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CASE FILE VICTIM: MYRTLE WILSON TIME: 22:00 P.M. DATE: Aug.26.1922 SITE: GEORGE WILSON’S AUTOSHOP, VALLEY OF ASHES An incident took place last night at about 10.00 pm in front of George Wilson’s auto shop in which Myrtle Wilson, his wife, was killed by a speeding car racing down the road as she tried to cross to the other side. the car was bright yellow, and the driver ended up speeding away after hitting her, according to eye witnesses.
Whilst white citizens may believe in the themes of the country, it may not apply to minorities. After a sequence of credits the documentary begins to chronologically show the events between 1967 and 1975. The archival footage emphasizes speech rather than
On 17 August 2016 I, Detective Sergeant Daniel Hunter investigated a reported aggravated robbery that occurred at the Greenway Trail Head off of Hwy 31W located next to 2950 Hwy 31W White House/Sumner County TN. The victim, Mr. Isaac Brant stated that he and his girlfriend, Ms. Payton Cole were walking on the Greenway and was going to meet a Mr. Zechariah Temple who was a former school mate of Mr. Brant. Mr. Brant and Ms. Cole gave statements that Mr. Temple pulled in the parking lot and parked. He was driving an older model, maroon, and Taurus type vehicle. Mr. Brant stated two people jumped out of the vehicle and a larger black male pulled out a semi-auto hand gun and placed it in his rib area.
We must understand that race is something created by political norms, beliefs and wants. Hate is something that we knew existed, however, it was a silent disease that was triggered, awakened, and feed into our brains and souls by people who are for “white supremacy or white power”. In the documentary, for example, Ramos meet with the Texas Rebel Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Quintin Texas. In his interview with one of them, Ramos asks him if he believes that whites are superior than any other race (with an emphasis on Latinos). Not surprisingly, he responds that the KKK does not believe in equality or integration.
The East Los Angeles School walkouts and Chicano Moratorium are two historical examples that emphasize forms of Chicana and Chicano resistance that have been examined in varied ways, particularly through print media such as the Los Angeles Times and La Raza. In 1968 more than 10,000 Chicana and Chicano students walked out of schools in East Los Angeles to protest inferior educational conditions and demand equal access to quality education. Then, in 1970, the Chicano Moratorium, which intended to be a peaceful demonstration to call for social justice and protest the Vietnam war, transformed into a display of police repression and brutality that left several marchers dead. Descriptive material, such as print media, served as instrumental extensions
The film 13th is a documentary that explains how the prison systems are another form of slavery and is built to effect colored individuals and colored communities. The film identifies and explained a loop hole in the 13th amendment, which banned slavery. The loop in the amendment is that slavery and involuntary servitude is illegal unless a person is convicted of a crime. This clause in the amendment led to the first prison boom in America and mass incarceration. This film opened my eyes to underlying aspects of things that I have had previous knowledge about.
In the past, racial profiling has been used numerous times by police officers and people who thought races other than white were the cause of every case and problem. They thought they were better because they were white and blamed people of other races for committing crimes by judging everyone based off ethnicity. In the play, Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez, Henry and the 38th Street Gang were accused of crimes they have not committed because they were Mexican- American. Today this is still seen society. The play’s messages was that people who were discriminated because they were not white, which is still relevant today.
My final example is in the stands they are accused for felony murder and robbery. Despite what these young men did they were still similar and judged by there looks, even though proven not guilty it didn't stop people from judging the young black men in the novel Monster, and the documentary “A murder on a Sunday
The death Eugene Williams, one of the majors point of the Chicago Race Riots of 1919, it was one of the things that actually started to make the majority of African-Americans act. Eugene was hit and killed by a thrown rock by a white male on the breakwater, even after his identity was established he wasn’t arrested. Even to make matters worse one of the males accompanying him was arrested instead in the chaos. Of course, many people fought but the majority of the race moved out of the south, the southern states passed new constitutions and laws that dehumanized African-Americans and made them into slaves, they even had to flee from the Ku Klux Klan. This led to The Great Migration, which changed Chicago politically and culturally.
For example, when some of the teachers and students got arrested during a sit-in. they didn’t need to be arrested, for one they weren’t even really talking so they couldn’t say they were being too loud, they weren’t fighting or arguing with anybody so they weren’t doing anything violent, plus every place that they did a sit-in was public so they weren’t really doing anything wrong. There was no need for anybody to be arrested. Then when they started the Chicano movement there were Mexican Americans on one side then whites on the other, and one of the white men advised a Mexican man to stay behind an invisible line what he said was “the border”, and then threatened the man because of his ethnicity. And then there was a part where a white man just burned a Mexican flag in front of them that wasn’t only unnecessary but really disrespect full the students didn’t do anything to those white people to be getting disrespected like that they wanted their class back.
The documentary provides the ideals of good citizenship in Charleston, Mississippi. One big ideal of being a good citizen is to not be openly racist. Many of the adults in Charleston were racist, but did not practice it openly. They even were ashamed of it because they did not want to be outed as racist people. The makers of the film were not allowed into the white prom because of this issue.
When the Board of Education allowed for schools to integrate color students to an all white school, some of them did not want the students to be allowed to enter. Central High School called the National Guard to forbid the Little Rock nine to enter. Off campus you were able to see the white students waiting for the nine students to enter. The white student began to protest for them to leave and screamed that they will never integrate with them. The white student did not see themselves equal as the color students.
In watching the documentary of the Black Panther Party (movement) and how they were form to better the communities around them. The Government officials, FBI in particular infuriated to destroy them in light to keep power among the weaker individuals of society. The individuals happen to be of color (Blacks, Latinos, and Asians). I did however admire how the documentary portrayed black culture at that time. Despite the things that were occurring between law enforcement and the Black Panther party, blackness was promoted and people were proud to be black.
The documentary “Finding the Gold Within” is a real eye opener. Many people like to think that issues like racism is not an issue anymore. This shows us how it is alive and well. It might be shrouded as humor or little comments that sadly some don’t even see as racist. However, it is alive, and the stories of these young men show it well.
My best piece that I wrote for this class was called “White Supremacy in Standing Rock” and this piece speaks to all those that are willing to listen. I believe that our life experiences and the media that we are exposed to often shapes many of our core values and beliefs and that’s why as a world, humans are so divided. Everyone has their own “formula” for the way things ought to be and that’s part of what I’m addressing in my essay. I speak on the behalf of those in a similar position I’m in; simply a bystander in the issue at Standing Rock.