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    is a result of racial tensions in my district is the fact that there are two high schools in the district that have a majority of Caucasian students and a majority of African American students. This has led to the students in those schools not often being exposed to many students of a different race. Therefore these students respond poorly to diversity, and it has led to the minority students in both of those school feeling belittled and overlooked. Similarly, these students feel adverse to diversity

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    racial groups to attend the same schools. These laws were supported with the full weight of the Supreme Court in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which ruled that racial segregation was constitutional, because African American and white facilities were seen to be separate yet also equal. This could not be farther from the truth, however, in regards to the educational system. Although the Civil Rights Act

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    Racism isn’t as violent as it was today some people will blindly say that it doesn’t exist anymore but the truth of the matter is that it does. A lot of people believe in racial stereotypes in an article written by Joe Fagin he talks about how Americans and the media have downgraded the Mexican race by mocking their language and calling them aliens it’s the same thing with African Americans popular Stereotypes of African Americans are that we are criminals and people who are only destined to end

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    Have you ever witnessed racism in your life? Racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race, based on the belief that one's own race is superior. You are not born with the characteristic to discriminate against other races, it is something that you acquire over time, by the influence of others. Today and back in the 1930’s, racism is something that affects society on a daily basis. Racism affects many aspects of life, such as the judicial system, the

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    Reverse Racism In America

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    Racism has been an ongoing problem for decades, but now it has evolved into more complications rather than black people versus white people and wanting equality. The most heated debate about racism recently is if reverse racism exists or not. With new laws like affirmative action that have an intent on helping african americans as well as universities wanting more minorities in their programs, it’s causing white americans to get upset due to beliefs that the social system is not giving everybody

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    constructed and therefore, racism is a form of oppression towards people of color created by whites. The authors also argue that racism is not something that is possessed individually, but rather as a system. The authors support their argument by providing examples where white individuals may state that they are not racist, so they have no need to be concerned. However, all people hold prejudices and this denial just supports whites, rather than the ones affected by racism. Although a white person

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    Is Racism Solved or a Thing in the Past Racism has been an emotional and hard topic that has been occuring in our society. Racism dates back to the Holocaust when jews, blacks, homosexuals and others were taken into camps because of something they cannot control. Although racism was more public in the past, racism is neither solved nor a thing of the past, racism nowadays is more silence and just as deadly. As we move forward in history, the Civil Rights Era was a shocking and important part of

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    Racism

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    Racism is something something we 've all witnessed. Many people fail to believe that race isn’t a biological category, but an artificial classification of people with no scientifically variable facts. In other words, the distinction we make between races has nothing to do with genetic characteristics. Race was created socially, primarily by how people perceive ideas and faces we are not quite used to. The definition of race all depends on where and when the word is being used. In U.S. history, the

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    reveals the predominance of racism in the southern United States during his time. Whites believed blacks were subordinate to themselves, treating them like trash. Although almost everyone in town went to church, they denied that an African could be equal to a white person. Only a small group of whites in Maycomb would stand up for them. Some examples of racism in To Kill a Mockingbird are Tom Robinson’s case, school, and church. Tom Robinson’s case is a prime example of racism in To Kill a Mockingbird

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    Why Racism will never end? Since the beginning of time, there has been racism. People are afraid of difference and are used to the ordinary. Racism became a worldwide problem in America especially, after they imported slaves from Africa. Even after a long fight for equality of all skin colours, racism was still present. Racism will never stop. It will keep going on and on till the day the world ends. The reasons why it is never going to end are people’s upbringings, media, and stereotypes. No one

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