Let's discuss people, events and issues that are connected with racism in American history. Remember, racism can be personal, internalized or institutional.
Organizations that have been established due to racism. Hate groups- Ku Klux Klan, the National Alliance, National Socialist Movement (United States), Aryan Nations, Westboro Baptist Church, Black Hebrew Israelites, nation Islam, Nation of Yahweh, Nation of Aztlan, White Order of Thule and many other groups formed as a result of racism. Immigration- Naturalization Act of 1790, Chinese Exclusion Act, National Origins Act, Gentlemens Agreement, Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, Immigration Act of 1917, California Proposition 187 and many more.
Racism was a huge issue. Some would say that it is still an issue today. But racism was a mindset that mostly all whites had. I mean, when Frederick Douglas was a child, someone taught him in secret how to write because it was aginst the law. Just think about the things we were learning about in class the other day, about when the schools became free for blacks to go to and the girl walked by herself with people yelling at her and threatening to kill her the whole way home. Now if that right there isn't a big issue, I don't know what is.
Racism is still a big issue today. just the other day a cable news broad caster called a group of Afrian American female athletes at Rutgers University Nappy Headed Whores. Institutional racism is when governmants of Corporations support Racism by using their power in influence the everday lives of people.
Racism is still a big issue today. just the other day a cable news broad caster called a group of Afrian American female athletes at Rutgers University Nappy Headed Whores. Institutional racism is when governmants of Corporations support Racism by using their power in influence the everday lives of people.
Racism is absolutely still an issue, but this particular example bothers me... though perhaps that's something we should discuss later in class...
- but on another note -
Mr. E asked a question some time ago that I've been thinking about for a while now (paraphrased): To what extent can the government control racism? Ideas do spread between people, and you can influence that realm, but what about an individual? Can/should people be able to (or try to) control what people think? Why?
Racism is still a big issue today. just the other day a cable news broad caster called a group of Afrian American female athletes at Rutgers University Nappy Headed Whores. Institutional racism is when governmants of Corporations support Racism by using their power in influence the everday lives of people.
I heard about that too, and that really bothers me, thankfully he lost his job. It's like that saying, 'if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything.' Just keep that opinion to yourself. But racism does still exist today, and in all types of groups. When I was in 8th grade, this Hispanic kid on my bus started making comments to me because I was white. Now, I'm not saying all Hispanic people have a problem with white people, but I think racism continues by the way people are brought up. If someone is brought up in a household that is not tolerant of other races, then they might not be when they grow up. Like that video, the kid said that he was never brought up with black people, and he didn't want to start, or something like that. This is a very touchy subject though.
Organizations that have been established due to racism. Hate groups- Ku Klux Klan, the National Alliance, National Socialist Movement (United States), Aryan Nations, Westboro Baptist Church, Black Hebrew Israelites, nation Islam, Nation of Yahweh, Nation of Aztlan, White Order of Thule and many other groups formed as a result of racism. Immigration- Naturalization Act of 1790, Chinese Exclusion Act, National Origins Act, Gentlemens Agreement, Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, Immigration Act of 1917, California Proposition 187 and many more.
ok. what are all these groups. what did they stand for? what did they do?
and what about those immigration things? what were they?
Mr. E asked a question some time ago that I've been thinking about for a while now (paraphrased): To what extent can the government control racism? Ideas do spread between people, and you can influence that realm, but what about an individual? Can/should people be able to (or try to) control what people think? Why?
</Zarecki DBQ> haha
I dont think that people shold be able to control the way other people think, but i do think that when a person uses that way of thinking to deprive or hurt someone that the government sould then step in and control that. For example, if a person of color goes for a job interview and the employer is racist and decides not to give that person a job because of their skin color, then the employer should be punished.
The Ku Klux Klan, the National Alliance, and National Socialist Movement like Kelsey mentioned, were groups of hate and racism.
The Ku Klux Klan, or the KKK, discriminated based on race and religion, while The National Alliance primarilty was based upon racial profiles, being a white sepratist organization based out of West Virginia and founded by Dr. William L. Pierce, including Neo-Nazi groups in glorification to Hitler. The National Alliance was however, not limited to US citizens or based upon citizenship. The National Socialist Movement was too, a Neo-Nazi party in support of Hitler, yet are largely shunned by these other organizations such as the KKK.
Makeda, as much as we would all like to see that happen, it is not the governments job to punish the people that "hurt" other peoples feelings because of their race, gender, or skin color. In a perfect world maybe the government could step in and set some type of boundaries or control the situation, but this is not a perfect world. heck, if it was perfect we wouldnt have racism to begin with. its life and its every man for himself.
It is definetly still an issue. Just yesterday there was a study released by professors from Cornell and Penn University that was about racism in the NBA. More fouls are called against black players then white players. Also, white referees call more fouls against black players while black referees call more technical fouls against black players.
Being in Mr. E's multicultural class has opened my eyes to many new things.... racism being the major part of the class. Recently we watched a movie "Crash" that talked about the issues today concerning how racism is still very much around now in days. We see racism against blacks, hispanics, Asians, Arabians, etc. There is even racism by minority groups against white people. There is racism everywhere. There were many hate groups such as the well known KKK that expressed freely their hate towards blacks. They had no shame showing that they hated these people and would do anything to get rid of those groups of people.
