I listened to the audiobook version of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and as I listened I walked through the streets of Boston. One night as I listened to Michelle Alexander talk about how African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by the police‚ I came across two Emerson Police Officers forcing a black man to the ground. He knelt down with his hands in the air as they patted his body down. Maybe he had done something do deserve this treatment
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The movie “From Swastika to Jim Crow” was produced in 2000. Even though‚ it was made in 2000 there was many connections to today’s current events. The speaker stated‚ they wanted to present the movie before the election to understand and analyze an educator’s point of view. However due to the hurricane they had to postpone the movie‚ until after the election which made this event and discussion more prevalent. The movie was a documentary explaining the similarities between Nazism in Germany and
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“The Rich Fool.” Each parable has a different moral‚ or the contrary. These two parables have a lot in common‚ for instance the moral of both stories are exceedingly similar‚ and the parables both have consequences. Something different between the two parables is how “How Much Land Does a Man Need” uses irony unlike “The Rich Fool.” They both have similarities yet‚ they also have their differences. First off‚ the moral of both stories “How Much Land Does a Man Need”‚ and “The Rich Fool” are very
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In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ Michelle Alexander examines our current criminal justice system and the mass incarceration of African Americans in the United States. She argues that the War on Drugs and drug offense convictions are the single most compelling cause for the magnitude of people of color behind bars. Prisons are used as a system of racial and social control that function in the same way as Jim Crow laws. It is no longer legal to discriminate against
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Jim Crow Rule Jim Crow was a dance made up by a white American. The dance and song itself were written by a comedian Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ also known as Daddy Rice‚ in 1828‚ which depicted African-American culture. On the other hand‚ the performances were deriding slavery whilst poor African-Americans had to deal with the indignity. That was what the jumped Jim Crow dance and song was all about. The Jim Crow term can be defined as a system of racial oppression. Not long after the Civil War had
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idea of “separate but equal.” This idea came along by the Supreme Court by a certain incidence that occurred in 1892. It took place in a train when an African-American passenger that went along with the name of‚ Homer Plessy denied to sit in a Jim Crow car (made specifically for the color). Homer Plessy was seven/eighths white and only one/eighth black‚ but due to the Louisiana law this meant he was still treated as an African-American‚ thus required to sit in a car specifically for the “colored
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The character of the swipe in Sherwood Anderson’s "I’m A Fool" reminds the reader of J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield -- a slightly unschooled youth seeking greatness through ordinary means. Headstrong and determined to make something of himself‚ Anderson’s swipe could be any one of a million young men throughout the world. Driven by his desire to make himself feel like he has value‚ the swipe continually demonstrates a great deal of motivation. Due to the swipe’s consistency of character‚ one can
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States passed various laws of racial segregation‚ focused against the black sectors. By the turn of the century those laws were called the Jim Crow laws‚ both north and south. Between the 1880s and the 1960s the laws expanded. Jim Crow‚ within the context of this unit‚ refers to the official discrimination against or segregation of African Americans. Jim Crow legislation was officially instituted by the southern states when racial attitudes hardened in the 1890’s‚ shortly
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Chelsea Sullivan 9/29/14 223/01 Mrs. Bruen Napoleon Bonaparte stated‚ “impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools‚” which describes that assuming anything is less than achievable makes you a fool. It is particularly relevant in his life because of all that he did as one of the major leaders of France and the Revolution and is still greatly known today. He started from practically nothing and quickly rising to the top‚
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Many things were being censored from them such as Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial discrimination in the Southern part of the United States. Dr. Martin King Jr was one of the major leaders of the Civil rights movement‚ which was a mass movement to protect African Americans
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