... he was black. There was also another case that caught my eye. In Pennsylvania Johnny Gammage was pulled over while driving his cousins Jaguar. As Gammage pulled over five police cars arrived on the scene. One of the officers said that Gammage ran three red lights before stopping after the officer flashed his lights at him. The officer told Gammage out ... evidence to base a stop on. The are stopping people because of there skin color and that is not right. For example in 1997 on a California highway out of 34,000 cars stopped only two percent were found with drugs. The Traffic Stops Sta...

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... like the Blacks view their employment chances restricted to low paying and low skilled jobs. The suburbanization of employment increases the need for automobiles. The individuals that cannot afford the cars tend to undertake the task to commute in between the cities. Material Culture In addition to economic and technological forces, culture also contributes to racial inequalities. The forms of culture ... ...

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... Civil Rights Movement of Black People.  In the meantime white southerners continued to hang onto a long gone past by publicly exhibiting Confederate flags. These flags are still represented today on cars and buildings. These flags to me a re represented by people thinking its just a cool thing to display and not truly understanding the meaning. According to Brad Gooch, a biographer of O'Connor ... ...

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... with more arrests. Furthermore, forfeiture laws, such as the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, allowed the police to increase the size of their budgets by taking the cash, cars, and homes of people suspected of drug abuse or sales. Poorer people were targeted because they did not simply have the money to prove the property's "innocence." According ... ...

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... of combatting racism a rough total of around 1 trillion dollars a year. (freedomoutpost.com) With numbers like that the existence of racism keeps very important figures in this country in nice suits, cars, and houses. (freedomoutpost.com) Take Reverend Al Sharpton for example, perhaps the most prominent black voice for the people only second to our Commander in Chief. Namely Obama, whom, by ... ...

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... landed him in Harlem and into a life of crime that was the bases for his life prior to prison. On his trips to Harlem, Malcom sold sandwiches in the railroad cars and upon arriving in New York; he would explore the big city life. He meet gangsters and hustlers who would be key players in the future for him. Eventually he ... ...

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... . They made a fortune - everybody could -except the blacks, they were not allowed to. They had to stay outside Wallstreet, could only take a brief look at the new inventions, vogue and cars on the street. They were not part of the new American life style. They felt left outside and forgotten. They had to fight against the old images of blacks, their ... ...

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... talked about the Freedom Riders in a church in Montgomery, a group of angry whites broke the church windows, threw stones and bombs with tear gas in the church, and burned some cars outdoors. The police arrived in time to prevent further damage and helped the people. In 1963 Martin Luther King led a large citizen-rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. Here, people stood ... ...

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... is so, what has our ancestry taught us and what are we teaching our children? After World War II the economy shot up with the growth of suburbs and consumerism. Cars got bigger and faster, houses got bigger and newer, TV took over radio as a more gratifying entertainment method. One lady born in 1936 said that before TV their family always ... ...

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