...Does Race Matter? Does race matter? Do you understand what race means and how it is perceived? This is a neutral subject for me. I am in between on this subject due to the fact that race does matter for some things and not others. As I researched, there are some great reasons to understand why race really matters in healthcare studies. Other research shows race is misunderstood. First off, one example race matters is the medical field. Understanding the reasons why race matters in the medical field helps medical providers work to complete new studies or research. I work in healthcare and every day I work with a new patients I verify their race and ethnicity on their official medical record. I do this in order to provide the doctor with the patient’s information and collect medical/social history that is always updated. The doctor then reviews their chart and can use his knowledge to ask questions he needs to in order to address the patient complaint. The information provided can assist with comparing symptoms in past and present for numerous racial groups. Throughout medical advancements; researchers have been able to link race with medical conditions that are common in areas around the world or with certain racial or ethnic groups. This research can use the environment, living situations, past history, and even hereditary traits. In this case, knowing someone’s race is not a negative attack. Race is a purposeful piece of information that can further advance overall health...
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...It was the summer of 1958, when Richard and Mildred Loving were a new couple sleeping in bed. All of a sudden the police, which were armed, slammed in their house arresting both of them and throwing them in jail, for getting married. But, why? Getting married isn’t a bad thing is it? Well if you married a different race, apparently in the 1950’s and especially in Virginia state, it was bad. The certificate of the new couple's marriage was from Washington D.C. , but under the law of Virginia state, two people of different races can not marry each other. Richard Loving was a white man who fell in love with a black woman, Mildred Loving, and married her. After five weeks of their marriage, they were arrested. They spent several days in jail...
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...Racism is a serious social issue in America today just as it has always been since its founding. There has been huge leaps towards equality for all races. However, even with anti-discrimination laws in place, people still claim that racism is just as prominent as it always has been (Robson 10). Movements like Black Lives Matter are completely unjustified as all they do is incite violence and contradict their own cause. Racial profiling is also not a product of indoctrinated racism but a product of fact and crime prevention. There are several issues people have today related to race. One issue is the use of racial profiling as a legitimate form of police work. “The use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed...
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...you have, or even by the neighborhood you stay in. Racism is still going on in America even after the bloodiest war we have ever seen 620,000 men lost their lives. Seems terrible right? One question I still ask myself why would we as Americans fight each other based on our skin color? This is what led me to interview my roommate Aban Morisetty, about how he feels about the color of his skin. The interview took place in a small study room, where it was just me and him. I first asked the main question. Have you ever experienced racism? He looked at me weird, but then he went on to state that he does experience it. He said “every time I go to the airport people always eye me.” Aban grew up in Multan a small country in Pakistan. As you know people in America these days look at his race to be the cause of 9/11. See, the one thing done by one person in your race pretty much determines the outcome of how people view you in the future. The next question comes up “How does it make you feel every time you walk in a airport?” He goes on to say that “he doesn’t like the way he is looked at because his skin color. People automatically suspect me to be a terrorist. I even do the simple things, like try to dress like a regular person that’s trying to fly somewhere. No matter what I do, people will always view me the same.” He is not the only one that deals with this type of stuff. For example an African-American is always suspect of selling drugs or carrying a gun. The reason is because in...
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...We need to figure out what we can do as a society to fix these issues with race in today’s modern world. There are many key components to race, but we need to focus on the ones that truly matter. Those issues could have solutions for solving race and ethnicity problems. One key issues with race is that race determines people’s opportunities in life and it affect what you can and can’t do. In order for this issue to go away there needs to be a solutions that could solve it or at least eliminated the problem to the point where it’s barely noticeable or exists. The only way that it could possibly permanently go away is by having companies get rid of their certain social qualities like race and ethnicity. However, there is one problem with this solution that I came up with and that is: If companies were to completely get rid of those social qualities from their application requirements then the company could lose their control over how their company is portrayed and run. I know for...
