Affirmative action

are social rules and regulations as well as norms and values that universities as well as other countries have established and it is against the law/rules to discriminate against any person where the university do not tolerate with those kind of actions (Mitchell, 2016). Yet, in the year of 2016, a teenager guy who is a freshman student at East Tennessee State University crashed into a silent protest of Black Lives Matter wearing a gorilla mask and giving bananas out to them. I cannot even…

Humor is The Greatest Weapon against Racism Humor is considered the most efficient way to break down barriers regarding race. It has become the most common way for people to show their racial disparities, and in some cases people have referred to it as “laughing out the racism”.In the past stereotypes were set for different races which were not exactly accurate, as they were rather ignorant. Years have gone by and minorities have become more comfortable in their own skin in (despite…

9. Compare and contrast the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC’s) 1960 sit-ins with the Congress of Racial Equality’s 1961 Freedom Rides. Which action do you think was most effective and why? a. Although blacks had been struggling for equal rights since the end of Reconstruction, their fight for civil rights picked up speed in the 1950s and 1960s. Both groups, the SCLC, and SNCC were all committed to nonviolence and peaceful means of protesting racial inequality, they used…

The two protected grounds I will be discussing in this essay are disability and gender equality and for each ground I will discuss a case study that has occurred in Ireland. Discrimination in employment is prohibited by the Employment Equality Acts of 1998-2011. Discrimination weakens equality that is present in society. Discrimination may also damage social ties and weaken social solidarity, and in the context of employment, it can undermine labour standards and lead to an inefficient use of…

The commons themes between the movie, Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee, and the book, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, are a mix between the differences in races, their similarities, and the hope of them becoming equal. These two, throughout their entirety, keep referencing race and the differences in relations to each other. The difference in the color of a person’s skin does not make them inferior or superior to one another. This division is a product of society’s views and judgments placed…

When observing historical and current societal debates, such as those over gender and racial inequality, debaters often utilize the concepts of equality and sameness as interchangeable. However, each concept conveys two entirely different meanings. The concept of equality indicates that each individual possesses government ordained rights, which connotes equality by law. The concept of sameness promotes the idea that individuals require uniform treatment, regardless of equality. In Elizabeth…

Most people are their religion as a safe haven, a place to turn to when the woes of the world seem very dire and extreme. But, what happens when the places where religions are practice—generally called churches—are plagued with the same issues that are prevalent in every other aspect of society? The issues of racism and managed diversity are no strangers to religious interactions. In the article “Managed Diversity; Race, Place, and an Urban Church”, these concepts are examined in relation to…

cross-cultural influence because it negates the Eurocentric idea that Europeans were completely superior influencers. It breaks the status quo to admit that “superior” whites can be influenced by “inferior” non-whites (Loewen 110-111). Whitewashing history functions to disinterest students of color because they do not learn about their own history. It also functions to lower the ability of white students to think critically about history because they do not learn about non-white perspectives of…

Racism has been in our society ever since white people were introduced to people who do not look like them, who do not have the same complexion or the same facial structure, and it is still alive today. Racism is one of the most important social issues of our modern world. It has affected millions of people worldwide, and will never be forgotten in our history. “How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a world. And, yes being a problem is a strange experience, - peculiar even for one…

Aristotle once said, “The worst form of inequality, is trying to make unequal things equal.” A major example of this concept of inequality displays itself through humans. Although people may seem similar and equal, each personality and talent differs from one another. Now one might wonder what it would be like if every single person were truly equal. This theme is developed in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, and also in the film 2081 directed by Chandler Tuttle. Tuttle’s…