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As Morrison read Huck Finn throughout her life the meaning came to her in different ways. Jim is portrayed as a true human being. I think it is interesting that a message can change so much just by looking at it in a different view point. I agree with Morrison in that Twain wrote the book beautifully and the fact that there is always something unsettling about it even deeper than you can seem to find

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I think it is human nature to be grouped but The number are alarmingly high for discrimination between groups.  While looking at the data I both surprised and not by the data. This shows that people are becoming unfazed by what is happening but know its wrong. We need to stop talking about it and actually do something. This idea that everyone feels they are discriminated against may tie into the fact that patriotism and the american identity may be so close in proximity to racism and discrimination.

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Majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial groups in America believe that discrimination exists against their own group, across many areas of people's daily lives, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The poll asked a wide range of questions about where Americans experience discrimination - from the workplace to the doctor's office - and people's perception of it. The groups polled include whites, blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans and LGBTQ adults.

White Americans are among those who feel their group is discriminated against, with 55 percent saying discrimination exists against whites in the U.S. today.

These results are part of a large national statistically representative survey of 3,453 adults from Jan. 26 to Apr. 9.

We will be releasing the full results of the poll over the next several weeks, starting Tuesday with results from the survey of African-Americans. We will highlight and analyze the particular acts of discrimination that each group experiences.

The African-American results, in 802 adults, provide insight into the historically high levels of discrimination blacks have faced since arriving in America. These experiences happen across a broad range of situations: interacting with police; applying for jobs or seeking promotions; trying to rent an apartment or buy a home; or going to a doctor or health clinic.

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The findings on African-Americans have a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.

The perceptions of discrimination are not primarily based in actions by institutions, as some might expect. "Most African-Americans believe that discrimination is due to the attitudes of individuals that they interact with," says Robert Blendon, the poll's director and professor of policy and political analysis at the Harvard Chan School. "A smaller share believes it's actually government or institutional policies."

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Fear of discrimination, possibly triggered by past encounters, plays out in different ways. We found that this fear significantly influences people's decisions whether to seek medical care, to call the police when in need, and even whether to drive or attend social events. Nearly one-third (32 percent) of African-Americans polled said they have personally experienced racial discrimination when going to the doctor or a health clinic, with 22 percent avoiding care out of fear of discrimination.

"If someone is avoiding seeking medical care out of fear of discrimination, they're at risk of going undiagnosed for serious conditions," says Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "We know that repeated stress from discrimination and racism can actually make some of those conditions more likely in the first place and shorten lives."

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And repeated stress comes from many kinds of discrimination and the fear it engenders. Numerous studies have shown that African-Americans are more likely to be stopped by police compared with other racial groups. In the poll, 60 percent of people told us that they or a family member have been unfairly stopped or mistreated by police because they are black.

That has consequences for them personally and across society - 31 percent of poll respondents say fear of discrimination has led them to avoid calling the police when in need. And 61 percent say police are more likely to use force on a person who is African-American than on a white person in the same situation.

Where people live can make a big difference, too. Our survey found that 64 percent of blacks live in non-majority-black areas. For these people, perceptions of local discrimination, opportunity, police and government and community environment were generally better when compared with majority-black areas, sometimes by wide margins.

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Our poll found substantial numbers of African-Americans who say they have been slurred or have been the target of insensitive or offensive comments or negative assumptions. A story later in our series will explore the split by income and gender in the chart below.

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Persistently higher premature death rates in blacks compared with whites was one of the issues that inspired this poll and series. The most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that gap at 16 percent, even though it has narrowed since 1999, when death rates for blacks from all causes were 33 percent higher than whites.

Many factors play into the gap, including a considerable drop in crime rates involving African-Americans over that period and improved access to medical care for many people. What we're trying to explore with our "You, Me and Them" series and poll is how the stress-inducing experiences of discrimination in everyday life affect health.

"Over 200 black people die prematurely every single day in America, in part because of racism in society," says David Williams, a professor of public health at the Harvard Chan School who has pioneered work in the field of racial disparities in health care. "This poll helps us see where we need to take action to address the problem."

The poll was conducted in the first quarter of 2017. A final report discussing major highlights from the series will be released in December.

