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    Despite great efforts to abolish racism‚ discrimination against the African American people was as strong as ever in the 1930s. The 1930s was a hard time for white people‚ but considerably harder for the African American people. There were an abundance of problems for African Americans. Each day they would be judged by the way they looked. The harsh judgment‚ they received was astonishing and knowing that they lived this way is unbelievable. Between the uncivilized living situations and the cruel

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    (8%) were stopped by police during 2011. A higher percentage of black drivers (13%) than white (10%) and Hispanic (10%) drivers were stopped by police during 2011” (“Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) - Traffic Stops”). Especially

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    Introduction During the 1960’s‚ there was a significant disparity between the amount of minority and female representation in the workforce versus the amount in the American population. In an attempt to correct this disparity‚ President John F. Kennedy enacts Executive Order 10925 which causes for an aggressive hiring of minorities by the federal government (Chrisman‚ 2013). Consequently‚ over-time‚ the civil rights movement as well as current laws and Supreme Court decisions greatly expand the

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    “current controversies surrounding racial profiling of criminals suspects” (Staples. 196). This means many people are investigated‚ they would stand for the color of their skin‚ ethnicity‚ and national origin. I have been put under the profiling category because of the color of my skin. Although people with black skin have a higher chance of getting profiled‚ I myself am a young man with brown skin‚ with a Hispanic appearance that is fairly profiled. Racial discrimination has proven itself to being a

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    and says “ you know what I can’t do‚I can’t look at you without thinking about the five or six more qualified white men that didn’t get your job”. This idea supports my hypothesis as Ryan being white believes that whites are more superior over the blacks and Shaniqua

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    is constantly degrading the African American life. Some of the law enforcement personnel at times target only the minorities as criminal suspects‚ which eventually scolds the racial population of the people arrested and charged(Cole‚ Smith‚ & DeJong‚ 2013). This causes a big conflict between the black and the white race. Racial profiling is a major problem that the U.S. criminal justice system has (Cole‚ Smith‚ & DeJong‚ 2013). This involves the classification of criminal suspects on the basis race

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    because you are somewhat different from everyone else. Being different doesn’t mean you are not part of the world and doesn’t make it okay to get singled out and targeted on because of being different. Every race at one point‚ has experienced discrimination. As children growing up‚ we are taught to not judge a book by its cover but that’s easier said than done. Making judgements about something without having prior knowledge seems to be a part of human nature and human’s basic way of thinking. It

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    day. The Great Depression took over America in the 1930s after the stock market crash of October 29‚ 1929. Americans relied too much on credit and put everything they had into the stock markets‚ debatably the worst mistake americans ever made. The Great Depression led to many difficulties in the 1930s for the American people and government; they dealt with these problems accordingly. The Depression led to many hardships for Americans in the 1930s. While the rich were getting richer‚ the poor were

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    to maintain order. However‚ over time‚ it allowed tensions to grow between different groups‚ creating social and racial barriers between them. Some of these racial and social issues managed to fade over time but some continue to plague various societies of the modern era. If the abolition of racist ideas is the ideal goal of Mexico then Mexico has been unsuccessful with removing racial tensions between several groups of people since the Spanish colonization in the early modern era such

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    Lincoln‚ Grant faced racial discrimination by breaking down the white man’s prejudice. Not like any other colored people in the society‚ Grant he went off to college and achieved a college education even though he is a black man. Grant Wiggins became a teacher just because that is the only vocation that an educated black man can do in the south. “ I am not [a] great [teacher]. I am not even a teacher” (254). He despises being a teacher and strongly desires to escape its fate as a black man living in Louisiana

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