...newly freed African Americans into a white-dominated society is called Reconstruction, but it stood no chance.. The goal was to bring an end to the cruel and inhumane treatment of African Americans. However, just about everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. From a radically Democratic and Southern President, to a growing popularity of mistreatment of African Americans; Reconstruction would never have succeeded. After the Civil War, and likely the biggest catastrophe that hindered the progress of African American integration, President Johnson was elected into office. President Johnson may have seemed like a perfect president at first to radical republicans, but that...
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...movement and their role in American society. The Progressive Era was a movement that influenced the improvement of the United States through both political reform and social activism. This movement occurred from the 1890s to the 1920s. This era is marked by the policies, ideals, and people that positively transformed our nation. Though this movement was marked by many positive advancements, three policies are memorable enough to stand above the rest. The addition of women’s suffrage worked to give American women the representation they deserved. The entirety of the occupation issues found hazardous...
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...in the same way “discovered” the Native Americans. The question became, how do the natives fit into the Europeans’ belief-system. The Natives were ultimately seen as inferior due to their beliefs which differed from the European’s belief patterns. The Native American’s color became one of the indicators of their inferiority. It could be said, that race, was created in order to separate the cultures and set up categories, inferior and superior groups. Eugenics was the study and perhaps a justification of how races were deemed inferior due to traits inherited from ancestors and was believed to be true by many. By modern standards Eugenics can be seen and identified as a phony science. The European trend of thought on this topic remained consistent, and this ideology was later imposed on yet another, the African Americans. Therefore, the African Americans’ humanity was also questioned and denied. Race later became recognized as a social construct used to distinguish cultures from one another. Race has always been a major crisis here in America since the Europeans “discovered” the natives, to the slavery of the African Americans, and the labor abuse of the Asians, and race will continue to be a basis for many humanitarian movements, as well as a tool it as an incentive for voters in the presidential system. African Americans have been victimized by an unfair belief system based on race. The white elephant in the room with African Americans has been, and will be for a long time, slavery...
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...Brutal Slamming of a Girl Like many others, I was totally stunned by a video from South Carolina, about a sixteen year old African American girl, getting brutally slam by an enormous assistance police officer, because she didn’t put her cellphone away. This was an outrageous thing to do to a child. This inhumane act against this girl totally burns-out the simple rights given by every child. Slamming a girl across the room and probably choking her, is one hundred percent, NOT OK. She is just a student, a girl, a child, not a criminal or aggressive gang member. Childs of every age and raze are supposed to be treated with respect and care. But apparently this young African American girl was the exception. Luckily, the video of the attack, was introduce to the world by one the fellow classmates of the assaulted girl in the video. This student was bravely and smart enough to tape the video and do something magnificent about the awful aggression. She show the video to the world media. But, even after doing the right a civil thing we all need to do, the student got arrested and fine a thousand dollar bail. Therefore, I asked myself, “Is this the senseless act we are teaching our children?” To be cautious when doing the right thing, because you may get trouble or even arrested. “No, is not!” The brave student who taped the video got an unfair treatment for something that should had been rewarded with a golden statue at Balboa Park and a thank you letter from the president, thanking...
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...Although slavery is in the past, the majority of Americans today can agree that it was an unjust time. The way the African slaves were being treated was morally incorrect and the mandatory movement of the Indians was brutal. Laws were being placed on slaves to keep them as “the inferior race,” rather than let them strive and live the life they choose. As so, the United States was built on Democracy, and in a Democracy, people have the freedom of speech and to be a part of their government. However, the freedoms that were given to the minorities was not living up to par with the definition of Democracy. It was eroding the real Democracy and rather putting in place a group of selfish settlers that only wanted gold and glory. The treatment...
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...most diverse and wealthiest countries in the world. Although the United States is wealthy, not all individuals have benefited from that wealth. Throughout society, African American communities have become marginalized, with areas of poverty, high crime rates, discrimination and few opportunities for advancement. These areas are often locations where racial and cultural minorities live. Racial disparities exist within the criminal justice system and have shown many problems of inequality between the white and black race. In addition to having inequality within the criminal justice system, the criminals also have impacted their family members in different ways due to being incarcerated. The media has misrepresented African Americans by emphasizing African Americans participating in crimes while ignoring crimes committed by whites. People in society are assuming that only black people commit crimes, which is unfair because the incidences of people committing crimes are about equal between the races. Racial disparity favors white people over black people in the criminal justice system. Therefore, society must reevaluate the way society portrays who commits crimes, and where they are committed. Throughout many decades of history, black people had been discriminated against and treated as second class citizens in American society, even though they participated equally in the workforce. Discrimination has happened from slavery until present times. For example, during the 17th century...
