Nick Del Rio

Lisa, Bernardo, Mona

High Tech High
Semester 1
2015

THE
revolutionARIE
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PROJECT
dO STUDENTS AT hth FEEL DISCRIMINATED AGAINST
BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE?

Table of Contents

3-4 Personal Narrative Essay

6-7 Interview: privilege interview
8-10 Project Proposal
11-22 Experiment
23-26 Analysis & Implications of Experiment
27-31 Experiment Reflection
32 Research Process and Source Summaries
33-34 Interview Highlights
35 Latin American Paper

Nick Del Rio

10/6/15
Lisa Griffin
P.4

Personal Narrative Essay

Despite being a young latino male people automatically think I speak
spanish, how ever I don't. Typically in a latino culture every speaks spanish.
I was born on March 15, 2000 in San Diego, California. My mom was born
in Mexico and my dad was also born in San Diego, California. I am the
youngest of three, my oldest brother was born in 1986, my second brother
was born in 1987 and my sister was born in 1988. I personally feel
privileged in various ways how ever theres rooms to gain more privilege as
you go through your years.
Growing up, I went to church a lot, my mom used to teach catechism
for kindergarten and 1st graders and my sister used to teach for 4th and
5th graders. I used to go to church every sunday to help out my sister and
mom, then they stopped teaching and we started going to the church
sessions. I do not like church at all, it's really boring and i tend to fall asleep
every time I go. I haven't gone to church in like 3 years. I don't think going

to church is a privilege because going to church is free to go in, you don't

have to do anything or pay anything, anybody can go in and sit there.
However now since I look at this I kind of want to go but its not my first
choice to go.
My family is one hundred percent mexican, my mom was born in
mexico and my dad was born in California, my parents spoke full spanish
and english, my grandparents only spoke spanish. I was taught english
only when i was born, my brothers and sisters were also only taught
english, till this day i've never had a full conversation with my grandparents
because they don't know english nor do i know spanish. I personally think
speaking english is a privilege because I had a couple of friends that didn't
pass a grade because they didn't speak english, also some jobs require
speaking english only.
My gender is male, i think that males have a higher expectation than
women but in only some certain things. I kind of think being a male is a
privilege like maybe doing construction work or something to do with lifting
heavy stuff.
Id say my social is average, i am not rich and i am not poor, id say
more towards the poor side of the chart but not poor. I do believe being

wealthy is a privilege because you can buy a lot more stuff that other
people can't buy probably like college tuition and just things here and there.
Id say my physical abilities are good, im fat but i can still be around
skinny people. My emotional abilities are good, i get mad over some stuff
and just want to hit everything in front of me. I think having good physical
ability is a good privilege because you can do some stuff another person
can't do.
As stated by Google privilege is A special right, advantage, or
immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of
people. I am lucky to own privilege as a young person i hope to gain
more as I age. I didn't think attending this school was a privilege until I
started writing this assignment.

Nick Del Rio

Interview w/ Fatuma Fadhil
12/14/15

Interview
1: Have you ever got treated in a wrong way because of your gender? If yes why?
1. Yes, I can recall many times when I would take the bus home and random guys would try to
talk to me and say weird things and I've always just walked away and ignore them.
2; Have you ever been pushed away because of your gender? If yes why
2. When I was just starting play soccer in grade 5 I was put down. I wanted to play with the boys
because there wasn't a girls soccer team at my school. I could remember all the guys telling me
that I was a girl and girls didn't play soccer and that in my opinion has motivated me to be what I
wanted to be and do what I wanted to do.
3: Do you think bias between men and women will ever change?
3. The way our society is and the way many of us are taught at he, no. Men I think are going to
most likely always have more privilege than women. And that has to deal with, in my opinion, for
some religion, how they are taught, and basic things that are "normal" for a boy or girl.
4: Do you think that you can get a better job because of your gender?
4. In some jobs, yes. Women in general have been put down in the past from the jobs they
wanted and in my opinion, that has changed a lot nowadays. Women in many ways are now
sent as the equal they are in many places yet still in other places of the world, are struggling.
For example a few Islamic communities. Women are given ridiculous rules that they have to
follow and are restricted from doing many things.
5: Whats a memory that you will never forget where you were discriminated against based on
your gender?
5. A memory that has stuck with me is the fact that I couldn't play soccer at all because of my
gender. I don't understand why there's a huge difference between boys and girls, men and
women. In my opinion we both shouldn't have so "rules" in what they can't or can't do.

