(Lipsitz 2) In his book, "The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics," George Lipsitz argues that it is in the best interest of white Americans to "invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with resources, power, and opportunity." ... His actions forced my first confrontations with the possessive investment in whiteness "a poisonous system of privilege that pits people against each other and prevents the creation of common ground. Exposing, analyzing, and eradicating this pathology is an obligation that we all share,...

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Because African Americans knew they were subject of their own circumstance and that white society constructed and maintained that unjust circumstance, the black population feared the white race. ... White society attempted to suppress Bigger Thomas and anyone like him. ... The white folks got everything- (355). ... It seems more fantastic that all of the people around him are not. ... His crime of violence is as much the crime of the people around him, who stifled his soul and nourished the other, baser side of him that was the only way he had of self-expression. ...

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Stupid White Men by Michael Moore " Insert own title " I can't stop reffering stupid white men to people. ... Stupid white men is an excellent boook. ... He point's out a problem and then presents us, the reader with solution to that particular problem, an example racism, though you're not a racist you still adhere to it by just saying a racist joke, not meant to harm anyone or belitle them, but just have a laugh, but when you tell that joke althiough you're not a racist you hold open the rift between the white and the black man, though you personally believe that whi...

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The idea of pure white people and culture was one of the major socioculutral themes to blossom on the American continent. ... Americans so strongly accepted the myth of white superiority because it comforted those whites that might on occasion be smitten with moral doubts about slavery and the exploitation of indigenous peoples. ... This belief stated that they had a Manifest Destiny to take over these "lesser" people, if in fact they could be called people at all. ... The need for assurance in innate white superiority was so great that the people of that time would debunk any ideas that co...

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So when the duke and the dauphin come to dupe such people at their low point for their own selfish wants, well of course the spectacle would make anybody cynical. The spectacle illustrates just how unsympathetic, immoral, dangerous, and utterly terrible people can be, so much so that it makes Huck overwhelmingly disappointed and embarrassed to the point of being "ashamed " of his own kind of people. Not coincidentally, too, the con men duping these people are white. ... The scam has surely confounded Huck's idea of white "goodness," creating a gray area between the black-white paradigm:...

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One is in a room full of people and still not make human contact. ... For instance, understanding the history of white oppression of black people is essential to understand how we interact with each other today. ... I asked the men to stop and even though they did, during the next five minutes the two men and the two women complaining about "those people". ... That perhaps they had so much anger toward my whiteness. ... I could not find the proper words, so the women could understand "I am not like other white people". ...

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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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Our world is packed full of stereotypes that are not true and yet people continue to believe in them. ... The article goes over how strictly white feminist movements were criticized and fought to include women of every race. ... She goes on to state, "critics argue that white feminists have been mostly concerned about their own particular forms of gender oppression, emerging from their own white, middle-class, heterosexual experiences." ... We are a multicultural society of both men and women and therefore, must take a stand while representing all categories of people. ... Nor will they h...

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He struggles to cope with the people that have caused him to pain and acted as a burden on his life. ... It is used to create the necessary skills used in a home to help and care for white people, while the black powerhouse is symbolizes the rage and discontent of African Americans from the poor treatment they are forced to endure. ... A black base is the essential ingredient, the foundation required for a glowing white luster, a color that so many white members of the plant are proud of, such as Mr. ... The dependence that the white people have for the black paint is a metaphor exposing h...

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People communicate on the internet through chat rooms, e-mail, mailing lists, and mainly through web sites that people create. ... Don Black, the leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested in 1981 with other Klansmen and charged with plotting to invade the Caribbean island of Dominica and turn it into a "white state" (Corrections Today, 1999). ... For example, Derek, Blacks 12-year-old son who is home schooled, exclaims that, "white people are taught in school to be ashamed of their heritage. Therefore, I think that now is the time that all of the White people across the globe s...

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The black people are no longer enslaved by white masters, yet they are still enslaved by their fear of freedom and progression. ... Turner offers the most potent example of how black people are susceptible to racism just as are white people. ... Turner strive for the status of the white people, but also for the "unattainable" physical characteristics. ... Likewise, it is okay for the black people to be free and prosperous because even the white people have acknowledged their right to do so. ... She does not care what people have to say about her. ...

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But the reality was something else, it was the time of reconstruction period, where the notions towards the blacks were renewing in the laws, they were to be considered as equal as any other white man, but the people of Confederacy, who were defeated by the "UNION'' in the civil war had to give up slavery, were against it and made vigilante groups such as Ku Klux Klan, which was first found in 1865. These people took the charge of killing black Americans. These people wanted to restore the white supremacy by the help of lynching. ... Therefore, we can see that, how clearly the titl...

