...Racism is surrounding us. Particularly in sport and music, for example I listen to rap music and go to football matches, where I hear racist language most of the time. I generally stay away from that and enjoy my time as much as possible, as I would prefer not to discriminate individuals because of some differences. That would be quite infuriating as I am a role model to my younger sisters and prefer positive influences on them. I don’t want to be associated with racism, do you? The racism topic has been quite controversial especially in sport like football in the most recent two decades; this is fundamentally in light of the presentation of the new capable players. Additionally, as racism in football has mostly been about skin colour, different player find it hard to perform in front of large audience. However, recently the football association is undergoing quite successful period in terms of more positive audience inspecting and football association controlling racism. Wouldn’t you want your child to be in positive environment?...
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...Institutional racism is viewed in many ways within the American society, which was founded on the discrimination of slavery. This can be seen in the Jim Crow racial caste system, which regulated African Americans to the status of second class citizens, according to Ferris State University. Imagine being paralysed by racial discrimination, unable to go anywhere or do anything without your race impacting on your opportunities in life. Imagine if your own religion was twisted against you? This was the reality of many African Americans during the time of Jim Crow laws. Even church leaders claimed that blacks were cursed to be servants and that God supported racial segregation, which finally ended in 1954. Although this horrible discrimination has now officially ended, instutionalised racism still corrupts justice in...
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...not violate their right to uncontaminated essentials. Environmental racism is placement of low income or minority communities in proximity of environmentally hazardous or degraded environments which can be displayed by the fact that it is detrimental to health, it...
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...In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco 49ers quarterback, took a knee during the signing of the national anthem in San Diego and was booed at Qualcomm Stadium. His provocative action generated hot discussions in media since according to the civil norms of American society, people are supposed to stand for the national anthem, showing respect to the country and flag. Although Kaepernick’s action was perceived as disrespectful and offensive, he explained that this was a form of protest against police brutality and racial discrimination in the American justice system. Campus event “Political Psychology as a Discipline” that I attended last week focused on analyzing the problem of police brutality and racial discrimination from three scientific...
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...legalizing it and therefore taking away the drug cartels number one source of income. The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy ... says that more than 60 percent of the profits reaped by Mexican drug lords are derived from the exportation and sale of cannabis to the American market (Armentano2). It is ridiculous to think that the United States can put out a statistic like this and ignore the fact that if they legalized the drug there would be less violence because there would be no point for Mexican drug cartels to try and smuggle the drug into the U.S. In the article “Blame Prohibition, Not Pot Smokers for Violence in Mexico”, published by AlterNet.org, Tony Newman tells us how the people who run the “Just Say No” campaign against drugs have a new scheme in which they plan to blame people who smoke pot for the violence in Mexico. They are hoping to stop younger people from smoking marijuana if they associate it with the murder of people by the drug cartels in Mexico. There are a few problems with these campaigns: They are inaccurate in some cases, and downright dishonest in others.Office of National Drug Control Policy It is disingenuous to connect the average American's marijuana consumption to the horrific violence of Mexico's drug war. The average pot smoker's growing and purchasing of marijuana has no relationship to the violence along the border that is the result of large-scale drug trafficking. It isn’t hard to understand that the legalization of marijuana...
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...Position Paper Khadijah Shabazz CNSL 5203 Dr. Sampson Prairie View A&M University 9/20/2015 The legalization of drugs is one of the most controversial and debated topics of the 21st century. There are both negative and positive reasons to legalize them as well as negative and positive reasons to keep them prohibited. According to LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, drug prohibition is the true cause of much of the social and personal damage that has historically been attributed to drug use. It is prohibition that makes these drugs so valuable – while giving criminals a monopoly over their supply ("Why Legalize Drugs? | LEAP").LEAP goes on to say that criminal gangs are driven by the huge profits from this monopoly, criminal gangs bribe and kill each other, law enforcers, and children and as such their trade is unregulated and they are, therefore, beyond our control ("Why Legalize Drugs? | LEAP"). It is LEAP’s belief that by eliminating prohibition of all drugs for adults and establishing appropriate regulation and standards for distribution and use, law enforcement could focus more on crimes of violence, such as rape, aggravated assault, child abuse and murder, making our communities much safer ("Why Legalize Drugs? | LEAP"). Another positive aspect of the legalization of drugs is financial gains. According to the International Business Times in a study for the Cato Institute, Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer on economics at Harvard University and a senior...
