... of your car. Now imagine that your dream machine has a supercharged, nitrous oxide injected engine with more horsepower than an Indy car. The driver in the vehicle next to you gives you the familiar glance and nod. You both rev up your engines, attempting to intimidate the other into backing down. It doesn't work. ... per hour. In less that half of a minute and one-quarter of a mile, you muscle your car past the other driver and exceed 100 miles per hour. When you return to the starting line, you are congratulated by your friends, fellow racers, and those who just came to watch the rac...

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... Los Angeles apartment" (Brewster & Jennings 537). The action of an anonymous man ignited a fire that raged in the hearts of the African American citizens. Stacy Koon along with three other fellow LAPD law enforcers savagely beat Rodney King showing "undeniable proof of a serious crime and . . . a call to examine police behavior nationwide" (Brewster & Jennings 537). People on the streets knew that racial ... into the Shell station. Upon exiting his car, he noticed that although the man had pale skin, he too was a brother. These hoodlums cared little about the safety of this fellow black...

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... they were sitting at the lunch counter. The students quietly sat there politely asking for service until closing time. The next morning they showed up again accompanied by twenty five fellow students. By the next week their sit down had been repeated in fourteen cities in five deep south states. In the weeks to follow many new protests arose. After a black ... broke into rioting after a white bartender denied a glass of ice water to a black man. In Newark, New Jersey some of the most violent race riots broke out after a black cab driver was killed by white policemen. At the end of the w...

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