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    Date 4-9-2012 Religion Dr. Mudd Extra Credit Paper “Cultural Racism and Catholic Ethical Reflection” The Reverend Bryan Massingale came to Gonzaga University to do his lecture called “Cultural Racism and Catholic Ethical Reflection.” Reverend Bryan Massingale is a professor at Marquette University and is an author that has been published in many different academic articles. His lecture that he was making was from his newest book that he wrote called “Racial Justice and the Catholic Church

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    Racism In the book Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons‚ Ellen is a lonely child. She is in a family where she is responsible for her mother’s health and receives little love from her parents. She has few outlets and is forced to suffer the many traumas of her life alone. She eventually gets away from her family only to find more unhappiness while continuing to observe the happiness of families surrounding her. And throughout the entire book she is yearning to belong and become loved. It took Ellen

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    Racism: discrimination which exemplifies stereotypical differences between the ethnic groups to which people belong. While Disney animated films are the ideal family movies‚ it is undisclosed to many that such racism is being portrayed. Disney’s movie Aladdin (1992)‚ “was a high-profile release‚ the winner of two Academy Awards‚ and one of the most successful Disney films ever produced” (Giroux‚ 104); however‚ what is often disregarded is the obvious depiction of careless racism towards Arabs seen

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    Racism Where did discrimination stem from? Has it always been here or was it created from humans becoming greedy with power? Discrimination is when a person or a group of people reject others based mostly on their physical appearance. The most known case of discrimination between races is when Europeans started exploring the world and discovered other people who were all a little less well off than them then deemed them as sub-human. This is the reason why Race is a standard description in today’s

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    story‚ Roll of Thunder‚ Hear My Cry‚ many themes were stressed. Racism‚ family and community‚ and injustice and dignity were all shown in all of the chapters. The Logan family works with the community to impede the biased and racist society they are apart of. The characters who not only respected themselves but their family and friends as well were often more successful and actually contributed towards strengthening the community. Racism is truly an evil thing that no one‚ not even the characters should

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    Racism is the discrimination or prejudice against someone of a different racial background because of the belief that one’s race is superior. The historical origins of racism trace back hundreds of years ago possibly during the middle ages. It has thrived and manifested into something much larger‚ which still plagues the world today. Race has no genetic makeup and is only a mere social construct‚ but it is still a problem in many societies around the globe. It exists in all different forms and areas

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    The case we looking at today were looking at a disorder is something that can be effected by both external forces but upheld by internalized ones. The idea of racism is something the world knows to well it has to do with discrimination of a whole people and can sometimes be a hindrance in our society. The formal definition of racism is‚ “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race‚ especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior

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    Another police shooting of black male adds fuel to the debate on racism and racial inequality After a productive and charged debate with my close friend‚ cousin and evangelist Eugene Blakely following today’s fatal shooting of Alton Sterling‚ I felt a need to offer my voice to this national debate of racism. That being said‚ some will see the headline of this article and assume I am just jumping into the argument with the similar mindset and ambitions of every of other black American. Let me say

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    “The opposite of love is not hate but indifference‚” Elie Weisel stated after commenting on his thoughts on racism and his years surviving the Holocaust. Weisel was thrown in and out of concentration camps starting at the age of fifteen until finally his final camp where his father had died was liberated. The tragedies that Weisel along with the other millions of people who suffered were unimaginable and even Weisel himself strived for years to find words that somewhat explained what their experience

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    far from having overcome its racism problem. Whether it’s treatment by police or susceptibility to poverty‚ one’s skin color can determine a whole range of variables in life. Particularly‚ blacks in America face a disproportionate number of social and economic barriers — but the racial problem is not binary. It extends way beyond a white-black disparity‚ affecting Hispanics‚ Arabs and a miscellany of other minorities. Many statistics reveal contrasting dimensions of racism as it exists in the United

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