Racism in the work place

Worker Finds 'Lynched' Coke Bottle in Auto Plant; Sues Toyota for Racism

The article I Chose to do can be found on the Ethnic News Watch data base. The article is called "Worker Finds 'Lynched' Coke Bottle in Auto Plant; Sues Toyota for Racism" and it is about what it says. Its about a Black worker who has delt with racism his who career at toyota. since he has been there he has delt with people drawing swastikas and people calling him the N - word and being told to go back to Africa. I chose this article becuase it is similar to the Jenna 6 case that we discused in class. I also chose this becuase we had to get one aricle off Ethnic News Watch and the database didn't seem to get me much to work with at the time I tried to use it.
This article relates to the jenna 6 material we discused in class. That was about a black kid sitting under a tree that only whites normally sat at. After he sat there, there was nuses hung at the tree. This was done to send the black students a message. After this fights broke out between blacks and whites and some of the black students were jailed. The article about the coke bottle is similar becuase the Lynched coke bottle was put up to send James Callier a message. His co - workers wanted to make him feel unwelcome. They sent messages to scare him, similar to the jenna 6 case.
In my Opinion, I think that Mr. Callier was right in sueing the company. They should never had the right to let that activity go on in the work place. He should not have had to leave the company. Everyone else should have been fired for being racist and doing things that are not work related in the work place. Im sure toyota would not want to be known for being racist.


http://0-proquest.umi.com.maurice.bgsu.edu:80/pqdweb?did=507847841&sid=9&Fmt=3&clientId=3340&RQT=309&VName=PQD

carlos mencia

The item I chose was on you tube. Carlos Mencia is a comedian with his own show on comedy central. He is known for telling racist jokes about all races. The purpose of his show is to show stereotypes of races and to poke fun at racism. When searching for skits he does for portfolio item, I found this stand up which shows clear examples of sterotypes towards Asians. I Chose this item because it is a clear example of racial stereotypes. This video is very explicit and has cus words as well as racist words in it.
This item relates to the Frank Wu reading "Yellow". The reading talked about how people viewed Wu when they would see him, as if they already knew about him even if they didn't know him. They think all Asians act the same. This Carlos Mencia stand up video is a perfect example of this. In the video Carlos first talks about how all Asians are smart and do well in school. The video also says how all Asian parents are scrict on thier children when it comes to grades. When he portrays the Asian kid he gives him and accent. Here he uses the stereotype that all Asians talk the same and all have the same accent. Later in the video he says something about how can all asians be so smart, but they can't learn how to drive. This is the stereotype that they are bad drives. Finally he says a sexual coment about Asian males, saying they are all similar in a certain way.
In my opinion, I think that this youtube video of Carlos Mencia is a perfect example of what Wu was saying about Asian sterotypes. I think that these sterotypes are not true. I know a buch of Asian Americans who do not talk funny, or can drive a car well. There are a lot of smart Asians in school. This does not mean that all asians are smart, or that they are smart because they are Asian.

Japanesse

This is an article I found when looking for information about Interment camps. It is an article stating why interment camps are good and needed. It talks about since after the war, which I am asuming is World War II, that the Japanesse are plotting against the United States since the war. It mentions that the Jappanese are good for agriculture and states that there are over 100, 000 japanesse here and that almost 80,000 of the were American citizens. It says that when we started the investigation we found that the Japanesse government plantted a Japanesse state in the Californian border. It finishes the article by saying that there are Japanesse spys here that report back to the government and some of them are in the American headquarters. I chose to do a portfolio on this article becuase i found it ineresting to find first hand facts of American fear towards the Japanesse during the 1940s. Plus, this relates to class materials on internment camps

This item relates to our class study on racism towards the japanesse and interment camps. I think that this article relates both to the comic covers and well as the video we watched over internment camps in class. It relates to the comic covers becuase the article was written to put fear in Americans of the Japanesse, that they are plotting agaisnt us and are out to destroy us. On the other hand it relates to the video we watched over interment camps becuase the video says that the Japanesse are happy there and that we are providing them a good life in the relocation centers. It is bascally saying we are just in what we did and that there is nothing wrong with it, and they are not like concentration camps. This article says that the relocation centers are just becuase we need to prevent the Jappanesse from plotting against us, so we need to keep an eye of everyone who is of Japanesse dicent here in the United States.

