In such cases, courts have generally insisted on applying "strict scrutiny"-the most intense level of judicial review-to government actions. Under this tough standard, the use of race in governmental decisions making may be upheld only if it serves a compelling government objective and only if it is "narrowly tailored" to advance that objective (Kennedy 70-74). Racial profiling should be ended even if the generalizations on which the technique is based are supported by empirical or factual evidence. ... I have been in a courtroom before and I know that if an officer says he did not base his ac...

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American History details that profiling based on race was prevalent during slavery, but as the slavery era ended, different forms of racial profiling continued in the United States. ... During the time of the Jim Crow era, the Italian physician and criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) began to identify patterns of criminality based on the physical appearances of individuals. ... The Drug Courier Profiles were developed by the Drug Enforcement Administration in the 1980's, the public policy has been used to profile individuals based off of their appearance through this policy. ... ...

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Discrimination is defined as different treatment of others based solely on their membership in a socially distinct group or category, such as race, ethnicity, sex, religion, age, or disability. ... The discrimination they experienced happened in the more extreme form of segregation by the government. ... It is a government enforced policy that is intended to promote the welfare of this country's minorities by supporting the idea that individuals are equal and should not be judged by race or sex. ... If affirmative action is supposed to support the individual, why is it based only on ra...

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Why should the entertainment industry be blamed while the government is pushing such violence? ... The government now adopted a practice of racial profiling. Not only did society look at people of Mid-Eastern origin, but the government did as well. ... The government spent $3 billion for "bioterrorism preparedness" (Brzezinski). ... Many acts of terrorism have been completed by American citizens and to judge based on race will do nothing but add to the problem. ...

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New Commonwealth immigrants formed numerousethnic groups based on common language, religion and race. ... The Asian community is composed of several groups based on 7 main languages further divided into numerous dialects. ... It introduced the notion of indirect discrimination, based on the American model of affirmative action and outlawed racial discrimination in employment and education and in the provision of goods and services. ... The Blair government is committed to working tow ards equality in employment and the New Deal programme should promote equal opportunities. ... The Foreign and ...

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If affirmative action is supposed to support the individual, why is it solely based on race and why doesn't it apply to every situation based on the potential of the individual involved? ... Our most powerful and sacred document that holds all the power in the government is colorblind. ... The US government has " more than ninety thousand organizations with contracts valued at $50,000 or more." ... In order to create a system that is fair the government needs to do additional research in improving its present situation. Affirmative action should be based on the fact that it is giving e...

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Although the internal fight never found a victory, there were measures taken by the government that attempted to improve the lives of African Americans. Racism, prejudice, stereotypes, and communist affiliation were components that led to unequal opportunity and public scrutiny, not allowing the African Americans to fully benefit from those governmental actions taken to help them, as you will see in this paper. ... Also, President Roosevelt and the United States Government created jobs for the unemployed, which included blacks. ... People with lower and inferior qualifications were being pla...

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Many attempts have been made by the government to ease racial tension. ... They proved that as a result of segregation, black children felt inferior to white children and white children became morally confused because the government was telling them to treat everyone equally, but still they refused to give black people the same privileges as white people. ... According to the movie which was based on a true story, the South Carolina school board refused to fund a black child's education equal to a white child's education. ... An assumption of superiority and inferiority based upon ra...

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There are many alternative ways the government can promote equality within the educational system. ... Although a diverse student body may produce some positive qualities around a college campus, it should not be considered a compelling reason to accept certain students over others based on their appearance. ...

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This apprenticeship not only established a base for his future involvements with newspapers, but it also taught him the means of delivering messages to masses of people. ... I asked, "Where is the black man's Government?" ... Marcus Mosiah Garvey was finally beginning to establish a government that could honestly represent black people. ... It was because of successes like this that the American government began to fear the man Garvey and puppeteer his ruin. ... It didn't take too long before the government became aware of Marcus Garvey's influence over black peop...

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So why hasn't the government put a stop or at least tried to reform drug laws? ... Now the government has tried to stop the drug trade with President Nixon's infamous "War on Drugs," but it has been as ludicrous as it has been counter-intuitive. ... Perhaps this is a convenient way for the government to suppress the drug problem temporarily rather than trying to fix the big-picture problem of drugs as a whole, and if that problem isn't fixed, it will only continue to inflict harm and exploit not only minorities, but the nation as well. ... Now based on the story of the offi...

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Government controlled all the business, so people had no opportunity to do their own business. ... He also said he couldn't write to vote for the leader and stayed under the stress because citizens are prohibited from discussing about the politic and government situation. ... He sought to escape discrimination and persecution by oppressive government. ... He started his life as like that the base of building by owned nothing property. ...

