities to be perceived as being under-qualified when hired. In addition, it also causes a new minority, the white male. ... He says that "Weak Affirmative Action weakly discriminates against new minorities, mostly innocent young white males, and Strong Affirmative Action strongly discriminates against these new minorities". ... H...

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Having not been written by a person of a minority group, these textbooks are unable to convey the point of views that minorities have on America's history. We do learn about slavery, the civil rights movement, and other events involving minorities, but very seldom during school do students have access to the minorities" perspective of these events. ... Recently there has been a dramatic increase in class time devoted to events and issues dealing with minorities, and on learning what views minorities have on these topics. ... Along with the history of minorities, minority culture has be...

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This order required federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to increase the number of minorities that they employed. ... Such distortions include the hiring of unqualified workers, the causing of problems for groups it originally set out to help, and reverse discrimination that results in unfair standards into higher education and the work force. ... Instead of treating minorities like equals, it treats them like they are better than other members of the population and puts white males in a disadvantage like the minorities once were. ... Some arguments for affirmative action may be ...

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The laws" intent was to afford underprivileged minority groups" equal opportunities for employment that were available to the white male. ... This broadened the law to include any American agency or business that received federal assistance to abide by the same laws. ... Hiring and promotion of minorities has shown tremendous increase since this act was passed into law. ... Congress realized that the minorities must be given a better opportunity to receive the education to qualify for certain jobs. ... The undergraduate program allows additional points automatically to minorities or...

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In 1996, six minority employees filed suit against the oil giant Texaco. Texaco was charged for "systematic failure to promote minority employees and with fostering a racially hostile environment."" Evidence of secret tapes revealed that four top executives referred to minority employees as "black jelly beans- and "niggers."" ... This can often occur in the workplace by allowing for advantages to be given to a certain minority or majority of a race. ... The University contends that it looks for minorities within the large pool of qualified applicants. ...

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There have also been many isolated incidences involving racially motivated crimes and actions against visible minorities. ... Canada's public sector, responsible for the justice system, has been largely scrutinized in recent years for it's percieved bias against visible minorities. ... One explanation is that the law in practice in Canada today which is practiced and has it's policies implemented in most courtrooms in the country today, was created in an era in which members from several minority and disadvantaged groups were banned from participating in society an...

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Majority of societies will face at least one of many different problems, such as, drugs, HIV/AIDS, school dropout rates, minority issues, and racism. ... The issue of racial profiling is more complicated than that conception; it can include people of many backgrounds in many different situations. ... Many minorities face being pulled over by policemen just because of the color of their skin, not because of violating the law. Nevertheless, there are many lawsuits being held on minorities being stopped by a police officer of racial profiling and unaware of how to handle the situation. ... Henc...

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Since the early 20th century, scholars have grappled with questions about the existence of racially discriminatory case processing practices and the potential for differential criminal sentences being imposed on racial and ethnic minorities. ... Judges can only make sentencing decisions made by police (e.g., decisions to arrest versus release with a warning) or by the prosecutors (e.g., charging decisions, charge reduction decisions, and plea agreements), which may have introduced selection biases that will inevitably produce differential final outcomes for whites and minorities who may be le...

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The prevailing perception in American society today is that most drug traffickers and gang members are minorities, mostly blacks. ... Racial profiling is based on the premise that minorities commit most drug offenses. ... This adds to the perception that whites commit far fewer drug offenses than minorities. ... 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. ...

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Such jobs include health aides, maids, housekeepers, and servers. ... The wage gap intensifies minority women, specifically African-American women into poverty. ... In regards to ability to pay their mortgage payments, 18 percent of minority women were worried that they would be incapable of making mortgage payments compared to 7 percent of white women....

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Indicators of student effort include how often students are absent from school, how interested they are in their schoolwork, whether they try to do their best, whether they complete their assignments, and how much time they spend on homework and other activities such as work or watching television. ... We find these problems to be most common in urban areas where black minorities are the majorities. ... Jobs like city maintenance or cleaning services, which has less income than that which is desirable are usually what you find most minorities migrating to. Also certain jobs as McDonalds or ...

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This question has to be asked though, "Did the feminist civil rights movement include all women like the civil rights movement for blacks included all African-Americans?" ... Minorities' thoughts were not heard because they weren't in a social position that would enable it. ... They were also oppressing other feminist because they "silenced" the minority voice by drowning it out. ... While white women's main oppression was in the area of family, ethnic minority women were more oppressed by the phenomena of racism. ...

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I believe that if Latinas were to watch this movie it tells them that they can reach social mobility as a minority, person of color and female. ... Marisa also happens to be a single mom and minority. ... Stuart Hall defines ideology as something that doesn't include individual concepts but statements that are made by individuals' subconscious thoughts; also something that works to differentiate and identify groups of people. ...

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While the white minority National Party government passed and implemented oppressive apartheid laws, black South Africans responded by intensifying their political opposition in the form of protests, marches, strikes and boycotts. The repressive laws of the apartheid system introduced and practiced by the white minority National Party government after 1948, certainly made black resistance difficult but not impossible. ... The Article 11 of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid states that apartheid is a crime: For the purpose of the present Co...

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The white minority strongly resisted African majority rule and during the 1940's the Afrikaner National Party sought to mobilize Afrikaner opinion. ... The white minority, fearing African majority rule, voted the National Party into office in 1948's whites-only general election. ... The Group Areas Act allocated 87% of the land to the white minority of 4 million people and 13% to the black majority of 20 million people. ... The Apartheid system also called for political segregation, restructuring the bureaucracy to include separate departments for each racial group. ...

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"(Report of The Sentencing Project to the United Nations: 11) The economic situation for black people generally does not look much different than from what Grisham describes, if anything it is worse: During the 2007-2009 recession, all incomes have declined, but those of minorities were affected most. ...

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Oppression and marginalization of youth minorities over thirty years ago had led to the creation of the music and culture that is known as Hip-hop. ... Some examples of white involvement in Hip-hop include those who support the music, those who are critical of the culture, and those who participate in the further development of Hip-hop. ...

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The 6th amendment states that a fair trial must have certain elements, which includes an impartial jury, among others. ... All of the characters previously talked about have one thing in common- all of them had different beliefs than society, and were all the minority at some point or another, but they all stayed true to their beliefs. ...

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During the argument over electoral votes, southern states were quick to try to include their slaves in an effort for more power. ... In her article about African-American stereotypes, Monnica Williams says "Given that African Americans are a statistical minority in the US, the overwhelming majority of drug abusers will therefore be White. ...

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Another factor to include is to imagine you are someone of another race. ... At the end of each segment of his essay, he includes quotes from all of his various Jim Crow-enhancing experiences. ... It is set by those with power, upon the African American minority for the sole purpose of restricting their actions and giving those in authority even more power. ...

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The co-stars include Fairuza Balk, Stacy Keach, Elliot Gould, Avery Brooks, Ethan Suplee, and Beverly D'Angelo. ... With all the minorities moving in it begins a fertile ground for increasing anger for insecure ethnocentric white males. ...

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Indeed, "statistical studies indicate that prosecutors are more likely to pursue full prosecution, file more severe charges, and seek more stringent penalties in cases involving minority defendants than in cases involving nonminority defendants."8 This discrimination becomes even more evident, and disturbing, when examining the death penalty. ...

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