APUSH Racism Project

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Source: Sayed, Amal. “Survey Results.” Dearborn High School, 2019.

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Source: “Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 145.” Congressional Record, Volume 162 Issue 145 (Monday, September 26, 2016), Government Publishing Office, 2016

That is what he said. (1991)

Speaking of another African-American employee, Trump told O'Donnell:

I think the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is. I believe that.

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Source: “South Africa Women's Day Ad.” Sexist BIC Advertisement, 2017

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Source: Reilly, Katie. “Asian-American Students' Lawsuit Against Harvard Could End Affirmative Action.” Time, Time, 16 Oct. 2018,

The lawsuit — brought in federal district court in Boston — alleges that Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants, holding them to a higher standard than students of other races and using an illegal racial quota system. Harvard denies that any of its practices are discriminatory and has defended its “holistic” admissions process….

Asian-Americans — about 6% of the U.S. population — made up nearly 23% of Harvard’s most recent class of admitted students, while African American students made up 15% and Hispanic or latino students made up 12%. Harvard admitted a majority of nonwhite students for the first time two years ago.

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Source: U.S Supreme Court. Thrape vs. Court. 2019, deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/7349.

On March 18, 2019, the Court unanimously declined to hear an appeal from Georgia death-row prisoner Keith Tharpe.., who argued his death sentence was unconstitutionally tainted by the participation of racist white juror who called him a “ni***er” and questioned “if black people even have souls.” That juror, Barney Gattie, signed an affidavit also saying that there were “two types of black people: 1. Black folks and 2. Ni**ers.” Tharpe, Gattie said, “wasn’t in the ‘good’ black folks category [and] should get the electric chair for what he did.”....

In January 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to reconsider Tharpe’s case, acknowledging that Tharpe had “present[ed] a strong factual basis for the argument that [his] race affected Gattie’s vote for a death verdict.” However, the appeals court refused to review his discrimination claim, saying he had never presented the issue to the state courts. Tharpe sought review of that decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, and received support from a number of groups, including Catholic bishops and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

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Source: Mundi, Opera, and Latuff Z. “Domestic Terrorists.” Islam, Terrorism and Hypocrisy: U.S. Imperialism in the Muslim World, 2014

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Source: Castillo, Moises. “As Trump Assails Caravan, a Clash Between Migrants and Mexico Police.” As Trump Assails Caravan, a Clash Between Migrants and Mexico Police, 2018