My project choice is to “Interview adults about their experiences of prejudices and discrimination”.

People who discriminate-Someone from a certain culture that doesn’t like the way another culture treats them, looks or acts then that person hates that whole culture.

• I watched the movie called “The Basis of Sex”, which is a story about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is about gender discrimination. Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that men and women should have equal rights. In the movie she started out as a law student, became a lawyer and is now a Supreme Court Justice Jujjj
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2.  The professor in the classroom saw Ruth Bader Ginsberg raise her hand to answer his question. He saw her hand up but he ignored her on purpose. He waited and waited for a man to raise his hand to get called on.
3. Ruth Bader Ginsberg had been to 12 job interviews and nobody hired her. Somebody asked her “When are you going to have your next baby”. Another job also said “Women were too emotional to be lawyers”. Another company sent her to interview for a secretary job because they knew she couldn’t be interviewing for a job as a lawyer because they believed women can’t be lawyers. (that is NOT true nowadays)

•  “Remember The Titans” is about race discrimination.

1.  The white football players didn’t want to share a room at the training camp with black players because of their skin color and because they thought they were different.
2.  The team and the town didn’t want a black football coach. The people in town thought a white man could and should do the job and win.

• I read the “I Have A Dream” speech by MLK.Jr.

1. Martin Luther King. Jr had a wish/desire that black and white people could have the same rights like sitting together on a bus, sharing schools and bathrooms, voting and jobs of equal pay and position. He didn’t want black people to be slaves working for white people in their homes. In his world he saw everybody being equal no matter what color they were.

2. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. - Martin Luther King Jr

Where people see injustice means that it can happen anywhere.  Injustice can happen anywhere as long as there is discrimination.

• I also watched a show called “Different Strokes”. Different Strokes is a show about a white man adopting two black boys from Harlem and the prejudice they experience in everyday life.

1.  Different Strokes has 2 types of schools- an all white school and an integrated school; Arnold wants to volunteer, from his class, to go to the all white school. Arnold wants to teach them about his culture. On Arnold's first day of school people threw food at the bus and were calling the kids bad names because they didn’t want them there and the kids were scared. A mad adult threatened every kid’s parents on the phone. The adults were mad and rode on the bus the next day. Kids learn racism from the parents. Some of the racist words and actions used were  honky, picketing, bigot, ignorant.

2.  Kimberly is running for Class Queen and Willis comes home and announces that he got into the Letterman's Club.  His sister, Kimberly, wants to join the club. The leaders of the club come over to their house and talk with Willis about Kimberly joining the club. The President of the Letterman's Club said “the Letterman's club is only for men because it says in the name LetterMENs not letterWOMENS”. Willis said “if you join the Letterman's Club I will run against you in the Class Queen contest”. Kimberly said “You can’t join the contest because you are a boy and a queen is a girl”. Kimberly, as she is leaving the room says “go ahead and embarrass yourself”. Willis entered the contest against 4 girls. On the night the winner was announced all the contestents were on the stage wearing bathing suits. Surprisingly Willis won and broke the sex barrier so anyone could join any club or sport in the school no matter girl or boy.  

• Religious Discrimination - As a Jewish boy I have seen religious discrimination when a swastika was painted on the bricks of my school playground. A Swastika is a kind of symbol that the Germans/Nazis wore on their shirts that represented the antisemitism and hatred of the Jewish people.

• I also read the Diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was a Jewish Girl who was hidden with her family during the Holocaust. Anne was sent to a concentration camp where she died. After the Holocaust her diary was found and published.
• Size/Weight discrimination - People are calling you bad names because you are fat or so thin/skinny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwjZxVuhFC4     That is a video in chinese but has english writing below the video. Good amount of fat shaming and you can learn from it. It is very sad to hear and see.

