When Race Breaks Out: The Struggle Between Hate And Discrimination

The difference between offensive words and oppressive slurs are there intent and impact they have on the recipient. Many words can be offensive in today 's world, and as the line between being politically correct and free speech becomes muddled, it’s easy for the words that comes out of our mouths to be hurtful. For example, calling someone “stupid” today would be

People will judge others based on what they see. People react instinctively to what they see such as their the skin color, and their reactions are based on what they have been taught about them, whether it's true or not.

But [she] didn’t ‘hear’ it until it was said by a small pair of lips that had already learned it could be a way to humiliate [her]” (Naylor, 411). This not only supports the fact that the boy had been taught or heard this word by someone older like a parent, but it is also sad that a nine-year-old had to be taught that such a nasty, ugly word was created to make her and people like her feel ashamed and embarrassed to be black, or that are worth less as human beings, which is absolutely false. That is why slurs are created though, to make groups of people feel less “human”. This essay explored the most infamous slur against the black community. The fact that slurs like this are prevalent in today's society is extremely upsetting and wrong. There are plenty of racial slurs that are so casually used today, it makes one's stomach ache in distress. Ableist slurs are even less reprimanded, a high school student walking through the hall will hear the r-word too many times to count during the course of a day. Just as commonly used are homophobic and anti-LGBT slurs. A high school student will hear the f-slur and the q-slur plenty of times, and even more will “that’s so gay” or “you’re so gay” be whipped from the mouth of students without a second thought. It’s disheartening.

Racism, a controversial topic in contemporary American society, has only been accentuated in recent years due to interracial violence, especially violence portrayed by white police officers on black individuals. This violence has led to even more violence and protests upon the police officers as the protesters, mainly black, feel as if they are being policed unfairly. These protests have ranged from mainly peaceful to full on chaos and violence. One could connect this interracial violence and protests to several different criminological theories, including conflict theory, differential selection and processing hypothesis, and neutralization theory. Likewise, these theories could be combined with an end-to end theoretical integration method in order to strengthen empirical validity.

Trump as the president-elect has divided the country more than it has brought it’s people together. ‘There has always been hate and divisions,’ some would say. While this is true, this kind of prevalence has not been at the forefront of the political, personal, social, etc. sphere in a long while. Headlines are becoming more trigger inducing and there has been an uproar of hate crimes across the nation. While both sides have contributed to the hatefulness, the way that the hate is manifested is more rampant among supporters of Trump. This is seen through the way that the hate crime rate has gone up since November 8th. In more ways than one Trump’s election into office has given these people that have hate in them a pass, of sorts, to act on that hate and victimize others.

Racism is the trend of thought, or way of thinking, which attaches great importance to the notion of the existence of separate human races and superiority of races that are usually associated with inherited physical characteristics or cultural events. Racism is not a scientific theory, but a set of preconceived opinions they value the biological differences between humans, attributing superiority to some according to racial roots. Even in such ethnically diverse country as the United States, racism continues evident against people of different ethnic traits and skin color. According to Steinberg (Steinberg, 1995), racial discrimination has been the most important cause of inequality between whites and blacks in the U.S. Because of that, minorities in American society have been fighting over years for equal rights and respect, starting with the civil rights movement in 1960s. Also, public policies implemented since 1964 in the United States have been instrumental in reducing economic inequality between blacks and whites, such as the affirmative action, a federal program that tries to include minority groups by providing jobs and educational opportunities (Taylor, 1994). From this perspective, does racism still play a dominant role in American values and American society? If so, what are the consequences of this racism that still remain in American society? What is the impact of the Barack Obama presidency on the unending fight against racism in this country?

Racism has been a terrible problem in American society for hundreds of years. Racism issues are not limited to one specific race, but include all races. It is the responsibility of the people of this nation to address racism and learn to accept and embrace each other for our differences, and allow this great nation to become even more united for our sake and the sake of future generations. To eliminate racism it is imperative to know first, where racism started and how it has developed, why it continues to be present in our nation today, and what we must do as a people to overcome this major problem.

