Relay races

In our country’s Declaration of Independence the founding father’s proclaimed that all men were created equal. History has shown that these words were not necessarily true for people of color nor women. The criminal justice system has shown to be corrupt by racial profiling and racism. Court cases that are decided with a peer jury, had always seemed to have had their mind made up about a case involving an African American without hearing the facts first. Trials for people of color in the Jim…

watched and discriminated due to your appearance. Having fear of those who are meant to protect us. America is great but not perfect. People get discriminated and racially profiled almost everywhere they go. It could happen to anyone. No matter what race you are, you are at the risk of being profiled. In the passage Surveillance is Necessary by Dan White it discusses that racial profiling is necessary to keep a business successful. To support his claim he states that the retail industry loses…

how family ties and traditions can encourage and exacerbate this problem. Many white people during the Jim Crow Era in which the story takes place held a fundamental belief that they were the superior race, leading them to band together against blacks, fearful of and disgusted by this different race while also fetishizing their sexuality. By exploring the racist mindset of a white sheriff in the years following the Civil War, Baldwin seeks to understand the racism that lingers into his own…

When I enrolled at Truman, I did not realize how my race impacted me on both a personal and global level. I believed we lived in a post-racial society where race and ethnicity did not matter. However, on Monday, November 24th, 2014, when officer Darren Wilson was not indicted for the killing of Michael Brown, I experienced an epiphany: race matters. This stark realization was converted into research and self-containment. I needed to establish a connection with my black identity to achieve inner…

by Ta-nehisi Coates. Coates takes a much more negative view on the situation as a whole, and offers a very differ perspective of burden of the inequalities placed upon black america. While the two different interpretations of the current state of race relations in the US for the most part differ, there are some basic areas where the two views align. The…

The American history between a man and a woman in the human race has portrayed the woman as a weaker individual and that the man was the rule of the household. This was not only culturally accepted in society, it was the norm of the community. The question that remains is whether or not if this was morally the correct way of living and what rights do man perceive they have within the society? History reveals that centuries when a census was performed, it generally only counted the man; therefore…

Daniel Hicks was born in 1965 in the small, rural town of Humboldt, Tennessee. Hicks described Humboldt as a blue collar town, where everyone knew each other and knew each other’s business. While Hicks lived in Humboldt, the population of the town was equally split between whites and blacks, and Hicks went to school at the beginning of the racial integration process. Hicks was born into a “dirt poor” family with four other siblings. At the age of 12, Hicks and his siblings were put into foster…

Such a caste system was built to further separate different races so that, as Haney Lopez terms, people would see other races as individuals who “are not like us”. Although slavery was ended after the Civil War, a new era was ushered in under Jim Crow under which blacks continued to be subordinated and disenfranchised. Finally, the era we are…

white male was the same race as me, so I do not know if I would have stopped for…

which allows the workers to focus on the race of the customer, to deem someone suspicious of offenses. Retail profiling is an issue because it targets shoppers, effects the trust of the customers, and also gives white shoppers an unfair advantage. Many employees that work for corporations are instructed to profile shoppers by many factors like appearance (clothing or mannerisms) and race. For example, Zara USA, a clothing store, have set regulations based on race and even have security codes…