https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd Discrimination is a prominent issue in the media. en-us 2018-12-11 20:25:04 UTC 2018-12-12 20:50:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png cruiz110 https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/313621179 the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
Example: If a man is racist or hates a certain gender it is discrimination.]]> 2018-12-11 20:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/313621179 cruiz110 https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/313625711 The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany systematically murdered about six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.]]> 2018-12-11 20:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/313625711 cruiz110 https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/314038535 Fifty-three years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Forcefully challenged “all” Americans to “close the springs of racial poison.”]]> 2018-12-12 20:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/314038535 cruiz110 https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/314040319 After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Islamophobia has increased in the US, fueled by ignorance and the faulty belief that all Muslims are fundamentalists.]]> 2018-12-12 20:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/314040319 cruiz110 https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/314041203 1:  The Government should be more tough on people who discriminate.
2: The Government should put out an act on discrimination
3: All people should agree that we are all Brothers & Sisters and equal.]]> 2018-12-12 20:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/314041203 cruiz110 https://padlet.com/cruiz110/mznfddry0gvd/wish/314048437

African-Americans comprise only 13% of the U.S. population and 14% of the monthly drug users, but are 37% of the people arrested for drug-related offenses in America.

Studies show that police are more likely to pull over and frisk blacks or Latinos than whites. In New York City, 80% of the stops made were blacks and Latinos, and 85% of those people were frisked, compared to a mere 8% of white people stopped. Host a poetry slam to educate others on racism and reduce prejudice in your community.

in 2010, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that African Americans receive 10% longer sentences than whites through the federal system for the same crimes.

In 2009 African-Americans are 21% more likely than whites to receive mandatory minimum sentences and 

n 2012, 51% of Americans expressed anti-black sentiments in a poll; a 3% increase from 2008.

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-racial-discrimination

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