"America is world famous for it's level of crime and violence, especially within it's cities. Extraordinary tragedys of death are common fixtures on our news and media. Although in all fairness when considering a population of over 200 Million - an annual murder rate of 1/10,000th of that (approx 20,000 per year) is not quite as frightening. Far more people die of traffic accidents and suicide in America than violent murder by a margin of over 2 to 1, but Fear sells. It drives the news media. It sells newspapers, it keeps news programs on the air and provides the grist for the entertainment mill as well. One of the facts often and repeatedly reported in the news media is the percentage of minority, particularly young black men, who are arrested for violent crimes. Considering the frequency that this is reported it would be rather difficult not to take this into account when running through the questions..."Does he look dangerous"? - by consciously or sub-consciously appending..."Does he look dangerous - like one of those violent young black criminals?"
Essentially, it is common for most people to act as amateur statisticians, mentally calculating the odds and percentages for various outcomes when they encounter a person they have very little information about. It is entirely "Rational". A decision, or judgment which is circumstantially based on very limited facts and information. Not only does this occur in dark alleys, but in banks when loans are applied for, and in job interviews. This is why most people endeavor to present their "Best Face" when in these situations, even though doing so actually legitimizes this type of "Rational" Discrimination by catering to it."
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/8908/rframe.htm
Based on this article this article is talking about mentally action of people. These are some ways people act agaisnt each other and start doin crazy things. Like killin, robbin people and using drugs etc. These are damages that people get from different causes. It might be of hate and racial problems. People should help each other out. Doesnt matter if u colored skin. On this articles it says more succides and traffic accidents have killed more people than crimes. That means people have to be more carefull and not put no ones live in danger. If things keep going like this kinda wild its going to effect alot of things. Specially racism something that a lot of people its going threw. We should all make it better for us and stop crimes and dangerous things on the streets of ower city, country and states. Lets make peace and stop all this crazyness going around. Love And Peace.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Racial Profiling of African, Hispanic (Latino), and Asian Americans
"What is racial profiling? The most common example of police racial profiling is "DWB", otherwise known as "driving while black". This refers to the practice of police targeting African Americans for traffic stops because they believe that African Americans are more likely to be engaged in criminal activity.
While racial profiling is illegal, a 1996 Supreme Court decision allows police to stop motorists and search their vehicles if they believe trafficking illegal drugs or weapons. More traffic stops leads to more arrests, which further skews the racial profiling statistics against African Americans. Studies have shown that African Americans are far more likely to be stopped and searched. Are African Americans really committing more crimes or are they just caught more often because the police target them? This is a vicious cycle that even the strictest law enforcement advocates would admit is patently unfair."
http://www.ethnicmajority.com/racial_profiling.htm
Based on this article on some thing called "dwb" some thing that was really racist. it means driving while black. That's why there so much hate between each other. Based on this aritcle is about a law named "DWB" its very racial because of the fact that police could stop and search a Black person for no reason just because theres have been lots of case on drugs and killing on the race. Not every body is the same its very uncomfortable thinking a cop is going to stop u because u dark skin and they has been lots of violence. That's a big reason y things haven't change and keep been the same. Viloence would still b there because of the unfair ways law treat people and people. We understand theres alot of drugs and violence but you don't solve it by putting a law of a race that cops have the rights to search with out no prove or evidences to search them or rights. Not fair and it a bad way to solve problems because it wont be solved like this ill get worst.
