The mistreatment of the Haitian people by white-Americans is a central theme in Felix Morriseau-Leroy's Tourist and Boat People. ... The first poem Tourist is written as the thoughts of a Haitian man speaking to a white tourist. ... " This is a Haitian man talking to a white tourist. Some white man who wants this picture to feel good about himself. ... " This Haitian man is telling this white tourist that he will not understand what is happening. ...

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There was a white George Town law school student who reported that black students are not as qualified as white students. ... When people speak of racism they hold a greater meaning to the word then how it is perceived. Although, the dictionary definition does give some insight to the understanding of what people really do mean. ... Since the only logical explanation for non- white failure is white racism, white society stands accused of virtually every problem concerning crime, welfare, or drugs. Failure and misbehavior by non- whites is proof enough that white society is riddled with hat...

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White-collar crime may force many people to make unfair judgments. ... Most people judge from their information and their knowledge on the subject, perceive white collar criminals either as individual who care about their families or as a group of criminals who take advantage of the public (Henslin142). ... White-collar crime cases often invoke the defense of entrapment. ... Blue and white-collar frauds appear to be equal (Cole 42). ... Most white-collar offenders are ordinary people who got into financial difficulty and who saw their way out of it through illegal and fraudulent measures...

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DuBois" essay, "The White World", he believes that cultural superiority consists of four major things. ... The first of Dubois" examples is beauty and health of body; in the white majority there are many people who fill this description. First of all, there are a lot of white athletes who would be considered very healthy. ... This is one of the fields that the white majority has not completely dominated for centuries. ... In the white majority, people are expected to make more of a difference in the society than a member of the minority. ...

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Should White People Be Killed? ... White people have far too much of a stake in maintaining their supremacy. ... So I am forced to conclude that white people should, and have to be killed to accomplish liberation. ... From a psychological perspective, white people must certainly be exterminated. ... While I acknowledge that white people can engage in this kind of anti-racist surgery, I also recognize that the masses of white people will not. ...

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In the educational system you are molded to believe that white is right and everyone and everything not white is wrong. ... Differences between people, in regards to skin color, head shape, and body shape have been used to aid oppression by "white" folks. ... During the 19th century white Europeans had come to the point that money equaled power and in turn gave them the right to enslave people that were unlike them. ... In the European "helping" way these people were taken from their families so that white hands did not get blackened by the dirt. The differences that the Europeans saw in these...

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After the war, Kipling wrote his famous poem as a sort of message to the United States, urging America to take up the burden of its newly-acquired Philippines, but also warning the powerful nation not to expect a warm or receptive welcome from the Filipino people, if and when it chose to impose white values upon them. The White Man's Burden begins "Take up the White Man's burden – Send forth the best ye breed" (Kipling, 1899, 1-2). True to Euro-centric form, Kipling's first two lines scream of racism, as the poet asserts the genetic superiority of white people...

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The narrator, decides to pass for white after numerous variations between assuming his status as a black man who wants to stand for the rights of black people and adopting the identity of a white man. ... Therefore, the Ex-Colored Man would hardly be treated as a black boy, if it were not for him and for people around him being told that he is not white. After this moment of revelation and before he decides to pass for white, the narrator acquires a new vision of the situation of black people in the United States. ... This with the situation of black people contributes to the narrator's ...

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Leroi Jones book, 'Blues People: Negro Music in White America' offers insight into jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. ... The White Negro is a 9,000 word essay by Norman Mailer that recorded a number of young white people in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's who liked jazz and swing music so much that they adopted black culture as their own. The "white Negroes" adopted black clothing styles, black jive language, and black music. They mainly associated with black people, distancing themselves from white society. ... From 1917 to 1930...

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"(276) In the story, white people are used to describe this quote, as they are what civilization is; the narrator describes them as "always dissatisfied"(277) and always wanting "us to be like them"(277). ... Because of civilization these people are robbed and ignored of their desires; they become hollow and shallow. ... Whitecloud uses this situation of a Native American in White society as an example showing the differences between civilization and nature. ... In civilization people find beauty in conformity. ... "(276) The psychological impact even affects mi...

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White privilege and its social consequences represent one of the main reasons why equality is unattainable. ... White privilege is a system that amasses to whites' greater wealth and resources. ... Being white constitutes a powerful asset in the United States and globally. ... If, as he sees it, individuals are all afforded the same rights with regard to "pursuing happiness," then it is inevitable that certain people, due to their individual intellect and skill, will be more successful at "attaining happiness". ... By contrast, the concentration of people of color in a geographic are...

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Unfortunately for the wolves, they were hunted heavily in the early 20th century because people believed that they were responsible for most of their livestock losses. ... These wolves have gray and white pointed hair and long pointed ears. ... As a result people did almost anything to kill these wolves and ended up killing eagles, ravens, foxes, bears, etc. ... With this said there is not really any legitimate reasons for people today to kill wolves and their population should continue to grow steadily....

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Linda Brown also had a white school that was only seven blocks down her street. Linda's father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll his daughter into the white elementary school. The principal of the white elementary school refused to accept Linda into the white school. The brown family went to McKinley Burnett, who was the head of Topeka's branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and asked for help. ... I do think that this law really helped with the civil rights and it opened up a lot of peoples eyes and made them realize that not all of the peo...

