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These issues can range from minimum wage to the right to bear arms. After President Donald Trump's inauguration, women's marches were held worldwide. These marches were peaceful and were arranged in order to bring light to issues surrounding women. There are still problems with equal pay, discrimination in the

to marry other races; the penalties were grave. Once the people had looked over the details, they then realized that the laws punished everyone participating in it. The State argued that "because its miscegenation statutes punished both white and black participants in an interracial marriage equally, they cannot be said to constitute invidious discrimination based on race and, therefore, the statutes commanded mere rational basis review" (Loving vs. Virginia). This case had moved more people to support

In today’s society, a minstrel show would unquestionably be pointed out as a racist act. However, if stereotypes were used in comedic TV shows it becomes more uncertain as to whether or not it is appropriate. With the popular use of satire in the current pop culture, the line between racism and harmless satire is harder to define. Shows like Family Guy play on a lot of racial stereotypes but do not always receive attention on those jokes. The show is often written off as just a raunchy animated show

One of the most important Supreme Court decisions in the United States was Plessy v. Ferguson, in which Plessy challenged the law of segregation. The court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment only gave political and civil rights, not social rights, saying, “if one race be inferior to the other socially, the constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane” (McBride). The concept of social inequality is one that has remained a national conversation even today, highlighted by when

Eastern European, South Asian, East Asian, Central Asian, Middle Eastern, Latino and Hispanic immigrants from dozens of countries, in addition to the thriving Italian and Jewish communities that were already living there. Yet with all this diversity, Bensonhurst was known nationally for its racism. In 1989, a mob of ten to thirty bat-wielding white teenagers taunted and shot a black teenager named Yusuf K. Hawkins. A teenage girl bragged about dating Latino and Black men to the local teenage

Affirmative Action is defined by Webster's New World College Dictionary as " a policy or program for correcting the effects of discrimination in the employment or education of members of certain groups." The phrase "affirmative action" was coined by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when he issued Executive Order 10925, initiating the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246. This order required federal contractors to

during the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans were severely discriminated against. Black people did not have equal rights as white people; this included the right to vote, schooling, employment, or the right to go to certain public places (Nguyen, n.d.). “Everything they did was limited and controlled,” states Amanda Nguyen in her article, Racism in North America, Then and Now (n.d.). Now though, all blacks have the same rights as whites do. They can vote, receive an education, get a job, and

himself relegated to low-wage, physically demanding work as a dishwasher. His undocumented status restricts his employment options, leaving him vulnerable to exploitation. Chin's poem, "How I Got That Name," alludes to the economic struggles faced by Asian Americans trying to overcome the financial hardship of immigrating “a gambler, a petty thug / who bought a chain of chopsuey joints / in Piss River, Oregon, / with bootlegged Gucci cash.” (27- 30) This stereotype masks the reality of limited opportunities

meaningful involvement of all people”, (USEPA, 2014) is an important public health goal. Erasing the boundaries of ethnicity, nationality, economic and educational inequalities, environmental justice ensures that there is no segment of the population that bears an unequal share of harmful environmental agents like air pollutants, industrial toxic chemicals etc., or faces disparity in issues like the availability of food, transportation and green living spaces (USEPA, 2015). Despite the many efforts of the

William Julius Wilson has proven the fact why many Immigrants work in such low paying jobs in the service sector. Namely because many Native - US born citizen just do not want them. In other words, there is a demand for their labor because low-income Blacks and Latinos frequently won't take those kinds of jobs. In fact, it is proven that Immigrants can actually generate more jobs. Given the fact that, they have revitalize the reproduction of garment manufacturing, shoe manufacturing and even agriculture