• Ignorant - lack of knowledge or understanding. An ignorant person doesn’t understand another person's beliefs and values when they are discriminating.
• Honky - insult for white people
• Picketing - people coming together to protest (usually outside a place of work or school).
• Detained/ Detention - the act of containing somebody/ holding somebody so they can't go anywhere.
• Civilian - an innocent person, a law abiding person- somebody who follows the law.
• Undercover police officers - Undercover police officers don’t wear their normeral uniform. they do different investigations and criminal activity than other police officers.
• Citation - a document containing a summons.
• Summons - an order to appear before a judge.
• Liable - Legally responsible.
• Burdens - that which something is carried. Can be good or bad but usually bad. It can be emotional.
• Financial - Money.
• Arbitration - The application of judicial methods to the settlement of international disputes.
• Inferred - a type of suggestion.
• Civil Rights movement - a movement that was created by a bunch of people that came together and formed a riot.
• Justice -  freedom all the time.
• Poverty - the state of being extremely poor.
• Sting Operation - an undercover operation to catch a person committing a crime.
• Expunge - to have something erased or removed.
• Convicted - a person serving a prison sentence.
• Bias - in favor or against based on certain things. 
• People who discriminate-If somebody from a certain culture does something wrong to you then that person hates that whole culture.
• Injustice - wrong and unfair.
• Bigot - a person who treats another group or race with hatred.

1. Did you get discriminated against before?

1.   Numerous times before. “Way more than he can count” my guess is around 45 - 50 times in his life.

2. Why did you get discriminated against?

Bernard said he was discriminated against because he was a black male.

3. How did you get discriminated against?

Bernard got discriminated against because of his skin color.  Below are some examples of how Bernard was discriminated against.

4. When or where did you get discriminated against?

1. At a liquor store there were two undercover police officers in the cars and Bernard and his family were the only black people.  There were two other cars with white people who just bought alcohol.  Two police that were doing a sting operation to find people buying alcohol for under age 18. He was arrested.  They thought he was 18 but he was actually 27 years old.  He paid a laywer $1,000 to clear his record. The lawyer said that he only got stopped and arrested just because he was a black male. A few times he had to go to the court. He went to court over 15 times in his life.
2. It was 1:30 in the morning he was driving and his phone rang. So he did a U Turn and parked in a handicap spot and got out of the car to talk on the phone. The police gave him a ticket. I don't think it was necessary because it was 1:30 in the morning and the handicap spot doesn’t matter that early and then he brought the 2 tickets into court. The judge asked why he was there as he raised his arm and pinched his skin several times. If you weren’t “pinched his skin again”(meaning black) we wouldn’t be here. He dismissed the case.  The judge inferred “ if you weren’t a black male this wouldn’t have happened”.                                                                    

5. Who do you think discriminated against you?

           Police officers discriminated against him.

6. How did you react to the incident?

            He went to court to fight the tickets he got.

7. How did it make you feel when you got discriminated against?

1. He was hurt and upset because he did nothing wrong. He got detained 20 times just because of his skin color. 
2. Innocent until proven guilty. Black people are innocent but already convicted guilty because of their skin color
3. People of poverty don’t have money so they don’t have the money to get the right lawyer so they plead guilty to a lesser charge. Financial discrimination. Because they plead guilty they go to jail and they have a record and when they get out it is harder for them to find a job.
4. A lot of people say they don’t see color but it’s hard not to.
5. It’s better to admit and say that you see color but have no bias to it.

I learned about many kinds of discrimination during this semester project. I feel miserable that whites and blacks were treated differently. Black and white people should be treated equally, like a black and white cookie. Skin colors don’t matter, it's the personality of the person after you meet them. Then you get to choose if you like them or not. Do not look down on anyone and think you are better than them because G-d created us all in the same image, so we can be friends and not fight like G-d wanted us to do. Treat G-d with respect as you should treat every person with respect no matter size, weight, gender, race, age, or religion. 

Do not say anything bad about someone else, and do not listen when others are saying bad things about someone else.

And how many of these WAYS OF LOVING will you teach in your project??

1. Visit and comfort people – sick, poor, sad, worried, mourning, etc.
2. Always try to find something positive about another person; find the spark of goodness in everyone, even your enemy.
3. Greet every person as if you are greeting God: with joy, cheerfully, pleasantly, with a smile.
4. Do not ignore anyone.
5. Speak to everyone as if they were your brother or sister.
6. If there is someone you do not like: do something nice for them, befriend them if possible, pray for them.
7. Don’t take revenge; don’t hold a grudge; forgive.
8. Before you go to bed, plan to do a favor for someone the next day.
9. Be generous – of your time, money, and energy; serve and help other people every way you can, without hope of reward.
10. If someone deceives you, do not deceive them.
11. Do not quarrel.
12. If someone tells you their secret, do not tell it to others.
13. Do not say anything bad about someone else, and do not listen when others are saying bad things about someone else.
14. Do not look down on anyone and think you are better than them.