Trump's Raid Analysis

The new Republican candidate Trump has opened the door for many people to show discrimination against groups of minorities. Sullivan states, “The racial aspect of this is also unmissable. When the enemy within is Mexican or Muslim, and your ranks are extremely white, you set up a rubric for a racial conflict. And what’s truly terrifying about Trump is that he does not seem to shrink from such a prospect; he relishes it.” (Sullivan 10) In other words, Sullivan believes that Donald Trump is not promoting equality. Rather than being the people’s voice he is actually advocating racial discrimination against targeted minority groups. He even seems to finds enjoyment towards the race bashing of the targeted individuals. As an individual of the target group I feel as if this is a prime example of how weak our democracy is. We are raised to feel that we are all equal due to the Constitution, which was formed by our founding

As individuals, we live in a social environment that protects and separates us from feeling emotional pain that encounters with racism all around us. In the article, “The Sugarcoated Language of White Fragility”, Dr. DiAngelo argues, this “protected environment” of racial barrier constructs racial outlooks for comfort while at the same time lowering the power to allow emotional pain, leading to as white fragility (DiAngelo, 2016). White Fragility is defined as “racial stress becomes triggering a range of defensive moves” (DiAngelo, 2016, p. 1). In other words, the importance of one’s skin color and how it shapes an individual perspective and living knowledge is not characterized in an individual however it is determined by society and how they are presented (Lietz, 2015). This is the reality of attempting to have a discussion that encounters white fragility. For instance, this concept of white fragility can be seen in the Charlottesville riot. Charlottesville riot was occurring at the University of Virginia where white men demonstrated their racial outrage, and revulsion power violence because a statue have been removed (Heim, 2017). As quoted “You will not replace us” can be explained by how much rights are given than everyone else because of how much privilege is given in society (Heim, 2017). Overall, society have constructed and developed a belief system that deliberates power and privilege on those recognized of race (Kegler, 2016). Such power and privilege proves itself in having the capacity to shape social norms, and special treatment without being mindful of their race (Kegler, 2016).

We spend our entire lives trying to figure out who we are, and as much as we all would like to believe we start with a blank slate, that simply isn’t the case. Some of us are born with, albeit slightly hidden, marks of what our history already dictates for us. Racial perception in society has always been a topic of controversy throughout the entire nation. Based on past occurrences, it has been proven that black and brown people as a whole have been oppressed, mistreated, and even wrongfully persecuted based on social stigmas conceived by society. Society today have the wrong ideologies; they believe that a safer environment means locking away individuals that appear to be a menace or danger based on the color of their skin. However, this mentality is flawed because locking up individuals does not promote a change; it only increases hate and eliminates the chance for someone to change their ways and become a better person. In the novel “Citizen” by Claudia Rankins the poem “In Memory of Trayvon Martin”, “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander, alongside the video situation 6, both conveyed that racism is prevalent in the modern world today as one should take to account the toll of microaggressions on the political and personal standpoint of equality for all colored individuals.

Claudia Rankine’s contemporary piece, Citizen: An American Lyric exposes America’s biggest and darkest secret, racism, to its severity. While she highlights a vast number of stories that illustrate the hate crimes that have occurred in the United States during the 21st century, the James Craig Anderson case is prevalent because his heartbreaking story is known by few individuals throughout the country. In 2011, James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old man of Mississippi was nearly beaten to death by a group of white male teenagers due to the abundance of melanin in his skin. As if this was not enough, he was then purposely run over by a pickup truck as if he was just a random object in the road rather than an actual human being. These white young men stole the life away from Anderson, a devoted husband, and father similar to any other citizen of America simply because of him being black. While these Ku Klux Klan- reminiscent acts were thought to be “normal” in the 18th and 19th centuries, the 21st century is claimed to be the era of racial growth towards equality. Being that Anderson’s unjustifiable story was not nationally publicized further explains how the world seems immune to the racial injustice that is apparent today due to the cyclical nature of the occurrences. James Craig Anderson exemplifies how the world has yet to revolutionize, evidencing how we are still cemented in a racially insensitive epidemic. In other words, America is still racially insensitive to those who are seen as an inferior race, African Americans. `

In the article Sha’kema Blackmon and Anita Thomas spoke about election results thought that most African Americans viewed the death of Trayvon Martin as a race-related event (Gabbidon and Jordan 2013; Pew Research Center 2013). This online investigation tested African Americans, opinions on the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin and how it relates between Black racial identity groups. Each test taker had multiple reactions, also being asked question about whether Trayvon Martin’s death was racially motivated. The groups talked group and three black racial identity groups were listed. Group 1 was made of each person of the different Black racial identity attitude types. Group 2 was made of each person who tries to put separation between students of African-American and Caucasian to an end and who wants everybody to be together.

The United States of America is known as a country of independence, liberty, and rights; within the lines of our national anthem the Stars Spangled Banner, it is clear to see how the phrases "the land of the free and home of the brave", symbolize the ideals that have been centralized into the American Society for hundreds of years. Despite being recognized as a world power; for its military structure and the "believed" system of possibilities in terms of self advancement, the United States of America houses a very dark and inhumane secret; a sociological failure that perhaps is called that way, given the as a nation, we neglect, fail to address, and persecute those that because of their inherited skin color, look different than the accepted sociological norm of whiteness. It is shameful, to me at least, that the term "American" is a representation of the world 's largest incarceration rate; it’s even more shameful, how we prosecute, isolate, and declare what President Nixon once believed was the proper measure to take on poor communities; the war on drugs. For hundreds of years, we as a country have idealized with what Mustafa Emirbayer & Matthew Desmond have identified in their book Racial Domination, Racial Progress the Sociology of Race in America, as a mistake; mistake that has cost thousands of minorities their reputations and has impacted not only their tranquility, but their overall success rate in the promised land of opportunities.

