Supremacism

As Gandhi has said about corrupt government “You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees”. In 1948 in South African elections put white supremacy in place which allowed them to segregate blacks from whites in South Africa. Over the course of the rule of supremacists, the South African blacks were treated worse and worse. Eventually, the people resorted to using protests, peace marches, hunger strikes, boycotting, and other tactics to show their civil unrest to the

his deed with one of the men’s letter of support towards the Seminoles’ land rights. By resorting to exterminate these men who did not pose any major threat in order to punish and assert dominance over the Indians, he exemplified malice and white supremacism. Moreover, during the South Carolina Nullification Crisis of 1832, he prepared troops to force the state to submit without Congress approval and even stationed warships in the Charleston harbor (Andrist 124-129). Rather than displaying diplomacy

Bell Curve written by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray and Pygmalion in the Classroom by Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson identify education as being one of the main avenues of social mobility. Within our educational institutions today, supremacism remains a function of how schools enforce discipline, use standardized tests, select curriculum and texts, and teacher attitudes. On the other hand, the most notable difference between the cases is the significant discrepancies in intelligence between

Racism is a topic that was starting to be explored by authors and members of society in the 1960’s. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee published in 1960 became one of the most memorable books to address the topic of racism in the south. The book is written from the point of view of a young tomboy named Scout whose mother died when she was very young. One day at school a kid started calling Scout’s father names because he was defending an African American man named Tom Robinson in a criminal case

Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, voice actor, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is known as a national cultural icon, and became famous around the world for the American animation industry. Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney quickly developed a love in art and drawing. He moved to Hollywood in the early 1920’s and set up the Disney Brothers studio with his brother Roy O. Disney. He made characters like Mickey Mouse, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, and Bambi. In the

Today's children learn and are influenced by their surrounding and environment. Children do not know any better; for them, it’s monkey see, monkey do. Today’s youth are taught to respect everyone of every race. However, back in the time of slaves, children were taught to despise blacks, and that's what most of them did. In the book Kindred, Dana Franklin journeys back and forth to the Antebellum South multiple times to see her past family who are slaves and the owner Rufus Weylin. On multiple

The Logic of Illogic in Reification: Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide Reification serves to reduce a person or other living creature to the status of merely an object or to ‘thingify’ them. According to Weisband, to ‘reify’ someone is “to attribute fixed, frozen, materiality or substantiality to those who character or status includes freedom, rationality, or features of spiritual status” (Weisband, “Cultural Constructions of Collective Identity in Multiple Perspectives”). When you reify someone

Bigotry and stubbornness are perceptible attitudes of small-town communities in 1960's Western Australia. The notion that the inhabitants of the tight-knit community of Corrigan are racist, prejudiced and ignorant is explicated in Craig Silvey's coming of age novel, Jasper Jones. The bildungsroman is narrated by Charlie Bucktin, an adolescent from the small town of Corrigan. Charlie becomes unexpectedly involved with a local indigenous boy, Jasper, as they set out to discover the truth about the

According to human rights, each and every one must be treated equally. However, in a society, inequality can be witnessed in several ways, for example, discrimination in terms of gender, caste, creed, race, ethnicity, and religion. Equality basically implies provision or access to all the opportunities prevailing in a society. In fact, equality laws and regulations are formulated to safeguard every individual from getting discriminated in various social settings. For example, one can become a victim

From the mouth of Bob Ross, "Look around. Look at what we have. Beauty is everywhere—you only have to look to see it". He says this because some people don't see the beauty in life and are invested in little things and not a spectrum of something. Nature is beautiful and we can't let that go. Whether it be our friends, family, pets, trees, flowers, and much more, we need to appreciate what we have. These paragraphs will show some things that take away beauty of life and some things that give us a