Friday, January 18, 2008
My comunity
I live in washington heights. Its up town in 193rd. ITs a dominican comunity but theres alot of different races too. Its a fun place, nice, and is not that quite. Thsi community it has it goods and bad. Like alot of drugs in the streets but in the other hand is not really that bad like in different place. Its a cool place u should visit.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: History
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on March 21st.
On that day in 1960, police shot and killed 69 people (including eight women and ten children) and injured 180 at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa. More than 80% of those killed had been shot in the back.
7,000 individuals had gathered to rally against apartheid and its "pass laws," which required all Africans to carry a Pass Book, enabling the South African government to restrict and monitor their whereabouts. Anyone found without a passbook could be arrested and detained for up to thirty days.
The Sharpeville Massacre led the General Assembly of the United Nations to proclaim March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and call on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.
http://racerelations.about.com/od/reachingbeyondtolerance/a/IDERD.htm
This article is about Eliminating Racial Discrimination. It's explain us things that go on in Africa and all the people that has been killed for the fact of racist discrimination and having hate on each other. Discrimination is not the the way to solve prombles. Thats why there so much Innocent people that die for things that don't make sense or things that go on that are not the way to solve it. Racist discrimination has been a overall discussion because its a mental thing and theres still racism up to this day. They don't know how to take racial things out of people head, because people kill for hate and that's not the way to keep living in fear.
On that day in 1960, police shot and killed 69 people (including eight women and ten children) and injured 180 at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa. More than 80% of those killed had been shot in the back.
7,000 individuals had gathered to rally against apartheid and its "pass laws," which required all Africans to carry a Pass Book, enabling the South African government to restrict and monitor their whereabouts. Anyone found without a passbook could be arrested and detained for up to thirty days.
The Sharpeville Massacre led the General Assembly of the United Nations to proclaim March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and call on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.
http://racerelations.about.com/od/reachingbeyondtolerance/a/IDERD.htm
This article is about Eliminating Racial Discrimination. It's explain us things that go on in Africa and all the people that has been killed for the fact of racist discrimination and having hate on each other. Discrimination is not the the way to solve prombles. Thats why there so much Innocent people that die for things that don't make sense or things that go on that are not the way to solve it. Racist discrimination has been a overall discussion because its a mental thing and theres still racism up to this day. They don't know how to take racial things out of people head, because people kill for hate and that's not the way to keep living in fear.
Racial discrimination continues to play a part in hiring decisions.
Racial discrimination continues to play a part in hiring decisions
A new study on the effects of race on hiring decisions has relevance for current policy debates. Just this past summer, the Supreme Court found that race could be taken into account in the admissions process for higher education, but only within strict limits.Devah Pager, a sociologist at Northwestern University, studied employers' treatment of job applicants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by dividing job applicants into four groups. White applicants and black applicants were further grouped into those who presented themselves as having a prior criminal conviction and those who did not present themselves as having a criminal record. None of the applicants actually had a criminal record of any sort. Except for the differences in race and in criminal record, applicants were given comparable resumes, sent to the same set of employers, and trained to behave similarly in the application process.
The study focused on the likelihood that an applicant would be called back for a job interview. Not surprisingly, whites without a criminal record were most likely to be invited back (34%) and blacks with a criminal record were the least likely (5%). Perhaps most striking, the study found that only 14% of blacks without a criminal record were called back for an interview—less than the 17% of whites that did have a criminal record.
Newspaper
A new study on the effects of race on hiring decisions has relevance for current policy debates. Just this past summer, the Supreme Court found that race could be taken into account in the admissions process for higher education, but only within strict limits.Devah Pager, a sociologist at Northwestern University, studied employers' treatment of job applicants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by dividing job applicants into four groups. White applicants and black applicants were further grouped into those who presented themselves as having a prior criminal conviction and those who did not present themselves as having a criminal record. None of the applicants actually had a criminal record of any sort. Except for the differences in race and in criminal record, applicants were given comparable resumes, sent to the same set of employers, and trained to behave similarly in the application process.
The study focused on the likelihood that an applicant would be called back for a job interview. Not surprisingly, whites without a criminal record were most likely to be invited back (34%) and blacks with a criminal record were the least likely (5%). Perhaps most striking, the study found that only 14% of blacks without a criminal record were called back for an interview—less than the 17% of whites that did have a criminal record.
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