The latest incidents in the media are frightening and give more of a feeling of "retro" progress as opposed to progress that ignites change in American minds about racism. Incidents such as the one involving the Haitian immigrant who was beaten and raped by police officers is a prime example of retro progress. The million-dollar question: is racism getting better or worse after decades of methods that try to fixing the problem?

The Haitian man, Abner Louima, was sodomized with a toilet plunger handled by four of Brooklyn's 70th precinct police officers. Abner was left permanently disabled and raped of his dignity. The police spoke nothing of the incide

nt for two days after the beating and the rape in hope to alleviate the problem at the precinct. What the Brooklyn police department hoped to accomplish was to confine the officers involved to the incident. The police station has evoked anger and outrage all over the world. Louima has announced plans to file a fifty-five million dollar lawsuit against the city of New York. The mayor of New York, Rudolph Guliani, who in the past supported New York's zero tolerance policy, opted swiftly for Louima instead of his own officers. This proves that even the mayor sees clear evidence of human rights violation. Now whether this has monetary restitution of this large value is up to the courts. But clearly this case does display the violation of ones human rights. Some may question the validity of race in this case, but let's stop and ask us this. If a white man was going down the road and the same officers saw him, would he have been disregarded or even if the officers were black would this incident have happened. I think we all know the answer to that one.

Which is exactly what the Denny's corporation did following a number of discrimination suits were filed on them throughout the country. Namely the one in our nation's capitol where secret service men sat and waited over an hour to be served before they left. All of these men were Black. At the same time white secret service were in and out before the Black men were even looked at. Now all Denny's employees go through diversity training and know what to and what not to do when dealing with people regardless of what they look, smell or talk like.

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