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Because all his life he has been seeing some white people who are being discriminative and black people telling him you don't understand and you will never do. ... At first he noticed the hate stare that is used by white people. ... Plenty of people here, white and colored would knock you in the head if they thought you had money on you... Where this proves that Negroes don't misjudge white people as the white people do. ... He proves that what white people say and think about the black people is wrong because white people don't argue about the cultural and ethnic differenc...

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African Americans automatically thought that "good hair" was white people's hair, and they always tried to make their hair look straight, because then they would have "good hair" and look more white. In the book Sweet Summer by Bebe Moore Campebell, the attempt by African Americans to fit into the "white world" is important because people were putting down their own race for being educated or so called, "acting white." ... Many people felt that they needed to Have power. ... They thought that "good hair" was white people's hair, and always tried to make their hair look straight,...

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Black people form the very bottom level of humans, just above monkeys and chimpanzees. ... The site things such as black crimes, growing acceptance of homosexuality, interracial marriages, increasing drug use, and a lack of racial identity among white people of items to help back there belief. ... Everything they do is geared towards populating the earth with all white people. They refer to black people as "niggers- rather than Negroes, or Afro-Americans. ... There is only one true religion and that is the white race; creativity is the salvation of the white race. ...

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White men and women were in a phase of animosity against black people during 1 this time. Many of them saw the black people as a threat. ... With the jobs that black people did acquire came scrutiny and segregation. ... White men and women felt violated to have to share anything, including bathrooms, with black people. ... World War II took a toll on many people and changed many lives. ...

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Scout is exposed to hatred and racism to colored people as she grows up in Maycomb. ... As she gets older and wiser, she comes to the conclusion that the colored men are just like white men and that the world is unfair to colored people. ... Deprivation didn't stop there, as in Baltimore the colored folk were not allowed to live near white people, "No black person could occupy a home on a block where more than half the people were white;" (The Editorial Board). Even when the colored families can afford to live in the same neighborhood as white people if the majority of the occ...

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I have decided to focus on these five people to show you how terrible these white supremacist groups are. ... He is one of the most hated people in the political scene. ... Thus, as multi-culturalism, consumerism, Jewism and Jewish Christianity, crude capitalism, and prostitution became so rampant in the government that the "tax base" of the government could no longer support the needs of the white people. ... Alex Curtis published a manual for putting all the power in San Diego to white people. ... He says that, "With good and creative white people all working simultaneously is San Diego for ...

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In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... Pecola realizes that the family in the primer is white ! ... After this incident Pecola believes that if she is granted blue eyes she will be able to live up to white standards of beauty, and furthermore, be accepted in society by white people like Mr. ... Pecola's obsession with other people's beauty causes her to submit herself to disrespect because her ugliness causes her to hav...

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In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the evils inflicted upon blacks by a white society indoctrinated by the inherent beauty of whiteness and ugliness of blackness are thoroughly depicted. ... (white) American family described in the primer. ... After this incident Pecola believes that if she is granted blue eyes she will be able to live up to white standards of beauty, and furthermore, be accepted in society by white people like Mr. ... Pecola's obsession with other people's beauty causes her to submit herself to disrespect because her ugliness causes her to have low se...

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He shot three people, took the entire bar hostage, and began kerosene all over to set the place on fire. Fortunately he was stopped by two people who jumped him. ... The rest of the bar was also white. ... Or what about Ronald Taylor from Pittsburgh, who fatally shot 3 people and wounded two. ... Whether a white man kills a white, a black, or a black man kills a black or a white. ...

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Simply because he is black, many white people automatically assume he is up to no good and react accordingly. ... (Staples) The racist assumption by the white people in the building that a black man who is running must be a burglar led to ridiculously unfair results, for the office manager called security and pursued Staples through the halls, nearly to his editor's door. ... (Staples) These examples from the author's life demonstrate to me how black people must always be on the defensive, and constantly be prepared to be accused of something or be mistrusted by white p...

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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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Through her experiences in the working world Anne learns that not all white people have the same view of blacks. ... An important event that affects Anne's outlook on life is the murder of a young black boy, named Emmett Till, by a group of white men because he had whistled at a white woman. ... Burke or no other white person, you heah!" ... From this information she gained, Anne decides, "I was 15 years old when I began to hate people. ... It is said that no two people in the world are the same and that is due to the fact that each person experiences the same things, nor are they surr...

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The students tease me not because I was late, but because my mother is white. ... One girl who did not agree with her father went on to say: "Yes, well, my dad can be a bit negative, I find him being a little bit racist against white people. ... A teenage bi-racial girl that had been brought up by white non-racist people was asked by her black father: "Are you black, or are you white?" ... Black and white bi-racial people usually have no problem identifying themselves, but they usually pick one of these two choices. ... Also, if the child was in a school that was predominately white, the child...

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