Apartheid in South Africa Apartheid is a practice in which colored people were separated from white people. ... If they could not decide this from the coloring of your skin they would use something called a "pencil in hair test". This test was preformed by pushing a pencil into some ones hair. ... This supposed test was not accurate at all and caused many families to be torn apart. ... These tests results resulted in many colored people being classified as white people and white people being classified as black. ...

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Lastly, Jendian introduced us to "Implicit Association Tests Bias " a test that showed hidden race biases in our unconscious mind. I took three different race bias tests and on all three I was scored to have strong bias against black people. The test was about relating words to black and white faces and my scores showed that I unconsciously associated blacks with being lazy, violent or aggressive. ... PART II: I was shocked to see my results on the Implicit Bias test, because I never considered myself to be racist whatsoever. ... To be totally honest I don't really associate myself with b...

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What people mean when the say "war for freedom from other races" is that if white people do not discriminate, then in 70 years or so, they will be the minority in America, and they can not let that happen (CounterPunch). If people do not preserve racism, white people will lose their hold on the world and become the minority. ... People often refer to IQ tests to determine intelligence but according to the Atlantic, "[people who discriminate racially based off IQ tests] misunderstand the implications of what those tests indicate even when they are credible; and they fail to fin...

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A drawback on Affirmative Action has been tested before and shows a dramatic difference. ... Many white people have attempted to fight for their rights. ... He was not accepted despite scoring higher on standardized tests than almost all of the minority applicants. ... It is understandable that people used to see a need for Affirmative Action. Many wanted schools to be integrated, and saw a need to have rules regulating how many people of each race attended a school. ...

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Affirmative action is beneficial to some people; but not everybody. ... An example of how it is wrong is if there are 100 people applying for a job. ... The top ten people on the list include eight whites and two minorities. ... In another case, there are 1000 people applying for a private school. ... The top 20 on the list of the grades on the placement test contained 150 whites and 50 minorities. ...

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Affirmative action is beneficial to some people; but not everybody. ... An example of how it is wrong is if there are 100 people applying for a job. ... The top ten people on the list include eight whites and two minorities. ... In another case, there are 1000 people applying for a private school. ... The top 20 on the list of the grades on the placement test contained 150 whites and 50 minorities. ...

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Those are the people of Africa. ... A whole century passed and I see a little change for the African American people. ... I think it is a way of social structure to create low income housing so they can divide the rich people from the poor people. my definition of the unemployment of urban is poor people not having jobs that they can work and pay their rents buy food and other essence stuff. ... Another way is educating people; teach the skills they do to do the jobs. ... Most of the public schooling does not have books less teachers the class are so big and that the teachers can't teach ...

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I though with his dad saying that it made it seem that all black people are dumb. 4. ... On the other hand Derek killed 2 people and only goes 3 years. 9. ... In the dinner scene with his father he warns Derek to read the literature Sweeny makes him, take the test, Ace the test, but don't believe any of the information Sweeny is telling him or the literature there reading. 12. ... On the other hand I like the overall theme of the movie, which people can change no matter how they were socialized. 18. It's easy to become socialized by people you look up to. ...

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Aren't there both intelligent and witless people in all races? ... In addition to GPA and achievement tests, students can score points for things like being a resident of the state in which the college is located, being related to an alumni of that school, having won a competition, or being a scholarship athlete. ... Today many people have a white dad and a black mom or a Chinese dad and a Spanish mom. Also, there are white people who live in the city and black people who live in the city; and there are white people who live in the suburbs and there are black people who live in the sub...

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Another opposing argument to Affirmative Action is that promotions given to white males employees were based solely on merit and intelligence, reason being that white males score higher on standardized test. ... Affirmative Action has opened the door for many people who would have never been able to go to a top school or get a managerial position. ...

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"I love this cultured hell that tests my youth." But even though he knows that his people are being oppressed daily in this "white" America, he still feels strong and determined. ... A famous poem that he wrote on the struggles of black people was entitled "From the Dark Tower". ... This was the only people understood that the American legal system was an oxymoron. ...

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The plaintiff, a white male, brought up the issue that he believed he had been rejected merely on the basis of his Caucasian status, and that minorities who had gained admission into the University had lower test scores then he did . ... "Affirmative action is about giving back to a specific group that had their rights denied, that never had the same rights as other people. ...

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It is the act of testing or proving by experience or use. ... -", because black people wern't supposed to care about white people. ... "From now on it'll be everybody less one" Scout and Jem were not prejudice, they were the only white people except for Dill to sit in the balcony with the black people. ... The townspeople didn't like black people at all. ... Prejudice is a strong word; some people in this novel are prejudice without reason. ...