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...the right thing when it interment Americans, if so then why were they living in concentration camps, being judge by their race or being accused of being spies. If that what you call keeping them safe then i don't know what you're thinking. The U.S. government treated the Japanese with disrespect. No matter how you look,speak,dress or who your ancestors are? We bleed the same color, we are all equal and should be treated the same way. Concentration camps is a large numbers of people,who lives imprisoned small area with inadequate facilities. This also mean about 127,000 citizens were imprisoned during World War II. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry. On September 1942 The Crisis Article says “Americans in Concentration Camps” we see Japanese as immigrants or not one of us because of their ancestry now they live in small area in camp hardly any food or water they work like...
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...Race is not Biological People use the term race to indicate a group of people that share similar physical features that are believed to come from their ancestors. As a result to this, people then think that race is a matter of bloodlines, it is biologically passed down from ones parents. Jenell Paris suggests that race is actually a socially constructed phenomenon, a way to categorize people for social purposes based on one’s physical appearance and differences. (Priest, Robert J.2007) Many do not realize this. Most people do not know that race is a social reality, they believe that it is a biological reality. The way race should be seen is that is just plainly does not exist. The human species evolved from the people in Africa. The migrated to different parts of the world and the geographical environment causes us to have varies physical traits. These differences in appearance are due to mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift (Fisher, Jefferson1995). Because the environments where drastically different in these geographic regions, the human traits changed for...
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...FYS 101 02 Dear Warren, I know this journey has been a lot for you, and I respect that. I’m glad that you have finally acknowledged that race isn't everything. For me, being a part of an interracial marriage, I obviously look past race and truly believe that it does not change a person. No matter the skin color, people are people. And I’m glad you've realized that through your relationship with Tal. Throughout the entirety of my experience with court and the judicial system, I have realized that there are more important things in life than race. Love has no race, because love is blind, and I did everything in my power to live my life with the woman I love. Love is powerful, and if there is anything I have learned about it is that people are “Just lovers. Just people” (Johnson 287). No matter what race you identify with, look like, are classified as, or what other people have prejudice against you based off of, you are still a human being, a loving, caring human being. You cared for Tal, even though she did not classify herself as a black women, and that goes to show that everyone is worthy of love and care no matter their racial identity. Even though it was illegal for me to be married to Mildred in Virginia at the time which our marriage took place, I did not care. I loved her and didn't think it was wrong to be with her despite her race. In your specific situation, you classified as black, even though you looked white. I know that you understand you are black but people...
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...BLM “Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of Black peoples’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression” Black lives matter because every day that African American’s step out their doors they have to worry about violence and racists people and all because of their skin color or even because they are males, females and etc. . Black lives matter is important to me because I want to be successful one day and have kids I do not want my kids not being able to walk down the street because of other racists have a problem of how they look when in all actuality everyone deserves a chance to do something with their lives not have it ended short by violence. Black lives matter because if we empower the “black “nationality or race the world would be a better place we should not put down one another but encourage get African Americans off the street into the books to better history and this has been going on for a long time African Americans being killed by police officers and no justice has been down and these are different races destroying the “black “ population why because in all actuality other races try to brain wash us but if we knew about our history and where we came from we would do better and stand up for what we believe in. some of the events that led up to black lives matter is the events such...
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...then, but a worse kind of slavery. It is our minds that are enslaved. We are the victims of unspeakable injustices. They do not want us to prosper. This is why I stand for “Black Lives Matter”. Some might even try to push us away and contradict our ideas with “All Lives Matter”. Yes, all lives do matter, but at the moment it is black lives that are very important. What people do not realize is that Pro-black is not anti-white. People try to bring us down, make us lesser than they, but we only want to be seen as equal. We all deserve...
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...today. In Kevin Roose’s article, “The Next Time Someone Says ‘All Lives Matter,’ Show Them These 5 Paragraphs,” GeekAesthete effectively explains why the phrase “All Lives Matters” is offensive...
