RacialIssuesofAmerica

=“I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race'--the human race--and that we are all members of it" (Margaret Atwood).=
 * RACE **

= “Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact" (Lyndon B. Johnson). =

= "The line between colored and nigger was not always clear; subtle and telltale signs threatened to erode it, and the watch had to be constant" (//The Bluest Eye//, p.87). = //** "See, It's Not About Races, Just Places, Faces, Where Your Blood Comes From Is Where Your Space Is. I've Seen The Bright Get Duller. I'm Not Going To Spend My Life Being A Color" **// (Michael Jackson, //Black or White//).

= = = = = Brown v. Board of Education = = media type="youtube" key="TTGHLdr-iak" height="385" width="640" = = **Japanese Internment Camps** = = media type="youtube" key="EUSF-QrlsPM" height="385" width="480" = = Zoot Suit Riots = ^ http://www.findingdulcinea.com/docroot/dulcinea/fd_images/news/on-this-day/May-June-08/On-this-Day--Zoot-Suit-Riots-Begin-in-Los-Angeles/news/0/image.jpg ^ http://www.howtodovintage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/zoot_suit_riots_021.gif =Discrimination Towards Arabs= ^ http://www.kalpana.it/eng/film/articles/images/reel_bad_arabs.jpg, ^ http://www.soundonsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/jafar-719207.jpg, ^ http://www.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/images/lowrez/reel61f215.jpg ="Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards" (Eric Holder).= =To learn more about US Attorney General Eric Holder and his comments about Arab discrimination, visit this site: []=

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