While racial profiling is illegal, a 1996 Supreme Court decision allows police to stop motorists and search their vehicles if they believe trafficking illegal drugs or weapons. More traffic stops leads to more arrests, which further skews the racial profiling statistics against African Americans. Studies have shown that African Americans are far more likely to be stopped and searched. Are African Americans really committing more crimes or are they just caught more often because the police target them? This is a vicious cycle that even the strictest law enforcement advocates would admit is patently unfair."
http://www.ethnicmajority.com/racial_profiling.htm
Based on this article on some thing called "dwb" some thing that was really racist. it means driving while black. That's why there so much hate between each other. Based on this aritcle is about a law named "DWB" its very racial because of the fact that police could stop and search a Black person for no reason just because theres have been lots of case on drugs and killing on the race. Not every body is the same its very uncomfortable thinking a cop is going to stop u because u dark skin and they has been lots of violence. That's a big reason y things haven't change and keep been the same. Viloence would still b there because of the unfair ways law treat people and people. We understand theres alot of drugs and violence but you don't solve it by putting a law of a race that cops have the rights to search with out no prove or evidences to search them or rights. Not fair and it a bad way to solve problems because it wont be solved like this ill get worst.
Commission asked to investigate racist discrimination against doctors
"A UK politician has asked the Commission for Racial Equality to investigate whether some doctors working for the NHS experience racial discrimination by being denied progression to consultant status.
Dr Evan Harris, the health spokesman for the Liberal Democrat party, last week wrote to the Commission for Racial Equality, the statutory body responsible for enforcing the Race Relations Act, asking it to examine whether doctors from ethnic minorities were being treated unfairly in the limitations on their career progression.
He asked the commission to look specifically at the situation of doctors working in non- consultant career grade posts, over 60% of which are held by doctors from ethnic minorities.
One of the stumbling blocks preventing doctors who have trained outside the United Kingdom from becoming consultants has been the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995. This has resulted in many doctors being unable to obtain a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Trainin.
Alan Milburn, the health secretary, told the BBC last week that he was considering changes in the law so that medical qualifications gained overseas could count towards completion of UK training for doctors."
Susan Mayor, London
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abridged/323/7324/1271/a
Based on this article even doctors make it difficult to each other for been racist and not let some one else accomplish some thing they want to be. This is based on progress and hard work to become some one u want to be but how can u make your dream come true if some 1 is blocking u from it and making it it more difficult for you. We need to be treat equal people just say it but its not true you could see the difference between difference religion, country's and etc. But this article is talking about how unfairly people from different race are treat and not letting them accomplish all the hard work they been threw to become a doctor. Very unfairly to does who work hard. Why is it so difficult to get along? if we all the same. Its crazy how live works out with so much hate on each other.
Dr Evan Harris, the health spokesman for the Liberal Democrat party, last week wrote to the Commission for Racial Equality, the statutory body responsible for enforcing the Race Relations Act, asking it to examine whether doctors from ethnic minorities were being treated unfairly in the limitations on their career progression.
He asked the commission to look specifically at the situation of doctors working in non- consultant career grade posts, over 60% of which are held by doctors from ethnic minorities.
One of the stumbling blocks preventing doctors who have trained outside the United Kingdom from becoming consultants has been the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995. This has resulted in many doctors being unable to obtain a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Trainin.
Alan Milburn, the health secretary, told the BBC last week that he was considering changes in the law so that medical qualifications gained overseas could count towards completion of UK training for doctors."
Susan Mayor, London
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abridged/323/7324/1271/a
Based on this article even doctors make it difficult to each other for been racist and not let some one else accomplish some thing they want to be. This is based on progress and hard work to become some one u want to be but how can u make your dream come true if some 1 is blocking u from it and making it it more difficult for you. We need to be treat equal people just say it but its not true you could see the difference between difference religion, country's and etc. But this article is talking about how unfairly people from different race are treat and not letting them accomplish all the hard work they been threw to become a doctor. Very unfairly to does who work hard. Why is it so difficult to get along? if we all the same. Its crazy how live works out with so much hate on each other.
Racism In America
"There is surely no nation in the world that holds "racism" in greater horror than does the United States. Compared to other kinds of offenses, it is thought to be somehow more reprehensible. The press and public have become so used to tales of murder, rape, robbery, and arson, that any but the most spectacular crimes are shrugged off as part of the inevitable texture of American life. "Racism" is never shrugged off. For example, when a White Georgetown Law School student reported earlier this year that black students are not as qualified as White students, it set off a booming, national controversy about "racism." If the student had merely murdered someone he would have attracted far less attention and criticism.
