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If one person’s inaction leads to the death of another, is he guiltier than someone who committed a violent act that results in a person’s death? In August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Citizen Barlow stole a bucket of nails, but did not come forward when another man was accused. The man subsequently committed suicide due to the false accusation and the significance of being labeled a thief. Another character, Caesar Wilts, shoots and kills a man who was suspected of committing a crime. While both…

act, which is especially dependent on their fluctuating social status, black stigmatization and white privilege are able to survive and flourish. In their research they discovered that people tended to be classified (and identify themselves) as “more white” or “more black” based on the fluctuating positive and negative attributes to…

have equal rights with whites. In two contrasting articles, both the authors look at racism on very different levels. Edmund Morel tries to bring attention to the problem and wants others to stop it, while Cecil Rhodes feels that white people are the perfect race and that all countries should only be White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Cecil Rhodes had a very strong faith, one that not many believe in now, but he wanted to spread his faith everywhere. He wanted the race to be White Anglo-Saxon…

Another Country is the story of the painful struggle of a group of friends trying to discover their true self by coming to terms with their darkest secrets. The story focuses on both the characters perception of his or her own self and the relationships between each character, which gives readers an inside look into the characters sense of emptiness and lack of gender and racial identity. Each character is written to support and contrast each others actions to show the reader the different ways…

pyramid. Where the whites are on top of course due to white supremacy but then as you look down at the pyramid you see blacks and browns at the bottom doing the hard labor jobs. One example, of white privilege would be about the guy that shot up a black christian church. In which he was seen innocent because the police claimed him to be mentally ill. However, if a black person committed the same crime they would be sentenced for life in jail. Another example, would be the rape that a white guy…

both represent the same ideas of racism and inequality in a society with the mistreatment of African-American and Aboriginal people from white people. No Sugar is a play written by Jack Davis and is about the Millimurra family’s stand against government ‘protection’ in Australia during the 1930’s. This play portrays the inequality between aboriginals and white Australians. Davis displays inequality and racism through language conventions such as emotive language, figurative language and imagery.…

The first article that I chose was America has apologized by Mychal Massie. It gave a history lesson that showed many flaws about reparations and it also points out some ideas that could hold out the reparation idea. One idea Mychal says is that, “The United States didn’t invent slavery.” It gives us the real reason why slavery was introduced that the African people themselves enslaved themselves. The other main point about the reparations is that there are already a lot of African Americans…

Sanders is right Sandra Bland would be alive today if she were a white woman.’ The article highlights how Bland’s image does not conform to standards of femininity. Bland is not a white woman, therefore, is less likely to be victimised, but is likely to be criminalised and mistreated by the police. Bland being black and a woman is a factor towards the death of Bland. Police brutality and ‘suspicious ' deaths do not happen to white women. Therefore, the story highlights institutionalised racism…

William Edward Burghardt DuBois, formerly known as W.E.B. DuBois. An American sociologist, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, and leader. He was considered a defender of freedom, and fighter of injustice, and fighter of Black Liberation. DuBois is an inspiration not only to sociology but to Black lives matter activist. He noticed the race problem and was trying to solve it and cure colored prejudice. W.E.B. DuBois was an influential leader, his experience was one of the reasons why he such…

Slavery on the African Americans during the 1500s to the late 19th century was a very cruel time. The conditions that African Americans had to endure was very arduous. Most whites felt superior towards the people that they labeled as slaves. African Americans were stripped of their dignity, pride and were often put through embarrassing situations. African Americans whom were labeled as slaves felt like they had no hope and that all they were good for was to work in the fields. In 1863, the…