You will write a 5-6 page final paper. You are expected to write this in paragraph form and each paragraph should contain one idea. Topic sentences should support the central discussion, and the final sentence of each paragraph should lead into the next paragraph. You must include a bibliography. The paper must include the following: 1. Overview of the case, incident, situation, etc., related to racial injustice What injustice took place? Location of the injustice Who is involved? Who is alleged to be responsible for the injustice? Here you should also describe how the media frames those responsible for what has happened. Do you they describe it as a case of injustice? Provide a timeframe for what took place. 2. The inter-institutional interactions across time and space that reproduce racial inequality Bring together the relevant historical, cultural, institutional and interpersonal dynamics that led this incident to take place. 3. The fight for social justice Who are/were the individuals, groups, organizations, or political parties fighting against the injustice? What are/were their goals/aims? What activities are/were they conducting to fight against the injustice? Have they been/were they successful in achieving their goals? How do you know? 4. Personal Reflection How is the issue related to your life, experiences, feelings and ideas? For instance, what emotions did exploring this topic arouse in you? Did writing this paper increase your understanding of a particular issue? Did it change your perspective in any way? Please use the following format: 1. A title page with your name, the name of the course, the date, the semester, and a paper title 2. Please remember that papers should be 5-6 pages (double-spaced). 3. You will be graded on formatting because this is important to the overall presentation of your work as students. 12 pt. standard font (e.g., Times New Roman, Arial) Double-spaced Add page numbers somewhere Indent paragraphs (one tab) Justify paragraph margins Document margins should be 1” all around. The paper should follow established practice with regard to citations and references. For citation and bibliography format see: “A Quick Style Guide for Students Writing Sociology Papers” by the American Sociological Association (follows APA format): http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?name=Quick+Style+Guide§ion=Sociology+Depts OWL at Purdue is also a great resource: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html
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Racist Facebook Post
This paper discusses a racial post made on social media by a major university partner against African-American women students at the university.
Overview
On September 19, 2018, Ed Meek posted a racially insensitive post on his Facebook page about Mississippi. 77-year-old Mr. Meek is a media entrepreneur, real estate investor and alumni of University of Mississippi. He donated over $5 million to the university, and the Meek School of Journalism and New Media is named after him.
In the post, Mr. Meek decried the deteriorating property prices around the campus and decreasing enrolment at the campus. He also attached a photo of two young African-American university students in party dresses.
The post was followed by an outcry from the university community, many town residents and the media. Did the media guru, who has a doctorate in mass communication and media studies, suggest that African-American women were the problem in the town? Or was it women? Was it African-Americans? Was Mr. Meek’s post a racial incitement?
Mr. Meek deleted the post after a few hours and issued a public apology, which he also deleted. He then posted an apology visible only to his friends.
Inter-institutional interactions
Being a media entrepreneur who owns New Media Lab LLC and real estate mogul in Nashville, Ed Meek is an opinion leader who gives talks on tax foreclosure properties. His background and experience give him some intensive and extensive knowledge about taxation and property values. However, for him to apportion the woes of industries he has invested in to the women gender of a traditionally marginalized race is short-sighted stereotyping. It can be viewed as incitement in the light of the following statement from the post, “A 3 percent decline in enrollment is nothing compared to what we will see if this continues…and real estate values will plummet as will tax revenue. We all share in the responsibility to protect the values we hold dear that have made Oxford and Ole Miss known nationally”.
Hassan (2018) notes that the University of Mississippi has traditionally been synonymous with racial bigotry. Such a stance would have encouraged some of its partners to have no qualms attacking African-American students at the university, maybe in the mistaken belief that the university would be sympathetic and supportive. It is refreshing that the university has changed its stance to adopt a tougher position. This should be the way forward for this institution and the society at large.
Race has been a major issue since the founding of the United States, through the Civil War to modern-day police shooting. Recent research around human genome suggests race is a social construction erroneously based on skin color. Genetic make-up is more different within a race than across races. Yet apart from migration, reproduction across species could have led to a part of the socially constructed Caucasian race.
Early migration of the human species was mostly from Africa. Another wave of movement from Africa was during the slave trade. After America’s independence, there came the Abolitionist Movement that was one of the precursors to the Civil War. Justice was further upended by the rise of the Confederates, spearheaded by the Ku Klux Klan. Yet some of the beliefs, values and cultures of those times persist in some parts of society to date.
The fight for justice as regards racial equality and fairness is led by individuals, communities and governments. Individuals include such people as Colin Kaepernick and Angela Peoples while communities such as Black Lives Matter front the issue. There are government initiatives such as the Equal Opportunity Employment Act that has recommended fairness, equality and affirmative action.
Fight for social justice
The university and town communities have pointed out that many women from all races dress this way at the stated time of 2 am but they have never being photographed and criticized, a situation that raises gender and patriarchal system issues. Nonetheless to racially target women as seemingly the ones with loose morals and leading to the decline of the property prices is preposterous. The local and national media has been scathing in their attack of Ed Meek’s post.
Unlike in the past, the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) has taken the lead in the fight for social justice as regards this issue. Notably, this was an unexpected and welcome development since “it looked as though the University of Mississippi, a name almost synonymous with racial strife, would be rocked by yet another controversy” (Hassan, 2018). Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter responded to the post thus, “I must condemn the tone and content of Ed Meek’s post from earlier today. The photos in his post suggest an unjustified racial overtone that is highly offensive. I urge Ed to withdraw his comment and apologize ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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