Global citizens movement

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minority race. Examples given were ‘color blindness’, ‘alien in own land’, ‘myth of meritocracy’, and ‘denial of individual racism’. The second form was called microinsult, and it includes behavior such as ‘ascription of intelligence’, ‘second class citizens’, ‘pathologizing cultural values/communication style’, and ‘assumption of criminal status’. Microinsult was described as often unconscious comments or behavior that…

useful work to push the development of the equal right movement including the politicians. Almost every politician claims that their goals are make every member in this society can be treated equality however the funny thing is most of their declarations will not be complied and this is the real situation for now. Jelani Cobb points out this real situation in “The Matter of Black Lives”, she recalls the history of the Black Lives Matter movement…

when mainstream. If these individual don’t excell to our expectation we cut them down and destroy them because it isn’t part of our personal brand. We forget the humanity of women, the complexity of someone who is expected to represent the women's movement. The dehumanization of women of other women because of the way which they express themselves, branding feminism as a category a stereotype about what “we should be” and not who we are. In her famous Ted talk “We Should All Be Feminists”…

Not only does art and music become hindered when cultural appropriation is shunned, but so does personal expression. For instance, it is a human right in the United States to express oneself freely, whether that expression be of religion, language, or even as simple as hairstyles. In March of 2016, a video taken at San Francisco State University went viral when an African American student confronted a white student with dreadlocks, accusing him of cultural appropriation. The black girl, Bonita…

Industrialization. For instance, Jim Crow laws enabled racial segregation of the African Americans in public places and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 restricted the freedom of the Chinese, one of the immigrant groups. This led to the various social reform movements – which was a respond to the effects of the Industrialization by different social hierarchies. The farmer respond – Populism, working class respond – the rise of the labor and the middle class respond –…

I chose to interview my boyfriend’s Aunt Jamie about participating in the Blue Lives Matter movement. She explained that she is still an active member of the movement and that their goal is to recognize all of the positive things that the police do for the community and to strengthen support from the community. Aunt Jamie heard about the Blue Lives Matter movement through Facebook when people she knew began posting about the New York City incident when two NYPD officers were murdered right…

corporations, while also supporting humanitarian reform and morality in politics. Whigs were opposed to harsh labor conditions, just as the Progressives had many reform movements to make industrial conditions less severe. Within the Whig party, there were contrasting views, such as some being anti-Catholic, some being against labor movements, and some being more pragmatic than others. Similarly, the Progressives had ideas of both socialism and laissez-faire in their party. Lastly, like the…

Albert Einstein once quoted, “Be a voice not an echo.” This quote implies that one should not believe in something just because everyone else believes in it. The Civil Rights movement was a movement that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s and was meant to give equal rights to African American people and terminate discrimination. Some excellent examples of people who stood up for what they believe include Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist…

Few sounds invoke the enthusiasm of the Civil Rights Movement as influentially as the civil rights movement melodies that gave a musical backdrop to the campaign for racial equity and fairness around the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Civil Rights Movement was comprised of many deeply inspirational, charismatic speakers and leaders, including the late Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph Abernathy. Song leaders such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Betty Mae Fikes, the SNCC Freedom Singers,…