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Racism Rooted into Americas past into present 

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Racism Rooted into Americas past into present 

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In this video about what races think about towards racism towards them. In it is polls on what people see in society. Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites get asked questions about what their workplace is like, and if they had been told they can't do something because of their race and many Blacks and Hispanics say yes and whites say no more than yes. These statistics are alarming to see, especially when I thought we were slightly ahead of what we used to be. Which we are moving but we aren't moving fast enough. People still get treated unfairly based on their skin and that's not how is should be. One statistic is 2 out of 10 Blacks and Hispanics have been treated unfairly by the police in the past 30 days. As well as the justice system treating whites differently than others and being more favored towards them.

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Editor's Note: Marc Lamont Hill is a CNN political commentator and distinguished professor of African-American studies at Morehouse College. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

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Over the past 15 months, Americans have paid considerably greater attention to issues of race and criminal justice. This attention will only intensify with the release of the CNN/Kaiser Family Foundation poll on racism in America. The poll's findings not only spotlighted the racial perceptions of everyday Americans but also pointed to deeper and more intractable forms of racial inequality than we often like to acknowledge.

The poll found that 2 out of 10 blacks and Hispanics felt unfairly treated by the police over the past 30 days. This is virtually the same finding from the early 2000s where black Americans felt equally vulnerable to police misconduct (there is no data on what Hispanics would have said in 2000s). The poll also showed that 8 in 10 blacks and 2 in 3 Hispanics agree that the criminal justice system favors whites.

Given the racial inequality across the criminal justice system - from arrests to charging to sentencing to death penalty application - this is hardly surprising.

Even 5 in 10 white Americans acknowledged the racial imbalance of our system.

Still, the realities of this observation may be tougher to redress than we are willing to admit. Despite the post-racial aspirations of many Americans in the Obama era, such evidence points to the growing gap between our collective racial fantasies and our lived realities.

This perception of mistreatment held by blacks and Hispanics is supported by empirical evidence.

For example, a UCLA study showed that black boys are viewed by law enforcement as "older and less innocent" than their white counterparts. This leads to circumstances where officers may excuse the behavior of a white teenager as a youthful indiscretion while treating a black or brown youth as an adult (and perhaps violent) criminal.

The challenge of such situations is that police are not necessarily operating from a place of intentional racism or differential treatment. To the contrary, they may sincerely intend to treat all adult criminals the same. Unfortunately, the psychology of racism is so deeply embedded within all of our minds - black officers often make the same errors of judgment - that people of color are disproportionately read as criminals.

This is why nearly every police shooting of an unarmed person is met with outrage from the public, and an equally passionate defense of the officers by friends, family, and colleagues who insist that they aren't racist. The difficult truth, however, is that both may be true.

The officer may not have had racist intentions but, given the psychological evidence offered above, nonetheless engaged in actions borne out of racism.

Similar issues emerge in courts when white police officers are charged with shooting black citizens. In these cases, defense attorneys compel jurors (and the broader public) to put themselves in the shoes of the officer. Jurors are then legally tasked with invoking the "reasonable person" standard of common law: "What would a reasonable person do under the same conditions?" While such questions are typically helpful, they falter under the pressure of white supremacy, which has normalized the fear of black bodies for nearly 400 years.

As a result, jurors can relate to Darren Wilson's fear of unarmed Michael Brown or even George Zimmerman's fear of unarmed Trayvon Martin and decide that a shooting was justified because they, too, would have done the same thing. They too, saw the unarmed teens as violent threats.

Unfortunately, these determinations aren't necessarily generated out of "objective" assessments of a threat, only a general consensus that certain people (or kinds of people) are threatening. Given our country's commitment to reinforcing notions of black pathology through film, literature, music, religion, and the sciences, it is no surprise that people, even black people, have a heightened fear of blacks.

It also no surprise, then, that jurors are more prone to exonerate someone for shooting a Black person. In essence, the law can be used to codify irrational, white supremacist fears about Black and Brown people.

In order to truly address racial injustice, we must acknowledge what Princeton professor Imani Perry refers to as "post-intentional" racism. The concept, in part, suggests that we don't need the presence of angry, foaming-at-the-mouth racists or blatant discrimination to legitimize or experience racism.