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... But there have always been varying ulterior motives. According to Baylor University Professor of Sociology, Dr. Diana Kendall, the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 was passed solely to criminalize marijuana by taxing it; this would dissuade migrant Mexican workers who smoked marijuana to seek employment elsewhere and not take jobs from U.S. citizens as the country struggled during the Great Depression (Kendall, 2010). Last year, voters in Colorado and Washington State approved legislation that supported the commercial growth, sale, possession and use of recreational marijuana. In response, United States Department of Justice, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, promulgated policy that established the posture for enforcing marijuana laws against people or organizations to that: Distribution of marijuana to minors; revenue from the sale of marijuana from going to criminal enterprises, gangs and cartels; the diversion of marijuana from states where it is legal under state law in some...
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...Global Politics: The feasibility of universal drug liberalization as an emerging phenomenon RWaterhouse Globalization & The War on Drugs: Assessing alternatives to criminalization The purpose of this paper is to address universal drug liberalization as a feasible alternative to the current drug control regime specifically in North America and potentially applicable elsewhere. With an in depth analysis of the historical regulation, implementation of law, and resulting consequences we will be able to see how nations are effected by complex drug politics and why there has been a global paradigm shift in looking spiritedly at the ideal of decriminalization. I argue in favor of liberalization by bringing to attention the violence associated with the commodification of illegal drugs, what the re-directed costs of control could mean for domestic investment into proactive drug awareness education, and finally recognizing Portugal’s success and weaknesses in the adoption of a compete legalization agenda. Following will be a discussion of concluding thoughts centered on the efficacy and feasibility of universal liberalization in today’s globalized world. Historical Context Libertarianism has almost always had position in political discourse but has been majorly popularized through public attention within the era of globalization. (article) Control of drug consumption has always been a contemporary ingredient in the political reform of Canada and the America’s and...
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...The so-called “War on Drugs,” as declared by the Nixon administration in the signing of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, marked the beginning of the current era of mandatory minimum sentencing, racism, privatized prisons, and a powerful constituency that profits as a result of the prohibition of drugs. Psychoactive substances have been apart of the human experience as long as humans have walked the earth. There is little hope that drug production will ever be curtailed, so long as there is a demand; a demand that has remained steady even though it has been forty years since the beginning of said war. As Judge James P. Gray from the Superior Court of Orange County has so plainly put it: “Where did this policy come from? Unfortunately I have conducted an inquiry into this and I have determined that drug prohibition laws came for reasons of racism, empire building, and ignorance.”(Booth) The War on Drugs is politically motivated as a means of profiting. One may ask them self how government can financially benefit from such policies. In fact, they benefit in a myriad of ways. The government spends an exorbitant amount of money in an attempt to combat drug production and drug usage. The U.S. government has spent over a trillion—that’s right a trillion—dollars in its attempt to eradicate the drug problem. With so much time, effort and money there should be something to show, right? Wrong. Today drugs are more prevalent, more potent and cheaper than...
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...In comparing the competing conceptions of racism that we find in Garcia and Shelby, I feel that J.L.A. Garcia offers a more compelling argument. Garcia explains that an account of racism is only adequate if it clearly proposes what is wrong with it at the same time. He describes is stance in the following excerpt: “My proposal is that we conceive racism as fundamentally a vicious kind of racially based disregard for the welfare of certain people. In it's central and most viscous from, it is a hatred, ill will, directed against a person or persons on account of their assigned race. In a derivative form, one is a racist when one either does not care at all or does not care enough (i.e., as much as morality requires) or does not care in the right ways about the people assigned to a certain racial group, where this disregard is based on racial classification. Racism, then, is something that essentially involves not our beliefs and their rationality or irrationality, but out wants, intentions, likes, and dislikes and their distance from the moral virtues” (Timmons). Garcia believes that racism is rooted from “…disregard for the welfare of certain people.” He goes on to describe that in its most viscous form, racism is a “hatred, ill will, directed against a person or persons on account of their race.” Garcia’s...
