BLM Racial Hate
Q1: This moment which gained momentum through the national murder of George Flloyd called for police reform and an end to systematic racial injustice against African Americans?
What is the Black Lives Matter movement?
During the pandemic this type of suppression was incidentally placed on prisoners?
What is, removals of letters and knowledge from the outside world.
This federal agency expanded during Trump’s presidency and upholds the nation's immigration laws and deportations.
What is ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)?
In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," by Langston Hughes, he writes that he has "known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins" (Hughes 69), connecting Black identity to this concept which BLM activists also argue has been systematically denied to Black Americans through oppression and violence
what is historical dignity?
The effects of COVID not only affected people through disease, it also negatively affected the nation?
What is, mental health decrease and suicidal actions
Opponents of Trump’s policies argued that his immigration policies encouraged this broader social issue involving hostility towards foreigners.
What is xenophobia?
This form of racial bias seen through police and disproportionately targeting Black communities became a central part of the BLM movement
what is racial profiling?
During the pandemic, this was the mindset that many Americans had against Asian Americans living in the states?
What is, accused of creating and bringing the disease to the rest of the world
During Trump’s first presidency, this slogan targeted a specific minority immigrant group and referred to increased border security.
What is “Build the Wall”?
Kurt Vonnegut wrote in "Cold Turkey," "As long as there is a lower class, I am in it / As long as there is a criminal element, I'm of it / As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free" (Vonnegut 619). Similarly, this same principle is used by blm activists which disproportionately incarcerates black americans
What is mass incarceration
This is the man who stabbed an innocent Asian family in a supermarket?
Who is Jose Gomez III
The trend of detention centers at the Southern border can be compared to this historical violation of civil rights during World War 2 when Japanese Americans were detained.
What was Japanese American Internment?
The brutal murder of a 14 year old boy in Mississippi became the start of the civil rights movement and is often referred to by blm activists as evidence of anti-black violence
who is emmit till?
Roughly this proportion of Asian American Citizens lost their lives to Anti-Asian Hate?
What is, 3 in 10?
The quote is a part of a committee hearing from this event that raises concerns about the continuation of equality and democracy in modern American society : “President Trump and his campaign were directly involved in advancing and coordinating the plot to replace legitimate Biden electors with fake electors not chosen by the voters” (Congressional Committee 221).
What is the January 6th Capital attack?