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Racial Profiling and More

Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling: assuming things about a certain race, national, religious, ethnic group without more knowledge of that group. Also known as stereotyping

Examples:

Asians are short, will be experts at martial arts, run laundromats/dry cleaners, all look the same.
Blacks are pimps/drug dealers
Latinos are lazy, be gardeners/landscapers or all live in one house
Italians will be with the mob, or have greased up hair
British people are stuck up, walk around wearing bowler hats, carrying umbrellas or British men being gay
Jewish people are nitpicky misers.

Racial Segregation and Violence

Jim Crow Laws: state and local laws started between 1876 and 1965. It had a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans, but we all know how that ended up. It was another form of segregation

Sundown Towns: this term refers to towns where only white residents were allowed to live. This kind of stuff happened between 1890 and 1965 as well. Hate groups, such as the KKK were drawn to sundown towns. The reason for the name is because there were derogatory signs saying that minorities couldn't be present at sundown. These kinds of towns don't allow any race/ethnic group. Most notably Americans of African descent. If they were found after sunset, they risked a beating or being imprisoned.

Out West, sundown towns started popping up because of the ever increasing number of Chinese and Japanese immigrants living in the West. People started creating these towns because they were competing with the Asian immigrants for jobs

Also people of other races and ethnicities have been subjected to some kind of persecution, such as:

Black people having to sit in the back of a bus
American-born Japanese in internment camps
German-Jews having to wear the Star of David and then go to concentration camps
American Indians having their land taken away from them in treaties, being put on reservations and having the greedy white man and his family take their land and desecrate it.

There were also hate groups ready to dispense what they called justice to people they thought were unworthy of living in the US. Groups like the KKK, the White Knights, neo-Nazi skinheads, etc

The KKK usually burned crosses, used terror, violence, and even went as far as rape to get theier point across. If they were supposed to be so brave, why did they wear hoods? That just shows they're cowards. Now, you'll probably know that this kind of garbage really pisses me off!! My grandfather hated anything to do with racism/discrimintation, and I'm definitely with him. I HATE RACISM!!!!!!!!!

Labeling

Labeling: the act of putting someone's ethnic background before American, even if they were born in America

Some examples include:
Lucy Liu and B.D. Wong and Russell Wong are Chinese-American

Lucy Liu, one of my favorite actresses

B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang on Law and Order:SVU

Russell Wong, Romeo Must Die

James Shigeta and Carrie Ann Inaba and James Iha are Japanese-American

Smashing Pumpkins co-founder and guitarist James Iha. He's kinda cute....

Carrie Ann Inaba

James Shigeta as Joseph Yoshinobi Takagi in Die Hard

Wes Studi and Johnny Depp and Rudy Youngblood are Native American

Johnny Depp

Wes Studi

Rudy Youngblood

Gabriel Iglesias and Cheech Marin and Christina Aguilera are Latin-American

Cheech Marin

Gabriel Iglesias

Christina Aguilera on the set of the video for Maroon 5's new single Moves Like Jagger. She should know how to dance like Jagger, considering she was grinding up against him, practically screwing him on stage at the Stones's New York concert in 2006. FYI, she's the blonde one with the hat on!!

Singing the song Live with Me

Don't believe me? Look at these 2 pics. They're getting pretty close, lol!

Halle Berry and Denzel Washington and Viola Davis are African-American

OOOOHHHH, Denzel, what a major hottie!! Love his smile, makes me melt......

Halle Berry, one of my fave actresses

Viola Davis, she's so beautiful

Lily Collins(daughter of British musician and Genesis member Phil Collins) and Keanu Reeves(Mother is of English descent) and Gregory Peck are of British-American descent.

Both parents were of English descent

Her dad, Genesis singer Phil Collins

Lily Collins

Keanu Reeves

Native Americans/American Indians

How can people honestly think this way about people? Seriously, it's ridiculous!!

Trail of Tears: forced relocation and movement of Native Americans from present day. Today it's considered an act of genocide. Good, it's a law to do something bad to the Indians. This removal included many members of the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Choctaw tribes. Out of the 15,000 Indians that were "relocated", 4,000 died from exposure, disease, starvation

There are 562 known Indian reservations in the US. The poorest reservation in the US is the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Shannon County, South Dakota. The conditions aren't exactly 5 star resort on reservations, with an abundance of suicide, unemployment, short life expectancies, rampant drug/alcohol abuse, infant mortality, poverty

The largest Indian tribes to date are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Navajo, Sioux, Apache, Chippewa, Blackfoot, Iroquois, Pueblo.

