Author: Adam Clark

This last week there have been reports of a fraternity on the campus of Syracuse has posted a video that has many racist slurs that are said In this video. This video was uploaded to the fraternity Facebook group message to the rest of the members. In this video they say many racist things like a chant that says “to always have hatred in my heart.” This is meant to be said towards blacks, Mexicans and Jews. This video also shows some members saying that Jews should “get back into the showers” This is referring back to the Nazis treatment to the Jews during world war 2. This video was leaked to the schools newspaper by member of the school.

The school has shut down this fraternity pending investigation that they will be going through. The school said that they do not have any tolerance for this kind of behavior on campus. They will be looking into this matter and get to the bottom of everything. However many people on campus say that it is the same thing every time. They say that the school is sorry for this behavior here is some consolers you can talk to. They say that the school is not trying to stop these instances from happening they only care about that happens afterwards. Now the video has not been released to the public until the investigation is over. Hopeful the school will find these people guilty of racial discrimination against many people and kick them off campus for there actions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/syracuse-fraternity-suspended-for-‘extremely-racist’-video/ar-AAw2Gby?ocid=spartanntp&ffid=gz

 

The Issue that I have found happened close to use in a General Motors plant in Toledo Ohio. The issue that I have found is about discrimination inside the work place between black and white employees. 5 black employs have come forward saying that they have been racial discriminated in there workplace. There are three documented reports that were filled. The first was that nooses were found hanging in the plant. The second was that there have been many Nazi symbols have been drawn in the restrooms. The last instance was that the phrase “whites only” on the bathroom. All three of these instances are clear cases that there has been racial discrimination happening here in this plant.

While these are very clear signs that racial laws have been broken here the officials from the plant have said that they have done nothing wrong. Here is a statement from the officials. “While the incidents are unacceptable, we took prompt action to investigate and address the issues that occurred at the Toledo Transmission facility. We are reviewing our next steps and maintain we have not violated any laws,” Now they other side feels that there has been laws broken here. “Hopefully their lawyers will go back and say, ‘we need to put policies in place, we need to not fluff it, we need to address it, and we need to not try to sweep it under the rug,’” The courts have said that there is not enough evidence here to make a case against this. Many people hope though that they will look further into this issue.

This pertains to our class because we have learned a lot about the different racial discrimination that have happened to blacks over the years. We have seen it in there ability to gain housing where the good houses would be given to whites rather to the blacks. We have also seen discrimination through the way that white would treat and talk to blacks. They would segregated bathrooms like we see some employees tried to do in the case mentions above and they would verbal abuse them all the time. Overall this is a really plain case that discrimination has happened here and I hope that the courts relook at the evidence and make the correct ruling.

 

www.toledoblade.com/Automotive/2018/04/05/Commission-Discrimination-likely-occurred-at-Toledo-Transmission-plant.html

 

Adam Clark

This performance that I went to was about the issues with DACA and how it affects immigrants that have come to this country illegally or have work permits but can not renew them because of the new executive orders. During this performance we learn about a true personal story about a man named Alex Alpharaoh. He was brought to this country illegally when he was three months old by his mother who was trying to come to America to reunite with her husband. He goes through his life being know as an illegal immigrant and not being able to have the basic things that Americans have like library card, drivers license, or a job. He talks about how people would make fun of him and the threat of the government finding him and deporting him. He goes into how he tried to get legal papers by going back to his home country and then coming into America legally. Which he was able to come back in the right way. He could not become a true U.S. citizen because the forms his mother filled out years ago trying to get him citizenship had expired. He now goes from place to place telling his story to others to try and make change happen. I feel that change does need to happen to a certain extent. In the case of Alex, yes he should be granted citizenship and not be deported back to his country because he was brought her by his mother and was not given the choice to stay in his home country. People like him should be given the opportunity to earn citizenship. Now there are cases were people came here by their own choice which should be deported immediately. I feel this because they did not come to America the right way and they should not be allowed to become a citizen because of this.

Overall I learned that there is a problem with the way we deal with immigrants and we need to find a way to change the way the system is soon. Because we are deporting many people who were not given the choice to leave their country and the U.S. is the only country that they know and they feel like America is home to them.