Some people have suggested that the employment system should work on a color-blind test (Plous). The color blind test is a method where race is not mentioned on applications. Employers determine how qualified an individual is by administering a test (Benoit). ... For instance, it is logical to hire people with higher test scores, but "members of socioeconomically disadvantaged groups tend to score less well than equally qualified members of other groups" (Benoit). The color-blind test ultimately favors Caucasian people, even though it is meant to be fair. ...

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On August 5, 1962, he was arrested again for provoking people to strike and for leaving South Africa without a passport. ... Police opened fire on the protesters and within minutes, 56 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured. ... If black citizens wanted to vote, they were required to take a literacy test and a Constitution test. ... However, white citizens were not required to pass any tests or pay any fees, also infringing upon the equality of all people. ... If it weren't for the works of everyday people, apartheid and segregation may have still existed today. ...

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One factor that has affected many entering college in the last 30 years is the idea of affirmative action, where a race or a particular group of people receive preferential treatment over others. ... This legislation, along with an executive order in 1965, helped blacks by forcing businesses receiving federal funds to stop using aptitude tests and other criteria that tended to discriminate against blacks ("affirmative action"). ... In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and...

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There are many controversies about what exactly happened, but most people will agree that it was a true tragedy. ... Archeologists used ground-piercing radars and other equipment to test the soil for unmarked graves to determine how many people are buried there. The tests picked up dozens, if not hundreds of bodies outside the cemetery ("Archaeologists"). ... The Tulsa Race Riot commission members want the state to rebury all the victims and build a memorial to remind people of that day. ... As tragic as the race riot was, people need to know and understand the details leading to such i...

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(pg.439) Bottom line, it is the way Black people think, act, and socialize. ... The above stated came forth through an acute critique and rejection of white psychology in terms of its methodological conclusions and the ideological premises it tests. ... (Pg. 443) Black psychology has set forth new definitions, conceptual models, and test theories that come from the heart of the Black experience. ... The Radical school is the last I will discuss; this school makes no appeal to whites and directs their attention to Black people in terms treatment and transformation. ... The members of this...

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Although they were free, black people weren't looked upon as equal, but inferior to whites. ... Literacy tests were set up and African Americans had to pass a test consisting of reading and writing to allow them to vote. ... The KKK is still active in America to terrorize different groups of people. ... Many people are still closed-minded and prejudiced against those who do not think or do the same things. ... Since the tragedy of September 11, many people have built a fear and/or hatred for all Arabs. ...

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Inequality leads to larger social gaps, which leads to exploitation of the lower class, which leads to people in the lower class feeling that they are less important than those of the upper class. ... Three subsamples were chosen for testing. ... The next test given was the Self-Harmful Behavior Scale (SHB). ... In this study a sample of 10,000 people in five different education categories were used. ...

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"Black people have been experiencing oppression from other ethnic groups, particularity white people for centuries" (Avakian). Black people were slaves to white people; they were forced to serve them while suffering cruel and inhuman punishment. ... Black people are considered inferior to white people in America, but what about in other areas of the world? ... When Baldwin arrived at the village, he demonstrated the ideologies of how white people in Europe viewed black people. ... In his attempt to certify the success of their latest responsibility, white men have employed the long ...

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In 1994 the Los Angeles Fire Department refused five thousand white men from taking their qualifying test because the department had not yet met its minority and gender hiring goals . ... People are not entitled to a position because of the color of their skin but rather because of the hard work they have put into working their way to the top. ... With these revisions to the original plan, I believe that the people affirmative action was intended for will receive the protection they deserve. This will also help to prevent people from abusing the powers of the plan while eliminating the threat ...

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the main character, Blacky learns many things as well as gaining an understanding of many important issues such as courage, belonging, tolerance of Black people (especially Aborigines) and the importance of relationships and friendships. ... One of these is Gary beginning to develop a tolerance of the Aboriginal people and their culture, and then further attempting to apply it to the intolerant town in which he lives. Gary's first step towards accepting understanding the Aboriginal people and culture was when Dumby saved him from being beaten up by Mad Dog, giving Gary Black a reason ...

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She believes having bright, beautiful, blue eyes will make people love and care for her. ... It is very easy for one to make the argument that Morrison is making social commentary on the injustice white Americans have caused black people (i.e. forcing blacks to deny their natural beauty in order to placate white expectation.) ... In this story, postwar middle-American black communities use the image of Shirley Temple in the same way southern creoles created the infamous "paper bag test- to exclude darker skinned blacks from the higher tiers of African American society. ... She has seen it l...

