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Cristian  Hernandez
Ms. Gisella Ramirez, Research Methods

American Society is Rooted in Racism

The way I began to develop this PA is I had to come up with a social theory that I could prove with evidence. After I came up with a social theory I began to gather up articles online, statistics, and a song that would support my social theory.  I also had to find a solution to my social theory. Some things that I learned while putting together this PA is how fixed this society is for people of color and how racism impacts people of color.

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Song: " The Day of the Sword"

Artist: Unknown.
Website address:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m4xVIeaIKI
This is a video about how white people talk about how African American people cause harm to the United States and should be gone. The video shows white people talking bad about African Americans, there are segments of white people assaulting African Americans, and police brutality is shown in the video.

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Song: All black everything.
Artist : Lupe Fiasco of 2011. The name of the website that this song was uploaded on is called Youtube.com. Here is the website address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71McnVwWPwU. This song talks about racism that is being thrown  and stereotypes about African Americans. He talks about how things are revolved around the white people and how black people get discriminated a lot. He also brings things about slavery, racial inequality, and change.

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FILM: 13th
PRODUCERS:  Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, Howard Barish.
RELEASE DATE:  October 7th 2016.
The movie was about how the 13th amendment is a law that is supposed to work against People of color. This movie is also based about racial inequality and about America’s prisons being filled with African Americans. The movie includes people talking about how they feel about the 13th amendment, police brutality, racial inequality, and how this society is fixed.

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ARTICLE: 2015 Police Violence Report

AUTHOR: Samuel Sinyangwe
DATE PUBLISHED: January 1st of 2017.
WEBSITE: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/2015/
This article talks about the statistics on police violence that occurs in the United States. This article gives statistics about how many people were killed due to police violence, when it happened, and where it happened. The people who are affected by these statistics were African Americans.
"Black people were more likely to be killed by America's largest city police departments"(mappingviolence.org)."
This quote talks about how blacks are more likely to get killed by police in cities that are big. This relates to my theory because this shows how black people are targeted by police all

Police departments disproportionately killed black people, who were 41% of victims despite being only 20% of the population living in these cities"(mappingviolence.org).
What this quote is saying is that there were a lot of black people killed. Almost half of black people were killed by police and these people are only about a fifth of their community. Meaning they are targeted more than another race in their community.

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Mapping Police Violence is a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact of police violence in communities.

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Solutions that can help american society not be rooted in racism.

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Solutions that can help american society not be rooted in racism.

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One solution that I have that can probably end this racism in this society is to have more people of color in our government. What this will do is get rid of the white people that are in our government. If we have more people of color in our government, then there will be less racism. The reason there will be more racism is because they could fix all the things that are connected to race. For example they could give illegal immigrants legalization, stop the racial profiling, and prisons being filled with people of color.

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Another statistic showing which 5 Races are more likely to get killed by law enforcement

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Another statistic showing which 5 Races are more likely to get killed by law enforcement

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This statistic connects to my social theory because it shows how our society is rooted in racism and which races are affected by this society rooted in racism

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Statistic of Police violence against black people

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Statistic of Police violence against black people

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This statistic relates to my social theory because this shows how people of color are affected by this society in racism. If the society wasn't rooted in racism maybe people of color wouldn't be targeted by law enforcement as much.

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This song relates to My theory Society is rooted in racism Because in this song J Cole talks about his experience while living in a white community. When he lived around that area, his neighbors thought that he was selling drugs. This relates to me theory because in this society if start to live in a certain area and you are a person of color like J Cole, people will always have assumptions of you and act differently to you.

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J Cole - Neighbors From the album "4 Your Eyez Only" (2016)

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Social Theory: American Society is rooted in racism 

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Social Theory: American Society is rooted in racism 

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The reason why I see the world like this is because racism is all that I have been seeing. No matter where you go there will be some type of thing that connects back to racism. Racism has existed in America since its founding. Back then we had white people bring Africans to America to treat them as slaves. Slavery continued for many years and was  abolished after the Civil war. Even after the Civil war when blacks were freed, racism continued. We then had segregation, People of color mainly blacks were segregated from the whites. The reason why Segregation happened was because the whites felt like they didn’t want to be associated with the blacks and people of color. Today we still see evidence of racism in our society starting with the prison population and police brutality.  There has been many cases of people of color being being arrested brutally, and there are also more people of color in prison than whites. One solution that could probably end racism is by giving more opportunities to people of color to be part of the government system. This government has been run by whites since the beginning of its founding and it is still run by them today. If we had people of color in the government and running it there will be less racism in this country.

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American Society is Rooted in Racism

Line 1: Walking down these streets knowing racism is rooted in this society

Line 2:I guess nobody pays attention to that but me.

Line 3: Cops around the hood with they guns ready to blast

Line 4: Man is this what happens to us people of color, how long will this last?

Line 5: Go to Beverly hills L.A ain’t nothing going to happen to you

Line 6: Around Oakland people tend to discriminate and kill, I guess that’s all we do

Line 7: Is this what america has taught us to do over the years?

Line 8: Not seeing the bigger picture and how families be living in fear.

Line 9: Racism is the thing that leads to all this discrimination and problems

Line 10: Be part of the P.O.C and you’ll be at the bottom

Line 11:But man this system has always been fixed

Line 12: Screaming FTP you’ll get arrested quick

Line 13 : Racism has always caused segregation in this nation

Line 14:  Knowing all this maybe we should fear for the next generation

Line 15: We will never really be “equal” if this keeps going on

Line 16: We need to find a solution so all this racism can be gone

Line 17: But in reality ain’t nothing going to change

Line 18: Nobody sees what’s really happening but who’s the blame

Line 19: People always talk about change and making things better

Line 20: They ain’t  know one thing about it they just make things harder

Line 21: For the people who actually want to help and do something good

Line 22: And for the people who want to change the world because they hate how it looks

Line 23: We can always do something to change all of this

Line 24:  But to do that we got to take a lot of risks

Line 25: Just Like MLK he sacrificed a lot for this world

Line 26: But it wasn’t enough we still see dead black bodies on the floor

Line 27: Shit we probably need more blacks and latinos in the white house

Line 28: Maybe they could understand us people and help us all out

Line 29: Cuz we human we all got struggles

Line 30: And these whites just be causing more trouble

Line 31: But maybe the world will always look like this

Line 32: Always corrupt and always a mess.