Benefits of having white skin are economic privileges, and police protection, instead of police harassment also depending on their financial situation they can choose neighborhoods that are safe and have decent schools. ... White people are not usually in danger of individual acts of discrimination, hate crimes and police brutality at the hands of white people, as well as of institutional practices that kill people due to lack of heath care, lack of police protection and unequal legal prosecution. ...

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For example, the big discussion in America right now is the police brutality against African American young men. This recently erupted in Ferguson, Missouri where people put on riots to show their anger against police targeting African American males. The problem is that the African American population is underrepresented in the police force with ninety four percent of them being white while sixty three percent of the town is black (Stewart). ...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. When America was discovered in 1492, Eur...

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Racism affects Bigger's life at home, at the Daltons, and in police custody. ... Wright portrays Bigger's brutality in such gory detail, as this quote shows, that the reader may well feel that he is trying to turn you against him. ...

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In America, the Court ruled that, "segregation laws have been generally, if not universally recognized as within the competency of state legislatures in the exercise of their police power" (853). ... Wells, who wrote The "Anti-Lynching Campaign", had much to say about the brutality being placed among the black race. ...

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When I was first given this assignment, I would have to say that I have never been more uninterested in doing homework in my life. I've never been interested in history of any kind, which would explain my failures to participate in class and so when I first stepped into the Museum of Tolerance I did...

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