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He is one of those people just on the cusp of escaping the contemporary and slipping into the historical-John Coltrane would have turned eighty-eight this year; Martin Luther King, Jr., would have turned eighty-five-people who could still be with us but who feel, at times, very far away, as though they lived centuries ago. ... And it was there in the bath, with his words and her voice, that I had my body-double moment: here I was in Leukerbad, with Bessie Smith singing across the years from 1929; and I am black like him; and I am slender; and have a gap in my front teeth; and am not especiall...

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However, America does not symbolize a safe haven for all people. ... The idea of equal treatment for all people does not pertain to blacks. ... Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth! ... This line means that he is still set apart from the white people in society. ... Once he is strong, the white people can no longer ask him to eat in kitchen. ...

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Instead, white people and black people were both the same neutral skin color.... For many decades now, our government has been treating people differently based on their skin color, causing no one to be or feel equal towards one another. ... " The so called, "minority slot," is a hiring practice that only allows people of color to compete against other people of color for a spot. ... Minorities being seen identified and tested on solely their group of skin color, rather than their individual contributions, causing much stigmatization among them (Wilkins.) ... Despite the extremi...

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For many people, race is defined as the color of your skin, but in fact, this term has a variety of meanings. ... Loring Brace says "If we test the distribution of the widely known ABO blood-group system, then Europeans and Africans are closer to each other than either is to Chinese" (Brace). ... Pictures in the media show us that the people of Norway, Egypt, and Kenya appear very different. ... This was yet another way to feel superior to people who were different from them. ... The one that everyone is most familiar with is a group of people that share a physical trait, such as ski...

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People of color were the majority that were treated unfairly. ... The black people in this era were not allowed to vote. ... There were also extensive literacy tests that had to be passed. ... Many middle to upper class people discriminated heavily against blacks but also against people of their own race. ... People still tend to do this today. ...

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The ones who were able to comprehend the fact that all people are born equal opposed abolition for one of two reasons. ... This is evident in a variety of areas including intelligence, performance on tasks or tests, and the possession of desirable characteristics or personality traits. ... Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African-Americans to live in society as free people. ... The abolition of slavery did not completely end the idea that white people were superior. ... In his article he quotes Annette Gordon-Reed as saying "African-American enslaved people were the...

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The town's "leading white people" loved the speech and asked him to deliver it at a local hotel in the ballroom. ... The people at the hotel make the narrator feel very uncomfortable. ... This represents many of the hardships that the African American people had to deal with over the years. ... People were hurt and crying. ... I am thinking that maybe they did this just to test his patience and pride. ...

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Tests indicated he had a swollen prostate gland, and his physician recommended surgery. ... His support for left-wing politics and his sympathy for repressed people made him a popular figure worldwide, and sometimes a controversial one. ...

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Interaction allows students to learn that persons of the opposite race are people too, more or less like themselves. ... Individuals who benefit from affirmative action must achieve academic excellence relative to other people with similar backgrounds. ... The constitution says we must treat all people equally but the affirmative action treats some people unequally, actually more equally. ... There are several factors that a college should take into account when considering applicants, such as grades, test scores, and extra-curricular achievements. ... Affirmative action provides an advantage ...

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The rationale was that the people would either not be able to afford the tax or they would lose their proof of payment by November. Also literacy tests were required in many areas before one could vote. ... Dubois founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). ... He went on to say that the practice of cross-town bussing and "Separate, but equal" caused psychological damage leading black people to feel they were inferior. ...

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Of course, this vocal minority is not challenging traditional forms of preference and discrimination that favor the rich, the educated, white people and men. ... With years of change and constant focus, we as a people continue to find ways to bridge the gap and level the playing field in a much larger vineyard. But there are still thousands of examples of situations where people of color, white women, and working class women and men of all races who were previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, have gained access through affirmativ...

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The ideas of negritude and soul, the governmental issues of Black Power, the brain science of dark fury, are so well known to black people of the sixties that it comes as a stun to understand that Hughes was showing understandable and solid pictures of them in his poetry in the twenties and thirties. ... As alluded to earlier Langston Hughes was a voice for his people (African Americans). ... " During this period in his life Langston Hughes was a man who transcended what it was to be African American into what he thought that it should be through his writings according to Smethurst, &qu...

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As years passed, the critiquing of Hurston's work increased, yet not in the way that people may have expected. ... Hurston offered to take a lie detector test to prove her innocence, but the police did not pursue this (Grade Saver; Zora Neale Hurston). ... She wrote to her friend Carl Van Vechten: "No acquittal will persuade some people that I am innocent. ... "God does love black people, doesn't He?" ...

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Gaines was inspired by gifted young black people that he highly respected. ... It was not the objective of making money, it was about self - satisfaction and making a point about life and people itself. ... They are faced with struggles that test the conviction of personal beliefs. ...

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