Reflection
1: When doing this interview I was surprised on how she said when she's on the bus random
guys would come up to me, right there if that would of been me i would start carrying a
pocketknife or something to protect me.
2: I was shocked and surprised on her answers.
3: On some of the answers i was kind of shocked, i was like woah in my head.
4: I learned some stuff i didn't think that would ever happen like when she said she wanted to
play soccer in 5th grade but the boys wouldn't let her.

The Privilege project proposal

Group Members:
Avery Solsbak
Thien Nguyen
Abdulla Alexander
James Dalton
Nicholas Del Rio
Topic:
Racism
Essential Question:
Do positions of authority use their power to perpetuate racial profiling?
Experiment Design:
1.Quantitative Survey; Sample size, Freshmen and Juniors.

Racial Profiling From Authority

Instructions: Circle those that apply to you
Circle your race
Caucasian
African American
Asian
Middle Eastern
Latino
Other/Mixed:____________________________________
Has any authority figure(Police,Teacher,etc.) judged you based on your race?
Yes
No
If yes, explain.
Have you ever been discouraged from pursuing higher education due to your race by an adult? (Such as
being told not to go to college)
Yes
No
If yes, explain.
Have you ever been discouraged from joining an organization due to your race?
Yes
No
If yes, explain

Have you ever been approached by a police officer for something you know you didn't do?
Yes
No
If yes, explain.
Have you ever been followed around a store by an employee when you didnt do anything wrong?
Yes
No
If yes, is it due to race, gender, age, or a combination.
Has anyone stereotyped you because of your skin color?
Yes
No
If yes, explain.

2. Qualitative
Trolley experiment will consist of multiple volunteers of different races. We will see if
the different races will catch the eye of the transit police and see if they check us for a pass or not.
Timeline:
10/19/15 Thien Nguyen emailing Rowan Zhang for availability for survey. James Dalton and Abdulla
Alexander email Mark Aguirre for availability for survey, and Nick emails darryl for availability for
survey and plan out who will be going to survey and what our next step will be.
10/20/15 Got responses from Mark Aguirre and we cant survey that class so we decided to ask other
teachers and do the survey in our Advisory and today in class. Avery Solsbak requesting survey time for
advisory
10/22/15 Get all data collected by today from Andrew Lerario, Mark Aguirre, Brian Delgado, Amy
Callahan, Julie Ruff. Passed out all surveys to those people, also passed some out people walking in the
school. We also surveyed Ms.Zhang's class.
10/23/15 Calculating data from survey
10/22/15 start planning Trolley experiment
10/26/15- 11/1/15 start conducting experiment using volunteers.
10/29- Turned in our Survey Data.
11/2- Dividing and conquering our work. Half doing analysis other half doing analysis questions.
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 Group Roles & Next Steps for Each Person: List out all the things that need to be done
and write out who will do what.

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Thien Nguyen
Avery Solsbak
Abdulla Alexander
James Dalton
Nick Delrio

The Race Experiment

Area of Privilege: Race Privilege
Topic: Racial Discrimination
Essential Question: Do students at HTH feel discriminated against because of their
race?
Target Audience: High Schoolers at HTH
Total Sample Size: 101

1.Has any authority figure (Police, Teacher, etc.) Judged you based on your race?
Yes

No

Caucasian

Total
29

5
17.2%

24
82.8%

17.2%

30.8%

African-American

14
10
71.4%

4
28.6%

34.5%

5.1%

Asian

15
2
13.3%

13
86.7%

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6.9%

16.7%

Latino

Total

43
12
27.9%

31
72.1%

41.4%

47.4%

29

72

101

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2. Have you ever been discouraged from pursuing higher education due to your
race by and adult? (such as being told not to go to college)
Yes

