The Amazing Race

cancer awareness by providing a 5k marathon. When I heard this race was scheduled in St. Louis, I had my heart set on crossing the finish line whether I would be first or last. My aunt Trena, who had earlier that year lost her life to ovarian cancer, was my motivation for running this race. To be patient, to be resilient, and to trust myself, are small, yet important qualities of life I learned during my training for the Susan Komen race…

Although the gap between black people and white people has gotten smaller, it still exists in the United States. Slavery and that time period was the initial cause for the divide, but equality has never truly been established. Many white people still think of themselves as superior, even if unconsciously. Americans, black and white, can never actually come together and move on from the past if the present is not fair either. For white people, it is hard to understand the struggle a black person…

Race is referred to the idea of categorizing human species into groups that shared physical and genetic traits, such as the skin color, facial features and even the hair texture. Based on the “Sorting People” activity that I’ve done, I found that I did poorly on the test. I got only 5 out of 20 questions right. I am actually quiet surprised by this result. I always think that I can accurately identify someone’s race because I have lots of multiracial friends, but after I took this test, I…

Racism is the act of one race or religious group believing as though they are superior to another race or religion. In this case, the “superior” race would be whites and the “inferior” race would be any race other than white (Hispanic, african american, asian, etc.) It is stated in a website about race and racism that, “In the U.S., blacks, Mexicans, Chinese and Japanese immigrants were targets of discrimination in employment and property ownership.” This may not be happening in the modern era,…

countries abolished it was due to America’s belief in Manifest Destiny. White Anglo-Saxons assumed they were called by God to rule the “New World”, but also to rule the Africans they had enslaved. In essence, God chose white people over all other races to be the ruling elites who dominate the world. They are the chosen people, in similar ways to Israel, who were God’s chosen people, determined to rule and colonize the “Promised Land”. Not only would Americans colonize, they would also…

Detroit, once a symbol of progress in the American economy, has become the failure story of 20th century America. A main factor consisted in racial discrimination towards black people, bringing consequences such as racial division on the society and class inequality. However, racial discrimination did not exclusively brought capitalism towards Black Detroiters lives, but also oligarchy played a role. In the 1940s, Detroit’s economy boomed, becoming the 4th largest industrial job market in the…

Malcolm Gladwell’s piece “Black Like Them” discusses the differences between West Indians “blacks” and American “blacks.” Within the article, Gladwell discusses the stereotypes brought up when it comes to the argument of West Indian “blacks” being the same as American “blacks.” Being half West Indian, half American and trying to take a position in Gladwell’s article could be rather difficult. Once a position is chosen, you must then speak higher of the culture that you identify with more, thus…

Women’s Movements Throughout 1800’s and 1900’s The concept of feminism originated in the political ideas of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. This was directed to the idea that all human beings enjoyed similar fundamental rights in which people wanted to be part of. The female demands increased, particularly starting in France, which soon provoked the feminist tracts to be spread throughout. Although the women’s movement first developed in the western world, it had a slow development in…

immoral beings" and do not have the satisfaction of the supposed 'unprejudiced ' view of the law. The Reverend Sykes also states within the novel that he hasn 't seen the jury "decide in favour of a coloured man over a white man" before. This shows how race can interfere even with the justice system, where everyone is supposedly meant to be equal, in the eyes of the law, however it is clear that this is not always the case in the Southern states of the USA in the mid 1930 's. Atticus states…

In the essay Race, Capital Punishment, and the Cost of Murder by M. Cholbi, the author examines the issue of racial discrimination in capital punishment among African Americans; also, how African Americans murderers are more likely to receive the death penalty over white murderers. The Author believes capital punishment and the death penalty are just punishments for the actions of perpetrators, however the author believes the unequal distribution of capital punishment is not a just action…