In today’s time, the United States of America have drifted off its course of trying to reach a utopia. Social problems are rising for many people of color and non-color people. The problems have been illuminated in politics, education, employment, and social media. Problems such as discrimination of a certain group of people, and economic hardship are the most common issues. Reflecting back on America’s history, America has had a long history of white versus black ever since the slavery era, which took place during the time of the civil war. Ever since then, the United States have striven and persevere to change its society ethics. But, America is now slowly shifting back to a world where white supremacy and people of color are immensely separated

Throughout the first week of THE 225, many events took place within America that took the country by surprise. Trump’s inauguration was last Friday, January 20th, and already he has made drastic changes that will affect the lives of millions. His policies are based off sexist and racist claims that people have, for some odd reason, supported. With his new, corrupt policies, life in America will soon be set back decades because of his white supremacy mentality. Because of this, the nation has never been so divided since the Civil Rights Movement, something that was seemingly done with but clearly not if white supremacy becomes an issue. Although Trump’s America is not an ideal America and his claim to “Make American Great Again” implies

When you referenced Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article “Letter to My Son”, I was terrified by his experience with his son when you reiterated, “Ta-Nehisi Coates took his son, not yet 5, to see a movie on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As his son made his way off the escalator, a white woman pushed him and said, ‘Come on!’ Chaos ensued. There was a black parent’s rage and a white man’s threat to have the black parent arrested” (Bernard 1-4). This incident forced me to reflect on the dominance that white people have held over black people throughout our country’s history, and it is sickening to know that there are still people around who are willing to impose this ideology upon others. I hold even more sympathy for Black American mothers due to America’s extensive history of oppressing African-Americans. This is evident given the many years they have been subjected to prejudice and violence on top of the fact that they were coerced to leave their homeland and serve as slaves in America and then repeatedly battle just to gain equal rights with white people. For these reasons, I do not hold any disagreements with your fears and that you have every right to believe that your daughters could be a target due to their skin color given our country’s brutal history. Nonetheless, if we are going to resolve this predicament, then we need to

White nationalism is an umbrella term to describe the ideology that calls for the creation of an all white “ethnostate” in America. Mainly, this is to be achieved by the deportation and genocides of non-whites. White nationalists claim that the “white-genocide,” or the cultural dilution of Americans of European descent, is occurring to the detriment of this country, by allowing immigration from other parts of the world the United States is only weakening it’s economy and degridating the moral fabric of its society.

America, “The Land of the Free,” or so I thought. As an American, I have always believed that everyone has a right to free speech, free thinking, and a life without racism. I thought that I was lucky to be growing up in this century, where slavery had been abolished almost completely and racism on a steady decline. I was beyond proud of all of the accomplishments that our country had made in the past thousands of years; that was until I read “Whither Now and Why,” by W.E.B DuBois. DuBois was a Negro man, who in this passage described that although Negroes would soon be lawfully equal, they would never be socially or independently equal and forced to assimilate to White American culture (DuBois, W.E.B., 135). DuBois predicted that black identity would be lost if his kind were forced to assimilate to White culture, and compared this assimilation to “racial suicide” (DuBois, W.E.B., 135) Through this passage, DuBois was not only able to describe “racial suicide” of his culture but helped to open my eyes and see that assimilation is still a huge problem in America today.

This essay argues that the shooting of Michael Brown and subsequent events in Ferguson, Missouri, cannot be fully understood outside the context of the social, historical, political and economic ideologies that shape the United States. I chose to critique two news reports each from different news sources, including The New York Times (NYT) and The Washington Post (TWP). Each news report focuses on different incidents which took place during Ferguson’s upheaval in the summer of 2014. I will begin by briefly summarizing each article, then I will do an analysis on the problems and gaps that I find within each article. Next, I will provide an in-depth critique using Mills’ Racial Liberalism. By critiquing liberalist frameworks, I draw attention to the ways which racism and violence remain deeply institutionalized within the structures of American society and allows for the maintenance of white supremacy. The essay ends with a comparison of the Trayvon Martin case (2012) and includes a discussion of the affects of capitalism and globalization in the media.

White supremacy, white separatism, and white nationalism are all a collection of racial philosophies, and a succession of coinciding political movements (King, 2015). Historically, white supremacy dominated public culture, intellectual existence, and political domination. Appallingly, white supremacy continues to infiltrate a significant amount of today’s racial conflicts. Today, the remnants of white supremacy supporters

Empirical studies of targeted killings and civilian casualties in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism show that drone strikes may obtain either of the following two outcomes:

The population of the United States of America has been one of mixed race since its very beginning. Boatload upon boatload of enslaved Africans provided a labor force which would fuel the American South’s economy for many years, until national abolition and the subsequent civil rights movement created a primarily biracial population of blacks and whites. The US has come a long way since those days, and today every child born into the US is taught from an early age the evils of racism and the shameful actions committed by slave-owning US citizens in the past. From textbooks to televisions, the modern USA seemingly works tirelessly to teach its population that discrimination by race is wrong and that all races are equal. This has led to a great national complacence among whites, and a widespread belief that the US has mostly eradicated racial prejudices. But it is not so, and despite a population almost entirely composed of people who would not consider themselves racists, racism still pervades in the US. In many cases modern racism occurs at the hands of whites who almost absolutely are completely unaware of their discriminatory actions. In the films “Frozen River” and “The Visitor” racism was touched on repeatedly and played an evident part in the messages they were trying to portray.