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Budgets It is amazing how a few thousand dollars can make such a huge difference in people's lives. ... It was very hard figuring out a budget sheet for the Blue Family because cuts had to be made in important parts of the budget sheet that people need, like personal things. ... You can make an assumption that the white's house hold is very laid back and happy. ... But what is most important unlike the White family the Blue families" children will have to go without a lot of thing children should receive. ... Kids may result to selling drugs robbing people for money. ...

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"And you"ll be sorry that you messed with the US of A," exclaims Toby Keith in his song "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)." ... Besides being injured, America also has "people" standing by her side with full support. ... People will not sit still when being disturbed. ... When America is in a time of need, her people will answer her call. ... The American people have a pride for their country in which they will sacrifice anything for. ...

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While on first glance, it appears that the White House plan to bail out automakers is dimwitted and a ploy to make rich men richer, the facts run contrary to that opinion. ... In addition to manufacturing new cars, the auto manufacturers, directly or indirectly create jobs for dealers, salesmen, secretaries, parts manufacturing, service personnel, tire manufactures, and tire sales people and more. ... The first casualties of recession are debtors, and like the Mortgage industry, the Auto industry depends on people paying down the notes that they finance. Unfortunately for the auto industry, ...

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The question that is on a lot of minds in regard to this case is what are these people afraid of? ... They are afraid of a man born of a white mother and an African father, who went to a Muslim school, and belonged a racist black church. ... They hear stories about cheating in the caucuses, and Black Muslims intimidating people at the polls, and their mistrust grows. ... Obama is so conscious of how much these people fear and loathe him, that he will be watching his P's and Q's very carefully. ... The powerful are getting more powerful, as the common people lose much of their s...

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The Cherokee Indians is one of the largest groups of Native American people. ... They were settled people whose land used to cover all of the southern Appalachians highlands, this covered Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. ... In 1839, the Cherokee Indians with the help of Kickapoo and Shawanee Indians fought for their lands against the white settlers of northeast Texas. ... Cherokees lived in Texas since 1807; these people were an offshoot of the Cherokees from the Arkansas settlement. ... Due to this, the Texans told them that they would attack, and those wh...

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People, coming from certain ethnic backgrounds, have ways that determine attitudes and outlook towards life, people, health and not forgetting food choices (S Dindyal 2003). ... The Americans are defined by Country music that is for the uptown white republicans, while the Caribbean and Africa-American value Hip-hop and R.n.b music. ... The people from Europe and far eastern, are represented by rock music and slow flowing songs. ... Moreover, ethnic diversity affects society in terms of language people speak. ... Conclusion The concept of Cultural outsider refers to ethnic discrimination that ...

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UN Shows True Colors- White In the past year the United Nations has made many controversial decisions, and many Americans are now saying, "Why do we belong to an organization that doesn't follow through with their convictions?" ... This means that if you torture or persecute people in your country and you say that it is a part of your religion, it is all right. We"re letting people be in charge of stopping the violation of human rights, and they say that if it's due to religious, cultural, or historical reasons then it's all right. ... We allow these people to be able to...

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The whole concept of whiteness is racism, whiteness is constantly shifting boundary separating those who are entitled to certain privileges form those whose exploitation and vulnerability to violence is justified. The term whiteness focuses mainly towards the white male, leaning towards virtues and male values. ... For example, white people often fear people of color, and most people of color fear white people. White people are not usually in danger of individual acts of discrimination, hate crimes and police brutality at the hands of white people, as well as of institutional practices th...

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I feel it is unfair to assume all white males, people, feel the same way. ... Most people that I know are aware that Affirmative Action is for the white women as well as the people of color. ... While the statistics show the numbers as far as job related and white people to the rest of the population, it is not fair, nor is it fair to bash all white people for this situation. ... To go as far as to say that this is a personal attack by the white people to make people of color their servants again. ... I would hope not to be clumped into this misconception as all white people want to accomp...

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This of course justified the white peoples continued enslavement of the black population. ... The various ideas and stereotypes that these white people planted into the population through various media structures were very wrong. ... None of these things could have come about however if not for the fact that it was the white people who controlled society. ... With the white people in control over society they were able to pass various laws that enabled them to control the black population. ... The power held by the white people allowed them to use institutional racism to ke...

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He considered white Americans to be an unjust, blood- thirsty people that are unmerciful -true barbarians. David Walker believed that white Americans treat their African slaves worse than any other people have ever been treated. ... He exemplified the backwardness of the white man's concept of barbarism by pointing out that the white American is the true barbarian. ... Abolitionism was working in places, and David Walker made an attempt to tip the scales of an often-teetering nation for the sake of himself and his people. In his work Appeal, Walker proved to the reader the intellectual ca...

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In this prejudiced filled world where people are killed for walking down the street while black, I have come to learn the best possible thing to be in this world is white" (Thomas). ... She also is saying that in this world today white people have more of benefit in everything in jobs, in the criminal convictions, trials, and education. ... The media spreads the idea that the people of color use and abuse drugs more than white people. In a study done by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration indicates that white people and black people use drugs at a similar rate, y...

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