Racism is, indeed, the national obsession. Universities are on full alert for it, newspapers and politicians denounce it, churches preach against it, America is said to be racked with it, but just what is racism?
Dictionaries are not much help in understanding what is meant by the word. They usually define it as the belief that one's own ethnic stock is superior to others, or as the belief that culture and behavior are rooted in race. When Americans speak of racism they mean a great deal more than this. Nevertheless, the dictionary definition of racism is a clue to understanding what Americans do mean. A peculiarly American meaning derives from the current dogma that all ethnic stocks are equal. Despite clear evidence to the contrary, all races have been declared to be equally talented and hard- working, and anyone who questions the dogma is thought to be not merely wrong but evil."
http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/3874.php
Based on this article racism in America has been high and dangerous. It has become some thing like hurting, killing, robbing people and etc. Racism has been some thing crazy in this world. Alot of things that happen was because of racism. America is know en as a racist state. that's y theres so much violence in this world there no peace because of the ppass and things people did against different country. Things that were on fare and killing Innocent people. Theres still lots of racism in America because there still country that doesn't like when blacks and white together because they don't get along. That's why theres alot of racism with all of us. We should all get along and not have hate against each other the pass is the pass. We living the present. So Americans need to become peacefully to much killing and things happening in these stress on America. Its been to dangerous and this gotta stop. Peace to the World.
Racism is, indeed, the national obsession. Universities are on full alert for it, newspapers and politicians denounce it, churches preach against it, America is said to be racked with it, but just what is racism?
Dictionaries are not much help in understanding what is meant by the word. They usually define it as the belief that one's own ethnic stock is superior to others, or as the belief that culture and behavior are rooted in race. When Americans speak of racism they mean a great deal more than this. Nevertheless, the dictionary definition of racism is a clue to understanding what Americans do mean. A peculiarly American meaning derives from the current dogma that all ethnic stocks are equal. Despite clear evidence to the contrary, all races have been declared to be equally talented and hard- working, and anyone who questions the dogma is thought to be not merely wrong but evil."
http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/3874.php
Based on this article racism in America has been high and dangerous. It has become some thing like hurting, killing, robbing people and etc. Racism has been some thing crazy in this world. Alot of things that happen was because of racism. America is know en as a racist state. that's y theres so much violence in this world there no peace because of the ppass and things people did against different country. Things that were on fare and killing Innocent people. Theres still lots of racism in America because there still country that doesn't like when blacks and white together because they don't get along. That's why theres alot of racism with all of us. We should all get along and not have hate against each other the pass is the pass. We living the present. So Americans need to become peacefully to much killing and things happening in these stress on America. Its been to dangerous and this gotta stop. Peace to the World.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Black Farmers Association
The Militant, Jacquie Henderson & Karl Butts
Published February 26, 2007
DALLAS—More than 400 small farmers attended a February 8-10 conference here to discuss their fight for land and against racist discrimination by the U.S. government, banks, and big business. Most of the participants came from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. The event was organized by the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA), and attracted some other farmers and supporters from Florida, Iowa, Kansas, and Virginia.
Several guests from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) addressed the conference. Dennis Pittman, representing Smithfield Foods, which operates the world's largest hog slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina, also spoke. These individuals received a cool response from farmers subjected to years of abuse—from denied loan requests to stolen land.
Info:
http://www.ewg.org/node/21395
Based on this article this is why we have so much discrimination on each other by stealing land and not help each other. A lot of country discriminate the U.S. for taking property. Its a very disrespectful thing to do to some one that has been doing all they can to keep there land and farms. These black farmers association is about fighting for there right by keeping there lands and not be taken by some one else. Everybody has there rights and support by others. Everybody should support each other but not discriminate each other.
