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Race and my Community
Jeff Weigel
Axia College of University of Phoenix
January 8, 2008
My name is Jeff Weigel and I was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I grew up and live in an immediate suburb of Minneapolis called Robbinsdale. Minneapolis and its suburbs are very diverse, there are many different cultures residing in the area. A lot of the people look like me, but there are also a lot that looks different. There are many different skin tones and cultures here. According to the U.S. Census Bureau 73.9% white, 12.4% black, .8% American Indian or Alaskan Native, 4.4% Asian, 14.8% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), and 6.3% other race (Minnesota Fact Sheet, 2006).
The community leaders here treat every race equally; they do not put one race on a pedestal. I believe they treat people that look like me the same as people that do not look like me.
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English: Keith Ellison on 9-21-06, taken by user.The only place that may seem they treat races differently is the court system. I have seen cases on the news where a white man will get a lesser charge than an African American man. I can't say that this is true in every case, which I'm sure it is not. Perhaps the cases I have seen on the news had special circumstances, such as the person's back-round. Have they been in trouble before, have they committed this same crime? The person may have been given a chance pervious to the story that made the news. I'm sure there is a case where a white man faced the same charge as an African American and got a more severe punishment. So I would have to say that the community leaders in Minneapolis do treat all races...