Civil Rights Policy Analysis

Our individual characteristics and traits are what initiates change and drives society, yet in our society in which individuality doesn’t seem to exist these days. where is an individualist is something what we call an outcast or not normal. In two articles by Kenji Yoshino "Preface" and "The New Civil Rights Movement", Yoshino discusses how he believes that people “cover” or hide their real identity so they will fit into the so called “norms” of our society. Yoshino supports his argument by ethos, he also uses his own personal experiences, he also uses pathos, and he uses examples, facts and data to get his point across. It is this individuality that fuel society and is present in every aspect of it. Culture, a significant part of society,

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time”-Malcolm X. In every movement men and women have crossed paths with others that share their goals, but not everyone shares the same path to achieve it. The civil rights movement of the nineteen fifties and sixties were no different in this case, while many shared the common goal of equality for all, not everyone shared the same style or belief system to achieve it creating sources of conflict within various civil rights organizations as well as between organizations. Freedom activists, Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael sharing the same goal as other civil rights leaders John Lewis

Despite its precepts of liberty and justice for all, America has a long history of preventing certain segments of the population from enjoying all of the liberties they are entitled to. While America has made several key advances since the days of the Founding Fathers, there is still progress to be made. Civil liberty issues of the past have not been fully resolved, as shown by racial separatism, unequal democratic participation, and interference with freedom of speech. As shown by racial separatism, civil liberty issues have not been resolved.

In the United States during the LBJ administration, one of the biggest cultural issues at the time happening in the American population was about civil rights. A big portion of the Great Society efforts to fixing civil rights was based on the difference in prison rates based upon different races and genders, hoping they could bring these rates closer together. At the time the male rate of imprisonment was significantly higher than the rate of female imprisonment (Doc. 4). As well as the gender inequality, blacks and Latinos were the biggest two male races imprisoned also being the highest two ethnic groups imprisoned on the female side (Doc. 4). Many reports have been made showing the progress that the Great Society reform of the jailing system has made since the mid 1920s to the 2000s as the white population imprisonment rate have slowly risen through the years while seeing a

The legislative landmark was preceded by the 2009 addition of sexual orientation to hate crimes

This act, also known as, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, was established in October of 2009 as the result of two malevolent murders. In 1998 Matthew Shepard was tortured and killed because he was believed to be gay. James Byrd Jr. was beaten, dragged behind a truck and eventually decapitated just because he was African American. The people who committed these crimes were later convicted for murder but could not be prosecuted for committing a hate crime because of the existing 1969 Federal Hate Crimes Law at the time. The reason they were not prosecuted was due to the law that stated federal involvement was allowed only when he or she was doing a federally protected activity such as school or serving on a jury. According to the FBI there was a report of 7,600 hate crimes in the U.S and 12,000 hate crimes based on

These three men had very different public, and private, stances on civil rights. It’s good to keep in mind, however, that plenty of what these presidents did was to gain votes from those who benefited from their actions. Eisenhower was definitely not known for his support of the movement and had never publically supported the movement as he believed that such extreme changed could not come as a result of a law from Washington, but from the heart. Despite this, Eisenhower passed the Civil Rights act in 1957 to endeavour to help African Americans gain the right to safely vote, however this could have been just to gain the ‘black vote’. He did publically support the bill. Kennedy, however, was very well known for his support of civil rights. In

Two years before the long and hard fought senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, President John F. Kennedy declared, “Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves, but in this century, our Negro citizens have emancipated themselves”1. With this simple statement President John F. Kennedy addressed one of the oldest and most current issues of our nation, the blatant line between the Caucasian population and the other minorities that reside in the United States of America. The racial divide in America has existed long before the beginning of America’s struggle for independence and persists today as demonstrated recent events such as the building of the wall on the United States/Mexico border. Though it hasn’t always provided the anguished minorities with chains, shackles, and whips there has been a copious amount of major periods of time in which there was a great division and sense of hostility throughout the nation. One of the most significant times is the Civil Rights Movement and the Senate Debate on Civil Rights Act of 1964 took place during this time and is the defining topic of this paper.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reported, “60.6% [out of] 1,402 hate crimes . . . based on sexual orientation [are] classified as anti-gay (male) bias” (Latest Hate Crime Statistics Report Released). Crimes against homosexuals have been reported nationwide, but a hate crime in Laramie, Wyoming has changed the gay community. October 12, 1998, twenty-one year old Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and murdered by two young Laramie citizens because of Shepard’s sexual orientation. In The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, the town of Laramie consisted of many social problems, which led to individuals violently projecting their bias towards homosexuals. These individuals otherized homosexuals because of the public attitude, morals, education, class, religion, politics, and their leaders. These biases have led to social problems nationwide, but outside of the town of Laramie, change has arisen for the better. Thanks to Matthew Shepard, homosexual awareness has spread nationwide creating a homosexual movement. Laws have been passed throughout the nation, giving homosexuals equal rights. Although gender equality has made progress for homosexuals, hate still roams throughout the nation causing many violent crimes. Fag, homo, queer, flamer, and pansy are words individuals use to otherize homosexuals throughout our nation. This type of name-calling is called gay bashing and is typically used by males. Queer theorists say individuals “seek to show

Activists use multiple strategies for achieving civil rights which has both success and failures. Racism in the U.S. has been an ongoing thing for awhile and it is something that should never be brought up and never should have been started.

Despite all these efforts made by the legislative power to make laws for establishing relationships of respect and integrity towards human beings regardless of their condition, and in those days and even these days do not respect fully the laws, and that even being created, people in this country have tried not going to respect them fools procedures, eg as allow voting who do not guess the kind of riddle, as to who is to rule in writing on the line without explain rigorously, being such an ambiguous statement that simply does rule out several potential voters thus avoiding fulfill their right as a citizen, and restricting the essential part of civil right "vote". Turning to bring the citizen rights

The impact of the individual experience is to make the reader stunned. It is astonishing that somebody would do that to someone else, paying little mind to somebody's ethnicity. It additionally draws in the reader’s consideration. Cofer broadens the argument to incorporate African American people when all is said in done by saying that before the Civil Rights Movements were effective. African American's were thought and they were compelled to just take basic work employments that should require any musings or insight. He also broadens the argument about personal experiences by clarifying how they aren't exclusives and by indicating out how she was somewhat separated from the immediate Latino culture and is still treated the same way. Another

Which means if you committed an ethnic intimidation crime with a crime that would be considered a normally be considered misdemeanor, that crime would then become a more serious offense. The second type of hate crime law only worsens the punishment for certain crimes that are crime oriented, and the third type only requires the collection of crime oriented statistics. This paper will show the different hate crime theories, the situational factors that are associated with brutality in hate crimes, law enforcement responses to hate crime, anti-hate organizations and what they are, and ways to prevent hate crime.

The Civil Right Movement start to make change in the south like integrate the bus system to not discriminate African American. In 1954, the court case Brown vs Board of Education has change the school system by allowing African American children to attend the same school as white children. The story of Warrior Don’t Cry talk about nine African American children fight for integration at their town Little Rock, Arkansas.

Many things came to mind as I came across issue especially since I was able to relate to it. For instance, I was able to sympathize with Carlos and his coworkers because he has contributed immensely to this country yet I felt angered because his contribution has been unrecognized. To make matters worse, he now faces the threat of being deported due to his legal status in the country. It is very unfair to treat someone less of human due to their legal status regardless of all the contributions that this individual has done for the U.S. The reality is that he is only one of the many contributors to this country that we treat unfairly. In fact, I was able to relate to this issue to some extent. As we know undocumented workers have to work ten