Published February 26, 2007
DALLAS—More than 400 small farmers attended a February 8-10 conference here to discuss their fight for land and against racist discrimination by the U.S. government, banks, and big business. Most of the participants came from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. The event was organized by the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA), and attracted some other farmers and supporters from Florida, Iowa, Kansas, and Virginia.
Several guests from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) addressed the conference. Dennis Pittman, representing Smithfield Foods, which operates the world's largest hog slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina, also spoke. These individuals received a cool response from farmers subjected to years of abuse—from denied loan requests to stolen land.
Info:
http://www.ewg.org/node/21395
Based on this article this is why we have so much discrimination on each other by stealing land and not help each other. A lot of country discriminate the U.S. for taking property. Its a very disrespectful thing to do to some one that has been doing all they can to keep there land and farms. These black farmers association is about fighting for there right by keeping there lands and not be taken by some one else. Everybody has there rights and support by others. Everybody should support each other but not discriminate each other.
Separate but Equal By: Homer A. Plessy
"On June 7, 1892, 115 years ago today, Homer Adolph Plessy sat down in a first-class car on the East Louisiana Railroad in New Orleans. When the 29-year-old shoemaker presented his ticket to the conductor, he said, “I have to tell you that, according to Louisiana law, I am a colored man.” The surprised conductor did his duty and told the well-dressed, well-spoken, light-skinned gentleman to remove himself to the “colored car,” the sooty accommodation just behind the engine whose wooden benches were reserved for Negroes, drunks, and derelicts. When Plessy refused to budge, he set in motion a legal case that would reach the U.S. Supreme Court and reverberate for decades.
Plessy and his backers were out to challenge the increasingly harsh pattern of racial segregation that had been spreading through the Southern states since the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Their plan backfired, and it ushered in more than 60 more years of legalized racial discrimination.
The police arrested Plessy under an 1890 Louisiana law segregating railroad cars by race. He spent a night in jail, and a month later he pleaded before Judge John H. Ferguson that the law, which called for “separate but equal” accommodations for blacks and whites, was unconstitutional under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Those post–Civil War provisions had respectively outlawed slavery and granted full citizenship rights to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, regardless of race. Though Ferguson was a Massachusetts native and treated Plessy’s lawyers respectfully, he ruled against the defendant, seven of whose great-grandparents were white and one black, making him an octoroon, in the parlance of the time."
Info:
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20070607-plessy-v-ferguson-jim-crow-segregation-supreme-court-fourteenth-amendment.shtml
Base on this article Homer Adolph Plessy grandparents were white and one black so he fought for equality for everyone. As it says he was a light skin and he told the conductor he was a color man so the conductor send him to the colored car so he refused and sat down in first class something he knew it would've been big. So he then was arrested for a night and he month later he "pleaded before Judge John H. Ferguson that the law, which called for “separate but equal” accommodations for blacks and whites, was unconstitutional under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution" so that means equality started spreading out and helped lots of colored people to have there rights and it became a law. Thanks to Homer Adolph Plessy equality was accomplished.
Latin America Racist Discrimination
"HERNAN COUTURIER, Under-Secretary of Multilateral and Special Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru: The international struggle against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance is not new to Latin America. We harbour the hope that the Conference will be an important landmark in international efforts to combat prejudice of all kinds. A large number of Peruvian men and women in our largely multi-ethnic society still face various forms of intolerance. It is important for us to note, however, that discrimination is not always based on race or colour. Indeed, poverty and its attendant stigma and exclusion also result in exacerbating discriminatory and intolerant attitudes.
The outcome of this Conference must contain measures which acknowledge poverty as a cause of racism. We feel that is particularly important because globalization and increased migration are making it more necessary than ever to ensure the protection of all peoples. Economic, social and structural changes within countries are forcing more and more indigenous populations to leave their homes. The Conference must adopt a Programme of Action that strengthens protection for migrants from prejudice and discrimination."