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The government was convinced the Japanese people were traitors to the United States and they would side with Japan when they got the chance. The government relocated anyone of Japanese ancestry to concentration camps. ... The government had no proof any Japanese person becoming a traitor " The governments policy was based on the incredible notion that this group of people, solely on the basis of ancestry, had to be regarded as inherently disloyal to the United States." ... During this time the Jim Crow textbook law passed, it said books for black children could not contain information on votin...

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The war itself was not racist however it was the means and the way in which the war continued was based on race. ... It created a schema in the minds of the public that distorted their perceptions and fueled a war based on racism and hatred thus supporting the various leaders who were blatantly racist in their remarks. ... The many war tactics used were often based on racism. ... However, many government officials had different reasons, such as General DeWitt who made the famous comment, "A Jap is a Jap." ...

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Wilson views the problems of the fragmented, disadvantaged classes primarily through the prism of adverse economic factors and governmental policies which affect each fragment of the group similarly. ... The idea of a national multiracial coalition lobbying big government on behalf of all economically disadvantaged Americans is an objective with which I most certainly agree. ... IAF organizers work within faith-based organizations, mostly Christian churches, to identify and assemble experienced leaders into nonsectarian coalitions devoted to community development. ... The author asserts that a...

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Affirmative action decisions are generally not supposed to be based on quotas, nor are they supposed to give any preference to unqualified candidates (Froomkin). ... The government has given blacks many ways to get in and out of college and it's not fair for the average white person. ...

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The Japanese internment camps were set up by the United States government during World War Two. ... In the 1980's the United States government gave the surviving victims of the internment camps $20,000 as an apology and as reparation for their troubles. I personally find this an embarrassing gesture on top of what was already one of the biggest mistakes the United States government has ever made. ... Not only did the Europeans bring germs and disease, they brought Christian based ideas and enforced a male dominant way of life. ...

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African Americans were facing racial discrimination in all facets of life; federal housing, social security, and youth programs were but a few government sponsored programs to provide substandard treatment to African Americans. ... Based on Schiffman's theory of foreign language usage in cinema, the accents are intended to add flavor to the characters (Schiffman). "The ability of children to assign social status based on speech patterns was demonstrated by Giles in a study on the reaction of British school children to British regional and foreign speech" (Green). His research pr...

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There are two general possibilities in today's society for cloning abuses: first is the abuse, which would be fostered by groups or governments and second is the abuses, which would be done by individuals for their own personal reasons. ... Because of the horrors already displayed there and the evil attached to them, the chances of wide scale governmental cloning are less likely. Already, most of the major world health organizations and a number of governments have moved to ban such cloning in order to prevent a reoccurrence of the kind of wrongheaded thinking which would use cloning to b...

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According to members their religion and philosophy called "Creativity- is based on the external laws of nature, the experience of history, on logic and common sense. ... They believe that Jews have control of the United States government, which they call the JOG (Jewish Occupational Government). ...

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Thus, as multi-culturalism, consumerism, Jewism and Jewish Christianity, crude capitalism, and prostitution became so rampant in the government that the "tax base" of the government could no longer support the needs of the white people. ...

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Advances in technology, changes in politics and government, and economic fluctuations, to name only a few examples, all affect how members of a particular culture view themselves and their place in the world. ... The demise of colonialism in the Caribbean did not mark the end of social stratification based on racial and ethnic divisions. ... This social system was based around the need for slavery and the plantation systems. ...

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The people of the United Sates rely on The President to manage the government and ensure that we enjoy financial prosperity, protection from foreign threats, and continued freedom of expression and ideas. ... The Brown V Board of Education decision was primarily based on race. The candidacy and election of The President was based on a frustrated and desperate American pubic who was willing to elect anyone who they believed could get us out of this mess. ...

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" Other meanings are used on government forms, as when Americans record which race they belong to for the U.S. ... Brace states that our views regarding race are based on the same sort of common sense, which is just blindingly incorrect. ... Without race, there wouldn't be this need to create a hierarchy of different groups of people based on physical traits. ...

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Racism is prejudice or discrimination based on the belief that race is the primary factor determining human traits and abilities. ... As representatives of a United States Non-Government Organization, and several International Psychological Associations, we are especially pleased to have this opportunity to add our voice to the world-wide victims of racism. ... Both active racism and passive acceptance of race-based privilege disrupt the mental health and psychological functioning of both victims, and perpetrators, of racial injustice. ...

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