No

Total

Caucasian

29
2

6.8%

16.6%

27

93.1%

30.3%

African-American

14
2

14.2%

16.6%

12

85.7%

13.4%

Asian

15
2

13.3%

16.6%

13

86.6%

14.6%

Latino

43
6

Total

14%

37

50%

41.5%

12

89

86%

101

14

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3. Have you ever been discouraged from joining an organization due to your race?
Yes

No

Total

Caucasian

29
4

13.8%

25
86.2%

26.7%
29.1%
African-American

14
6

42.9%

8
58.1%

40%
9.35%
Asian

15
1

6.7%

14
93.3%

6.6%
16.3%
Latino

43
4

Total

9.3%

39

26.7%

45.3%

15

86

90.3%

101

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4.Have you ever been approached by a police officer for something you know you didnt do?

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Yes

No

Total

Caucasian

29
1

3.4%

28

8.3%

96.5%

31.4%

African-American

14
6

42.8%

50%

57.1%

8.9%

Asian

15
1

6.6%

14

8.3%

93.3%

15.7%

Latino

43
4

9.3%

39

33.3%
Total

12

90.6%

43.8%
89

101

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5.Have you ever been followed by an employee you didn't do anything wrong?
Yes

No

Total

Caucasian

29
10

34.4%

20.8%

19

65.5%

35.8%

African-American

14
10

71%

20.8%

29%

7%

Asian

15
9

60%

18%

40%%

11%

Latino

43
19

Total

44.1%

24

39%

45%

48

53

55.8%

101

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6. Has anyone stereotyped you because of your skin color?

Yes

No

Total

Caucasian

29
10

34.4%

19

20%

65.5%

37.2%

African-American

14
12

85.7%

24%

14.2%

14.2%

Asian

15
9

60%

18%

40%

11.7%

Latino

43
19

44.1%

24

38%
Total

50

55.8%

47%
51

101

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Analysis & Implications:

1) What is the probability that if you are an African American at HTH, you have been
discriminated against because of your race?
P(Discriminated Against African American) = 10/14 = 71.4%
2) What is the probability that if you are a Caucasian at HTH, you have been
discriminated against because of your race?
P(Discriminated Against | Caucasian) = 5/29 = 17.2%
3) What is the probability that if you are an Asian at HTH, you have been
discriminated against because of your race?
P(Discriminated Against | Asian) = 2/15 = 13.3%
4) What is the probability that if you are a Latino at HTH, you have been
discriminated against because of your race?
P(Discriminated Against | Latino) = 12/43 = 27.9%
5) What is the probability that if you are an African American at HTH, you have been
discouraged from pursuing higher education?
P(Discouraged from Education | African American) = 2/14 = 14.2%
6) What is the probability that you have been discouraged from higher education
given that you are a Caucasian at HTH?
P(Discouraged from Education| Caucasian) = 2/29 = 6.8%

7) What is the probability that you are an Asian at HTH, you have been discouraged
from pursuing higher education?
P(Discouraged from Education| Asian) = 2/15 = 13.3%
8) What is the probability that you have been discouraged against pursuing higher
education, given that you are Latino?
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P(Discouraged from Education| Latino) = 6/43 = 14%

