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1. 1 2017-06-20T08:56:26-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0 Institutional Racism John Rodriguez 6 plain 470584 2017-06-26T17:44:23-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0

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1. 1 2017-06-20T13:59:44-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0 Institutionalized Evidence I John Rodriguez 2 plain 2017-06-20T14:00:17-07:00           Here Lamar portrays what it is like to be struggling economically in America, while other people are living lavishly. The character wants immediate profit hoping that will change his financial position, which leads him to wanting to rob these rich people flaunting their expenses.
             Ever since the New Deal Era, probably even further than then, the government has been relocating funds and government assistance away from Black citizens.  The New Deal guaranteed federal support with mortgage on new homes that resided in the suburbs. Thus influencing citizens, and the government, to leave urban spaces quickly. Taylor also mentions that,” As businesses  began to relocate their firms and entire industries to suburban areas because of lower land costs and taxes, the urban disinvestment dynamic was exacerbated, leaving cities bereft of the jobs that had initially lured millions of people to them in the first place” (Taylor 32). Even during the Cold War Era, where the American government felt socialism threatened democracy, “Elected officials in both parties continued to demonize social welfare as socialism or communism as an affront to free enterprise, as did private-sector actors who had financial interest in seeing the American government shift its functions to private institutions.” (Taylor 34).
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2. 1 2017-06-20T14:11:27-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0 Institutionalized Evidence II John Rodriguez 1 plain 2017-06-20T14:11:27-07:00

   When discussing the economic poverty that plagues our Black communities, people in power tend to place blame on the resident’s scruples and life decisions, which creates this mentality of having to seek change yourself rather than waiting for it; however, real blame lies in systemic racism used to create the poverty, and the people in power’s rhetoric that forced critique on the people.
   ​             However, change could refer to changing your habits, or mindset. Black lead movements started because they made the conscious decision that we need to make the change we want to see. Huey P. Newton wrote in protest, “Black capitalism is a hoax. Black capitalism is represented as a great step toward Black liberation. It isn’t. It is a giant stride away from liberation. No Black capitalist can function unless he plays the white man’s game. Worse still, while the Black capitalist wants to think he functions on his own terms, he doesn’t. He is always subject to the whims of the white capitalist. The rules of Black capitalism and the limits of Black capitalism are set by the white power structure” (Taylor 88).  I believe this mentality, in addition to programs they fought for, is what lead J. Edgar Hoover, former FBI director, to deem the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as the "greatest internal threat" to the security of the United States (Taylor 44).
    

   
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3. 1 2017-06-20T14:20:10-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0 Institutionalized Evidence III John Rodriguez 1 plain 2017-06-20T14:20:10-07:00           Instead of acknowledging the government’s history of systemic economic oppression, the people leading the government use rhetoric to shift blame onto suffering Black constituents. President Obama had mentioned, in reference to Chicago gun violence, that, “We have to provide stronger role models than the gangbanger on the corner” (Taylor 26). Taylor summarizes his point by noting, “The problem… is that crime and poverty in cities are not products of inequality, but of a lack of discipline. Black youth need better values and better role models to change the culture that produces their dysfunctional and violent behavior…” (Taylor 26). The sentiments of Kendrick Lamar’s persona discuss the internal moral complication of living in poverty while seeing others live lavishly. Unfortunately, President Obama does not discuss what made the “gangbanger on the corner”. Instead, he chose to demean the man seeking help to survive economically; even though the government’s effectiveness is based on the quality of life for all citizens, and not only a few.
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