In my opinion this article was written by the government to scare the American public and make them distrust the Japanesse. They wanted the public to agree with them, so no one would complain about the interment camps. I think this affected stereotypes for Asian americans as well. People most likey viewed all Asains in negative ways during this time.

Rocky vs. Soviet Union

This photo is from the moive Rocky IV, which came out in 1985 during the peak of the cold war. The movie is about Rocky a fictional American boxer who is the world champ. During this movie the Soviet Union has a boxer who claims he is the best in the world and better then every American. Rocky's good friend Apollo challenges the Russian to a charity fight and is beat to death during the fight. After the fight, the Soviet' s challenge Rocky to a fight against the Russian on Christmas in Russia. Rocky trains hard and goes to Russia and beats the mighty Russain and everyone is happy and the movie ends. This movie came out, while we had tensions with the Soviet Union and communism during the Cold War. I chose to do a media portfolio on this because this relates to the segment we did on the Japanesse, how they were viewed as evil in the eyes of Americans.

This item relates to the comic covers we looked at a few weeks ago in class. The comic covers all had similar themes. They had a Strong brave American who was viewed as the hero, and the small, evil, savage like Japanesse, who posed as the villian in the comics. All the comics were put out to make the Japanesse look like bad guys. This is similar because the movie made all the soviets look evil from the Soviet leaders, to the soviet boxer. The Soviet boxer was made to look like a big monster with no heart. They made him look evil, by killing a good American hero at a boxing charity event that didn't mean anything. Rocky was viewed as a fictional boxing hero in America at this time. He was viewed as the good hard working hero in this movie. When training for the fight they had gave rocky no equipment and had him trian with whatever he could find and made his training look really hard. They made he Russian look like he trained hard as well, but they gave him all the latest equipment and also gave him steriods. The fight took place in Russia and Rocky was the heavy underdog. The Russians were booing Rocky until the end, where he beat the invincible Russian. Every cheered for him including the Russians and he was the hero. This movie was put out during the cold war becuase the government wanted to get the message out that the Soviets were evil. Rocky movies were very popular so this was a good way to show the public that. Like the comic books The American came out as the hero who saved the day against the mighty Russian instead of the Jappanesse.

In my opinion, I think this movie did a good job of making the soviet union look evil. It was kinda like the Miricle on Ice, where the American hockey team was a huge underdog to the Russians and came out victorious at the end. When i first saw this movie as a little kid it did make me think that Russians were evil because i didn't know any better. Russians are no longer viewed as evil in America and that is because the Soviet Union ended in 1991.

mexican picture

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/04/109209_comment.php
This image can be found on the cover of one of the local papers in California, OC WEEKLY. The cover is drawn to show how people view stereotypically view mexicans. The picture shows the mexican man wearing a sombrero and a vest, which most images of mexican are viewed wearing similar clothes. During halloween their were many people dressed up in this same attire. It also shows the man having low eyes, indicating that he is sleepy. Being sleepy could symbolize that the man is lazy as well, which many people stereotype mexicans as. The character also has dark skin and a mustache which is commonly seen. Lastly he has a cross around his neck. Mexicans are viewed as very religous. The cross also indiates that they are christians and all worship Jesus, which is another stererotype. I chose this image because we learned about stereotypes in class and we are currently are learning about racism towards mexican americans.
This items relates to class because it is similar to Welcome to Cleveland in class activity we did earlier this year. Welcome to Cleveland was an article about racist stereotypes towards Native Americans through the Cleveland Indians Mascot. It showed pictures of racist stereotypes of other images. One of these images was of a mexican. The picture showes a man wearing a sombrero and he has a mustache as well. This is similar to the image in OC WEEKLY.
In my opinion, I think that is a racist stereotype of mexicans. Growing up watching cartoons such as the loney toons and others i saw latinos portrayed in this manner. Like I stated earlier during halloween i saw several cosumes of people wearing a sombrero, a sancho, and a fake mustache, which is exactly like the image in the article.

