On 9/26/14 the Board received a complaint from attorney David Streett on behalf of his client Malik Karim against Dr. Stanley Librach of St. Louis. Karim’s complaint alleged that Dr. Librach had confronted him in his office in a threatening manner. Karim’s complaint stated that the Doctor’s actions gave him concern for his safety as well as the well-being of a business associate that was with him in his office at the time. Malik Karim notified St. Peters Police Department by calling 911 while the incident was in progress. Dr. Librach left the complainant’s office and property of 2730 South St. Peters Parkway in St. Peters while the complainant was on the phone with 911. Patrolman Daniel Olshwanger generated an incident report for peace disturbance which was forwarded to the St. Peters Municipal Prosecutor’s office.…
Daniel Holtzclaw's court case has been going on for weeks and today they finally came to a verdict. This ex-Oklahoma City police officer was charged with 36 various counts including sexual battery, stalking and more. After 45 hours, the jury finally came to a decision on December 10 and Holtzclaw was found guilty on 18 of the 36 counts. This jury obviously took their time making up their mind. Once they started trying to decide, they were not allowed to go home and took breaks only when it got really late at night, but then started over again in the morning.…
After the death of Sandy Seale due to a stabbing, Donald Marshall was accused of the murder of his companion. After the police investigated the situation, Marshall was tried in court and found guilty of the murder charges. However, during the initial investigation, trial and re-investigation, many errors did occur which eventually led to the wrongful conviction of an innocent man. A key witness in the prosecutor's case testified to have seen Donald Marshall in the park with Sandy Seale and claims to have witnessed Marshall stabbing Seale.…
Pun-Chi complains about the treatment of Chinese immigrants in California. He tells us many ways in which the Chinese were not treated right. His criticism is valid, the Chinese were treated very badly, they should have all been treated the same, they are all human and people did not have any right to treat them differently just because they were Chinese. They were never welcomed the right way in other countries, they could not defend themselves because they did not speak the language and even though they were invited to emigrate to California, they would have never believed what they would have to go through.…
Across the political spectrum, people looked to Asian Americans — in this case, Japanese and Chinese Americans — as an example of a solution, as a template for other minority groups to follow: “Look how they ended up! They’re doing just fine. And they did it all without political protests.” (Washington Post).…
On top of that, Roof has given another reason for colored people to think whites are racist. This is an event that has affected people of all races. The event of Roof’s motion to represent himself being granted has become a very important event. This is because there is a few ways his trial could go now. One way is that he makes multiple critical procedural missteps in open court.…
Ian Haney Lopez, a Professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley primarily works in the areas of racial justice and American law. Lopez is also the author of White by Law, The Legal Construction of Race, which presents a critical look at how race has been recognized by law and it’s legal actors such as judges and policy makers throughout history. The author mainly focuses on analyzing prerequisite cases that in affect, have changed the way that race is perceived today. The book particularly focuses on the legal and social construction of whiteness.…
Ferguson is relevant to American social diversity today. For starters, Plessy legitimized the move against segregation practices. He inspired those who became prominent figures in the future to take a stand against what seems unjust and fight for what is right for all those who are oppressed, experiencing similar issues. If the court case never took place, it would not have given rise to the court cases that proceeded after repealing the precedent of segregation. As decades passed, the population within the society became more diverse enabling not all, but some people to feel a bit more comfortable with their skin and their environment.…
Though there were various types of Asian that came to America, many of Americans during the late 19th century and early 20th century perceived all Asians with a similar perspective; an outsider and a threat to the American supremacism. Asian Americans were often mistreated and disdain by the “whites” due to many racial and cultural differences, which caused the institution of “work” to distort the lives of Asian Americans’ economically and socially. One of the major effect from the disdain were the differences in labor niches such as types of occupations, jobs, and industries occupied by Asian migrants. The labor niches often separate the lives of each ethnic groups, therefore also establishing many racial dynamics that impacted the lives of many Asian ethnic groups in the pre-exclusion years.…
Japanese American Internment Camps The United States throughout history had many faults in their actions and mindset against minorities. During the era of World War II, there was much distrust and tension between the counties of the Axis Powers. Because of the conflict between the countries, many people of German, Italian and Japanese heritage were treated poorly and disrespectfully at the time.…
History Day Rough Draft California became a land of opportunity for Chinese immigrants who were driven out of their home country due to poverty and overpopulation. From the Gold Rush of 1849 to the building of the California railroad, more and more Chinese immigrants began taking Californian jobs, which resulted in white nativists who resented the Chinese. Because the Chinese immigrants brought along their customs and culture, they became more vulnerable to prejudice. The differences of cultures allowed anti-Chinese activists, such as Denis Kearney, to target the Chinese, ultimately contributing to the Anti- Chinese Campaign that wanted to decrease Chinese immigration and Chinese privileges. The encounter between Chinese immigrants and white…
The Asian American Movement was an era of radical change in which the urgency for Asian Americans to overcome oppression and negative perceptions of American society transcended their clichéd silence and indifference. However, such a(this) monumental movement was not achieved without the courageous efforts of activists who had ideologies that coincided but also contradicted each other that stemmed from their different backgrounds. Two advocates in particular who emphasized the need for social change were Amy Uyematsu in her new article “The Emergence of Yellow Power” and Warren Furutani in his interview with the Amerasia staff. Both activists, in their own contexts, explain the evolution of the Asian American Movement, highlighting its roots,…
Bariso Hussein Movie Response “Home from the Eastern Sea” In the movie I saw times where chinese americans were trying to assimilate. The movie highlighted how some would use famous American quotes such as Ben Franklin’s: “Early to bed and early to rise”. Also in sports. The two baseball leagues created in Yakima valley showed the uniting of the Chinese community and the integration into America.…
Asians had a long history in the United States. They originally came to the United States as immigrants. Now, there are second and third generation Asian Americans making up almost six percent of the total United State’s population. However, many of the Asian groups did not share the same fate when coming to the United States.…
In the play Yellow Face, David Henry Hwang tries to address the cultural problem of discrimination in the media against the Chinese. David Henry Hwang tries to show injustices of the united states when it comes to the Broadway show who tried to cast a white man as the main role in the Asian Broadway play. He hoped to end discrimination, and try to get the roles filled by real Asian-American’s than by men in so called yellow face. He tries to show how easy it is for anyone to pass themselves off as multiple races, and it is a very narrow problem when it comes to this specific ethnicity. The very thing that is making the issue so complex is the fact this is such a sensitive issue when it comes to the general public about discrimination.…