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...Racism in the United States Diversity is the cornerstone that makes the United States unique in its “melting pot” identity, but racism can be the unfortunate side effect of that diversity. Racism is defined as “A psychological attitude…based on demonstrably false theories of racial differences appropriated by a culture, even though there is no scientific evidence that race is a meaningful way to identify social or biological differences.” (Lemert, 2006) Today, racism is an issue still present in the United States as it is in many parts of the world. But one of the major issues with racism in the United States today is that the prominent focus tends to be on white and black relations, thus leaving many of the racial and ethnic groups that have been affected out of the limelight. The evidence of racism in the United States is dominated by the attempts of members of the white race to control other races, and it is overwhelming and it is an unfortunate part of American history that still resonates today. Jim Crow laws, policies such as “Manifest Destiny”, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882…these are just a few of the many attempts to limit the rights of non-whites in the United States. Here, an argument will be presented in support of the idea that the racism debate is dominated by white and black relations, followed by the presentation of a counter-argument, and concluded with a response to the counter-argument. To begin with let’s...
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...Immigration and passive racism has been a problem in Swedish society ever since the big flow of immigrants came to Sweden in the 1980’s (The Swedish Migration Agency). However, it wasn’t until the 2010 election when the far right, anti-immigrant party, the Sweden Democrats, entered parliament that it became such a huge controversy. This controversy has grown even more since the 2014 election when the Sweden Democrats won 14% of the peoples votes. Sweden now has become divided between those who want the welcoming consensus for refugees to remain, and those who think it is time to close the borders. Some stakeholders believe it is the immigrants’ culture and religion that are having a negative influence on Swedish society, bringing the unemployment...
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...death penalty continues to be used today, most countries have eliminated it in their criminal justice systems. One substantial country that continues to use the death penalty is America. Capital punishment is significant because it permits individuals to be killed lawfully. The death penalty carries enormous power around the legal system in addition to the persons that are accused of serious crimes. The purpose of this paper is to find out the diverse arguments surrounding capital punishment that has led some countries against it and others for it? This will be done by...
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...historical record that lasts for generations? The pen, without doubt is far mightier than the sword. History has proven this to be so. Racism. An issue that is propagated by bullies or the insecure. A stereotyping and generalisation that can lead to hateful injustices against targeted group or minority. Would such immoral acts really be prevented by violent exchanges or would it intensify already unstable thinking. The media utilises persuasive techniques to gain authority over the readers opinions. The use of expert opinion within a piece persuades the reader to concur with the author's argument, as they gain confidence that the expert has had...
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...Kevin Oliveira Professor Madritch Expository Writing 30 November 2011 Leslie Marmon Silko: A Closer Look Into Racist Struggles The controversial dilemma of illegal immigration is a prominent part of politics today more than ever. Leslie Marmon Silko’s persuasive essay, “Fences Against Freedom,” exemplifies the constant battle on racism and immigration our nation faces today. Through her own experiences, she has concluded that the government evokes racism among the population in a negative manner. Silko’s essay explains that the government is a body that is not to be trusted and that their mischievous ways trickle down the ladder to us. She speaks for all persons with mixed ancestry on the point that their lives are daily struggles as a result of our nation’s leaders and their misperceived views on race. Racism is one of the leading social problems that Americans can associate themselves with because it is seen everywhere and it is spreading the wrong message. The ineffectiveness of Silko’s argument, that the government and media is to blame for the apparent racism in the country today, is exemplified through her constant contradiction of statements and child-like motives. Silko blames the government for their actions that have affected her life as well as many other people of different race. Leslie Marmon Silko grew up in Native American home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is well known for her English and writing skills and she was raised as a Laguna Pueblo...
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