In Outcasts United Warren St. John reveals that refugees were getting picked by cops/civilians because of who they were and what they looked like instead of actually doing anything wrong. Chike Chime an immigrant was driving and got pulled over for doing nothing. He then got told to get out of the car and get his driver's license but as he was getting his license. Jordan, the cop snapped and pulled him and pushed Chime onto the back of his car and held his arm behind his back. He then hit him the head and sprayed him with pepper spray. “It’s you-Its Africans Jordan said. I have nothing but problems from you guys. Always love to argue.” pg 84. When he says it's you Africans Jordan says it in a way that shows a negative connotation towards africans because he says it's only the Africans who do bad …show more content…
When he says I have nothing but problems from you guys. He is saying that the only things he gets from Africans is problems which shows he is racist towards refugees. Jordan is not the only cop to be racist towards people. A relative who just arrived in america was driving to get to his family in Clarkston was just arriving and parked in an illegal spot. When he parked there a cop went up to him while he was hugging his family that he hasn't seen in a long time and gave him a ticket. The man thought the ticket was a gift so he gave the policeman a hug. The police then tried to arrest him. The man was just confused and happy so he gave him a hug but instead of getting hugged back he almost got arrested because the cop was racist. Racism is an important problem because people are getting hurt for no reason. An example is when Jordan hurt chike
Outcasts United by Warren St. John is a wonderful book about a community of refugees who live in Clarkston, Georgia and their struggles to adapt with foreign environment of the United States. The book tells the stories of refugees that come from different background and countries in which they are connected together by an American- educated Jordanian woman called Luma Mufleh. Despite their difficulties in establishing new identity, they found their passion in soccer and with Luma Mufleh as their coach they create a soccer team called Fugees. In the early chapters of the book, it illustrates the difficulties to make a group of kids from different background unite and work together but later, Luma’s program become popular throughout the neighborhood. Children are happy to spend their spare time playing soccer while parents are glad they can keep the children off the streets when they are working. Regardless their effort to bring together the children into a team, they have to face bad sentiments from the local residents when they are kicked out from the training field and forced to occupy other place as their training field. The Fugees team also have little supporter as their parents are working and become a subject of humiliation. Nevertheless, Luma is able to maintain the team spirit and expanded her program to include tuition for the soccer team. Throughout the stories, some kids stay while others give up the program due to influence of gang and other incidents but the remaining members who stay are able to achieve recognition and find new opportunities for better living in the community.
The example Sue gives is to say “a Chinese-American, that he speaks English well” (para 10 sue). The hidden message is that unconsciously you are putting an image to a person without finding out the whole truth. This is racism to it base core, putting a group into an image that is not truth for all. Coates give examples of situation where the result could had been different had the person been white instead. Obama being asked for his papers at a national new conference or Henry Louis Gate a Harvard Professor, being arrest for breaking in to his own home. These are two extreme case of judgments based on the skin of the person and not on who they are. We know that these action was commit by people who can be said hold some sort of influenced. Being Donald Trump a wealthy business man and a cop. We except them to make correct judgement due to the position they hold, one holds a company, the other the images of order. So for having these people being the one to commit these acts it points out how racism is still in our society it just we don’t see it like that. Coates shows his anger for this being truth by stating “in large part because we were never meant to be part of America
Williams, Walter. “Racial Profiling.” (1999). N. pag. Online. AT&T Worldnet. Internet. 5 Dec 2000. Available: www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams031099.asp
King said “I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.” Even though it was 1991 when this incident took place and people thought we were past racism in America, it made us realize racism still exist in America in 1991 and even today. The overall theme of the story is don’t judge a book by it’s cover. In other words a police officer’s image is positive but their motive may not be
Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia go into depth of one of the most iconic leaders in the Civil Rights movement, W.E.D Du Bois. They are giving their audience an overall history of Du Bois, and how he become one of the most influential Civil Right leaders. The hosts are historians and can provide plethora of knowledge on this topic. The podcast is set up as an interview type podcast with special guests, such as David Levering Lewis and Esther Cooper Jackson. Each interview adds depth and another layer to the life of Du Bois. They have a common theme through out the podcast which in this case is about race and equality. During the time period of Du Bois’s life, many milestones in the Civil Rights movement was going on. For example, Rosa Park not giving
Editor of The Onion, Cole Bolton states, “Confronted with the enduring shadow of slavery and Jim Crow-boom!-, and you simply react,” which is a portrayal of pathos. Using a form of satire, Bolton easily and clearly gets his point across, saying that the cop is treating the black minority unfairly and unequally more so than he would treat any other suspect. He is exemplifying that every policeman that is in a legal situation with a minority automatically switches to the mindset of an authority that would react to this situation a few hundred years ago, poorly and with racist treatment. Policemen nowadays should treat every suspect the same, no matter what the color of their skin is, whether it is black or white. Bolton is stating that cops go to extreme levels when confronted with a minority in a criminal situation and is shown with pathos. Another form of Juvenalian is in the likes of pathos when Bolton states, “You’re face-to-face with racial disparity that dates back to the 17th century.” By saying this, Bolton is describing how the mindset of a policeman changes so quickly from dealing with a white person to dealing with a black person. He is asserting that when in the presence of an African American, the cop must treat them the way that they were treated back in the 17th century when slavery and racist laws were in effect (Bolton). Bolton is using this to his advantage to express his
