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1. 1 2017-06-20T08:58:55-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0 Black self-esteem John Rodriguez 3 plain 470585 2017-06-20T13:16:20-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0

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1. 1 2017-06-26T15:33:10-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0 The Blacker The Berry Evidence I John Rodriguez 1 plain 2017-06-26T15:33:10-07:00           The statement “them say we doomed from the start ‘cah we black” is more problematic than it seems because it reveals a hidden history that America was involved in scientific racism; eugenics. The aim of eugenics operations were merely to “protect” the white gene by eradicating other bloodlines (BBC). During this time, people actually went to college and received degrees in “race hygiene” (BBC). This “science” was so influential that the findings were used to pass eugenics based marriage laws, in 27 states, in order to prevent interracial marriages (BBC). The United States, then, was seen as the symbol of progressive theory and practices. Thus, other nations, like Sweden and Germany, started their own eugenics programs to save their respective “bloodlines” because America influenced them. America actually funded German eugenics with Rockefeller grants, which helped the scientists sterilize and kill mentally ill children (BBC). I believe this disgusting piece of American history has been buried from discussion because the success of early German eugenics experiments influenced the nation to eradicate the Jewish people in the Holocaust. Thus, it is frightening that people in political power, and common citizens, use and believe in such hateful rhetoric because it relates to such dark times where a field used racist beliefs to kill other humans.
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2. 1 2017-06-26T15:42:25-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0 The Blacker The Berry Evidence II John Rodriguez 1 plain 2017-06-26T15:42:25-07:00           The most alarming thing about all these tragedies to people around the world is that this concept of race is what influences violent actions. The mere fact that divisions based on race is still socially accepted hinders chances at true equality because we are still engaging in colonialist dialogue from the past. According to the American Anthropological Association, “...‘race’ was as mode of classification linked specifically to peoples in the colonial situation. It subsumed a growing ideology of inequality devised to rationalize European attitudes and treatment of the conquered and enslaved peoples” (AAA 2). Thus, “race” is simply a social construction that was used to separate and rank people in a colonial context. Shockingly, when science is used how it was intended, the AAA found that, “Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g., DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups… there is greater variation within ‘racial groups’ than between them” (AAA 1). Therefore, race, as a classification tool, is ineffective because it does not accurately depict genetic differences, which further exposes the irony presented by Assassin. Unfortunately, this “‘racial’ worldview was invested to assign some groups to perpetual low status, while others were permitted access to privilege, power, and wealth. The tragedy in the United States has been that the policies and practices stemming from this worldview succeeded all too well in constructing unequal populations among Europeans, Native Americans, and peoples of African descent.” (AAA 3). Thus, when Lamar mentions “This plot is bigger than me, it’s generational hatred” he exposes that the works to belittle the culture of rap, and the rhetoric that places Black citizens in danger, are all apart of systemic and historical racism (Lamar).
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3. 1 2017-06-26T15:56:03-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0 Scientific Racism: The Eugenics of Social Darwinism John Rodriguez 1 plain 2017-06-26T15:56:03-07:00 John Rodriguez 4b26d0edf89d0df0b191b757c444ed78217f21d0

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