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This blog is for a first year seminar class called Talking about Freedom at High Point University. The premise of this course is freedom in the United States of America aswell as race relations. As a class we will be exploring civil rights, constitutional reality, freedoms and protetions. We will be focusing on a plethora of historical landmark cases. With that being said we will also be discussing the way The Constitution of the United States shapes peoples lives. My weekly posts will circle around the media and news in the US regarding race relations and freedom.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Nov. 29, 2014

Article: "Where Do We Go After Ferguson?" The New York Times

Ferguson is Illuminating Modern Day Racism, part i

After stumbling upon an article by The New York Times I was more than enlightened on societies ruinous issue regarding racism. The true reality surrounding racism opened my eyes. In our present day racism is looked at as past history that was abolished after the Civil Rights Era, however this is completely inaccurate. For this point at issue needs to be deemed on a global spectrum. 
As many may know, Darren Wilson a white police officer of Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed an unarmed black teen, Michael Brown. Wilson was not indicted for the killing of Brown. The two realities that “were illuminated” premised around the fact that whites and blacks will never agree on racial values, and will always react different in certain situations. The second being the fact that black individuals have infuriated “moral debates.” 

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6221888/op-ed-killer-mike-on-the-problems-underlying-the-chaos-in-ferguson

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/where-do-we-go-after-ferguson.html?_r=0

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