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similar to how Sontag describes photographs in which she states “that photography transforms scenes of violence and suffering into something beautiful to evoke empathy, pity, or shock. The effect along with the creation of the photograph can transform while bearing witness”. Although I agree with this view, it is difficult to associate beauty to the horrific scenes of police shooting black people. Not only are the shootings depicting the blatant racism and discrimination in this country, there…

acknowledge that race has no meaning. Race has taken on different levels of power throughout time, and I will take you through those levels to show how race has continued to provide the world with unfairness and inequality. This country is not racism free. Racism affects people every day. It continues to discriminate by means of the legal system, and by means of the public realm of influence. Race and…

Log 1 Nancy Mickelson Dynamics of Racism & Oppression Simmons School of Social Work Log 1 Week 4 Self reflection recording exercise: I looked back at the questions I had answered and then reviewed the recording I had made in response to the questions. What I had heard from myself was more than I expected. I heard that I didn 't view myself as a racist or view people as different by their color or where they…

increased in population, and the White population increased overall. Considering both white and black Americans fuel their own desires to profit as much as possible, would they miss the racial divide in America if it truly did vanish? Is there a love for racism from both black and white…

that of racism and racial stereotyping, but it is not a problem that can be solved at the blink of an eye, as Rome was not built in a day. The ideas of racial inequality and stereotypical racism, as well as the idea that racism is a challenge yet to be solved, are referenced within the articles “Black Men and Public Spaces” by Brent Staples and “Is Everyone A Little Bit Racist” by Nicolas Kristof. These articles discuss the pressure and suffering that African-Americans face due to racism, as…

When I was a freshman in high school there was a big problem with racism in my school. My best friend is an African American, Cain. In one of my classes with Cain there was another student who was a farmer. He was extremely racist. Every day he would have some new racial slur to say to Cain. He would not stop saying racist things to Cain. Cain tried ignoring him but the student still felt the need to provoke Cain by being as racist as possible. Every day for a semester and a little bit into next…

the community involvements they have been involved with are helping people who live in poverty, have put together a food pantries and have set up an Anti-Racism group. The sisters furthermore, set out the missions put in place by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods has been involved with anti-racism for countless years. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, was concerned with the group of slaves in Louisiana in 1843 (A Bit of History). “In 1868, African…

Langston Hughes had a rather difficult life in post-war United States, as with the United States being a rather racist society, excluding and handicapping all races besides white. Hughes, being partially African American, White American, and Native American, Hughes experienced the worst of the worlds firsthand. He was under the stereotypes all the time, it be African American stereotypes, or Native American stereotypes. As a result of this racism he endured, Hughes poems was directed towards…

the objectification of the male body and it’s presence due to the white supremacy in the NFL. These non-white athletes undergo many different obstacles in order to concur a spot in the NFL. Which is why I agree with the author, due to the evident racism in the NFL. Even though black men being drafted to the NFL is a positive deed, they aren’t being…

Although many consider racial issues as a figment of history, a buzzword in news or a controversial topic for political arguments, racism has not and will not be resolved until individuals begin taking responsibility for their own racially unjust mindsets. These issues are discussed in two articles, “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo and the Christian Churches Together’s response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter from the Birmingham jail. Although these two articles discuss the same topic,…