The challenge of this realization is that we can't simply locate and eliminate racist "bad apples" - a blatantly racist police officer or a white supremacist juror- from our society. Rather, we must take up the deeper challenge of addressing the structural and psychological dimensions of racial injustice that exist everywhere, even the most "polite," "progressive" or well-intentioned spaces.

We must accept that our collective problems cannot be resolved at the level of simple policy changes, even if we had the political or moral will to do so. We must question whether the current systems of law, economy or politics have the capacity to yield justice.

We must examine the ways that white supremacy is embedded deeply within our collective psyches and our social institutions. We must move beyond finger-pointing and ultimately arrive at new, creative and courageous responses to the dilemmas of racism in America.

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Racism is so deeply embedded in our psyche | CNN

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Editor's Note: Marc Lamont Hill is a CNN political commentator and distinguished professor of African-American studies at Morehouse College. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. Over the past 15 months, Americans have paid considerably greater attention to issues of race and criminal justice.

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Preparing children for racism in schools - Maine

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Preparing children for racism in schools - Maine

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In this news article from the Portland News they talk about the ritual that parents must tell their kids of color in the days before school. Tell them how to deal with the racism they may and will encounter. Tell them they will be looked down upon at times and be asked about features and tell them about how to emotionally deal with their features being "undesirable". While I was reading this I was kinda saddened by exactly how close by and how real this talk and fear is. We need to educate all on racism and tell all our kids that we are all equal and that skin color doesn't change who the person is on the inside. Educating children on the realities of racism is something that is vital to furthering our society.

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In the poem he talks on stereotypes for why he cut his hair. Showing the racism in a simple act. He cuts his hair and now people think it's cause he lost a loved one or that he was made at them because it showed who he really was, a native american. He also uses Indian boy which is what early settlers called them thinking they were Indian, we have since called them native Americans. The use of it to me shows a step back in the progression, what little we have had, in trying to fix our ancestors wrongs. The way he talks about him cutting his hair in it, or the person saying "hey little Indian boy" to me is weird to read, because when I see someone cut their hair I think little of it. I think "It looks good" or something along those lines. However after reading this I know realize that I ask "why did you cut it?" or a thought of "Is this a form of rebellion?" But I never associated it to a race just everyone  who does something drastic. When I dyed my hair people asked, why? and "I liked it better before" , or a "are you okay?" because I simply changed the color of my hair. I can see how being a different race with a misunderstood set of beliefs and past, how damaging it can be.e

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Good Hair - Hey, Indian boy, why (why!) did you slice off your braids?

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The difference of education received on both a native american conservation and a white neighborhood is quite staggering. On one you are barely taught how to read and write even when you may have vast potential. Whereas a white school you are taught how to read, write, and are pushed to do more. The way that the Native Americans are taught on these reservations is like the way people taught those who were seen as less in the schools for blacks in the 1900's. It's quite gross and disturbing how badly these kids are taught. 1) Because they aren't taught right from wrong and bullying seemed prevalent, so you had to stand up for yourself and if you did you'd be reprimanded. 2) Bright kids who are on the reservations will never get to reach that potential because we look down upon them like we have with every race not white.

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FIRST GRADE / My hair was too short and my U.S. Government glasses were horn-rimmed, ugly, and all that first winter in school, the other Indian boys chased me from one corner of

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In this article of the Washington Redskins, a professional football team, changing their name from a racial slur for native Americans to something else. They have sent letters to Roger Goodell saying that they would like them to comply. Personally this doesn't offend me and I see how it may offend others, but changing the name of a national football team with millions of fans with millions of merchandise for that team exist. I don't think simply changing the name will help. I understand that it may be offensive to those this racial slur goes to and I'm sorry that dealing with it is a real issue. But I think that changing it would be a step forward but then the fans of the team would get rowdy and push us a step back as well.

