The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". ... In one case, which happened on March 3, 1991, four Los Angeles police officers brutally beat African American Rodney King. When this case was brought to court, it was to a nearly all-white community without any jurors that were African American. ... Many feel the system is administered almost exclusively by whites and designed to protect the white lives and property but provide minimal protection to the life and safety of minorities like Rodney King. ...

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Native Americans, immigrants from all over the world, women...they are all able to stand up and be counted, but one group especially has had a great impact on American music: African-Americans. ... In 1850, the passing of the Fugitive Slave Law (which required that all escaped slaves be returned to their owners) encouraged blacks to embrace colonization because of the hopelessness they saw in their situation in America. ... That same year, he and Professor Edward Blyden of Liberia lobbied in congress for the Butler Bill, which would grant financial aid to all blacks wishing to emigrate. ...

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Through his works, Baldwin's arguments for civil rights transcend colour boundaries and stress the idea that "regardless of race or culture, we are all human beings, and should be treated as such" (http://www.galenet.com, pg. 15). ... "All thought flows, all is grace, because Baldwin is writing solely from himself, from an inner necessity, which generates a variety of approaches and an affluence of themes and variations" (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 2, pg. 31). ... Baldwin is a very conscious artist in all his fiction. ...

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Martin Luther King Jr., telling the students wearing those shirts that Malcom and Martin had nothing in common, and to wear such attire was a disgrace to the glorious legacy of Dr. King. ... All of them made it out safely. ... He made straight A's, he was elected class president and was loved by all those in his class. ... The idea appealed to Malcom, after all, when he thought back over his life and the white people in it, he could find devilish qualities in all of them. ...

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Racism has been a steady problem all through time. ... It all started back when the colonists traded certain goods for slaves. ... There weren't even many teachers who were qualified and were willing to teach at an all black school. ... Many high schools are either all black or all white and influence the way that teens think. The all black schools even resemble the schools of old. ...

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If we build off these definitions for this paper we could build a working definition and say that culture is the projection of the production of all abstract things, such as art, religion, sports, and leisure activity, by a given people in a given area. ... So in our culture we have attempted influences by money focused industries, consensus focused originations, and for the good of all, government programs. ... (p. 13) So it seems that the one thread that flows through all these definitions is that the term "ethnic" relates to one's ancestry. ... He said that is was because for all h...

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So for a society who prides herself on the basis of freedom, and who has based its moral code off of Judeo-Christian law which claims that all men are created equal; how could we possibly commit such a cockamamie violation of humanitarian rights like slavery? ... Black American's heeded to his campaign slogan of "Yes We Can" and invested all of their time and energy into ensuring that Obama would be instated as the President of the free world. ... This special population of people almost entirely means the black man who occupies the majority of all poor urban areas nationwide. ....

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These tropes may seem very different but they all tie into the question of identity and the struggle that African Americans faced and still to this day face due to slavery. ... This not only is true to African Americans but is true to all post-colonial indigenous people whose lives were negatively impacted by contact with Europeans. ... This was the initial act of stripping all ties to their culture by the Americans. ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... Many people may pursue one avenue of this and end up completing all three or two of the three. ...

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All lies and jest. ... The endemic insecurity of such a society required all of its members to deceive themselves in order to survive and make "sense- within the social context they were born. To step outside the established norms, was to invite ostracism as can be seen in the condemnation of Puddn'head Wilson by the townspeople in Dawson's Landing, or even the isolation of the Boss in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Challenging the existing mythology might only be achieved in a backhanded manner that minimized the threat to the dominant structure in all of its ...

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Today, black defendants serve as much time in federal prison for drug offenses as white defendants serve for violent offenses-a result largely attributed to biases in federal statutory penalties for offenses involving crack versus powder cocaine (Mauer and King, 2007a). ... He concluded that, in light of the prejudice against blacks and foreign born within the society at large, "it would be denying to the judge the ordinary attributes of human nature to assume that he could render justice free from all preconceptions" (ibid.). ...

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With the racial divide in our country widening in loom of current events between what seems to be a matter of blacks against whites, it leaves me asking myself if we are all human, what is it that makes us see each other as different, or unequal? ... Now all of a sudden, instead of this becoming a matter of police governing, or misgoverning (depending on how one personally views the verdicts outcome), the media delivers breaking news to the populous with an immediate manipulation of words creating a racial feud. ...

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Martin Luther King, a non-white, in a quest to fight for equal rights for all Americans, delivered a speech in Washington DC in 1963 to a crowd of an estimated 250,000. ... As a result of his revolution and fight for equal right treatment, the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964[CITATION Placeholder1 l 1033 ].Even though this was a step towards attaining racial equality in the United States, the law still failed to solve inequality problems and treat all Americans the same. ...

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However, it is astonishing that people do not believe that the political and social dynamics that purport to color blindness would create a new caste system- the one all Americans live in today. ... Miscegenation laws were thrown out the books and the black man could suddenly do all common activities that were once considered off limits. ... These same conservatives linked opposition to civil rights legislation to calls for law and order, even going so far as to make absurd claims such as Martin Luther King Jr.'... According to The New Jim Crow, Portugal responded to drug addiction and ab...

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