Racism
Everyone tries to defend minorities, especially those of different races, but do they really? On one occassion you can find someone claiming not to be racist, but at another point in time find them making a racist slur. At GHS we have a fairly diverse student body, but that doesn’t prevent anyone from being racist. I think stereotypes lead to many cases of racism. The article that I found is about a muslim charity asking the court to dismiss their charges of having ties with terrorists. The stereotype would be that people from the middle east are terrorists. Just because this is a stereotype doesn’t make it true, but I found a quote that I thought assumes the stereotype to be true:
“Lawyers for the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development based the request on a ruling last month by a federal judge in Los Angeles, who struck down President Bush’s authority to designate groups as terrorists.”
The part I want to point out is when it says “struck down President Bush’s authority to designate groups as terrorists.” It can be taken casually, but it could also be implied that Bush feels he has the knowledge to decide if a group of people are terrorists or not. Thinking about it, there must be requirements that would cause a group to be classified as a terrorist group, but my first impression was that Bush knew who could be called a terrorist and who was not.
