The American society focuses on that person, or group of people. They made them feel worthless and they treated them like animals.

Imagine walking down the street and having people stare at you or call you names, or talk behind your back. Imagine not knowing the time because nobody will tell you. Why won't they tell you the time, or spare you some change? Because you are black.

Actually, because your skin is a different color, your because you're a different kind of religion. In a way I admire them because they've survived for hundreds of years until they were free, and now that they're free, the modern white men harasses them and beats them. I mean, they even had a world wide organization named for them. The KKK has been around for awhile. The KKK or the Ku Klux Klan, was started to get rid of blacks and Jewish people. The author of "A Monument to Racism" writes in her article that she was in Flowery Branch, Georgia, and in front of Danny

Carver's house, he's a KKK leader, was 8 or more signs, and on these signs read: "A brain is a terrible thing to waste, that's why niggers don't have one. (Glamour 110)." Another sign said "NAACP" or "Niggers, Al

We ask our selves, why do people do this? Well, it all started with slaves. The

and blacks were shooting and beating white police officers.

Africa. Most of the slaves came from Ethiopia, Zaire, Somalia, and Nigeria. They came

the L.A. Riots started almost immediately. People were beating others, looting stores,

There's a figurine in front of the yard that had 4 young black men sitting on it with 2 KKK hooded members by them. To top it off, Carver's lawn was on the Atlantic highway, the main way through the capital. I strongly agree with Valerie Joseph when she says that she "wanted to believe that people actually cared, she wanted to believe that there were lawyers, activists, parents, church groups of all races that were bombarding this man with phone calls and letters. She hoped that maybe teenagers would plan to

set up diversity training programs, and an independent panel to oversee Texaco's

were working hard and getting they're checks reduced. The settlement at Texaco was

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