9) What is the probability that you are a Caucasian at HTH and have been
discouraged from joining an organization?
P(Caucasian AND discouraged from an organization) = 4/101 = 3.9%
10) What is the probability that if you are African American, you have been
discouraged from joining an organization?
P(Discouraged from an Organization | African American) = 6/14 = 42.9%
11) What is the probability that if you are a caucasian student at HTH, you have
been approached by a police officer for something you didnt do?
P(Approached by Police Officer | Caucasian) = 1/29 = 3.4%
12) What is the probability that if you are an African American student at HTH, you
have been approached by a police officer for something you didnt do?
P(Approached by Police Officer | African American) = 6/14 = 42.8%
13) What is the probability that if you are a Latino student at HTH, you have been
approached by a police officer for something you didnt do?
P(Approached by Police Officer | Latino) = 4/43 = 9.3%
14) What is the probability that if you are an Asian student at HTH, you have been
approached by a police officer for something you didnt do?
P(Approached by Police Officer | Asian) = 1/15 = 6.6%
15) What is the probability that if you are a Caucasian at HTH, you have been
followed around a store by an employee and you didnt do anything wrong?
P(Followed by an Employee | Caucasian) = 10/29 = 34.4%%
16) What is the probability that if you are an African American at HTH, you have been
followed around a store by an employee and you didnt do anything wrong?
P(Followed by an Employee | African American) = 10/14 = 71%

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17) What is the probability that if you are an Asian at HTH, you have been followed
around a store by an employee and you didnt do anything wrong?
P(Followed by an Employee | Asian) = 9/15 = 60%
18) What is the probability that you have been followed around a store by an
employee and you didnt do anything wrong given that you are a Latino student at HTH?
P(Followed by an Employee | Latino) = 19/43 = 44.1%
19) What is the probability that you have been stereotyped because of your skin
color given that you are an African American student at HTH?
P(Have been Stereotyped because of Skin Color | African American) = 12/14 = 85.7%
20) What is the probability that you are African American OR have been discouraged
from joining an organization?
P(African American discouraged from an organization) = 23/101 = 22.77%
21) What is the probability that if you are an Asian student at HTH you have been
stereotyped because of your skin color?
P(Have been Stereotyped because of Skin Color | Asian) = 9/15 = 60%

Racial Bias From Authority

Does authority use their power to perpetuate racial discrimination? Our
hypothesis was the idea that minorities receive much greater levels of racial
discrimination. Our data did not reflect that, nor did it reflect our research. While it was
not inconclusive, it does not reflect what is happening outside the walls of High Tech
High. The data we gathered shows a story of quasi-equality except among the African
American community. This is not quite the case. Just try looking up Racial profiling
stories on the internet, you will find literally hundreds of stories about peoples
experiences with it. Granted, some of these are bound to be fake or exaggerated, that's
the nature of the internet, but it is likely that most have a level of truth to them.

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One of the parts of data we found closest to our hypotheses was that African
Americans being discriminated against. The data is 10/14 or 71.4%. This shows that the
majority of African Americans at high tech high are discriminated against.
For caucasians in our data the majority of them when asked Have you ever
been discriminated against based on your skin color? Answered yes with 5/29 or 17.2%
we felt that this number would be lower than it actually was. However when asked to
explain how, they didn't give an example. We came to the conclusion that most of this
was based on ageism instead of them being discriminated against because of their skin
color. Teenagers have a natural tendency to mistake the source of discrimination, we
dont deny the validity of their discrimination, however, it is doubtful this is due to race.
One of the main problems in our experiments was primarily of ninth graders at
High Tech High, the problem with this is the experience they have is limited than that of
an adult or older student who has experienced more of the outside world. Another
reason why this was a problem is because kids at High Tech High are a lot more
accepting than an average public school. Therefor they haven't received that much
discrimination.The conclusion we have come to is that kids at high tech high are not as
nearly discriminated against as people In the real world. This may be due to us having a
smaller sample size given the data we have gathered this is correct.

