What if an African American wanted to join a traditionally white fraternity or sorority or vise versa? ... Taking a look, even within the systemthe white fraternities belong to the InterFraternity Council, the white sororities to Panhellenic and the black Greeks to the National Panhellenic Council? ... This definitely reflects on the past, but how much longer will it be before people can truly say that we are all equal. ... and made comments such asWhy did she go through White Rush?? ... Using something so petty as skin color to separate people is only holding us back. ...

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I do not think affirmative action has affected white males at all, because they are majority. ... I sampled twenty people varying in race, age, and gender. ... None of the people I asked refused to take the survey. ... While in contrast the majority or white male felt the opposite. ... One fabrication of minorities stealing all white men's jobs is false. ...

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Both texts discuss the racial discrimination which has built up over generations due to the cultural assumptions held by members of both the Aboriginal and white communities and examine the tension which exists between the Aboriginal and white communities. ... The Aborigines live in the back streets, a place where any white man is afraid to venture. ... Also, people like Old Darcy, a man who Blacky respects says things about Aborigines such as "You've got to be careful of these gins now, lad they've all go the clap, every last one of them". ... The poem "Redfern at Night" also presen...

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Most people would imagine all minorities love affirmative action and strongly voted for it and that's why it passed. ... Yes, a group of white men! ... Well, we too are angry white males. ... They believe that the passage of this proposition will encourage a healthy competition for jobs, and that it will cause people to strive harder to do their best. ... Is it only the white man that su...

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By singling out minorities as the only people that affirmative action applies to, you are discriminating against them from the start. ... People should be considered as individuals and not members of a different race. ... Another counter argument to the abolition of affirmative action is that minorities for the most part are brought up in poor neighborhoods and therefore their education is not as good as most of the white people whose income level is higher and subsequently have better schools. ... The percentage of white students accepted by Berkeley totaled 36.8 percent. ... People thr...

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Racism People see racism everyday across America. ... Many people think the jokes are funny. ... Even when the basketball team that they coach is all white. ... All because they didn't like types of people. ... They wear all white, ghost looking outfits. ...

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Racism is a far less an issue then one many people may think. ... There are many reasons why people are starting to realize the downside of racial quotas, and beginning to appeal them more often. ... It is wrong for the government to favor blacks and other minorities because they are not white. ... "But the additional claim - that campuses will become "lily white" - is inaccurate. ... I believe that many people take advantage of schools and jobs, and are accepted to a certain school or for a certain job when someone with much higher credentials are turned down just because they are white. ...

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Similarly, important was the role black women on an individual level played in offering a model for white women to follow. ... They were able to combine employment, child rearing and homemaking in ways that white women would later emulate. ... This served as a great inspiration to white women (MacLean, 2009, p. 70). ... Females participating in the Civil Rights Movement identified with the subjugation white females experienced from white males since they too had been treated as second-class citizens, inferior to both black and white men. ... The Civil Rights Movement influenced them "to ...

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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. ... Whites who work harder and or are more qualified can be passed over strictly because they are white. ... Or when applying for a job, if there are two men with the exact same qualifications on white and on...

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In this era anyone that was not a white male was discriminated against on a regular basis. ... This in effect not only hurts the white citizens, but also any United States born minorities. ... It was designed to make right what white Americans had done wrong for so many years, and to bring the women and minorities to the equal power in which they were entitled. ... This will also help to prevent people from abusing the powers of the plan while eliminating the threat of unintended use. ... Affirmative action is the right of some people in the United States, but without regulating the use of it ...

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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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Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil, the Indians, or rather the Native Canadians had been living in North America. ... The Natives regarded their white-complexioned visitors as something of a marvel. ... In exchange for items such as firs and beaver pelts to dress the upper-class of settling Europeans, the white people gave the Indian nomads small amounts of land to settle on, called reserves, and useless amounts of paper money that the Indians had no use for. A planned assimilation had already started, causing a growing strife between the white man and the n...

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If the percentage of blacks in the community exceeds 15 percent, a significant number of white families, especially those with children, are likely to move away in search of a more white community. ... However, blacks experience barriers in moving to white communities even while earning comparable income. ... Boustan (2013) categorized policy solutions to racial residential segregation into people-based solutions, place-based solutions, and indirect solutions. People-based solutions focus on enabling blacks to access homes in the neighborhood of their choice. ... The other form is making white...

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Similarly, laws forbidding sex and marriage between people of different races were ended. ... The Movement also brought about important non-legislative impact on the American people. It brought to the surface the amount of racism that existed in the country and initiated change from the heart of the people, not just politicians. ... When describing his high-school experience, Malcolm writes, "it has historically been the case with white people, in their regard for black people, that even though we might be with them, we weren't considered of them. ... The inaccurate media portrayal of vio...

