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7 Arguments to RACIAL PROFILING: Is it a Bad Idea?
Top 7 Arguments Against Racial Profiling Racial Profiling Doesn't Work black suspects were no more likely to actually have drugs or illegal weapons in their cars than white suspects. According to the Public Health Service, approximately...
Tags: racism, prejudice, prison, latinos, blacks, muslims, arabs, profiling, criminal profiling, law enforcement, 14th amendment, bombings, public health service, jim crow, community supervision, constitution, protection, police, iraq, shopping difference for blacks, suspicious behavior, latino issues, segregaion, war on terror, whites, low standards of policing, bigotry
Congress on Slavery: The Audacity of Dopes
At times, "spokespersons" misrepresent individuals for whom it's assumed they spoke, particularly members of the group who strongly disagree with what they've said. So it is, more often than not, when the group is people of African descent and the...
Tags: Race Relations, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, slavery, Jim Crow
Senate adopts Jim Crow resolution
Montpelier :: VT :: USA | 5 months ago
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Almost 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Senate has adopted a resolution that formally apologizes for slavery and the racial segregation of the Jim Crow era. The nonbinding resolution, sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), includes...
Tags: Jim Crow, african americans, Senate
Senate resolution apologizes for slavery
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Senate Thursday adopted a resolution apologizing for slavery, acknowledging the "fundamental injustice" of the practice and Jim Crow laws. "It's long past due. A national apology by the representative body of the people is a necessary collective response...
Tags: Senate, Tom Harkin, Jim Crow, D-Iowa, formal apologizing, resolution apologizing, crow laws, House of Representatives
Change Came Like a Whirlwind
LOS ANGELES Resounding history happens every once in a while. On November 4, 2008, it swept across the world. America had elected Barack H. Obama the first African American president in its 232-year...
Tags: president, election, change, African American, politics, resonated, triumph, resonate, Jim Crow
Congress to Apologise to Black Americans for Enslavement and Segregation
A formal apology to black Americans for "enslavement and racial segregation," sponsored by a white Jewish congressman who represents the majority-black city of Memphis, is slated for a vote today in the House of Representatives. The resolution...
Tags: slavery, African American, segregation, Jim crow, racism, black american, house of representatives, politics, apology, vote
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