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In the video Ta-Nehisi Coates is asked a question, Is it okay to say the n-word when singing along to a song? His response is no, because by restraining you get an insight on what its like to be black. Holding back and seeing others do something you wanna do. He says that we white people have been conditioned to believe everything is ours and we can do what we want, and how blacks cannot. He says that white people when told they can't say it they go I invented the word and I can' t use it, that's racist. However it's the context you use it and how it is formed. I think what he is saying is accurate and correct, when singing I have the urge so sing it but I know I shouldn't so I hold back and don't say it. I've never really viewed it in a way of it being a glimpse of what blacks live with daily, wanting to walk and not be prejudged on their skin, not be stared at when in a bank or not be thought of a thug when they have a hood on at night. It really shows just how ignorant we can be at times when we say it's racist that I can't say this word when another can't do so many things you can.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates just explained why white people shouldn't use the n-word in the perfect way

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Surviving Disappearance - Native Americans

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Surviving Disappearance - Native Americans

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Matika talks about the lives of many natives and their stories. She talks what they think of racism. She talks on how they survive in a world of racism and how they navigate through it. I don't think that they need to, well they "need" to because personally I hate what our ancestors did and I hate that I live with the guilt which I shouldn't have of destroying a people. In a line she says something along the lines of We have to keep our tradition so that we don''t blend in and don't become our colonizers. This was quite powerful because it's saying that they don't want to be like those who enslaved us and brings us back to the truth that we did do this, and that they don't want to blend in because blending in destroys our past. When I hear the stories of these people and their tribes past, it makes me feel like it's somehow my fault. I'm not sure if that's the goal so I see the wrong and want to change it or what.

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Surviving Disappearance, Re-Imagining & Humanizing Native Peoples: Matika Wilbur at TEDxSeattle

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Matika Wilbur, one of the Pacific Northwest's leading photographers, has exhibited extensively in regional, national, and international venues such as the Seattle Art Museum, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, The Tacoma Art Museum, the Royal British Columbia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts in France.

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In the beginning of what she is writing she says how angry she was reading the book because of the racism and the use of "nigger". As she grows up however her views change and her opinion on the book changes. She realizes the blacks portrayed are intelligent and that Jim is written as he is to be the opposite of what Huck has had up to this point. She says that Huck is suicidal at times and often melancholy. And he doesn't straight say that he loves Jim because that would be seen as a bad thing. And that Jim has been there for him to cheer him up in a way. And his portrait of a silly and goofy black man contrast Huck's feelings. She believes that what made her angry was Huck's sadness, and how he must conduct his views of not hating Jim but loving him  in secret, so to hide it from the society that is oh so racist. She also makes a not about the relationship with Huck and Jim, Huck controls Jim and uses him for his advantages. That is what she believes, I do not to an extent. Huck definitely looked down upon Jim in the beginning and maybe even went to Jim just so that he can have someone help him with task he can't/won't do. Huck does hurt Jim and feel bad but doesn't make it right till he realizes how much Jim cares about him. Near the end I believe that Huck does love Jim and does see him as a father figure and not just property

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In this video, which is Joyner rapping the whole time but voiced over two different men, we see both sides of views on race. On one the Trump supporter who says all the things he feels about the black race and how it isn't fair that they piggy back of us. And on the other is a black male who says his side of the story and goes into detail on why it's like this. When I was watching this, at the beginning it was a little hard to watch seeing the white man yelling the n-word at the other and saying he doesn't belong. However the second half and hearing the side of the black male got me thinking about how I can truly see only my side no matter how hard I try. I'll never really understand what it's like to be looked down upon because of my skin and to be stereotyped as a bad person cause of it. Like in Huckleberry Finn when the King and the Duke dress Jim up as an Arab because that was seen to be better than being black at the time. At the end of the video they seem to be understanding eachother and the white man gets up and hugs him. It's meant to show how we can change when we have conversation about us and our people.

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This video was on these two men's first time hearing the word.The one from a french speaking country at first did't know the bad meaning to it and it would just be used around him by other and himself. The other who's father worked on a american mining company, got into hearing rap. He lived in south africa where he saw and began to feel that being black offends people and when his host would leave and he would try to open the door to go in the police would come, assuming on the basis of his skin he was doing something wrong.All of these stories on when they first heard it and how when they did it changed how they viewed people changed altered  mine. I'm not saying it's right to say it but behind closed doors it's your life and that's that. As for these men who first heard it, The idea that not knowing what it means and then finding out must have just destroyed them. As well as having the police called because you want to get back into your host's house but because you're black is absolutely disgusting. As I was watching this I was kinda sickened, by the idea of being called and saying a word that has such an awful history to it and the thought of not even being able to open a door or walk without being judged and told you're less and that your skin offends someone.

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The n-word: An interactive project exploring a singular word

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After the National Football League made the controversial decision to ban the n-word on the field this year, a team of Washington Post journalists explored the history of the word, its evolution and its place in American vernacular today.