Analysis Of The Forgotten Victim From Florence And Normandie By Steve Lopez

Nearly all his men were killed or wounded that day, and while Molina survived unscathed, he was severely wounded by machine gun fire later in Germany”.( 103) Even after all this tragedy of people being killed Mexican Americans returned home and still faced racial discrimination.

Staples and Rodriguez portray in their articles that even at very young ages juveniles can be victims of racism. Such young ages in fact that it leaves scars on them, as it had with Staples and Rodriguez, because they found out the reality behind being black or having dark skin. For example, Staples discovers at the age of twelve what being black is in a racist society, as a white women saw Staples at night walking near her and she ran fearing for her life.In addition, Rodriguez’s first experience of racism was at the age of seven from his mother telling him to put a towel over his shoulder to cover some of his dark skin. Therefore, both Staples and and Rodriguez had to live with the stereotypes and the profiling that comes with having dark skin from a very young age

Published by the New York Times under the Opinion section, the audience for this article is any interested reader. At the time it was released, November 18th, 2016, this article arrived during last year’s elections, in which a large, but surprising number of Americans voted for candidate Donald Trump, shocking many forecasters who had predicted otherwise. Therefore, after the election, many people may have been researching the demographics of the election, and this article, which briefly shared Brooks’ opinion on the nature of the election and how viewing others through the lens of a dominant identity influenced how the votes fell where they did, may have caught a keen reader’s eye. Also, this article came at a time where racism and prejudice caused many problems, leading some to view others as one-dimensional, represented only by a skin color or religion. Since prejudice and hate is still a large issue today, tackling this problem helps make this article relevant, nearly a year after its release.

Have you even judged someone on who he or she is or what they looked like? And have you ever had a bad experience or traumatic experience happens and you looked for someone or something to blame, but in reality there was nothing to blame? Well, a natural disaster can be blamed on no one, but in times like that emotions run wild and blame can be put on someone who fits a certain profile. Racism and Hurricane Katrina were two forces that clashed together to create an even bigger problem for the victims. This is caused by an insecurity of the situation at hand. In the book Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, racism and racial profiling is the underlying themes in the story. These themes are also the underlying themes of people who are subjected

The article is about a Honduran girl named Aleichia Williams, and she talks about having a “race crisis” when she had moved from New York City to North Carolina. (Huffington Post, Aleichia Williams) While she was in middle school, she was made aware for the first time of racial profiling based on first impressions. With racial profiling, people can also make stereotypical inferences of what a specific race likes when it comes to food, music, etc. Since people can occasionally label someone from first glance of what race they think certain people are; it can be seen as labeling someone based on the color of their skin.

Police brutality is a rising social issue that takes place all around the world. Both Louanne Johnson’s novel “Muchacho” and Los Angeles Times’s “Latino Police Shootings Stay Under the Radar” deal with similar concepts on acts of police brutality against Latin Americans. In “Muchacho,” readers get an image as to what is hidden by the media after learning about what happened to Bobby Chavez. Similarly, readers get another look into the false justifications of police brutality that is spread through news channels after hearing the real life story of Oscar Ramirez. Together, both the novel and the article manage to spread awareness on the topic of police brutality and false media.

Baca explains how minorities never truly stood a chance to thrive. From the beginning they are grouped together like cattle, “So we go about our business, blacks with blacks, poor whites with poor whites, chicanos and indians by themselves. The administration says this is right, no mixing of cultures, let them stay apart, like in the old neighborhoods we came from.”, and treated like second class citizens. “It’s all concentrated. The doctors don’t care, our bodies decay, our minds deteriorate, we learn nothing of value.”

In Eduouard Louis’s novel The End of Eddy, Louis tells the story of his childhood, which is categorized by violence, both at school and at home, and a lack of belonging caused by his feminine characteristics and homosexuality. From being bullied at school to being called homosexual slurs, Eddy encounters more than his fair share of physical and emotional harm. However, the novel embodies trauma to demonstrate that there is more than one aspect to emotional pain. Louis utilizes changes in syntax and diction throughout the novel to demonstrate shifts in the tone which maneuver the multifaceted reactions that result from such a tumultuous upbringing. The descriptions of violence in the novel are quite graphic and disturbing, however, they are told with varying tones, showing the complex nature of trauma.