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...clergy while he was imprisoned in 1963, is founded on the idea of nonviolent resistance. His campaign to end injustice was not aggressive, but rather it was defensive of the treatment of the African-American people during that time. The only violence that took place was the offensive cruelty of the “white moderate.” Martin Luther King Jr. and his supporters were nonviolent in their protests, similar to the nonviolent approach Mahatma Gandhi took when there was oppression in India in 1930. In March of 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led the Indian people on a satyagraha. This word has connotations of a “force contained in truth and love,” and it essentially means a nonviolent resistance (Erickson 23). The Salt March, in which Gandhi and his followers walked two hundred miles to the coast of India, ending in the town of Dandhi. They then waded into the ocean and collected the salt, and Gandhi encouraged the Indian people to make their own salt against government regulations (Erickson 29). This act was not violent, but it did resist the unfair laws of Great Britain forbidding the Indians to harvest and sell their own salt. Gandhi’s love for his homeland and his people led to his fighting for their rights. He recognized the truth in the fact that the Indian people should be able to rule their own land, and it was unfair for them to be under the administration of the British government. This concept of satyagraha, a force contained in truth and love, was the spirit of his nonviolent resistance...
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...An unreasonable and Inhumane Deterrent The Death penalty has been a staple in U.S. justice system since its inception in 1608, when Captain George Kendall, in the Jamestown Colony of Virginia was ‘executed by firing squad for treason’. Even though controversial this punishment has no place in America. Death Penalty is unreasonable and inhumane deterrent for crime and should be abolished. First of all. data shows a racial bias towards black crimes against white victims. In addition, it is less expensive to house inmates than to execute them. Finally many countries have abolished the Death Penalty deeming it merciless I am a person that does not believe in the death penalty. The main thing we Question is, what purpose it serves for us to put another person on death row. By killing another human being it wont bring back that victim they murder. People against this method realize capital punishment does not stop criminals from killing or stop them from their mischief act. Many states that are against this method argue that the death penalty is both cruel and unnecessary that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who done great evil. Prosecutor need to take time out to make sure that innocent people are not being put to death due to the fact that some people which are given the death penalty are being treated unfair. Many of the Americans people believe in capital...
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...are faced with threatening situations everyday which forces them to make split second decisions. Over the past decade, police abuse remains one of the most serious civil rights violation in the United States. Police officers are trusted and expected to respect society as a whole and enforce the law (Chevigny, 2008). Race has played a key role in police misconduct. Minorities are more likely to be the victims of unfair police treatment. Assuredly, violence in America is rising and police officers are legally permitted to use force when appropriate (Stetser, 2001). Recent statistics indicate that the number of cases in the United States relating to police brutality has reached the thousands. There are many cases of police brutality and corruption. Some cases are not big enough to make the front page of the newspaper or the television (Chevigny, 2008). We are not doing enough to control this issue. Lack of community efforts is contributing to the cases of police brutality. Justice has to be served and the code of silence needs to be broken. Police brutality is a cruel, inhumane injustice that can be prohibited. There are no excuses for brutality towards an unarmed person. Police beatings, racial profiling and violation of civil rights can really be a downfall in a community. Police brutality is becoming a...
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...Asian American Population Project Name:_Janice Reynolds_Unit 6, Korn_Leslie_ Capella University COUNS 5334 March 14, 2011 Janice Reynolds Abstract This Asian American Population project will critically evaluate the theories, methods and research in cross-cultural awareness that relates to the Asian American Population. This Asian American Population project t will analyzed the influence of culture on attitudes, values, perceptions, human behavior and the interpersonal relations to the Asian American Population. The writer will identify potential problem that Asian Americans encounter in a pluralistic society such as the United States of America. The personal competencies will be identified and analyzed to improve interaction with Asians American within a counseling professional setting. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Title Page 1 2. Abstract 2 3. Introduction 4 4. Define Asian American 5 5. Historical Antecedents 6 6. Potential Problems 7 7. Educational Reflection 8 8. Personal Competencies 8 10. Theories Identity Formation 9 11. Action Plan 10 12. References 11 13. Annotated Bibliography 12 In Espiritu (1992) as the United States becomes an increasingly diverse society, the need for understanding the psychological impact of the immigrant and second-generation experience...