Some People tend to laugh and feed on putting someone down based on their race and some may not even know they are being racist at all. The fact is that your behavior towards someone can be racist even when you may be “Joking” or “Messing around.” The matter of fact is the racial comments were still made and still have a hurtful message. In the essays we read we were given a real life example of how even unintentional racial comments can still be harmful to someone and shouldn’t be used as a cultural norm. One imperative stride to lessening the racist culture in America is to incorporate educational programs for our youth to show them that we are all created equal and racism has no place in our society. These measures can help raise equality and counter the impacts of any prejudice or dogmatism that happens in the children’s homes by helping them see and comprehend what generalizations and racism are and that they ought to be stayed away from. The adults and leaders in the lives of the youngsters are the illustrations that the kids look up to and will determine how they will act when they are older. By instructing the kids at a young age about the threats of generalization and racism, we can limit the transference of bigotry to the future

There has always been presence of hate crimes amongst all people: particularly directed against minority groups. Before being accepted by society, minority groups have had to endure some kind of hostility against them. Enduring this hostility while advocating for their rights earned them acceptance into society. In my reading of Chapter 7, I came across the Race-Conflict Theory about hate crimes and my mind immediately made a connection to a recent murder that is believed to have been a hate crime. I choose this particular article because it terrifies me that anti-Muslim hate crimes are on the rise. I have always heard of people who complained about hate crimes that they experienced or about being mistreated because they are from a particular ethnic

Hate crime today, is defined as a crime that is inspired race, sexuality, gender, disability or ethnicity that involves violence or prejudice actions. Some say change is coming to the world against hate crimes because hate crime has been slowly decreasing over the years. Sexuality has been an issue for many people in the world because they do not accept one to be happy with themselves. Many people think telling other what to do, how to live, and how to be happy is the way to life, but it isn’t. Many think it’s unethical in most religion, many think it’s inhumane but what really matters to those who get bullied is how they feel about themselves. People should be comfortable with their sexuality, not always put down, especially when it comes to being violently abused. Hate crimes on sexuality have been around for many years and the methods people used are disturbing and unnecessary for their own satisfaction because it helps solve nothing. The history to present day is a fascinating story to how things changed for the better or worse.

Racism and discrimination inequalities have become a major discussion throughout the years in our society. Inequalities has impacted every level of humanity on this earth. Education, tolerance and acceptance can be used to challenge one another in attempt to change the negative traditions that continue to exist in our culture. Racism and discrimination inequalities continues to be passed from generation to generation.

Ideas of racism and equality have been a great conflict in the U.S. during these past few years. There have been major protests saying that “Black Lives Matter,” “ White Lives Matter,” and “All Lives Matter.” The problem with these protests are that people are saying negative things about each other and it has been bringing high tension throughout the United States. I just think these protests are making us look inhumane to foreign countries and I think we as Americans all have equal rights and it’s not like one race rules the rest. It’s just really sad how America is changing this drastically. For the past two weeks, tension has been rising since Donald Trump became our newly elected president. Most people after the elections were frightened

After living in a place like Bend Oregon for 18 years I haven’t ever noticed a difference between blacks and whites. Bend has been said to be “one of the whitest places to live”, yet I never viewed a city by its race. Being racist to me meant that it was the whites who had a problem with the blacks and whites didn’t want anything to do with blacks. I hadn’t actually seen racism in action from anyone here. Now, after watching the film Crash and reading the essays “Blinded by the White: Crime, Race and Denial at Columbine High” written by Tim Wise and “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” written by McIntosh, my understanding of race, diversity, and communications have changed.

Racism came into this trail because everything went into the white girl way because the jury would believe anything they said. “ Ruby Bates and several white boys were in the car with me. The car had chert in it, what I heard called chert. It laced about a foot and half or 3 feet of being full. ...All these twelve men jumped into the gondola over mine and Ruby bates’ head. … Some one of them, I don’t know which one it was, he said, All you white sons of bi****es unload.’ Two of them had a pistol”.(Pg149) That is one story but the other one is different. “ We are not going to hurt you; and when I started to make my jump he hit me, he hit me, and one of them pulled off my clothes, my overall- They have taken my overalls off and then they have

“Black lives matter, We want Justice, Justice or Else,” these are all chants heard across the nation as it stands at to another crossroad of racial tension in today’s society. All these phrases mirror so close to signs and chants during the 1960s like “We want Action, Jim Crow Must Go, or Let’s be Just for Change.” It has been over 50 years since the United States passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and still race lies as the Achilles heel in the progressive form of government in this nation. How much exactly does a black life matter to this nation? According to the United States Census Bureau, African-Americans, of those who identified as “Black only,” make up 13.2% of the United States’ population, yet the percentage of African-Americans