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The Blacks in Mississippi were afraid to register to vote because they knew that if they did the tests were almost impossible to pass. ... I think that Jesus would not say anything to a church that did not support freedom for all people. ... If he said anything in a church like that he would probably say that he would not take part in anything like that, he would ask the people what they have agents black people and he would tell them to look beyond all the stereotypes and what not. 3. ... I would be extremely mad that I do not have the same rights as a white man when I am just as smart and c...

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Moreover, people thought that the culture the African slaves brought to America ceased to exist because of slavery, but it persevered through Ebonics. ... It was said, "One of the main applications of black language has been to strengthen the in-group solidarity of black Americans to the specific exclusions of whites, and to deceive, confuse, and conceal information from white people in general" (Dalby 172). ... As a result, the rich African heritage will stand the test of time as long as it is told in the strong and authentic words of Black English. ... These musicians and artists did not...

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These activities meant it was time for change, the world was changing its views and the way different people were treated, and America was the only country that was still holding on past customs. ... The 1965 voting rights act eliminated maneuvers such as literacy tests that prevented black people from voting in large numbers in Selma. ...

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His sister, a prostitute, his son Absolom, an unwed father to be and future murderer, and his brother John, a corrupt politician, all strip away his innocence and test his morals. ... With the recent tragedies in America, people can be seen acting similarly. Whether donating money, blood, or volunteering, people from all walks of life come together try to help the cause. ...

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As the novel progresses, this innocence and faith is tested by the hatred and prejudice issues of the town that emerge during the main event of the story, the trial of Tom Robinson. ... First of all is the message about how separated the white people are to the coloured people in the town. ... The black people are religiously detached from the white people as they have a separate Negroes Church. ... This shows that the black people had a certain disregard for the white, as they probably have been so poorly treated. ... From this I learnt that the dangers posed to innocent people by evi...

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From the beginning, people knew King was special. ... King, putting Gandhis techniques of nonviolent protest to the test, supported and participated in a sit-in demonstration organized by Atlanta college students. ... More than 200,000 people gathered near the Washington Monument for this historical event. ... His loss was a profound one by people of all races. ... Martin Luther King Jr. was and always will be loved by people all over the world. ...

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This statement of protecting and serving the community sometimes is tested to its utmost when police officers are put in what they consider to be a life or death situation. ... In 1857, the ruling in the Dred Scott case, the court ruled that black people could be property, not citizens. ... Police have been given the power to stop people of different ethnic groups, as long as they have a "hunch". ... Racial profiling against African Americans has been an ongoing battle for this group of people longer than most people may know. ... As of today, the Patriot Act permits wire taps, sei...

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During the 1960s black playwright, LeRoi Jones, founded the Black Arts Movement to inspire art that was by, for, and about black people. ... This is obviously a stereotype of how whites people represented by Lula viewed Black through the character Clay. ... People using hair straighteners and skin-lightening creams, they attempt to look white without consciously realizing they are doing so. ... The play primarily pointed out several fault of people and of the society as a whole. ... The discourse of integration would be tested by the discourse of identity, as the question of how African Ameri...

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That is 40,000 people, 40,000 victims, 40,000 brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, mothers and fathers. ... In Florida, a Jewish woman who was in a chat room, was told by another internet user, "you belong in a gas chamber" and "your people are the product of Satan having sex with Eve". ... Seeing as how the teen years are the most precious and impressionable years, the primary goal for this record label is to "recruit" as many people between the ages of 14 to 26-year-olds. Once most of these people stepped out of the movement, a majority of them said that it was the music that brought them in. ...

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Grassroots is defined as "the ordinary people in an organization, rather than the leaders" by the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 2001 edition. ... They also attempted to get private retailers like Sears, which was anti-union and resistant to grassroots pressure, to give credit to lower income people. ... We only want ONE[,] a SEARS credit card for all poor people"; and "Give us Credit for Being American." ... The aforementioned is mostly due to the fact that many Americans could not fathom the idea of welfare rights or the idea of allowing people to purchase things that are not wi...

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In the past, some black social clubs and societies only allowed those who had light skin: "People say that in the early days at Spellman College were not admitted if they were darker than a paper bag," said one graduate on the website called Pride and Prejudice. ... According to Branham, assistant professor of Afro-American studies at Northwestern University, thousands of blacks simply merged with the white culture, as early as 1890s: "Lots of people can point to a relative who ceased to be black and simply disappeared into the white community. ... Why is that most of the homeless people are d...

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The war put constitutional government to its severest test as a long festering debate over the power of the federal government versus state rights. ... Reconstruction, generally defined, as the period from 1865-1877, was the battlefield on which these competing logics confronted each other on where freed people's place in American society would initially be defined. ... Across the South, so-called "Black Codes" passed by the new state governments, imposed a range of oppressive measures that amounted to a second slavery for freed people. ... Ferguson, upheld Jim Crow creating a legal sanct...

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