Nordic race

descent had all rights removed, and received horrible mistreatment and abuse instead. Unless you commit a crime or do something that negatively affects society denied to you, nobody in this world should have their rights infringed merely based upon race, skin color, or ethnicity. The pre-mentioned rights of life, liberty,…

Raising Community Awareness regarding our Criminal System Flaws It was the winter of 2012 when Trayvon Martin was shot in Florida by a neighborhood watch volunteer, who assumed he was endangering his neighborhood because of the way he was dressed. The jury found the volunteer innocent after he killed the teenager because he felt he was in danger. It happens over and over again. I remember hanging out with my friends, all us African American teenagers and being afraid because we all…

an African-American background, were, due to their light skin, intentionally ‘passing’ as white women to fit into the white-dominated society of the time. However, this process left both Irene and Clare stuck choosing between the two cultures and races. The confusion of choosing an identity from either black or white usually left negative effects on these women. By providing insight into the relationships between Irene and Clare compared to their husbands, Nella Larsen discusses how ‘passing’…

Have you ever heard of the Holocaust? Maybe, it was you heard about it through the Dairy of Anne Franke. It is a brilliant novel informing you on the horrible things that happened during the Holocaust. During the holocaust, over six million Jews were killed. They were murdered by the Nazi’s and the infamous Hitler himself. Adolf Hitler was the leader of these people murdering innocent people, who only was crime was being Jewish. Since when is a religion a crime? These people were murdered for no…

From a White-perspective, race has always been an issue that affects “the other” – Blacks, Asians, and other “minority” racial groups. It was assumed (and largely still is) that whites dominated other races both qualitatively and quantitatively. For this reason, the societal status of these marginalized races have always been determined by whites. Historical evidence in the form of slavery, public segregation, forced migration and other racially-based abuses of minority races demonstrate this…

Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in the year of 1862. She was born into slavery because both of her parents were slaves. Eventually when the Civil War ended and slaves were freed, her family moved away into a new house, which was right across the street from their former master. A few years later, almost her entire family was wiped out by yellow fever, leaving her to take care of her younger siblings (Wells 7-28). After her siblings began to grow older, Wells became a school…

would still be discriminated against through unjust social restrictions, placed upon them by their white superiors. Through these social restrictions the African American people came to see themselves as inferior and helpless compared to the white race, the whites on the other hand believed and propagated the false belief that "white is superior." Through their self-egocentric and retrogressive acts, resources that were meant to be for the benefit of all the American people, were unfairly…

projects. It is true, that when regarding the majority of immigrants in Germany and the ethnic and racial makeup or “ethnic” Germans, the rhetoric of multiculturalism may not be a strictly racial project per say. Germany has very specific connotations of race and racism that deal directly with the killing of Jews, i.e. ethno-racial genocide. (Joppke 2011, 65). While multiculturalism is deeply rooted in public debate and seeks to interpret and rearrange the (often racialized by phenotype) groups,…

racial relations in workforce. Opposition to the changing face of the common worker propagated great dissention throughout the white community. Race acted as the dominant factor in an individual’s work ethic. In the early 19th century, all minorities were marginalized into labor undesirable and considered to be “work repugnant to the white man.” However, some races were preferred over others. In a special report by the Washington State commissioner of Labor in 1915, it is stated that “… [The…

believes the image of Black men could change in the future he answered, “Yes, but of course it takes time to change an engraved prejudice that most races, even our own, have on us. We need to start with ourselves and then work our way out. I think if we believe we are great people with aspirations to be successful, then we would act like it, and other races would see it for themselves, which in the end would change their perspective of us as a…