Not only does Olango’s incident have affected the American society, but it has also had an tempestuous impact on the lives’ of individuals nationally. Norma Chavez-Peterson, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union chapter in San Diego and Imperial counties, was disturbed by Olango’s incident and she issued an explanation saying that “the videos raise disturbing if sadly familiar questions about how police respond to crisis calls involving people of color in general and people of color with disabilities in particular” (Perry 2016). Hence, supporters became fearful by the outcome of the incident and they were different to support Olango’s parents and family during their grievance. Local officials, including Police Chief Jeff Davis had decided to release the video of Olango’s incident by hoping that supporters and residents would avoid impeding on the streets (Perry 2016). Unfortunately, that was not the case, instead, local religious and African American community leaders, marched on a Saturday and by midnight there was fight (Perry 2016). Law Enforcement was also being told that someone was intended to go and get a gun and by then officers had to declare the demonstration as an illicit activity (Perry 2016). As a result, some chose to leave and others found it difficult and most were arrested on misdemeanor

Comparison of Themes in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is a non-fiction play written by Anna Deavere Smith that chronicles the testimonies of various peoples’ experiences regarding the 1992 Rodney King riots. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a novel by Carson McCullers that showcases a short glimpse of the lives of a group of outcasts living in a Georgia mill town in the 1930’s and the deaf-mute man named John Singer in whom they all find solace. Both works share some similar themes that are presented in various ways, but Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 does a better job at developing and exhibiting its various central and supporting themes than The Heart is a Lonely Hunter due to the ways

When agreeing to the reading “The forgotten victim from Florence and Normandie” an article from the LA Times, by Steve Lopez, about Fidel Lopez story, it had me anxious, a man who was “dragged from his truck” (Lopez, pg. 2) and was brutally beaten in the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Many like author Steve Lopez never heard back from Fidel after the riot or have ever heard his story about him surveying the LA riots, some assumed Fidel never made it out alive, someone who had helped author Steve Lopez fundraise money for the Lopez’s family told Steve “she thought Lopez might have died” (Lopez, pg. 2) stated in the article. Even after his brutally attack was being broadcast on national television all over the Los Angeles area, in which Fidel wife, Coralia, witness her husband being beaten nearly to death not knowing it was her husband, Coralia stated in the article “I didn't know is was Fidel. I could’t tell is was him.” (Steve, pg. 3) Listening to her words made things hard to imagine how Coralia must have felt watching her husband on television nearly pass away. The rest was nothing but jaw dropping moments as you continue to read further

Moral panic has influenced the social problem of racial profiling because the media continuously paints minorities in a negative light, resulting in more policing of minorities. Just a few years ago when many riots took place in reaction to the frequent police brutality incidents, the media always referred to rioters and protesters as thugs. This negative media coverage only contributed to the stereotype that Blacks are violent and hoodlums that need to be policed, regardless of the fact that they were protesting because of a serious injustice. This relates to Goode and Ben Yehuda's criteria of consensus for a moral panic because in general there is a societal belief that Blacks are more violent and are criminals and thugs.

According to Daniel J. Myers, a riot is a disruptive collective act of violence that is momentary, happens outside of everyday life, and results in damage to property or harm to individuals involved either directly or indirectly in the collective action (2013, p.3929). Despite the term having a formal definition, determining precisely what constitutes a riot is not an easy task. Drawing the line between collective acts of violence and riots is challenging and is done by most social scientists by intuition. During the 1960s, the act of rioting in the United States was associated with race-related collective actions in urban areas. Most riots involved a confrontation between police and African-American citizens, mostly young men (Myers, D. J., 2013, p. 3930). Nowadays, the term “riot” encompasses

Racism is defined as “the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another” (Sociology 355). Racism is thought to have ended once the Civil Rights Era came to an end, but in fact racism is still an issue that we face today’s society. One example of this is present when the President of the United States, Donald Trump, targeted a minority group.Trump stated “They are not our friend, believe me,” he said, before disparaging Mexican immigrants: “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” (Time) Our now President said these words toward people that entered the United States, regardless of their means of entrance. This essay will overview several recent events in the United States of America that would not have occurred if individuals did not have bigoted views. The Charlottesville incident that happened over the summer over the Robert E. Lee statue, I will also talk about the Executive order 13769 which is also known as the 90 day Muslim banned. Lastly I will be talking about a recent incident that happened in Oregon were a man was arrested by ICE officers who did not identify themselves or explain why they where their.

Throughout Edwardo Portillos story connections are made between youthful gang members and actual violent criminals. Depicting the diverse issues that take place in our society today, the depiction of Latinos and Latinas as being commonly associated with gangs and drug abusers. As well as the depiction of police profiling and police monitoring that take place in certain areas. The quote “if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a duck (Mann, 2006)” clouds police officers and other law official’s judgements when interacting with Latinos and Latinas youth and adults. Simply because of the way they dress and their mannerisms they use when they’re in public socializing. Within Portillos story he manages to explain how and why Latinos and Latinas are grouped into this stereotype.