Sometimes things between the American Indian tribes and govt. can explode into violence. Most notably the Wounded Knee incident. On Feb. 27, 1973, 400 members of the American Indian Movement took control of Wounded Knee. Local cops and US military were called in to help. And at the nearby Pine Ridge Reservation, 2 FBI agents were killed by Leonard Peltier because they were trying to arrest someone who wanted in on an armed robbery. He is currently serving 2 life sentences.

Racism Against Japanese and American-born Japanese

History

What: forcible relocation of all who were Japanese-born and living in the US or all American-born citizens of Japanese ancestry or parentage
When: 1942. shortly after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial Navy
Approximately 110,000+ American-born Japanese citizens and Japanese-born citizens living in the US that lived along the Pacific Coast were moved to "War Relocation Centers". While any Japanese that lived along the West Coast were interned in Hawaii, where 150,000 of the internees made up 1/3 of the territory's population.
Of the 150,000 people who were interned, nearly 62% were Americans
This was part of Executive Order 9066, which stated that all American-born citizens of Japanese parentage and Japanese-born citizens in the US were to be put into camps.
The Japanese people were put into camps because they were suspected of being spies for the Japanese troops in the air, land and sea, and also some were suspected of loyalty to their homeland.

Internment Camps:

Manzanar: 10,046 people

Tule Lake: 18,789 people

Poston: 17,814 people

Gila River: 13,348 people

Granada: 7,318 people

Heart Mountain: 10,767 people

Minidoka: 9,937 people

Topaz: 8,130 people

Rohwer: 8,475 people

Jerome: 8,497 people

Tule Lake became a detention facility for those deemed "high security risk", for those deemed "unloyal" abd for those who would be deported back to Japan

The conditions were simply horrible:

Barracks of simple design with tar paper roofs, without plumbing, or cooking facilities
The barracks were based on a military style design and not made for cramped family living
Heart Mountain had a barbed wire fence surrounded compound with no partitions in the toilets, cots for beds, budget of .45 cents per meal. Most of the West coast living families had little time to pack so they were unable to pack good clothing to brave the sudden climate changes.

British Media Stereotypes

Seriously, how can people think like this? Well if anyone who reads this is British or English or whatever you would prefer, you can rest easy knowing I don't think like this. I mean, honestly, how can I? I'm a huge Stones fan, Def Leppard is becoming yet another fave band and as for Top Gear--AWESOME! And, for the sake of laughing, I'm probably the only girl to look at Mick Jagger and scream bloody murder that he's cute!

When it comes to media, British people will be shown as being upper class, prudish, snobbish, having big, bad or yellow teeth or having proper manners.

In American films, the villains always seem to strangely possess an English accent, even if the movie's content is NOWHERE even near the UK. An example would be the Imperial Officers in Star Wars. But they never show good guys with English accents, like C3PO from Star Wars, Obi Wan Kenobi.

Also people frmo England will be shown as people with upper class accents, such as Hugh Grant, and also being gay, especially British men.

But no one stops and thinks about some of the people in our world, like David Beckham, who's a soccer player, musicians like The Beatles, actresses like Maggie Smith,etc.

Also British characters in movies end up being butlers or gentlemen

Disney movies are somewhat notorious for the 'Bad Brit' stereotype. The villains almost always end up possessing an English accent, and sometimes it's not Disney movies. Here are some examples:

Judge Frollo(Hunchback of Notre Dame): voiced by Tony Jay, a white British actor, even though the character is supposed to be French
Jafar(Aladdin)
Professor Ratigan(The Great Mouse Detective)
Maleficent(Sleeping Beauty)
Lady Tremaine(Cinderella)
Scar(The Lion King). Supposed to take place in Africa, but the character is voiced by Jeremy Irons, a white British actor
Mrs. Trunchbull(Matilda)
Count Olaf(A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Famous English people, alot huh?, lol:

The Rolling Stones