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Topic One: America is/is not a racist country

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Topic One: America is/is not a racist country

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US Senator Tim Scott responded to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address and stated that America is not racist.  In response to this, Vice President Kamala Harris stated that America is not racist but the county must deal with racism.

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I believe america is a racist country because we still face problems such as job discrimination because of race.   in a study "Resumes with white-sounding names received 50 percent more callbacks than those with black-sounding names." This proves jobs are much more willing to hire white candites than black candidates.

Source: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/discrimination-job-market-united-states

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I believe America is a racist country and you can start to understand that by looking at the prision system and incarciration rates. "blacks are incarcerated at a rate that is 5.1 times that of whites."  This shows the system is faster to arrest blacks than whites

Source: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/color-of-justice-racial-and-ethnic-disparity-in-state-prisons/

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As Americans I don't think we've reached the promise land yet because there are still promises of equality that everyone haven't received. An immigrant wrote "She knew of men in villages not remote from our own who had returned from the United States without an arm or minus a leg, or in bad health.” The U.S is not giving equal health care to everyone.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/opinion/sunday/america-the-not-so-promised-land.html

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Many people of color feel forgotten by the political parties until election time. Some blame this problem on the fact that most African Americans identify themselves as Democrats. Others blame this problem on the lack of representation in the Republican party.

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A lot of Americans are unhappy schools don't teach U.S history accurate. This creates tension in the U.S. Myths such as "Myth 5: That crack in the “ghetto” was the largest drug crisis of the 1980s"  bother Americans

Source: https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/2/18/21134644/black-history-month-2020-myths

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Some people believe they are forgotten in elections. Such as in Carter vs Kennedy when "Carter had followed through on his promise of appointing African Americans to significant positions, but he infuriated black leaders in the summer of 1979 by ousting Andrew Young, one of his key '76 supporters and a civil rights icon, as U.N. ambassador after Young secretly negotiated with a P.L.O. official — a violation of official administration policy." This made Blacks feel useless in the voting process like they were being used

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/1980-carter-vs-kennedy-left-african-americans-feeling-ignored-n1029591

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Topic Two: Have we reached the Promised Land?

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Topic Two: Have we reached the Promised Land?

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Electing both a black president (Obama) and a black vice president (Harris) fulfills MLKs dream for America.  Alternatively, others say that these are “one offs”, anomalies and not a true change in American society.

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Race relations in this country have never been better. In fact, some say they can see the light at the end of the tunnel and trying to change history is actually hurting race relations.  Conversely, people believe that race relations can not be made better until history is accurately told from multiple viewpoints.

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As Americans I don't think we've reached the promise land yet because there are still promises of freedom that everyone haven't received because felons cant vote for what they believe in so are they really free after leaving their cells.

Source: https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/voter-restoration/felony-disenfranchisement-laws-map

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A lot of Americans wan American History to be told accurately and bring a negative uprise until things are fixed. Myths such as "Most lynchings started when a Black man was accused of a sexual incident involving a white woman." this causes up roars and groups of unhappy people.

Source: https://diverseeducation.com/article/7469/

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A lot of Americans believe their votes are useless because they have little to no representation in the republican party. "According to a 2004 study, 14% of blacks identified as "Conservative" or "Extremely Conservative" with another 14% identifying as slightly conservative. However, the same study indicated that less than ten percent identified as Republican or Republican-leaning"

sources: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/09/13/2-party-affiliation-among-voters-1992-2016/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_conservatism_in_the_United_States#:~:text=According%20to%20a%202004%20study,as%20Republican%20or%20Republican%2Dleaning.