Discrimination And Violence: Annotated Bibliography

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This article talks about how President Trump is more concerned about protecting confederate statues rather than protecting those of African-American culture and other minorities from discrimination and violence. The author researched information on a similar historical figure, to compare with a present figure. This article is for those who wish to catch up with politics, and understand Trumps intentions, from a liberal perspective. This article, unfortunately, is not very similar to the other article I cited besides the fact these are both real issues currently happening within the past months and even as we speak, widely spread issues coming from all sorts of perspectives. In conclusion, this article is in favor of those who feel and need to be aware of where Trumps stance on discrimination is right now. …show more content…
They don’t feel safe with this person being practically in control of their country and despite this man’s efforts of him explaining he is a friend to the LGBT community, the community believes that these actions are of a phony, and that his actions do not support his claim. The author gathered this information from interviewing few members of the community who live in Arizona, and decided to record their concerns, and opinion on the whole issue. This article I feel is written towards those who either wish to gather information on where the LGBT community stands right now, or supports of the community. It could really be anybody, I don’t think it was targeted for any reason other than it being an important current event. There are not many similarities in this article and the previous article I had also written about besides the fact that they both involve the president of the united states, and current issues that are happening today. This article does a good job on describing how members of the LGBT community feel about our current

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