The first issue revolves around sexual attacks or abuse that remains prevalent in correctional facilities. After being sure that correctional facilities are dominated by sexual injustices, advocates embarked on a mission of creating awareness on the prevalence, massiveness, growth and epidemic prison rape that continue dominating in detention facilities, jails and prisons. Activists referred to research findings establishing that, in the United States alone, ten percent of 1.8 million prisoners are victims of this unlawful act. The second issue id the cruelty at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib correctional facility. When these abuses took place at this prison, human rights activists cited human rights abuse.
Thanks to support from the department of defense, “Top Gun” has spectacular scenes and seems very realistic to the audience. Although the movie glorifies life in the U.S. navy and makes being a fighter pilot very appealing, it doesn’t follow all of the department of defense guidelines and in some instances it breaks the rules. This essay examines the guidelines created by the department of defense and shows how the movie “Top Gun” followed and broke these rules. In the documentary “Hollywood and the War Machine”, the relationship between the military and filmmakers is put under the microscope. Guidelines created by the pentagon are set in place to make the U.S. military seem like a benevolent force for good.
Since September 11th, 2001 Arab Americans have been the target of discrimination. This has created an environment of tension among the American population and Arab Americans They have suffered serious hate crimes and labor discrimination by demotion leading to higher unemployment rates. Many Mosques and Muslim-owned business have been vandalized. . The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported a 1600% increase in hate crimes against the Arab American population in the year after the events of September 11th.
Many people of Arab descent were harassed; churches and mosques were damaged, and in a few instances people were physically attacked, shot, or killed. Mousavi, S. (2006). Transnational Afghani Audiences after September 11. Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, 32(6), 1041-1061. doi:10.1080/13691830600761560. This article discusses the news viewing patterns and responses after the events of September 11, 2001 amongst a sample of Afghanis resident in the UK and Germany.
The riots came about due to racial tensions sparked by the acquittal of three officers accused of police brutality against Rodney King following a high speed chase on March 3, 1991. It would be easy to suggest that the Rodney King trial and verdict was the cause of the rioting, considering the immediate reaction to the news. However, although the acquittal of the police officers was the immediate precipitant, the Los Angeles riots of 1992 were the result of many underlying macro social conditions - specifically racism, social Injustice, and poverty. The living conditions in South Central Los Angeles in the years prior to the riots were below average. The per capita income was less than half that of Los Angeles as a whole, and poverty and unemployment rates were more than twice as high.
The events of 9/11 have created hatred, fear, discrimination and Americans have begun racial profiling because of the Arabs who participated in the attacks. Arabs in America are no longer treated as normal American citizens because many stereotype them to be just like those terrorists who attacked America. The hatred for Arabs began immediately after America became aware of who participated in the attacks. Even a year after the attacks, the Justice Department was still aiming their attention on those from the Middle East and South Asia. As if being interrogated isn’t bad enough, they were also incarcerated and deported for just being their skin color.
In the speech, “Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People” Bush’s overall purpose was to not only inform the United States on the attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon but to give the Nation a plan of action. On September 11th, 2001 America was attacked by a group of terrorist know as al Qaeda. Bush states “Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution.” (52). He
Iraq Prison Scandal In the year 2003 The Bush administration justified and led the American people into war with Iraq. The White house reported claims that Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction and that the people of Iraq were living under brutal dictatorship from their leader. Ostensibly the war was to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and eviscerate and remnants of Alqaeda and its affiliates. The war mongers of both sides (democrats and republicans), wanted someone or something to blame for 9/11. After selling their lies and plans for the war to the America people, congress had given President Bush carte blanche to bring justice to those who caused pain and destruction on American soil.
Over the past five centuries, black people have endured violence in many different ways. In history, racist violence, police brutality, has been used to suppress the racial blacks and to preserve power and privileges for the white race. The practice of police brutality has a strong affect on a main segment of the American population. Those affected are minorities and the elderly causing them to have strong hatred towards the whites in America. Police brutality is abuse by law enforcement, where a police officer feels that because he/she has a badge and a gun therefore it puts them above the law and they can use unnecessary force against another individual.
This essay also raises a good question, should it be ok for law enforcement or the government to use racial profiling to make arrest or to just simply stop someone because of their race? Since the attacks of September 11th, once again racial profiling and stereotyping have become a big issue within today’s society. What is racial stereotyping? It is also called ethnic stereotyping and it is basically a person’s pre-conceived beliefs