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...Over the course of “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963), the author, Martin Luther King Jr., makes extended allusions to multiple philosophers, among them Aquinas and Socrates. His comparison would seem to indicate that he shares an affinity with them. However, the clarity with which he makes his arguments and the dedication to a single premise strikes most strongly of Kant. Just as Kant’s magnum opus, Critique of Pure Reason, attempted to completely upend a previously accepted mode of thought, so also was King’s work devoted to a single objective: the protection of civil disobedience as a form of protest such that the Civil Rights Movement could continue in uncompromised form. Despite this singularity of purpose, the complexity of the situation meant that a more nuanced response to the statement A Call for Unity as published by eight Alabama Clergymen was necessary. In this way, King’s letter in fact served a fourfold purpose: to establish himself as a legitimate authority in the eyes of his audience, to show the trials of the black in America, to justify his cause, and to argue the necessity of immediate action. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter, written to the Clergymen from Birmingham Prison, he uses the rhetorical appeal of ethos to establish his credibility on the subject of racial discrimination and injustice. He starts off the letter with “My Dear Fellow Clergymen”. By him saying this, he is putting himself on the same “level” as the clergymen, sending the message that...
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...and evaluation. The JJDPA was originally enacted in 1974 and even though the JJDPA has been revised several times over the past 30 years, its basic composition has remained the same. Since the act was passed in 1974, the JJDPA focused solitary on preventing juvenile delinquency and on rehabilitating juvenile offenders. Since the original enactment of the JJDPA in 1974, the periodic reauthorizations have been controversial, as the Act's opponents have sought to weaken its protections for youth, reduce prevention resources, and encourage the transfer of youth to the adult criminal justice system. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act follow a series of federal protections, known as the "core protections," on the care and treatment of youth in the justice system. The four "core protections" of the act are, the Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders (DSO), Sight and Sound separation, Jail Removal, and Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC). The "DSO" and "Sight and Sound" protections were part of the original law in 1974. The "Jail Removal" provision was added in 1980 in response to finding youth incarcerated in adult facilities resulted in "a high suicide rate, physical, mental, and sexual assault, inadequate care and programming, negative labeling, and exposure to serious offenders and mental patients." The "DMC" requirement was added in the JJDPA in 1992. Literature Review The compliance of states towards the requirements of the JJDP Act is monitored...
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...Frederick Douglass Narrative Have you ever wondered what life was like for slaves in America during the 1800s and what cruelties they had to endure every day? Frederick Douglass was an African-American orator, writer, and abolitionist who had witnessed and experienced the effects of slavery first-hand. Douglass wrote the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” to show the public the horrible depths of slavery. Since he was an abolitionist, he wished to abolish slavery completely and permanently. Slavery was still alive and well when his narrative was written. You can trust what Frederick Douglass wrote about his life and his surroundings because he had no reason to lie or make up any stories. As an abolitionist, he wanted to make known...
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...subject to the use and re-use of negative imagery resulting in prominent stereotypes shaping our geographical imaginations of the continent. This is a similar concept to that of orientalism explored by Edward Said (1987). This essay will argue that presumptions of the ‘real Africa’ are largely negative, discussing how ‘Africanism’ and stereotypes of the continent are heavily influenced by colonial representations of people and place arguing that these assumptions are highly compatible with Western domination and power rooted in imperial attitudes. Jan Pieterse (1992:75) recognises that Africa has been depicted as the ‘Dark Continent’ plagued by stereotypes ‘which colonialism would build on and elaborate’. Imaginaries of childlike, savage, inhumane distant others who are dependent upon Western help dominate the way in which Africa is perceived. Campbell and Power (2010) suggest that a dominant scopic regime shapes our perception of Africa through the repetitive use of colonial tropes which has become embedded in the global visual economy. These presumptions support the concept of ‘Africanism’ in which the continent is negatively homogenised and tribalised. Ferguson (2006) re-emphasises these ideas arguing that Africa is understood to be culturally, politically and economically inferior to its Western and...
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...happening but it specified the unfair treatment that blacks obtained from whites. This event furthered the hatred of blacks against whites it just how whites didn’t want blacks to be free and even when you’re free they didn’t want to treat as one of their own and that’s fine but at least treat us as civilized people or people at...
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