Racial profiling to me is a lot like any other problem in our society today. ... It seems to me that racism is still part of our society, and sadly, I think it always will be. ... A value of 1 represents no disparity; values greater than 1 indicate over representation.) and the Search rate (searches/stops x 100). ... The entire state of Missouri showed a disparity index of .97 for whites and 1.27 for blacks, also a 6.34% search rate for whites and an 11.01% search rate for blacks. ... Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that these groups are lying. ...

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Blacks have also been shown to have higher crime rates than whites. Meaning by percentage of population and crime rate, blacks commit far more crimes. ... Are you telling me all minorities are incapable of being racist or discriminatory? ... And don't even get me started on the case of the black street punk who got punched by the cop. ...

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Paul Bou-Habib stated, "If the rate at which members of a specific racial group commits a crime is higher than that of other criminals will be caught if the police concentrate their efforts on investigating members of the racial group in question?... It makes me wonder how the mass incarceration of black males in society is so extreme, because of the poor communities many lived in. ... Research states that incarceration rates between 1880 and 1970 extended about "100 to 200 prisoners per 100,000 people" (Khalek, 2011).  ... In the past 30 years crime rates do not explain the u...

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When the lady ticket-seller saw me, her otherwise attractive face turned sour, violently so. ... In addition to all that Griffin mentions "He sat a few yards away, fixing his eyes on me. ... His refusal to extend even this courtesy to passengers who had paid as much as any white for their tickets was so conspicuous it made me aware of the stirrings of resentment among the Negroes behind me"(129). ... They judged me by no other quality. ... Moreover Griffin continued saying "When the segregationist argues that the Negro is scholastically inferior, he presents schools; he admits that so long as ...

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Unemployment rates are extremely high for the young males, according to a study conduct by Fox News "92 percent of black male teenagers between the ages of 16-19 years old are not employed" (Flannery, 2014). ... Ron Wilkins explains "the gangs made me feel like I had an identity, sense of family and a sense of acceptance". ... Bird tells the story "I was in the wrong neighborhood just walking and the policed stopped me, asked what I was doing in this neighborhood and said I looked like a robbery" (Crips and Bloods, 2008). ...

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The WPC weren't objecting to the increase in bus fare because they were unwilling to pay, but because of the way that black passengers would be treated in spite of the increased rate. ... Black cab drivers offered former riders of the Montgomery buses fares at reduced rates until local officials forced them to collect the regular rate. ... For instance, Miss Juliette Morgan, a librarian at Montgomery Public Library, writes in her letter to the Advertiser's editor, "Their cause and their conduct have filled me with great sympathy, pride, humility, and envy. ...

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Gill states that "I am more accurate at assessing race from skeletal remains than from looking at living people standing before me" (Gill). ... Sickle cell anemia is often thought of as an African disease, and while it does have alarmingly high rates in some parts of Africa, scientists have discovered that it did not originate there. ... Wherever malaria is a larger risk, sickle-cell anemia is apt to occur at higher rates. ...

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At the University of Michigan, perhaps the finest public university next to Cal-Berkeley, "the admission rate exceeded 90% for all 'underrepresented' minorities with GPAs above 2.8 (a dismal B minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the test. ... Out of 4675 applicants who checked the "white" or "asian" box (which are considered non-minority), only 140 were accepted, giving an acceptance rate of 3.0%. ...

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This intriguing quote by Aaron Powell really sparks a fire in me and gets my thoughts turning. ... Working class whites believe that affirmative action has lowered their success rate in the office, causing more tension between races. ... Higher education is such a competitive process, and for others to get accepted somewhere I didn't just because of their skin color, despite my scores being higher than theirs, is inequitable and causes me to resent the people experiencing preferential treatment, just as Wilkins is shining light upon. ...

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In his book, Dark Water: Voices From Within the Veil, Du Bois said, "I felt myself standing, not against the world, but simply against American narrowness and color prejudice, with the greater, finer world at my back urging me on. ... The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. (17)" Any other race that was not white was suddenly second rate to the superior and majority white man. ... That is not for me to say, but be brave! ...

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I can remember my grandfather telling me about his trips up seventh avenue on the bus and looking at the beautiful churches, social and civic centers, shops, theatres and other places of amusement. ... Wintz sates that, "This in turn, resulted in serious health problems, which gave Harlem the highest infant mortality and general mortality rates in New York City." ...

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When you think of African-Americans today what's the first thing that comes to mind? Reverse Racism? Angry? Thugs? Mean? Armed and Dangerous? Threatening? While I tend to think Blacks are resilient kings and queens, I thoroughly understand that the media constantly force feeds us negative represent...

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Realities After Reconstruction African Americans living in the southern United States after Reconstruction encountered extreme hardships in everyday life. Race relations between black and white Americans during this time period were highly strained. Segregation started to take place, violent a...

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In the wake of charging neighborhood school powers with the obligation regarding tackling these issues, the Court trained government trial courts to direct the procedure and figure out if nearby powers were integrating schools in compliance with common decency, commanding that integration occur "with all purposeful rate." ...

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