Police brutality was seen as commonplace, and 95% of the Watts police force was white. This helped foster hatred towards the police, and white people, as the black population did not feel equal. The schools that black students attended were of poor quality, and seen as a reason for the lack of employment and employable skills in the black community. The economic impact of the riots can be seen in multiple areas. There were 288 local businesses looted and burned, which were not capable of being rebuilt and never returned following the Watts Riots.
The result was that the City threw out the examinations all together. So certain white and Hispanic firefighters, who would have been promoted, had the City not thrown out the examinations, sued the City and some of its officials. The “suit alleged that, by discarding the test results, the City and the named officials discriminated against the plaintiffs based on their race, in violation of both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment” (Smith & Robertson, 911). The City and the officials defended their actions stating that if they had not thrown out the results, they could have “faced liability under Title VII for adopting a practice that had a disparate impact on the minority firefighters” (Smith & Robertson, 911).
He witnessed a lot of racism growing up; seeing his house burned down and his father being killed. He had it rough growing up, and he was angry with all that had happened because of the racism in America, and he just wanted blacks to be able to defend themselves. But with how America was back then, whites would have been living in fear, because newspapers would be printed out saying “Blacks strike again” on the headline. King did not want blacks to retaliate because it just would have added to the fire. With everything that King stood for and how he was able to back them with such powerful speeches; it’s easy to say that King’s philosophy made more sense than Malcolm X’s
Violence As an author Richard Wright used his novel Black Boy to call upon citizens of the world to recognize the unjust exertions of force and power that were bestowed upon thousands of discriminated individuals. However the central focus of Wright’s novel was to show how racisms insidious nature creates an environment in which violence between people is inevitable. It was within this environment that Richard endures three stages of his life including initiation, acceptance, and the consequential chain reaction of terrible events. From the very beginning of the novel Wright is constrained into a world where violence encompasses his every move. In the very first chapter Richard is nearly beaten to death by his mother for setting the window
Journal #1 Why Blacks Get Mad- Cecil Foster 1.What exactly is Celcil Foster's thesis? Cecil Foster's thesis was to get the point that racism was still a huge problem and people weren't noticing how bad it was actually getting. He mentioned that the Rodney King verdict triggered the worst outbreak of violence since the Watts riots. The Rodney King riot began because an African-American known as Rodney King was badly beaten by the Los Angeles police officers. After this problem had occurred, Rodney became the main focus for how bad race issues were.
Others were due to growing intolerance for immigrants, who were or assumed to be from the Middle East. Many hate crimes were committed against Muslim and Asian people, and most by racist people trying to justify their acts claiming to be afraid. According to FBI reports at the time, hate crimes targeting people and institutions that identified with the Islamic faith increased from 28 in 2000 to 481 in 2001. Mosques were attacked as well as other religious buildings, including a Hindu temple in St Louis, Mo., which was hit twice with firebombs in 2003.
Charlise Jones October 9, 2014 English 102 Essay 1 Public preception and preconcieved stereotypes have a detrimental effect on developemnt, which have a definitive effect on lower socioeconomic class members. The idea of what justice is varies in different neighborhoods. For example in the case of the Central Park Five, a white women was brutally beaten and raped in Central Park. A need for justice was so imperative that the anxiety resulted in the false confession and convction of five innocent African American teenagers. The police officers that handled the Central Park Five case had no clue to who committed the attack on the white women.
Though not completely tolerated nor accepted, society today has familiarized itself with the idea of same sex relationships. In order to become more at ease, however, homosexuals had to endure a series of events such as the Stone Wall Riots, discrimination in groups and clubs, and personal hate geared towards the gay community. Homosexuals have gone through years of being ridiculed and discriminated against. Perhaps the most memorable and eye opening event in the history of the gay and lesbian community were the Stone Wall Riots. Prior to 1965, gay and lesbian bars were subject to constant raids in cities across the United States.
Legalize It Every year in America billions of dollars are made illegally, thousands of people are imprisoned, and even more people lose their lives to drugs. On a broad level, illegal drugs ruin whole communities by perpetuating the disease of addiction and engulfing neighborhoods in the gang violence that inevitably comes with illegal drug trafficking. On a more personal level, illegal drugs ruin lives by making people turn their backs on loved ones and causing them to throw away their dreams. Most people agree that a problem that is this pervasive and expansive must be dealt with, but few can agree on a solution. There is only one practical solution.
The railroad’s actions set off a national crisis as workers refused to work and instead seized the yards so that the trains were unable to operate. The relevance of the “great strike” riots, which spread like wildfire throughout the states, as well as the “draft riots”, was that they revealed that the local policing efforts were utterly incapable of handling the disruptive activities of the public. Instead, such riots required the combined efforts of the local and state police, as well as the intervention of militiamen and federal troops in order to be brought under control (Eldefonso, Coffey & Grace, 1982, p. 26). These economic riots and the ensuing mob violence and rebellions, which stemmed from the riots, led the American public to demand a better police force to protect their persons and