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Ethics- Racism and Forgiveness
·Length: 750-900 words (about 3 double-spaced typed pages) • What have to turn in class: o paper o A maximum one-page outline that you will submit with your response Choosing one of the scenarios below, evaluate the efforts towards reparation in terms of some of our key ideas: justice, failure, reconciliation, forgiveness, and empathy ? You do not need to refer to ALL of these terms in your response o You must draw on at least one reading from weeks 1-11 and 14-15 and one group presentation. You may not choose your own presentation. ?
·You will draw on these readings and materials to root your response in the learning that you’ve done this semester o Your evaluation should use direct textual evidence, should demonstrate an analysis of the writing and ideas put forth, and show clear and meaningful connections between course materials and the scenario of your choice. In other words, you need to explain how the course materials are helping to shape your evaluation of the scenario presented in each of the below links, thinking about how the situation is or is not a good example of justice, reconciliation, reparation, forgiveness, failure, and/or empathy ?
·You may do additional research into the scenario that you’ve chosen if you want to broaden the perspectives that you’re getting on it. In other words, if you look at additional materials on the scenario of your choice, and even if you just focus on the linked article below, think about the effects of various forms of representation in terms the structure of the story, the connections that are made between it and other issues (the internal links help you with this), the images and videos that are used in the material. •
· Choose one of these scenarios: o Universities whose foundational wealth includes profit from sale of enslaved Africans (e.g. https://apnews.com/article/ma-state-wire-philanthropy-slavery-race-and-ethnicityeducation-bff4488c36de6c7beb3f7696da07d77d) o The Bruce family’s efforts to recover their land in Manhattan Beach, CA (https://www.npr.org/2021/10/10/1043821492/black-americans-land-history) o Flint, MI residents recovering from and still dealing with the long-term effects of lead poisoning through water intake (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/politics/flint-michigan-schools.html) o Gentrification efforts in Baltimore city neighborhoods—displacement of long-term residents (e.g. https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news/2021-09-16/searching-for-a-turn-around-on-thehighway-to-nowhere)
Expert Solution
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African population has for a long time been subjected to unfairness by the
white population. The population used to migrate to the United States with the
aim of improving their lives. The Caucasians used to forcefully take the black
people from their land so that they could work on their farms as enslaved
people. Essentially, they were subjected to intense unfairness and suffering at
the hands of the white people. Blacks were assumed to be immune to pain and
torture. They also looked at them as personal possessions as they were forced
to work without pay. In simpler terms, the Africans were subjected to a lot of
suffering by white people.
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