Also, let's not undermine the fact that what the media portrays is accurate, and there are many instances of corrupt officials in the justice system abusing their authority that the news does not capture. ... It obviously, should not be this way, nor will it remain this way, if law enforcement is able to straighten up its agenda, so that it truly is a "Crime fighting force" and not a "People of different color fighting force"....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Washington, and look at his autobiography as the progenitive narrative force in the discussion. ... What Washington sees is a corrupt institution - the remnants of slavery - being overcome through commitment to the "responsibility of freedom", which we learn, by example, from Washington. ... There is no blame ever placed on whites for enslaving the black race in America; Washington sees the white plantation owner as caught in the same institutionally corrupt system of slavery that the slave himself is - "I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jean Toomer's Cane was published in 1923, a miscellany composed of fifteen poems, seven stories, six prose vignettes and a play that all focus on Negro life during the 1920's. The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance....

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The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on looking back through our history books and reading about how our forefathers have continuously stood up to the most powerful, unjust, and tyrannical nations so that the world may be able to experience the fore granted notion of freedom. When the grip on the throat of the new Americans became too muc...

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