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Harriet Tubman was an effective leader, a liberation bringer and a wanted criminal. She escaped from slavery only to journey back into slave states nearly 20 times to rescue people- some friends and family, but mostly strangers- from the bondage of slavery. Her life and leadership was nothing short of heroic: a tale of true servant leadership and self-sacrifice for the freedom of those suffering injustice. Everything she accomplished, she did while living under enormous oppression herself, yet,…

It served as a way to discourage white supremacy in the State. According to Wiese, the move was to give the black Americans a place where they could interact with each other and raise their children. It was a place for cultural affirmation and embracing of social norms as well as a way…

race clashing his opportunities for job interviews. He was a half White and half Latino man. When he applied for the jobs there were questions about the ethnicity of the applicant. Curiously, he applied two applications with the same conditions and only alternating the ethnicity, leaving one as just White and other White and Latino. The result ended with the only White’s application flooded with job interviews and returns, while the White and Latino receives none. So you 're telling me, even if…

Statistically whites have the opportunity to get a better education, therefore if you just look at skills you could limit minorities of getting jobs or into college as all the top choices will most likely be white. This would just continue the cycle of whites being superior in America. White Privilege is the idea that you are better than everyone else just because you were born white. You feel entitled to everything life has to offer because you are…

environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest contributor to incarcerations among black males. According to the NAACP “about 14 million whites and 2.6 million blacks report to using illicit drugs” that’s about six times as many whites using drugs than whites, yet when looking at the prison population,…

as the apartheid within the country of South Africa. According to merriam webster the definition of apartheid is a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. There were strict laws such as anti-miscegenation laws between white south africans and other races, segregation of children within the south african school system, constant oppression of black south africans, and more. One would think how would this country become this way, when the people enforcing the…

Police brutality has had a long lineage in the United States of America. Beginning in 1877 with the Great Railroad Strike, police began targeting poor labor workers as they attempted to make a fair living. The Pullman Strike of 1894, the Lawrence textile strike of 1912, the Ludlow massacre of 1914, police brutally attacked labor workers on strike. Fast-forward to the 1960s where Native Americans, Latino immigrants, LGBT people, and blacks were the new target, low on the totem pole. Police…

discrimination. According to Merriam-Webster, racism is the hatred and intolerance of a person based on the race to which the person belongs. A common misconception regarding racism is that it goes both way, since people of color cannot discriminate but white people can. Discrimination cannot go both ways, since only one race holds authority. In other terms, racism is just prejudice with the addition of power. Nonetheless, this does not signify that each side has disparate intentions of hate.…

1. Explain why the compassion gap is problematic. From your perspective, what needs to happen to eliminate the compassion gap? There are a plethora of laws in effect that state one cannot be discriminated against for various reasons. However, there are many subtle forms of discrimination that exist even today. In my opinion, discrimination is one of the driving forces responsible for those living in poverty. Subtle forms of discrimination, particularly racism, continues to allow further…

have a better tomorrow. They changed history but also became a part of it. In Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) Homer Plessy sat in the white segregated railroad car and was imprisoned on the bases that he was a black man, who was violating the law since he was called himself black but sitting in the white railroad car. He was light skinned and could pass for a white man since he considered himself…