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Poll: Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination

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Majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial groups in America believe that discrimination exists against their own group, across many areas of people's daily lives, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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After 9/11 Americans all across the country reacted in dangerous ways by taking their anger out on the middle eastern communities. People though this represented the ideals of patriotism but in reality patriotism is the exact opposite. I think that it is biased when a different ethnicity or religion makes an attack against our people and we call it terrorism but when a white man shoots up a mosque its not. Any attack like that should fall under one umbrella of terrorism, no matter who the target is.

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After the attacks of September 11, 2001, patriotism took on many masks and many faces. For some it meant planting flags in their front yards and cherishing the rights we enjoy in this country. For others it took on a flawed and dangerous form. Violence against South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, and Arab Americans skyrocketed in the weeks and months after 9/11. New government policies painted our communities with suspicion and guilt. The notion that patriotism and racism are synonymous was used against us after 9/11, and the horror has lasted 16 years, flowing and ebbing under Presidents Bush and Obama. That notion has only increased in fury under the Trump administration.

I was in New York on 9/11, working downtown not too far from the attacks. In the days that followed I feared for my safety for the first time in my life: not from planes nose-diving from the sky, but from assaults on the subway or on the street. These fears were not misplaced. The first shots fired after the attacks were on September 15 in Mesa, Arizona, when Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh gas station owner, was killed by Frank Silva Roque, a racist gunman who wanted to "go out and shoot some towel-heads." During his arrest Roque screamed, "I am a patriot! I stand for America all the way!" This is how he pledged allegiance to our flag.

Our communities experienced many ensuing acts of hate. In the first week after 9/11, 645 bias incidents nationwide were reported by media organizations. In the months that followed, our houses of worship were surveilled by the NYPD and other law-enforcement agencies, our rights were violated and our dignity stripped at airports, and our children were bullied in school and harassed on the Internet. Government policies such as the Patriot Act and the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System were implemented, the latter of which opened cases against 83,000 Muslims entering or living in the United States. The result of this vast ethnic profiling? Zero terrorism-related convictions.

Meanwhile, the body count in our communities has mounted. In 2012, a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, was attacked by a gunman who killed six people and wounded four others before taking his own life. In 2015, three young Arab students in North Carolina were murdered in their homes by their white-supremacist neighbor. In 2016, a Lebanese-American man was shot and killed on his own porch by a racist neighbor who had a documented history of anti-Arab hate. Related Article

In 2017, our communities are facing hate violence at levels that rival the aftermath of 9/11. The Trump administration-which is now implementing policies that mirror his bigoted rhetoric on the campaign trail-continues to roll out anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant policies that embolden hate groups to attack our communities. President Trump has test-fired several versions of the "Muslim ban," rescinded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and strongly supported the RAISE Act that seeks to slash immigration by 50 percent in a decade, as well as implementing other destructive policies. Since the presidential election, South Asian Americans Leading Together has documented over 150 incidents of violence against those who identify or are perceived as Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, South Asian, Middle Eastern, or Arab American, already surpassing totals from the year leading up to the 2016 election. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, anti-Muslim hate groups grew by 197 percent in 2016, and, according to the FBI, anti-Muslim hate crimes increased by 67 percent in 2015.

In February two Indian-Americans were shot by a gunman screaming, "Get out of my country." Days later a Sikh man was shot on his driveway in Washington State by an assailant screaming, "Go back to your country." In August a Minnesota mosque was firebombed in what the governor rightly declared an "act of terrorism." In May, Jeremy Joseph Christian, a known white supremacist, harassed a Muslim passenger on a commuter train in Portland. When three men tried to intervene, Christian stabbed two of them to death. Reminiscent of Roque's racism in 2001, Christian proclaimed at his arraignment, "You call it terrorism; I call it patriotism!"

After these attacks, the president remains silent. His silence is a clear signal to the Roques and the Christians of the world that white supremacy and Islamophobia are not only admirable, they are patriotic.

Our communities know that the highest form of patriotism is dissent: We have lived it for 16 years. We've spoken out when we've seen injustice, and we've crowded airports to protest an unlawful "Muslim ban." We've stood united with those from all faiths, colors, and backgrounds, against racism and division in Charlottesville, Boston, Berkeley, and beyond. We've stared down ACT for America-the nation's largest anti-Muslim hate group-and forced them to cancel nationwide Islamophobic rallies originally scheduled for September 9.

