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Segregation had had many effects on the black nation, to the point that it started building up ones character, “See the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness towards white people”, King shows readers that segregation is even affecting little children, that it is starting to build up a young girls character and is contributing to the child developing hatred “bitterness” towards the white Americans. King makes readers imagine a black cloud settling in a young girls brain mentally, when instead she should have an image of a colorful blue sky with a rainbow, isn’t that suppose to be part of a 6 year-old’s imagination? King gives readers an image of destruction civil disobedience had created in the black community, especially in the young innocent little children.

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2. One of the texts most focused on educating readers about race and the challenges it presents to American culture is Ida B. Wells’ “Lynch Law in All its Phases.” As discussed in previous reading responses, Wells’ speech is made up primarily of evidence due to the limitations placed on women of colors’ speech but even more so due to her “deep-seated conviction that the country at large does not know the extent to which lynch law prevails in parts of the Republic” (189). In this way, Wells endeavours to educate the US both about lynching and about the repercussions of allowing lynch law to prevail. That is, Wells forces audiences to acknowledge the fact that lynching, and thus white supremacy and racism, actively threaten the moral pillars that the United States is built on.

King presents a realistic example when he talks about hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize and kill your black brother and sister, and your speech stammering as you explain to your six year daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park.(732) King writes this to present a realistic example of segregation and the pain that people of color were going through. Also, Nafisi writes, “ Female students were being penalized for running up the stairs when they were late for classes, for laughing in the hallways, for talking to members of opposite sex.”(495). These examples present the reader with evidence and unconsciously get the reader to think about how he or she would feel if that should happen to them. Also these examples evoke sympathy for the oppressed because of the picture created in the reader’s mind as he or she

Racism is being explored in the short video. Racial inequality has been introduced by Ms Jane Elliott through prejudice and discrimination that held against people who have different skin colour beside white in this society. Racial categorization is the process of categorizing people into different groups according to phenotypic physical features of the face and body such as skin colour, eyes colour or lip fullness (Keith, 2006). One frequently hears words ending in “ism” – such as racism, sexism, ageism and so forth are used to describe specific targets of prejudice and discrimination (Bernard & Mary, 2010). In the video, racial stereotype, prejudice and discrimination is being exercised. Students were divided into two groups which are represented by their eye colour where blue-eyed representing white people and brown-eyed representing non-white people. Brown-eyed students were designated the “superior” group and the blue-eyed students were designated the “inferior” group. The brown-eyed students were encouraged to discriminate against the blue-eyed students by convincing that they were smarter, cleaner, better, and more civilized.

“A Class Divided” is a series of videos that depict the events that occurred during an experiment conducted by Jane Elliott. Jane was a third grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa during the time Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Dr. King’s death raised many questions about racism and discrimination for Elliot’s students. She felt that discrimination was not a topic that could be understood through merely speaking about it. Jane thought the only way for her students to truly understand the concept of discrimination was to have them experience it themselves. Since her class was composed completely of white students, Jane had to come up with something that would divide them. She used eye color. “A Class Divided” was the

In 2015 racial conflicts and struggle for power still occur, even though slavery ended in 1863 and segregation ended around 1950’s and 1960’s. In Shelby Steele’s I’m Black, You’re White, Who’s Innocent, both writers emphasize the key issues of races accusing one another and fighting for innocence and power. While Ellis at first blames the blacks for his financial problems and for his inferiority, he later forms a union with them. Steele experiences an awkward conversation about “race” with the whites and observes the game of innocence being played between them. Both authors clearly point out that blacks and whites fail to understand each other because of the desire for power.

Made to stick is a book written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath about why some ideas survive and others die. The book identifies six main elements that every great idea contains. Those six key traits are put into a small acronym “SUCCES”. Its letters represent the key elements of simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotion, and story. Those key elements can make an idea last the test of time. This sounds simple enough to attain a stick idea status, however our prior knowledge can hinder how well we use these tools.

Jane Elliots famous experiment a Class Divided,  was inspired by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The teacher, Mrs Elliot  thought this exercise to help her students comprehend the effects of racism and prejudice. Back in 1962, immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. ,Jane Elliott experimented on teaching her third grade students about discrimination . For two days, she  made each of them experience real discrimination through provoking stereotyping and prejudice with usage of social psychological phenomena like cognitive errors, self-perceptions. Elliott first created stereotyping situation among the children by separating them into two groups by easily recognized physical traits as blue eyes and brown

After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr a school teacher in Iowa devised an experiment that would give participants first-hand experience of discrimination. Jane Elliott’s experiment will be evaluated in this essay as well as analysing the impacts of her experiment. Additionally, this essay will identify the ethical challenges of such an experiment and how Elliott alleviated those ethical concerns where possible. Elliott’s two day social experiment challenged the participants, 8 and 9 year old children, to understand how it feels to be discriminated against.

In this excerpt I will be touching on how Brayan, a 10 year old, was experiencing racism in a mostly white populated school in the late 2000s and early 2010s. I will provide examples from different times in his life when he experienced any racial behavior shown towards him or any other of his classmates during the period that he attended middle school. I will also provide outside examples of racism occurring in today’s world, with different sources. I will also explain how this experience helped shaped his view on different aspects of life and how it changed the way he approached life in general. His experienced help him become better as a person and as his life progressed he never showed a certain individual favoritism because he knows

I learned the three rules of the tipping point”: “the Law of the Few”, “the Stickiness Factor”, and “the Power of Context”. In the law of the few, Malcolm Gladwell states that there are certain people who contribute to the start of tipping points who he calls “Connectors”, “Mavens”, and “Salesmen.” Together these three personality types spread ideas, products, and behaviors throughout the world. I love learning about people and found these concepts fascinating. Gladwell’s other rules of the tipping point, the stickiness factor and the power of

Prejudice is a cancer that spreads hate among its perpetrators and victims alike. In 1930 Langston Hughes penned the novel, Not Without Laughter. This powerful story, written from the perspective of an African-American boy named James “Sandy” Rodgers, begins in the early 1900’s in the small town of Stanton, Kansas. Through the eyes of young Sandy, we see the devastating impact of racism on his family and those they are close to. We also see how the generations of abuse by whites caused a divide within the black community. Among, and even within, black families there were several social classes that seemed to hinge on seeking equality through gaining the approval of whites. The class someone belonged to was determined by the color of their skin, the type of church one attended, their level of education, and where an individual was able to find work.

All forms of racism, discrimination and prejudice had consequently been the cause of most of the problems that African Americans had faced during that time. The examples of institutional racism given in the stories also emphasize the corruption of the institutions, and although there has been progression in working towards achieving ultimate racial equality for African Americans, it has been a perpetual problem that is going to be difficult to overcome. But, stories and plays like these that do shine light onto how corrupt systematic racism is are beneficial because they continue to inform the readers about how the reasoning behind why the system is extremely

As a child, my first memories with race were when my mother was trying to integrate more Native American representation in my early media. However, the lack of Native American representation in children’s books and movies made her search to find fitting and accurate role models for me difficult. In the end, I only had Disney’s Pocahontas and a series of books about Kaya, an American Girl doll. Although she wanted me to learn more about my Native American heritage, these two examples were the only ones I had of Native Americans. At around the same age, I also learned about racism at school on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The teachers taught us about segregation, the rights that Martin Luther King, Jr. worked to secure for black Americans,