Serius Jones vs. Jin

The media item is a free style battle, where to rappers go back and forth with one another basically talking trash about one another. Who ever dilivers the best pick up lines wins the battle and they each get three rounds against each other. The battle that I chose to play is against Serius Jones (a black male) and Jin (a chinese male) and it was aired on MTV a few years back on a show called Fight Klub. In the battle the majority of the crowed seems to be black and their appears to be no one Asian in the crowed. This will be a key factor in determining the outcome of hte batte. I chose to put this in my media portfolio because we learned about stereotypes in class, and more specifically recently we learned about racism towards Asian Americans. In this media post Serius Jones uses stereotypes of Asians in his freestyles to help his punch lines and get the crowed on his side. He starts by saying that he will talk about jins heritage and says how he sleeps in a cellar with a lot of relatives. This portrayes that Asians cram together for housing. He then talks about China's population. He brings this up when he says there is a lot of people there and he still can't even sell records cver there. By saying this he is assuming that they should like him in China since he is Chinese. Serius compares Jin to a Korean car and he is chinese. This is showing how he thinks all Asians are alike. He says he should try and join Wu tang Clan (an all black rap group). This is said because they have an Asian name and he is Asian. Serius says later in the battle "when the guns drawn, its too late to get your kung fu on". This shows the stereotype that because he is chinese, that he should know kung fu. Finally Serius mentions a line about Jin cooking dogs, which means that he eats dogs because he is Asian.

This item relates to The Frank Wu artilce "Yellow" , which we recently read in class. This article talked about how Wu is viewed a certain way becuase he is chinese. Everyone assumes that he talks a certain way becauase of his race and everyone also assumes he knows karate becuase he is Asian. The free style battle is similar becuase it too shows how Jin is viewed a similar way becuase he is Asian. The crowed laughed at all of Serius's Asian jokes, becuase they knew about the sterotypes.

In my opinion, I do think Serius's coments were racist. I think he only said them to be funny and to be honest I did laugh when I heard this freestyle. That said it was funny, but it was wrong. He should not have been aloud to say that and he did use stereotypes of Asians in his battles.

McNabb

Ricky Woodie
Ethics
Media portfolio
6 October 6, 2007

Donavan McNabb


An issue lately in sports has been the talk about Donovan McNabb. He was on HBO last month talking about how he is criticized more then regular players (mostly Quarterbacks) because he is black. He says that black quarterbacks have to work twice as hard as white quarterbacks and are under more pressure to succeed then white quarterbacks. His critic’s clamed that his stats have dropped off and he hurt his knee and that is why his stats dropped off
The author states that he is aware that there is racism in the world today and in sports, but uses facts to back up that this is not the case form McNabb. He says he is just using this as an excuse to cover up the fact that his knee is the real reason why he has not been as good. He also has stats showing that his yards have gone down over the past two years.
In my opinion I think that it has to do with racism a little bit, but it most is his knee that is causing him to play worse. I think that critics view quarterbacks as more athletic and think that they are know more for there running abilities and not their passing abilities. They do think that if a quarterback is black then he would chose using his legs over his arm. This has to deal with what we discussed in class when we talked about how races are viewed in society. Here is a case that they are viewed as better athletes and are faster then white athletes. This was mentioned in chapter two of Johnson we he talked about how races are viewed in society. This is the case in sports, here with black quarterbacks, because blacks are viewed as better athletes. They are not viewed as pocket passers, but as scrambling ones.


http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/394451/is_donovan_mcnabb_criticized_more_because.html

i have an original article on this where i first saw when visting my teacher but it wouldnt come up so i posted an artilce online where i got futher information on the subject but i have the article my teacher gave me and will bring it to class

