Author: Rubenh

– Racial profiling/stereotypes
– K-KNOW: In the world, there are many cases in which people around the US and the globe racially discriminate against other people, damaging their background, safety, and confidence to live in society. This can also create disagreement between people and can end up in violence and even deadly situations. Racial profiling and stereotypes have been going around ever since many immigrants came to foreign countries for opportunities for work and stability.
– W-WANT: I would want to know when exactly it could’ve started, as in where was the place in which the most discrimination and racial profiling started, as well as statistics of the races/communities most affected. I also want to know the cause and effects of situations in which they racially profile or stereotyped someone and parts of the world where these events happen the most.
– L-LEARNED: I learned that back in the south in the 19th and early 20th-century southern sheriffs sat unbothered while racist groups such as the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) terrorized African Americans, to the point where even the sheriffs themselves released imprisoned African Americans into those racists mobs to be lynched and tortured. On February 4, 1999, Amadou Diallo an unarmed 22-year-old immigrant from New Guinea, west Africa, was shot and killed in the apartment building he lived in by four white officers by the names of Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss, Edward McMillon, and Richard Murphy. They all had fired 41 shots and only 19 of them hit Amadou, those four officers were known for terrorizing slogans such as “We own the night” and brutal tactics against African Americans. In December 1999 a report of the New York City Police Departments’ pedestrian “stop and frisk” practices by the state attorney general provided evidence of racial profiling, resulting in African Americas comprising 25.6 percent of the City’s population, yet 50.6 percent of all persons “stopped” during the period were black. Hispanics created 23.7 percent of the City’s population yet, 33.0 percent of all “stops” were of Hispanics. By contrast, whites are 43.4 percent of the City’s population but accounted for only 12.9 percent of all stops. African Americans comprise 62.7 percent of all civilians “stopped” by the NYPD.
– X-STILL WANT TO KNOW: I would like to know more about the cause and results of racial profiling arguments, as well as what huge events in society such as an incident, a political figure, or international conflict created or has created stereotypes and racial profiling to certain ethnic groups related to those events/conflicts.

What James Baldwin conveys in the passage, is that students, or people overall, should be aware that just as America has a large history and is present with many great and horrible events, so is the entire world, large, with so many histories behind it and present, with great and horrible events, as well as large, but we shouldn’t be afraid to explore it, or “examine” as he states, that we shouldn’t be too attached to society, its limits and strict moralities. When he states “the world is larger” he means that the world is vast and full of many surprises and things we have yet to experience and discover about it or ourselves and that the events happening each day are both negative and positive, but it will either way happen. Our necessity to examine and obligation to learn more about the large world means that we should not be limited or restricted to stay within our limits or within our knowledge, that we are obliged to learn more, to gain more, and to create experiences that can either be negative and positive to learn new things and survive society and the world overall. In school, something that could have and could still help us learn about this vast world could be how society works, and how the financial system works so we can have an idea and make it easier for us as we grow into adults, so easier to manage it and understand it without making any mistake, although we learn from mistakes, other people’s advice or life tips can help us learn and manage the world without struggling. This will also help us be confident enough to try other things and gain more knowledge

Good evening,

My name is Ruben Hernandez, and I belong to the English 1101 Tuesday/Thursday classes,
as of now in unit 1, I’ve been able to catch up with my work in OpenLab, since in the first week and second and a half of school I had joined the wrong class that meets on different days and had been submitting my work there rather than here, but since you accepted my request for this class a week ago I was able to submit it here and catch up with anything you post as for in-class writing and homework.
I don’t truly have a question for this unit or upcoming assignments as of now, but if I do, I will surely email you my class concerns…

thank you! have a great afternoon.