As the main character walks around urban areas, there are multiple displays that are highly reminiscent of modern racial inequities. On one occasion, a quarrian, stereotyped as a beggar and thief, is falsely accused of theft, and arrested for it. On another, a minority race is detained and called slurs for lacking appropriate paperwork. Also shown is a privileged asari doubting the wholesome intent of a krogan for romance on the grounds that krogan are brutish and incapable of affection. When the player recognizes events such as these, it is possible to intervene and decry the racist
The justice system is in place in America to protect its citizens, however in the case of blacks and some other minorities there are some practices that promote unfairness or wrongful doing towards these groups. Racial profiling is amongst these practices. In cases such as drug trafficking and other criminal acts, minorities have been picked out as the main culprits based off of skin color. In the article “Counterpoint: The Case Against Profiling” it recognizes racial profiling as a problem in America and states, “[In order to maintain national security] law-enforcement officers have detained members of minority groups in vehicles more than whites”…. “these officers assume that minorities commit more drug offenses, which is not the case” (Fauchon). In relationship to law enforcement there has also been many cases of police brutality leaving young blacks brutally injured, and even dead in recent years, cases such as Michael Brown, Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Freddy Gray just to name a few. Many of these young men were unarmed, and the police involved had no good justification for such excess force. They were seen as threats primarily because of their skin color. Despite the fact this nation is trying to attain security, inversely they are weakening bonds between many of its
There is some history that explains why the incident on that Chicago beach escalated to the point where 23 blacks and 15 whites were killed, 500 more were injured and 1,000 blacks were left homeless (96). When the local police were summoned to the scene, they refused to arrest the white man identified as the one who instigated the attack. It was generally acknowledged that the state should “look the other way” as long as private violence stayed at a low level (Waskow 265). This police indifference, viewed by most blacks as racial bias, played a major role in enraging the black population. In the wake of the Chica...
If we had actually learned to show love, care, compassion, and concern across racial lines during the Civil Rights movement – rather than go colorblind—mass incarceration would not exist today (Alexander, 2012, p.177). Nowadays, that would be considered police discretion. In J101, police discretion was one of the main topics discussed. Police have the right to decide whom they want to arrest. In most cases, if the victim is white, then there is a greater likelihood that a black person, or other minority will be
However, they have experienced discrimination and racism while there is discrimination against African American already exist. “Over the last several decades there has been a significant increase in the number of immigrants from the Caribbean and the African continent living inside the United States.” (Azikiwe, 2010). Sometimes African immigrants will experience discrimination by African-Americans because “African-Americans believe that Africans are backward and primitive. Some make crude jokes about Africans” (Conteh, 2013). “African immigrants in the U.S., numerous cases have been reported of African immigrants being harassed, brutalized and murdered by law enforcement.” (Azikiwe, 2010). For example, according to NY Times, there is a small group of West African immigrants accused Wal-Mart of discriminatory actions because the supervisors fired them and gave their jobs to local people. (Frosh, 2010), and also, “Wal-Mart, which has a history of discrimination” (Frosh,
In the summer of 1995, the periodical Wilson Quarterly published "Enemies of Promise," an essay by J. Michael Bishop, a Nobel Prize-winning professor of microbiology from the University of California, San Francisco. The essay addressed the renewed criticism the scientific community has received in recent years by an ignorant and unduly critical public. The overall effect this single work has had on the world may be nominal, but the points Professor Bishop raises are significant, and provide ammunition against the ignorants who maintain this "intellectual war," centuries after it was sparked.
This quote explains how even before a citizen is officially stopped by a cop, there are times when that they have already had their personal conversations assessed without their knowledge or without them having done any wrong acts. It was done, based solely on their ethnicity and social status. You can add an example of what the people, who were being watched, were doing. when police are out watching the streets, they proceed to stop people again simply based on racial profiling. In an article called Watching Certain People by Bob Herbert, stated that “not only are most of the people innocent but a vast majority are either black or Hispanic” (Herbert 1).
Often in life there is a conflict between what is good for the individual and the moral values placed upon the individual by society. This is true of the characters in George Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession. Shaw clearly demonstrates that actions frowned upon by society are not necessarily evil so long as they benefit the individual.
And the worst part is: we act on them”. I start question if some police officer’s genuinely mistaken harmless object, as noted, just because an African American accompanies it. Reflecting upon this I realized I have been in a similar situation, minus the “weapon bias”. Walking in downtown Cincinnati my Fiancé and I are headed to a show at the Aronoff Center. A few minutes into the walk an African American (whose clothing was holed, covered in dirt and he carrying a large garbage bag on his back) was starting to approach us along the sidewalk. I clenched the arm of my Fiancé a little tighter fearing that something bad was going to happen. I unintentionally reacted with fear. I winced praying, “I hope we are not harmed.” Where could this have come from? Growing up in the Army (moving place to place) my family had many multicultural family-friends. Can people really say they learn these attributes from their parents like suggested in the article? The article reads, “children whose mothers had more negative implicit attitudes towards black…tended to choose white over black playmates” (p.35). I felt unsure in my experience if this was the case. Concentrating on what they called the “weapon bias” during the incident of Amadou Diallo, the police officer may have had similar “fearful” feelings (as I did) only the officer’s justified taking