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and she believe that certain people did not deserve the same, such as colored people and those considered to be white trash. She judges everyone on their appearance and her character reflected that until she met a girl named Mary Grace who indirectly revealed the true Mrs. Turpin and thus changed the way she looked at herself. Through the use of all three of these themes, O’Connor displays the transgressions of humanity in an effort to bring upon change amongst the people of today. Mrs.Turpin…

even though it is very unlikely that someone would experience obvious prejudice, but many people that belong to minority groups experience prejudice that is implied in different ways that occurs daily. As we know contemporary forms for prejudice are often ambiguous, people that are effected by prejudice may experience cognitive deficiency (Salvatore & Shelton, 2007). There are many theories that state people that are associated with troubled groups have precise strategies for dealing with…

or proslavery. Whether you believe in one or the other, we all share a common belief: to fight for what is right, just, and beneficial to our country. Through the years of American history, there have been events that led to the satisfaction of our people, and there have been times where we admit we’ve overstepped. But who decides when it’s too late to apologize and to replace the mile we’ve taken when only given an inch? The United States of America is a place that strived to value equality,…

former slave named Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery which he didn’t fully understand until a later stage of his life. The book addresses his life as a slave and how he came to understand the meaning of slavery in a segregated world where white supremacy existed. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the author Douglass mentions the importance of education and how it helped him to freedom but at the same time how painful it was to learn the truth of how Africans ended…

Slessor appeals to our sight when he says, ‘The pulsing arrows and the running fire spilt on stones.’ From this we imagine arrows pulsing on and off and the lights of pubs and bars streaming across the street, making it seem alive and bustling with people. In the third stanza Slessor appeals to our sense of taste and smell though the use of alliteration to enable us to view the scene as though we were there. He says, ‘Smells rich and rasping, smoke and fat and fish.’ Here we visualise inhaling…

suspect a white person. Institutional racism ultimately practices white supremacy and gives advantages to whites and disadvantages to other races. Practiced in our political and social institutions, like schools, court systems, media, and other government agencies upholds inequality in society. Colored people have a harder time getting a high paying job and aren 't given the same opportunities as far as education and harsher punishment in the court system. For example, the Black people stay in…

that racial minorities were overrepresented as criminals and perpetrators (as cited in Archbold et al., 2013, p.302). They also found that newspapers don’t usually run stories on minority victims. This is due to the fact that when crime victims were white, the newsworthiness of the story went up (as cited in Archbold et al., 2013, p. 303). Due to…

history, a buzzword in news or a controversial topic for political arguments, racism has not and will not be resolved until individuals begin taking responsibility for their own racially unjust mindsets. These issues are discussed in two articles, “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo and the Christian Churches Together’s response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter from the Birmingham jail. Although these two articles discuss the same topic, they consider different approaches to the topic and…

and white flight. The causes of urban food desert were because of the practices used. The racism and discrimination of the past is what made those actions happened. People might say there is no discrimination happening today, but they do not realise that there is still discrimination. The government created the ghettos and the conditions people live in today. They set the tones of how people live today and why there is so much…

example of the American culture being shaped around racism and oppression (Marcus, n.d.). He explained how there is this web of racism that people of color have to navigate through or eventually get stuck in because they are of color (Marcus, n.d.). Listening to Paul Marcus explain systemic racism really helped me with understanding how our society works and people of color get caught up in the cycle of systemic racism. Another resource that has helped me is the video The Story We Tell. In…