Militarized Caste System

within our nation’s borders, including poor whites, who are often pitted against poor people of color, the collapse of mass incarceration will not mean the death of racial caste in America. Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge … No task is more urgent for racial justice today than ensuring thatAmerica’s current racial caste system is its

In old Hindu society your caste and assigned duty was the most important aspect of your life. No matter what caste someone was in, fulfilling their dharmas, or duties, that they were assigned to was their priority. These duties were innate, meaning that were inborn, or natural. These dharmas played a role in social order; everyone in the four castes had a role to play. Manu, the creator god, made “separate innate activities for those born” from him, in order to “protect this [his] whole creation” (40, 87). Brahmins were priests and were at the top of the caste system. Priests’ innate activities were to teach, learn, sacrifice for themselves and others, and giving as well as receiving (40, 88). If they did not perform these duties they were no longer considered priests. Even if someone performed their duty “without any good qualities” (43, 97), it was better than performing someone else's innate activity greatly. If someone were to do the duties of another caste, they would fall from their own caste immediately. For example, a priest would not be able to live as a priest performing the duties of a shudra, or a servant.

The Indian caste system describes the system of social stratification and social restrictions in India in which social classes are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups, often termed jātis or castes. Within a jāti, there exist exogamous groups known as gotras, the lineage or clan of an individual. In a handful of sub-castes such as Shakadvipi, endogamy within a gotra is permitted and alternative mechanisms of restricting endogamy are used (e.g. banning endogamy within a surname).

During the last centuries of the classical era, India and many other civilizations modified their culture while other lifestyles continued on with the way they had always been. During the periods from 300 – 600 C.E, Indian civilizations kept their political structure of the caste system and also their religion of Hinduism, but slowly departed away from long distance trade with other societies.

When it comes to the topic of police reform, many agree that our country is long overdue for it, however, the questions are how exactly do we, as a nation, go about changing one of the most powerful structures to exist in the country. While some believe that reform must come from within the individually flawed police departments, others argue that the entire criminal justice system needs an overhaul. In this Response essay about Ta-Nehisti Coastes’ essay “The Myth of Police Reform,” Coates is saying, that the criminal-justice system is not working as well as it should. They are putting people, especially African Americans in jail or killing them. Some people have a mental or physical disability or a have a drug or alcohol problem that

There have been many articles printed out over the years about, “A World Without Police Officer” one of the articles, I would talk about is an article by Mr. Peter Gelderloos. Mr. Gelderloss, stated in his article, “The police are a racist, authoritarian institution that exists to protect the powerful in an unequal system. We don’t want better police. We don’t want to fix the police. On the contrary, we understand that the police work quite well; they simply do not work for us and they never have. We want to get rid of the police entirely, and we want to live in a world where police are not necessary.” (Gelderloos, 2014). Now, I understand where Mr. Gelderloss, get all his angry and ball up emotion from and want to leak out toward law enforcement,

Commonly referred to as the “oldest religion” in the world, Hinduism is believed to be created by the Aryans between 500 BCE and 300 CE. With over one billion followers internationally, it is the third largest religion. As a way to justify the caste system that had been put in place in India, many followed Hinduism due to reincarnation being apart of the religion. Many believed that individuals were in their current caste system due to what they did in the previous life. While Hinduism continued to prosper throughout India, Buddhism, a religion created by Siddhartha Gautama, was created and many started to turn this faith as a way to ensure the serenity of their afterlife. Due to Buddha creating a faith and basing a majority of it off of Hinduism’s

In Hinduism there are 330 million gods. 330 million is a mighty vast number. The distance from Earth to Jupiter, at their closest point, is 365 million miles. That’s almost one god for every mile between Earth and Jupiter. A 5-pound broiler chicken’s feather is about 0.0082 grams. 330 million chicken feathers would weigh about 2.71 metric tons, that’s the same as a blue whale’s tongue. Things like those are why I enjoy studying about different religions. Three areas of Hinduism that I’ll be focusing in this essay are caste system, genders and the Om.

In this situation one possible solution is to have African American police in African American communities an the same with Latino communities.The racial disparity between the police and the communities is even sharper.Nearly 60 % of the population

“The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit crimes, and that's why they are locked up or locked out, we are told. This feature makes the politics of responsibility particularly tempting, as it appears the system can be avoided with good behavior. But herein lies the trap. All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are

Poverty is often determine by race and ethnicity, in Cohen words “ America Indians, Latinos, and African Americans are all about three times more likely to be more poor than Whites” (Cohen 2015: 129) The article “ How Black Middle-Class become poor Adults” by Gillian B White backs this statement up. The article talks about how black parents that live in the middle class are more likely to see their kids go down the ladder and become poor. This theory exist because black children don’t have the same education that a white can have growing up, when a black kid grows up the chances of them becoming single parents are 4 out of 10 and because they still face segregation in some work places that don’t let them progress, the poverty among whites is

It's impossible to prove exactly where or how the caste system came about, but it is hypothesized that the system originated in South Asia, when the Aryans from the north invaded the territory and introduced this way of order as a means of controlling the local community. The Aryans assigned certain groups of people a certain name and role depending upon their stature. Since then, the caste system has been around for several millennia, and up until the early 20th century, very little had changed.

The origins of poverty and inequality can be traced back to the time of slavery and greed that this country encouraged. Some Americans, including African Americans, experience significant hardships, including temporary food shortages, inadequate housing, and unfair treatment, but these individuals are a minority within the overall poverty population. Poverty remains an issue of serious social concern, but accurate information about that problem is essential in creating a solution. This kind of poverty and inequality is rooted in the nation today by blatant segregation, discrimination, and immorality among individuals of higher power.

An estimated 900 million people are Hindu in this world. Hinduism is more of a religious culture, having 330 million different gods and goddess. This leads to a faith system that splinters into many different subgroups and factions, making this more of a culture than having one set of beliefs. In looking at; the Vedic deities and their role in Hinduism, along with breaking down the caste system and how it affects the life of individuals, while using the Hindu principles and practices to see if Christian communities are living and serving in Hindu context, and how Christians could use Hindu beliefs in furthering and enhancing interactions with those in the Hindu belief.

In the past when people would hear the word “police”, usually a thought of protection and safety would come to their minds. However, as of recently when police are mentioned, a new thought of danger is often generated in their minds. It is not uncommon for a person living in a poor neighborhood nowadays to feel uncomfortable in the presence of police, and for good reason. How many times by now have you heard of someone being killed by a policeman for resisting arrest? Many police shoot to kill and we may think of them as ruthless, however are they to blame or is it the system we should blame for training them to do so? New police policies need to be implemented into the system because police are causing many unnecessary deaths by being