... to issues of Black identity, intentional racism, and Black culture. Through the artist's sarcasm and unpolitically correct humor, McGruder forced me to think about multicultural issues and hypocrisy toward African Americans that I thought were no longer present in today's society but unfortunately is still alive in a subtle form. I admired McGruder's portrayal of being black. Through the eyes of the main ... such as their hair and skin color. McGruder can also laugh at the stereotypes White people label for Blacks: gangster rappers, thieves, and basketball players. Being Asian American...

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... Asian. Under the affirmative action, they must employ someone who is underrepresented. This type of situation happens often. It is not the qualifications, but the color of the skin that employers look for today. Affirmative action is a step backwards. We are back to color and race differences. We are all Americans ... not commit the wrongs that were committed a generation ago. We should not punish them, but rather treat everyone fairly. We should treat everyone as Americans. As Bakke quotes the Constitution, "...The guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment extend to all persons. It's langua...

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... War 1 was shattered as the first Japanese bomb landed on Pearl Harbor, and set off a time bomb for the innocent Japanese Americans. Even before Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were looked down on in the United States, and for 3 main reasons; the Japanese American men were taking jobs from other ... to a store with out wondering if the clerks would ignore or humiliate her because she was Asian." Asians in this era were despised because their culture ostracized them from the typical American family. The racist Americans were given an opportunity to justify their hate as Pearl Harbor was a...

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... trash the store. He means that all white people are decent and hardworking people, while black, Asian and Hispanic people are freeloaders. Another important value in the American society is equality, it's important for the Americans that all people has equal opportunities and chances when it comes to getting a job, getting a ... got nothing to complain about these days, and he hates the measures that are meant to compensate for the past discrimination. As we all know most Americans are a really patriotic people, and Derrick is no exception, he means that the USA is a unique country which...

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... James G. Blaine, who claimed that it is impossible for Asians to fit into the American population. This claim is echoed in the second document by the Asian Exclusion League, who say that the current race problems between blacks and whites are bad enough, and that allowing Asians in America makes things worse. They ... immigrants is of trifling importance providing they are of the white race."" (278) The AEL further believes that the physical and cultural differences between Asians and Americans are too large to ever allow them to be assimilated into American culture ""Their ways are not ...

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... of alumni of many universities. Because affirmative action gives preferences to certain races, then there is nothing more to work hard for. People: White, Black, Asian, Spanish, and many other races, have all worked very hard to get to where they are. Just because one is male, or just because one is ... considered in the work place is that, according to the Washington Post, out of 1700 people surveyed randomly, 92% of women, and 84% of African Americans agreed that race and gender shouldn't be an issue when being hired for a job. People in general would rather earn their job than have it...

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... reality, statistics show that much more Whites are on social security than are blacks and only the Japanese Corporations are doing the purchasing, not Asians, particularly Asian Americans who have nothing to do with them besides being Asian. Ironically, society tries to undo our prejudice through education when we enter school. But the prejudice is brought back to us when we meet students ... Iraqis and Yugoslavians, who lost thousands of lives, the United States is but a racist nation who kills "non-American" people like killing ants. For if the Iraqis and Yugoslavians were Americans, ...

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... we need to protect ourselves from men who are different. Latinos have some relationship to the dominant white culture; some are doctors and leader, like Cruz Bustamonte. African Americans also have a relationship to the dominant white culture as well like Rev Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King they are great minority speakers. Racist" and "racism" are ... words have reached the level of curse words in their offensiveness. Yet, "racist" and "racism" are descriptive words of a reality that cannot be denied. African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans (peo...

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... did not just stop at the level of neighborhood, it has gone far and beyond to the larger scale of the nation. As Rodriguez notes in his essay, "Many Mexican Americans now live in cities or regions where they are the majority, changing the very idea of what it means to be a member of a "minority" group" (Mong, 88). This show us ... other. More trust means more friend; more alliance; and more people rooting for you. Imagine how great it can be when an Asian guy is a friend of President Barrack Obama. Diversity has brought everybody together, African with American, European with Asian, Ind...

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... and have a hard working attitude to do carpentry, and farm work. W.E.B. wasn't only trying to help blacks; he wanted to help Asian, Latin, and European-Americans also. He wrote his Harvard thesis on "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in America." DuBois studied very hard to learn how this ... person to look at social problems in the way of a scientist. He also wrote about black morality, urbanization, blacks in buisness, college bred African Americans, and black crimes. W.E.B. also wrote the now famous book The Souls of Black Folks, which, in one chapter, entitled "Of Booker T. ...

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... to receive the educational attention that whites have been taking advantage of for years. However, it is also argued that Affirmative Action, a push to eliminate discrimination, ultimately discriminates itself. Euro-Americans are ultimately the victims of Affirmative Action when less qualified minorities are supposedly taking up space that the privileged white male should have with his perfect SAT and GPA scores ... minorities of our country deserve a push in education to help repair years and years of repression. Similarly, Affirmative Action will hopefully fix the future as it fixes th...

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... not just about disliking someone who is a different colour. Just before the 2003 Gulf War when France used their veto to stop the resolution for war through the United Nations Americans turned against the French. They boycotted all French products, pouring bottles of French wine onto the street and deserting all French restaurants in America. Now that is racism between two ... man first came Australia and slaughter thousands of natives of Aboriginals who had no chance. It is not just the whites that are racist in Australia. There are lots of Asian gangs that are racist toward most peopl...

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... our ways of life are totally separate. How could society consider each other as neighbors when they walk to totally different neighborhoods? White Flight is one reason why we as Americans could never be equal. We move in, they move out, and then the property is devalued because of our presence. Also, most of the properties and businesses in black communities ... just not allowed to). We also very seldom if at all see black owned corporations that value well over that of the mainstream markets. It also surprises me that an Asian American or even those of Irish decent, that also have grow...

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... end of injustices which were inflicted by the white man. I believe that Martin Luther King Jr. was a brilliant man. I am an Asian myself and our ancestor in the United States of America never receives any treatment better then the African Americans. Even in the years of 2002, some of the Asians in America still are called a "chink" everyday purposely. After reading this ... ...

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... more government regulation (because of discrimination) and therefore would vote democratic. The Demographics proved this true, with 54% of white people voting conservative (non-minorities) and the minorities (Black, Hispanic, Asian, and "other") voting democratic with 90%, 62%, 55%, and 55% respectively. The book also explains that as these people grow older they grow considerably more democratic. The demographics could prove ... this to an extent. According to these records the percentage of Americans from the age 18 to 59 that are voting for democratic or republican are very close (av...

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... fifteen people belonging to the West Hemisphere, five of which being from America. This information doesn't really shock me considering that China has the most citizens which would boost the Asian's ratio. According to the same United Nations document, the world population in the year 2003 consisted of 3,025,152,000 men and 3,007,154,000 women, making the men's population ... are built on garbage heaps, with children who live off the food they can scavenge there. What we in America consider substandard, those in other countries would consider a palace. We Americans tend to take so much ...

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