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...Why Black Lives Matter? Devontae Robinson Into to Criminal Justice January 23, 2016 Faculty Name Why Black Lives Matter? Why do Black Lives Matter? Black lives assert the lives of all black individuals including the disabled, homosexuals, black-undocumented, blacks with records, women and men. Each has been a target of abuse, racism, police brutality and violence. Black Lives Matter movement addresses the fact that black Americans for a long time are more than white Americans to die at the actions of police brutality, subjected to black on black crime, and the continuation of fighting for black equal civil rights. Black lives are not more special than whites or nay other race but it’s an irrefutable fact that black Americans in this country historically have been devalued, discounted, looked over and not mattered. Police Violence Each year hundreds of black lives have been assaulted, abused, and taken by police violence. Black men in America are murdered, beaten, and violated by officers of the law sworn to “protect and serve” them. The 4th amendment clearly states that “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no warrants shall issue without probable cause.” (Henry, 2015). The 4th amendment has not been followed, police when searching, arresting, obtaining, or securing black individuals have violated this to the fullest. Black women...
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...the Budinsky case about classification of race being stupid and inaccurate? Explain. The Budinsky case shows that the terms "race" and "racial discrimination" maybe of such doubtful sociological validity as to be scientifically meaningless, but these terms nonetheless are subject to commonly-accepted, albeit sometimes vague, understanding and the conclusion of the concept is seemed unscientific. And also in Budinsky case victims of group discrimination are commonly subject to a "racial' identification as "non-white". But in Alonzo's case, they should focus both on national origin and race and it will relate to specific concepts of race and racial discrimination, the Budinsky could not help with this case. Do you think it matters someone's category is called "race" vs. "ethnicity" Explain. Race is a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by heritable phenotypic characteristics, geographic ancestry, physical appearance, ethnicity and social status. But ethnicity is not just a person's race. Ethnicity is about tradition, learned behavior and customs. It is about learning where you come from, and celebrating the traditions and ideas that are part of that region. Ethnicity gives us rooms to change because we can reject our own and embrace another, but race is more about biologically engineered features. So I think that it really matters someone's category is called "race", people will judge the person's appearance...
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...Have you ever thought to yourself ‘is it possible for Eva and Sindy, from the Freedom Writers, to share anything in common?’ Well… in fact, it is. Let’s look at how that’s true. First let’s look at Eva and Sindy’s differences. Let’s start with Sindy. Sindy wasn’t in any gangs or groups like that. She did have people who followed her which were of her own race and didn’t agree with any other races, but they weren’t a gang at all. Another thing was how Sindy went to a camp to change herself, to change her thoughts about other races, and her thoughts about the world. Next, look at Eva. Eva was in a gang who were only of her race and nothing else. They persecuted others who weren’t their race or color. Unlike Sindy, Eva didn’t go to a camp to change...
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...Diversity means a range of different things, the quality or state of having many different forms, types, ideas, etc. They use diversity when speaking of races because there are so many races and they are all different. Diversity has helped me to understand more about other races in the world. As I have been learning these past nine weeks I have learned so much that I have truly changed as a person to try not to be prejudice towards others. In the past honestly I was very prejudice towards others just by their looks. There are many ways that diversity means for things in the world. So many things are different in the world, but that doesn’t mean we need to be prejudice about things or people. The things I have learned about my own racial, ethnic, and cultural history is that race doesn’t matter. I know that whites use to be the most popular race in the world but that has changed a lot in the last century. Whites are now the third most popular race in the world. For ethnic there are many different groups in my race. Groups like Christians in my race many people are Christians so they are considered an ethnic group. Things I have learned about ethnics are that there are so many different types of groups in the world. They don’t need to be judged or criticized. There are many ethnics about Americans. Cultural history in my race is things that have shaped the world today. Americans have come a very long way in life. They have shaped this world to what it is today. It is a strong nation...
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