The toxic patriotism that hate groups have practiced for 16 years has brought our diverse communities together, anchored in a patriotism of love, not fear. This September 11, I will remember that this is the true patriotism-working with our communities to protect each other, and in doing so, to form a more perfect union.

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Too Many Americans Think Patriotism Means Racism and Xenophobia

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After the attacks of September 11, 2001, patriotism took on many masks and many faces. For some it meant planting flags in their front yards and cherishing the rights we enjoy in this country. For others it took on a flawed and dangerous form.

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Although the Patriot Act works to protect the people of America from immigrants who could do harm, I believe that it also hurts the US and its relationships with foreign countries. By creating a divide between the western ideals of democracy and the middle east ideals of strong religion the US is only hurting our connections over seas. It also seems unconstitutional that the US can end someones visa, which is basically their life here on mere suspicion. It continues to cut into the gash between the majority of Americans and the Muslim community in the name of patriotism and this country.  The Patriotic Act is another example of not moving forward and reverting back to laws that divide cultures

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Like the Patriot Act , Trumps campaign and his strategies put a deeper hurt on the american/Muslim divide. The way in which Trump appeals to white voters is cruel and hard to understand why people seem to love it so much. He was able to gain support because he knew the american people feel threatened and like a bully he pinned us against them. Islam is not a cancer or a threat but treating people like enemies will surely get us in trouble. This connects to Huck Finn because we can clearly see how Huck is manipulated by people like Pap in hopes that Huck would keep his same beliefs and stay uneducated through using fear and power

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Dalia Mogahed changed the way I personally think of Muslims and words like "Islam". In her ted talk she shows it as her religion that brought her to god not a group of hate. As an american I have been taught to think of Muslims like a dangerous radical group that has no good,  but we forget that it is a religion that is centered around many of the same things as Christianity. They are more similar than they are different. America hasn't changed and we continue to make sideways steps against racism instead of truly moving forward

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Dalia Mogahed: What it's like to be Muslim in America

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When you look at Muslim scholar Dalia Mogahed, what do you see: A woman of faith? A scholar, a mom, a sister? Or an oppressed, brainwashed, potential terrorist? In this personal, powerful talk, Mogahed asks us, in this polarizing time, to fight negative perceptions of her faith in the media -- and to choose empathy over prejudice.

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One of the problem that I think is centered closely around prejudge and discrimination is the US's unwillingness to change or do something. Not only do I mean the government and the way they have been handling things but I also mean just people in general. I think the campaign that Boston put in place is great and shows forward progression because it shows you can do something as a normal person to no longer be a bystander of Islamophobia or any other phobia for that fact. We don't have to fear Muslims and we don't have to silent to the unfair treatment of Muslim american citizens. This campaign reminds me of Huck Finn because Huck was also an ordinary person who made a small but significant change because he believed it was good. https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Boston-Combats-Islamophobia-With-Public-Service-Campaign-435071463.html

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Boston Combats Islamophobia With Public Service Campaign

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The city of Boston has just unveiled a public service campaign to combat Islamophobia.

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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.

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I listened to one conversation that struck me as the most correct way to look at the use of this word. In the video the man basically said if you're in the group and you experience and share the problems of the group you have the right to use the word and he connected this to not only the n word but also "fag" and "bitch" which helped me understand because i relate to the female experience and I know more gay people than I do black so I can understand better. The fact that the word still exists is proof that we have barely progressed in society and have only moved sideways in our culture. Culture is a huge part of why we think the way we do, just like how Huck thought that he should think/feel a certain way because it was what society taught

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This poem reminds me on a smaller scale of how confusion and fear can cause panic and unrest but as soon as it clears how people can get along. On a larger scale I thought of the Palestinian woman as America, freaking out because they don't understand but all we simply need is a clear understanding and we could all get along with everyone . This poem show how people have moved forward but still can panic about unknown circumstances so moving forward quickly becomes irrelevant

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As a country we group people and just like the Islamophobia we create a idea of what we think people are like. These ideas are incorrect and leave minorities feeling less and inferior still to this day. This shows we have gone sideways instead of forward.

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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.