The case I have chosen for this assignment actually happened fairly recently. This hate crime case is United States v. Hougen. The proper way to start this paper off is with a little introduction to this case before we take a deeper look into it. Firstly, let's begin by saying this is a federal hate crime based on race/ethnicity. Both the hate crime and the case happened in California. The specific crime that was committed on a black man, according to a witness, was that Hougen slashed and stabbed…
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that,” said Martin Luther King Jr., got the Civil Rights movement going. To me this quote means a couple of things. Adding hate to hate only causes more hate. The only way you can cut through hate is with the opposite, love. When you add darkness to darkness all you get is darkness. The way to cut through darkness is with light. When you hate something the only way to solve your problem is to show…
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In a Love-Hate relationship with winter Recently, we asked thousands of people to write about winter in a few different selective words; both negative and positive. The response we got was different and unique. Cuddling by the fire, a depression of dark clouds, desolate, purity, bleak, family gathering, wild, afternoon naps, depressing, winter-silence, crystal glints on snow, homemade soup, dormant, a chance to snuggle someone you love, stars twinkling in black skies and so on. If we search the…
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What whites will never know Oh I hate it when blacks tell me that I hate being black. News flash honey YOU hate being black. You’re projecting. I am not entirely sure why this isn’t obnoxiously apparent but I’m very full of myself and very conceited. I love the way I look, I love the color of my skin and I love my body. I love me, I live for me and I die for me. Someone like me doesn’t hate themseleves or hate their race. When people say shit like that it honestly makes me feel like they have some…
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me for the reason that I hate judging people on something that they could not choose such as skin color, ethnicity, race and appearance but I think it acceptable to judge people for their personality and behavior. However, if you going to judge someone basic on their personality or behavior you should not use stereotypes for example, you see a loud young black girl with her friends laugh you should not called her ghetto, ignorant, or uneducated. It infuriates me how people in our period still think…
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HATE CRIMES VS. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE BY: ASHLEY CRAYCRAFT I. What is a hate crime? A. a crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence. 1. 2015, Mississippi; Two women [ Brooke Richards and Adelia Graves ] were riding in a truck that ran over James Craig Anderson in June 2011. Anderson died after being beaten and run over.Both Richards and Graves have acknowledged that they helped recruit people at a birthday party to take part in the venture that eventually led to…
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Everyday I walk the hallways of Hudson and look into the eyes of my fellow peers. In some eyes I see compassion, but in others, there is a hint of displeasure. Everyday, I look at white walls and white faces, and realize that I am one of the very few different people in my school. I am a black female in a predominantly white school. In school pictures, I am the first to be identified, a black face among a sea of white. I have never been ashamed of this fact. I am proud of who I am; however, there…
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happen. So the main questions I normally ask myself are: Why are we prejudiced? Is being different that bad? And are we really that different? Hitler definitely seemed to think that we were. So did America back in the 1600’s where the first of racism and black slavery began and half the world’s population in the 21st Century…
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an issue, Americans are showing racist views to people of other colours, religions, and cultures. I believe that some politicians, police, and other people in power who are meant to guide others are showing a more racist view. Therefore, I think the obvious answer to the question, ‘Is America still racist’, is yes. When Barak Obama became the first black president of America, people thought he would help abolish racism in America. He gave many people hope that America had finally became less racist…
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Southern states after the end of the Civil War. Black Codes were racist laws created by Southern states to take away the rights guaranteed in the Constitution from the American blacks. Jim Crow or Jim Crow laws were the laws that were passed to keep American blacks separated from the whites. Lynching is the practice of illegally killing someone, typically from a mob. The KKK, the Ku Klux Klan, is a domestic terrorist group that is made up of racist, white people. Plessy v. Ferguson is a Supreme Court case…
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