Kyle's Thoughts

Eminent domain, in theory, should be a great practice but in reality is wrong. It is wrong because the government acts like a business and seeks to gain land with the cheapest expense, rather than how the 5th amendment describes how the compensation should be -- just . The government tries to take advantage of those who are uneducated and don't know their rights. They do this by giving them a price that is way too low for the value of the land and these people think they just have to accept it. An example of this is Source F. Source F talks about how once upon a time , this city, Canal Winchester, Ohio, offered a farmer $9,249 for strip of his property. The farmer thought this was too low and unfair so he took it to court. In court, the jury decided that the city should pay the farmer $595,625. If this man didn't know his right to just compensation then the government would've been able to seize his land for way cheaper than actually valued. The government saying that they ...

Institutional racism is the concept that racism isn't practiced by specific people but is a phenomenon that is systematic. In A Raisin in the Sun , by Loraine Hansberry, there are specific instances of institutional racism. The specific example I want to talk about is when Lindner is talking to the Younger family. Lindner is the chairman of the New Neighbors Orientation Committee. This is basically a welcoming committee to the neighborhood. Lindner says that the neighborhood agrees that "Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities" (Hansberry 118). This is an example of institutional racism because it wasn't only some people in the community who felt this way about the Younger family. It was the whole neighborhood and they systematically tried to get them out of their neighborhood by using Lindner to chase them out. I find that this is terrible and wrong. As an Asian-American I face some discrimination but I couldn't imagine being African-Am...