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    Racial discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, published in July 11, 1960, shows the discrimination throughout the small town of Maycomb. Scout, the daughter of a white lawyer named Atticus, tells what she saw while she was growing up. Harper Lee uses foreshadowing throughout the entire story. When Atticus defends Tom Robinson in an alleged rape case. The people of Maycomb automatically start calling him, Scout, and Jem “nigger-lovers” for defending a black man

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    Scout and Jem live with not only their dad, but the maid of the house, Calpurnia, an African American woman. In the novel, Harper Lee explores the concept of racial discrimination through many of the characters. Over the course of the book, Atticus and Tom, Scout and Jem and Boo, Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra, overcome racial discrimination. Throughout the novel, Atticus works to develop Scout’s and Jem’s consciences, through both teaching, as when he tells Scout to put herself in a person’s shoes

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    While the death penalty has been ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States, many American citizens believe that racial discrimination is a major factor in deciding who will be legally punished by death. Because a large portion of the population of the United States fears that the justice system in America is not color blind, studies have been conducted in order to investigate the fairness in the administration of the death penalty. The Death Penalty Center released a study titled

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    Does it matter what we are called: Latino or Hispanic? Does it change who we are as people? To an extent, most people do not know the difference between either. Typically, people group both terms as one singular item. However, Hispanic and Latino racial classifications are more than a broad category for people from Spanish-speaking countries. The words connote and represent a history of colonial terminology that based its success on the failures of innocent, historically peaceful, cultural groups

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    Executive Order 10925 may be unknown to many of you. This executive order was issued by John F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961, and it has changed the way we define “racial equality” forever. Executive Order 10925 issued by JFK required that government employers "not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin" and "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without

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    In the narrative, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, two children living in a small town witness the harsh, racial judgements towards their father and his decision to stand for an African American man on trial. One of the children, Jean Louise, is confused and shocked at her neighbor’s reaction to her father’s decision and she struggles to keep her temper down. Meanwhile, Jean’s brother, Jem, isn’t as ignorant and understands to racist society he is living in and accepts it. Jean Louise enjoys

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    Sports fan or not, everyone was watching the National Football League in 2016. During preseason of 2016, Colin Kaepernick, former starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, did something unprecedented in the present-day American sports arena. He remained seated during the National Anthem in protest. After a wave of highly publicized murders of young unarmed black Americans at the hands of law enforcement, Kaepernick clarified his intentions, I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag

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    In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee addresses racial discrimination and injustice through the events that occur in the town, its characters, and symbolism. Racial discrimination is seen during Tom’s case and afterwards. For instance, after Tom was sent to prison, his death was pretty much predicted, so Scout said, “To Maycomb, Tom’s death was typical. Typical of a nigger to cut and run. Typical of a nigger’s mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw

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    dependent on one’s pigmentation and ancestry. In many countries like the US, racial equality is an ideology that is forced on too many and is perceived as true. Thus, it is important for people to be more aware of racial discrimination on both historical and current events because there are many that confuse the coexistence of mutual races to be racial equality, allowing for those in power to create a strong foundation for a racial hierarchy. Brazil, much like the US also continues to ignore its issues

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    Conceptualize Framework Racial disproportionality and disparity in child welfare represents a complex phenomenon emanating from historical theoretical socioeconomic and policy trends that has shaped this service over the past several decades. There are many theories that have been proposed explain why racial disproportionality and disparity exists in child welfare. It has been recognized the underlying roots of racial disproportionality and disparity are complex and often coexists. Racial disproportionate

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