Since America’s declaration of independence on July 4, 1776, America has continually dealt with racism and religious intolerance. Racism and religious tolerance is around However, how many of the people “native” to the United States views towards different races or groups of people has changed. Another thing that is important to note the importance of immigration patterns on which groups were targeted by racist individuals occurred at different time periods. The Catholics were viewed negatively during the founding of the country, but were virtually ignored when there was an influx in immigration of Eastern Europeans and Asians. The minorities in the United States were viewed as nuisances that needed to removed.
January 20th 2017 marked the day that president elect Donald Trump took his oath to office. Perhaps one of the most controversial electoral processes in the history of the United States’ presidency, the possible implications of Donald Trump’s leadership will most likely make this one for the history books. His speech seemed surprisingly reasonable, astonishingly efficient, and very impactful in comparison to what many were expecting from him, because of the negative and possible detrimental image he has created in the minds of many Americans. Regardless, Donald Trump delivered a strong, decisive speech using unifying diction, well directed symbolism and varied syntax. Trump’s primary goal was to identify himself more intricately with the
He is showing by example what he wants each citizen to aspire to, he is proving that he is a man of his word. Irrespective how majority at large are being affected by his choices, President Trump is moving his agenda forward, he said that America is like his baby and his goal is to protect his child from all harm regardless of ethnicity, gender or religion. So the years of focusing on the blackness of America are numbered, if order to enjoy liberty in 2017, you must be focused on task at hand. Work hard; be savvy in your dealings and accountable for every
One of the situations most exposed of the president Donald Trump was when he and his father were accused of commit racial discrimination because both were making a discrimination toward African-american in rental housing. In this case, people pointed out, that the Trumps were having preferences toward white people, since when an African-american asked about the rental housing, the workers were asked to denied open spots to them. The contrary, in the case of white people, when they came to ask about the rental housing, without hesitation they show them the open spots. In another occasion, Mr. Donald Trump was issued because of some words he said when he was running to the presidency of the United States.
Trump employs many manipulative tactics, one of them being the use of fear to invoke anger and hatred. Even though Trump may not have planned things this way at first, his presidency has become based off of this fear and hatred. Additionally, to make him appear like an ideal leader, he uses the fear he invokes to play the role of a powerful messiah figure. Furthermore, by placing the people in the state of fear, he is able to make himself look like someone who can save us from our problems. Now, the clever thing is that he points the blame at non-American groups and says that they are the source of everything wrong in society.
Are Hate Crime Laws useful or Should they be Revoked? The subject of hate crime and the validity of hate crime laws is a sensitive matter to many people. As a result, people tend to be divided into two groups, the first one is supportive of the laws and the second group opposes them. The laws of hate crimes might appear to be the solution; however they are not, therefore they should be revoked. Let’s start first with the legal definition of hate crimes.
Pros and Cons of Hate Crime Laws Hate crime laws are defined as a state law that involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability. The 1968 statute made it a crime to use, or threaten to use, force to willfully interfere with any person because of race, color, religion, or national origin and because the person is participating in a federally protected activity, such as public education, employment, jury service, travel, or the enjoyment of public accommodations, or helping another person to do so. However, in 2009, Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Even though we deny it bigotry is still going on. Marc Anthony who was a victim of bigotry, liked they said in the article Good Bless Marc Anthony’s America “calls out the bigotry that still plagues this country.” And once again as I said in the third paragraph everyone who lives in America makes up America and that makes them America. Marc believes that all this bigotry that is going on is ridiculous as we are in this new era in which we would’ve thought this wouldn’t be going on and I agree with him.
Ignorance and Idolization: The Parallel Between Trumpism and Orwell's 1984 “Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you will never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” “Except for day one,” Trump replied. Donald Trump is an aspiring dictator whom the majority of the population either idolizes or lampoons. Since when does our country find it acceptable to entertain and turn a blind eye to these clear signs of an impending dictatorship? Derlad Wing Sue claims “the bigoted beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of Donald Trump do not represent an isolated case or an ‘outlier,’ but may reflect the unconscious values of a large segment of the population.”
Hate crimes have been a long-lasting reality in the United States beginning in the nation’s history with eradicating Native American populations, slavery, and xenophobia. As a result, forty-five states have adopted hate crime laws to combat organized hate groups from preying upon the most vulnerable groups in society. Hate crime laws provide special protections to the groups that are most frequently targeted by hate crimes including African Americans, LGBT, Jews, and Muslims. Although there has been much debate over what groups should be protected by hate crime laws, evidently there are groups that have been historically targeted at a much higher rate than others. Hence why most states exclude other groups that are not in as much need for protections in hate crime legislation.
Hate in America: The Trump Effect As a straight white male, I have little room to talk about what it is like to be discriminated against. I don’t know what it’s like to be alienated, harassed, or threatened because of my skin color or sexual preference. I couldn’t say how it feels to be labeled as a second-class citizen. My religion isn’t subject to controversy, nor is my ethnicity.
Since the founding of our country political figures have used fear of “the other” to scare us, divide us, and further their own agenda. Today certain orange, blond-haired politicians are seeking to divide us and label groups of people as “rapists”, “drug dealers”, or “terrorists”, but these tactics are nothing new. Race and Nationality will continue to be target of prejudice. But one of the reasons that the United States is the most powerful countries in the world is our diversity.
So far, those were the only times that I had experienced that racism, but now with everything that Donald Trump said people are seeing Mexicans as the bad ones. Donald Trump is trying to send immigrants back to from where they are from. He also wants to make Mexicans pay for the wall that he wants to build. What he wants to do violates the 14th Amendment because not everybody is getting treated equal.
We are now living in a time of discrimination. I asked two questions later, but I would like to add another question and I want to talk about it and I hope to answer it or give the answer to the people. When will discrimination end?. Many people have suffered and are still at risk of racism or racial discrimination, so Racism is a doctrine based on discrimination between people according to their sexual origin and color.
Racism is a problem that has not been addressed as properly as it can or should be. Racism laws have protected many U.S citizens and continue to today but many incidents of racism go by unnoticed. Racism laws should be more strictly enforced because incidences of racism are on the rise, the first amendment of the constitution protects freedom of speech and religion, and it would prevent innocent people from being suspected of crimes based on their religion/race. Racism laws should be more strictly enforced because incidences of racism are on the rise. An example, of my first reason that racism has gone way too far is when Republican Candidate Donald Trump requested that all muslim immigration/travel to the U.S be banned