Info:
http://www.un.org/WCAR/pressreleases/rd-d37.htm
Base on this article even in Latin America racist discrimination goes around in there own contry. Base on this article it said "discrimination is not always based on race or colour. Indeed, poverty and its attendant stigma and exclusion also result in exacerbating discriminatory and intolerant attitudes" this means by the way people act and they might not want migrants to come to there contry and take over there land. Some people think different ways bad and good. Thats where discrimination come from and it comes from HATE. We need to get together and live peacefully. Theres no reason y to discriminate some one just by visiting your country. People are scared of things that happen and they dont want it to happen again. Thats why theres alot of racist discrimination and is horrible.
The outcome of this Conference must contain measures which acknowledge poverty as a cause of racism. We feel that is particularly important because globalization and increased migration are making it more necessary than ever to ensure the protection of all peoples. Economic, social and structural changes within countries are forcing more and more indigenous populations to leave their homes. The Conference must adopt a Programme of Action that strengthens protection for migrants from prejudice and discrimination."
Info:
http://www.un.org/WCAR/pressreleases/rd-d37.htm
Base on this article even in Latin America racist discrimination goes around in there own contry. Base on this article it said "discrimination is not always based on race or colour. Indeed, poverty and its attendant stigma and exclusion also result in exacerbating discriminatory and intolerant attitudes" this means by the way people act and they might not want migrants to come to there contry and take over there land. Some people think different ways bad and good. Thats where discrimination come from and it comes from HATE. We need to get together and live peacefully. Theres no reason y to discriminate some one just by visiting your country. People are scared of things that happen and they dont want it to happen again. Thats why theres alot of racist discrimination and is horrible.
Slavery Discrimination
"Summarizing one of the Conference's main themes, Willem Udenhout, Special Adviser to the President of Surinam, said basic truths and basic convictions could always be expressed in simple words: the transatlantic slave trade was the most horrible and most depraved action and was, quite clearly, a crime against humanity. Views that slavery and the slave trade were legal at the time and therefore could not be condemned were of great concern to him. Compensatory measures were indispensable for acknowledging past wrongs, he said.
African national institutions, putting the situation in the context of the consequences of slavery, the slave trade and colonialism, urged the Conference to identify them as crimes against humanity and called for debt cancellation. Mariama Cisse, Vice-President, Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom Commission of Niger, said that after three centuries of slavery and the slave trade and 70 years of colonialism with all its consequences, Africa had no longer a debt to pay."
info:
http://www.un.org/WCAR/pressreleases/rd-d37.htm
Base on this article the most command racist discrimination is slavery.
Slavery was a very unfair discrimination on color people specially on "black people". Lots of slaves were trade and abused in ways no one should be treated. Slave survived by doing what there owner tell them to do but there jobs were to much. Slavery is is one of the biggest reason y theres racism in this world. Family members when threw slavery and have been killed. It was a ruff time for color and blacks. Stop Racism and discrimination !
African national institutions, putting the situation in the context of the consequences of slavery, the slave trade and colonialism, urged the Conference to identify them as crimes against humanity and called for debt cancellation. Mariama Cisse, Vice-President, Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom Commission of Niger, said that after three centuries of slavery and the slave trade and 70 years of colonialism with all its consequences, Africa had no longer a debt to pay."
info:
http://www.un.org/WCAR/pressreleases/rd-d37.htm
Base on this article the most command racist discrimination is slavery.
Slavery was a very unfair discrimination on color people specially on "black people". Lots of slaves were trade and abused in ways no one should be treated. Slave survived by doing what there owner tell them to do but there jobs were to much. Slavery is is one of the biggest reason y theres racism in this world. Family members when threw slavery and have been killed. It was a ruff time for color and blacks. Stop Racism and discrimination !
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