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Examples Of Racial Injustice

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Racial injustice is when people are denied rights based on their race and/or racial background. History has shown us that racial injustice has been a huge issue. Racial discrimination has been happening ever since the discovery of America. When Columbus discovered America in the 1500s, the europeans were very racist to the native americans. This was the start of racial discrimination in America that turned into racial injustice. That racism has only gotten stronger through the years. After the civil war ended slavery, many white folks started being really racists to the free blacks. This racial injustice has gotten out of hand and the movie 13th has provided us with the truth that the white men have been trying to hide from us. First, racial injustice has really developed into a worse thing. Numerous black people get sent to jail for crimes they didn’t commit, while crimes white men have committed go unpunished. This shows how messed up our society is. For example, in the case of Kalief Browder , he …show more content…

During the 1800s many white men were really racist and thought that black people were an inferior race. This thinking has still stayed in many people’s minds. Today in the 20th century black people are still subjected to racism because of that factor. Another factor would be that there are many caucasian males in power. Meaning there are numerous caucasian males working in the government. This contributes heavily because majority of them have a say-so in decision making. In the movie it stated “ Richard Nixon persuaded southern men to join the government”(Duvernay, 2016).An example of this would be how Donald Trump is the president. He is a very racist person and this causes racist people to feel better because they have someone in power. This causes more racial injustice and that’s bad. These are the major factors that contribute to the ongoing racial injustice

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The 13th movie and the “New Jim Crow” are almost exactly the same. Both talk about the extreme racial inequality within the United States and the laws and regulations that have kept this inequality in place. The “new Jim Crow” exert starts by talking about the beginning of slavery and how it progressed. In the beginning, people of color started as indentured servants and were ranked in the caste system at the same level as white indentured servants. This changed because of rebellions such as Bacon’s Rebellion in which white people and people of color who were slaves, indentured servants and poor joined together against the planter elite to fight against the oppression of the poor.

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One example of institutionalized racism that was demonstrated in 13th is the mass incarcerations of minorities. I think it is a problem not only because there is a disproportionate amount of minorities but also because people do not realize this is happening. It is institutionalized racism because after being in prison these minorities cannot vote or get a job and therefore puts them at a disadvantage. I think getting people to realize this problem is the first step to address it but I am not sure what should happen next.

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Racial injustice is when people are denied their basic human rights because of their racial background. Many people have faced racial injustice throughout history. One of the biggest acts of racial discrimination was committed by Adolf Hitler. Anne Frank was one of the most popularized victims of the Holocaust; along with countless others. Anne frank was forced to go to a segregated school, she also went into hiding, and was latter inprisoined in a holocaust camp.

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This is the quotation about Socrates explaining Glaucon and Adeimantus’ argument about what justice is. They believe that no one wants to be just as long as there are some rewards in return. However, when people unjustly act as much as they want, it only creates chaos that makes everyone suffer from other people’s unjust acts because doing unjust acts and suffering from unjust acts do not balance each other. In fact, doing unjust acts is worth much than suffering from unjust acts. Thus, people need to make contracts or agreements to balance its gap, and people obtain rewards from being just.

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Today the impact of racial issues are still present. Even though the Civil War ended in 1865 and people of a different race were finally given freedoms and treated with respect by the 1960s there is still issues present today. There are issues with police arresting more African Americans than other races. Some African Americans don’t even want to call police in situations because they don’t trust them. According to The Theory Toolbox “Differents” chapter “the number of black men in prison… has already equaled the number of mean enslaved in 1820….”

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There is a scene in the movie that shows a white women jumping off of a cliff and plummeting to her death than to be raped by a black man. This is an exaggeration because black people as a whole were portrayed by white people as outcasts, low class citizens, and criminals and there were many white masters raping their black female slaves. In addition to that the 13th also

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For example, the cities of Atlanta and New Orleans were some of the most advanced in racial relations, and probably had some of the most determined Negro populations in the Deep South (Griffin 139,140). While Griffin were in these cities as a Negro, he was treated much differently than he was in worse cities, such as Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In Hattiesburg, it is total chaos. There are riots, people are homeless, and it isn’t safe. Griffin eventually calls someone to come pick him up and get him out of

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I am an American. However, because I am not of the white hegemony in society, I am primarily identified by two very necessary adjectives as either Black or African before defining my Americanism. This begs the question: when did race, the black race particularly, and injustice become so synonymous? I sit here wondering about each race and ethnicity of persons that are gathering his or her thoughts as well about the question that has been presented before us to attempt. Now at the age of thirty a Black, African American, how can I pluck out just one incident that has directly or indirectly affected me?

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Social forms of racial oppression include exploitation and mistreatment that is socially supported. Systematic oppression of a race means that the law or police work to oppress a certain race. Institutionalized oppression refers to establishing laws, practices and customs that produce inequities based on race. Internalized oppression involves an oppressed group using the oppression they experience and using it against themselves and fellow members of their race. Examples of internalized oppression include internalized racism, sexism and

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When the government becomes corrupt and our inalienable rights are in danger who do Americans run to angered about those actions and to make sure that they don’t happen again? The government. Sometimes the government acts independently in this protective role. One example of this is when federal authorities intervened in the 1960s when some states were violating the civil rights and voting rights of African Americans. It is ironic that the people who use one part of the government – usually the courts – to stop another part of the government from violating their freedoms and rights.

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Standing Together Not saperate History shows the influence of racism in our government system. Such influences has caused an injustice towards minorities. The Jim Crow law is an example of racially driven laws passed to advance the agenda for segregation in America. Jim Crow laws violates the rights given to all citizens by restricting the right of some and not equally protecting everyone under the constitution. Visiting the naacp.org webpage, I read the article “NAACP and Coalition of More Than 100 Groups to Fight Segregation, Economic Injustice”.

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Not Always Black or White: Racial Hazards in America In the pre-Revolution South, and indeed for a century after, there was perhaps no societal construct as indicative or obvious as race. Whiteness in America became the essence of goodness, proprietary, and intelligence, while other skin colors (especially black) represented all that was carnal, instinctual, and bestial. This polarization was staunchly reinforced- whites became paternal or religious figures to their African-American slaves and used numerous tactics to keep them docile, or at the very least, afraid. Being black was it’s own condemnation; If you weren’t white, you were easier to find, hunt down, and subjugate.

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It’s 1863, slaves were being beaten and sold against their will as they had no rights. This is just one example of the many forms of discrimination. What exactly is discrimination? Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of people or things. Although discrimination is not jokes being played between friends.

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