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…inevitably endure. Not many people find comfort in reminiscing about the many innocents killed in Vietnam or the souls destroyed by racial profiling in the race riots of the 1960s. In Born in the U.S.A, No Surrender, and My Hometown, Springsteen engages…

…guards. So it came as no surprise that, when he was elected president in South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994, he regularly consulted his former captors about his plans to construct a racially integrated, democratic society. The foster child…

…Amendment exception for cars. The War on Drugs has embedded a chain of such decisions in concrete in the name of "necessity." This line of legal developments is even more troubling in the light of the current controversy over racial profiling. Police…

…of varsity letters. With the outbreak of World War II, Jackie was drafted and assigned to Fort Riley, Kansas where he faced racial discrimination on a daily basis. In The Jackie Robinson Reader by Jules Tygiel he states that "He was barred from Officer's…

…Black intellectuals to advocate a militant solution to racial problems " ( Ferris 180 ). Previously , intellectuals sought equality through legislative procedures and playing on society's ethics . Violence was often the angry outcry of the lesser educated…

…racially and ethnically visible people of color” (Reader, 530). After the events of September 11th and the racial profiling that occurred, I can understand how many Asians saw Proposition 187 as a discriminatory law. Many Americans believe that the United…

…, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voter Act, which allowed Blacks the right to vote. Quite successful, but the battle for some still continues, although to a lesser degree. Today there is still racial profiling, police brutality and other forms of segregation…

…be divided into two periods, with the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 7th, 1941 as the dividing line. The first period is above all, a history of racial minority struggling to survive in a hostile land. It was not until 1884 that the Japanese government…

…opportunities due to residential segregation and "white flight" from urban public school systems. --Police brutality, racial profiling, high incarceration rates, and general bias in the criminal-justice system. Racism and Racial Discrimination Racism…

…beyond those that affect just the drug dealers and users. As a result, a new debate has begun, specifically whether mandatory minimum sentences have a racial or ethnic bias. I plan to focus my paper on whether it can be determined that mandatory minimum…