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An example of this would be what white and black college students ask and how a black student may sarcastically answer. ... A: Why do all the white people sit together? ... Education should not be something divided into black and white. ... She wants there to be no reason for white people to look down upon black people. She says, "Your job is not to educate white people, it is to obtain an education " (Giovanni). ...

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These words were spoken by white individuals who did not have any reliance in the blacks attempt to become soldiers. ... "A black soldier can stop a bullet as good as a white soldier, and for less money too!" ... "White men dying for you, time has come and hidey up and fight like men. ... Trip was very angry with himself and the white soldiers, he felt a lot of anger because of the fact that they were being very discriminated. ... Even though these men are unfortunately dead, they have left a great example of what America stands for, and how our people should join. ...

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Research has shown, however, that affirmative action "has been an important policy for improving the economic status of people of color and White women" (Konrad, 429). ... The truth is that "for decades black unemployment has been about twice that of white unemployment" (Feagin, 258). ... This is one of many reasons that some people argue that affirmative action lowers standards. ... This view suggests that white men have "indeed paid a price for some affirmative action programs" (Feagin, 28). ... Other people argue that the ratio of white to black students should stay disproportionate in ...

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It became most noticeable in the 1960's civil rights movement that was designed to break down the barriers of segregation and exclusion against people of minority status. People of minority status encompassed a broad spectrum of individuals. ... But as the basis for imposing discriminatory legal remedies that work against innocent people, societal discrimination is insufficient and overexpansive. ... Even locally we have seen two cases surface where white students in grade school have been the victims of affirmative action discrimination and exclusion from public schools. ... David Su...

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Discretion can be seen when an officer decides whether to pull a car over, question some people walking, write a ticket or make an arrest. ... All people have their own opinions of police whether good or bad and that is at their own discretion from past experiences or the lack of understanding. ... What this grouping does is make police put people in categories and maybe might pull over a car with specific characteristics such as tinted out windows when they have done nothing wrong and officers might use the excuse of a "failure to use a turn signal" just to see who is in the vehicle and wha...

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It causes people who are in strong belief in what their race is. ... People feel better about themselves when they put down other ethnic groups, laugh about overweight people, and watch those popular reality shows where people are voted off (and laughed at, right?).""... In reading this essay I came to understand about the oblivious racism and sexism.I grew up in very "white" areas of the US. ... McIntosh invisions white advantages as a door that is opened by our society, through oblivious means that brings privileges to people due to the color of their skin and not due to individual virtues....

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Instead, white people and black people were both the same neutral skin color.... " 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. ... "The resulting argument is that affirmative action programs create 'reverse discrimination' against white males," (Jackson.) ... Another example was presented in a 2003 Supreme Court case when two white applicants were rejected from the University of Michigan. ... " Because minorities are indeed given preferential treatment just be...

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The African-American players and coaches had a figure that they could go to with any problems and controversies that they might have, and so did the white players and coaches. ... The star linebacker, Gary, forced the white members of the team to play their best, despite their feelings of the African-American players. On the other side of the color line, the star African-American player, Julius, forced the black players to play their absolute best, despite their feelings toward the white players. ... They brought people together because of a sport that the whole town loved and made them rea...

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The laws" intent was to afford underprivileged minority groups" equal opportunities for employment that were available to the white male. ... Many decades ago it was very evident that black people had a difficult time landing jobs. ... President Lyndon Johnson executed the added edge to expand the rights of black people and initiated the Civil Rights Law of 1964. ... We are now seeing more women, white and black primarily, black men and even the American native Indian in the American workplace. ... Forcing the hand of the white men in America to ...

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Consider an investment firm whose clientele consists solely of older white males. It may very well be in the firm's best interests to have a workforce consisting of older white males. Yet most would think it completely unjust for such a firm to give preferential treatment to a less qualified older white male over a black applicant. ... In his attempt to make a libertarian case for affirmative action, Valls believes that the practice is justified based upon past injustices towards a particular group of people. ... Of the applications mailed out, those with traditionally ethnic names ar...

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Since the 1950s, the female-to-male earnings gap has hovered around 60%: in 2001, for every dollar earned by a white man, white women earned 73 cents, African American women 63 cents, and Latinas 53 cents. ... However, 95% of Fortune 500 CEOs are still white men. ... For example, Finnish people are seen as inferior in Sweden, and perform poorly on tests there; however, they perform well on tests in Australia, where they are not discriminated against. ... "For every dollar white male managers in the private sector earn, white women managers earn 59 cents, men-of-color managers earn 75 cen...

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