http://aclu-ky.org/content/view/158/55/

Ricky Woodie
Ethics
Media portfolio
4 October 4, 2007

Integrated
Schools

This article is about how In Kentucky and Seattle, the Supreme
Court ruled that integration plans in these school districts
violated constitutional laws. The plans were to keep schools
from segregating along the same lines as neighborhoods. Parents
sued after their children were denied admission to the schools
they preferred because of their race. This started because
people wanted to give children equal opportunity rights as
other children. One side, mostly the black community argues
that they are in poorer neighborhoods, and are not getting the
same education opportunities as the white kids in the better
schools. The other side says that they moved to the
neighborhoods they are in to send their children to the better
schools. This relates to what we talked in class, when we read
about Johnson chapter 3, when he talks about race and economies
issues.
The argument here is that it is a race issue that the courts
are not allowing these districts to de-segregate the schools.
We learned in class that racism shaped the economy that we live
in today and that is why neighborhoods are segregated. The
article is saying that it is a race issue saying kids can’t get
equal education opportunities unless they pass this ruling.
In my opinion I do not believe this law should be passed. It’s
a race issue if they do allow this to pass. For example some
one in the article said they could not send their kid to a
school because of their race. That is because they wanted an
equal amount of black and white children. Also it is not fair
to parents in the better school districts to have to pay higher
taxes for those schools when their children might have to go to
a school in a different school or have other children in other
neighborhoods that pay less, to get to go to their school. I
agree that all people deserve the same education and races
should not be segregated, but I think there should be a
different way to do this. I think that if this passed that
families would end up moving to other neighborhoods where this
law was not in affect and they would be right back to square
one. This is a issue that must be addressed so races are not
oppressed

clance thomas youtube site
http://youtube.com/watch?v=67Wb481eXhY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5K1Ywa3eYTE
there are three segments on this i used the first two. Under search these can also be found by typing in Clarence Thomas - 60 mins

clarence thomas

Ricky Woodie
Ehtics
Media portfolio
2 October 2007

Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas is a judge under the Supreme Court and was elected under the first president Bush. He has served on the bench ever since elected, and over the years has been under a lot of scrutiny for being accused of being a traitor to the black people. Thomas has been know for being against any privileges that help better blacks, such as affirmative action and believes they should be shut down. It is believed once he used these laws to climb the later for himself so to speak; he pulled it up from other African Americans. In the 80s he switched parties and became a republican and that is when he preached that civil rights were wrong and that blacks required special treatment to succeed. This relates a great deal to Johnson chapter three when he talks about privileges and capitalism. Here Clarence says that affirmative action and civil rights made it hard for him to find a job because it was believed that being black got him his degree.
In the interview on 60 minutes Thomas talks about his history and shows that the color of his skin did not affect the work he put in to get his degree. He explains that he grew up very poor in the segregated south and as a kid served as a slave for his grandfather by performing labor work in the fields. Thomas says how he was always at the segregated library was an honor student at holy cross, and was at the top of his class. He went to college at Yale where he did very well, but was told his benefits were tarnished because he was black. After he said it was very hard to find a job because his degree was “discounted”. People thought he only got that degree because he was black.
In my opinion I agree with him to an extent. I do feel that civil rights such as affirmative action took away from the fact that he earned his degree on his own, but there still are white privileges out there and there needs to be some way to help minorities out of oppression.

Youtube site

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFUUul5g5Ng

if this doesnt work go to you tube and type in Chapelle show - Niggar Family

chapelle skit

Ricky Woodie
Ethics.
Media post
October 1, 2007

Chapelle

The Chapelle show is a show on comedy central that is know for doing many skits about racism. The skit that I chose to use is one about a white family called the “Niggar Family”. This skit is about a white family who is used to portray how blacks are viewed in society. In this skit the family has characteristics of black Americans according to society. This ties into Johnson chapter two, when he talks about who we are. In this chapter on pages 15 and 16 Johnson talks about how people are characterized. He talks about how we can characterize people by simply just looking at them. Here Chapelle is saying how other races view African Americans in society.
In this skit Chapelle has the characters describe black people, by having them describe the “Niggar Family”. In one scene Chapelle has a family talk about how one of the “Niggar’s” is dating their daughter. At first they are not happy, (showing how the family doesn’t want their daughter dating a black kid) but then they explain how its one of the “Niggars”. They go on to talk about how he is an athlete and that it would make them rich. This shows how people view blacks as athletes. He also talks about how blacks are viewed as having big lips, not paying the bills, and that they are lazy. He uses all these characteristics when describing the white family “the Niggars” to show how blacks are viewed.
In my opinion I think Chapelle does a good job of showing how blacks are viewed in society. Many of these characteristics are some that we talked about in class. I think the Chapelle show is a funny show that is able to poke fun at racism and show how dumb it really is.