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Privilege Reflection
What is privilege? Its not something you earn, its not something you find, it is
something you are born with and it is unfair. It can be a blessing and a curse, it blinds us
to what is really there. Privilege is a word that is thrown around quite a bit in this age
and world and a word that is especially heard while attending a school like High Tech
High. In a way, being a student at High Tech High is a privilege in and of itself, in that it
allows me, or at time forces me, to think about our own privileges. From an outside
view, one may ask, what is the deal with the whole privilege dialogue anyways? What
are people actually talking about? What are they trying to accomplish or prove in
discussing the ways in which some individuals are naturally more advantaged or
disadvantaged than other? In our groups view. the answer to these questions are that
deep down, this dialogue is aimed at bringing about more equality, understand, and
fostering of empathy. However, others have different opinions. Some people bring up
privilege because they themselves feel personally disadvantaged in some way and want
to make the issue known.
Probability is the likeliness that something will happen. For example the
probability of someone walking outside and gets hit by a car, if he isn't paying attention
or not everything affects the probability, but to make probability simpler think about how
many times you can get heads on a quarter, how many sides are there on a quarter,
and what's the probability you can get tales. For a quarter the probability always stays
the same because their is only two possible outcomes. However in our research we
found that our likelihood of someone being discriminated against at High Tech High was
extremely low.
We have found that privilege affects the probability of certain things in today's
world. Some examples of this would be, being asked for a receipt at a store even
though you payed for what you bought and the privileged in that situation would be
white people, and the non-privileged would be any other minority and by being that nonprivileged race so the minorities have a higher chance of being stopped. Another
example is, being stopped by airport security because of your looks and the privileged
race will be white people, and the non-privileged race is middle-eastern. The middleeastern race has a higher probability of being stopped. We have watched a video in
class, the video is called The Angry Eye Experiments. On day one day the kids with
blue-eyes had the higher privilege than the kids without blue-eyes. On day two the kids
without blue-eyes had the higher privilege than the kids with blue-eyes, this experiment
showed how much kids or people can change just because they have the higher

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privilege, when one of the groups had the higher privilege they did not talk to the kids
with no privilege and when it was the opposite the same happened.

James Dalton
I grew up with of the greatest privileges there is and that's to have white skin, even
though I am part black. Another one of the privileges I have is to go to a school where I
am almost sheltered from some of the normal high school experiences which can be
good and bad depending on how you look at it. However I feel I have some nonprivileges as well and one being growing up in a divorced household, I would have to
switch houses every week and it grew on me I almost felt like I couldn't settle down, and
it took its toll on me over the years, by that I mean at school I would hear other kids talk
about kids and their parents loving each other a lot, and my parents didn't even live
together. However some things that can be done about my privilege to make it positive
would be to either get rid of the color barrier or to stop so many white people from
discriminating against other skin colors and other races, because in the end the only
people that look bad are those people that are giving the racial remarks. I would be
willing to sacrifice my comforts and privilege to make the world more just because in the
end that's one black kid that doesn't have to be killed, or another person randomly
stopped at an airport because of their religion.
Avery Solsbak
I have a lot of privilege, more than most in my class. I am a white, middle class,
able minded, able bodied, male. I am the problem with society. I am the epitome of what
a stereotypical American teenager would look like. I have never been stereotyped based
on race. I have never been checked at an airport, I have privilege, I wont deny that for a
second. However, I have been hardened more than most, I have gone through
suffering, through physical abuse from people in school. I am about to make a bold
statement that may be quite controversial, I understand. People underestimate the
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amount of which people hate atheists. The tea party would rather vote for a gay, jewish,
socialist, black guy than an atheist. There is obviously nothing wrong with any of those
things but it is still a problem. I feel like there is nothing I can do because of this. Even
though I have so much privilege I feel it is overridden by my beliefs. I fear there is
nothing I can do.

Abdulla Alexander
Privilege is basically how many options you have in life based on your identity.
There are different levels of privilege and some people are more privileged than others
and it is no fault of their own. For example, white people are more privileged than black
people because people around the world are more racist to black people than they are
to white people. I as a human being am not a very privileged person. There are a couple
different reasons why. One of the main reasons is my family is not very rich. In fact, we
are pretty poor. My parents didnt buy me a car when I turned 16 and they wont be able
to pay for college. We live in a pretty ghetto neighborhood and I have to take the trolley
everyday to school. Another reason Im unprivileged is the color of my skin. Im a brown
man, so people automatically assume Im more guilty of something than a white guy is.
Even though Im not fully black, I have dark skin, so I fit into that category where people
racially discriminate against me. Im also unprivileged because of my religion. Im a
muslim and most people in this country are so ignorant that they associate muslims with
terrorists. Most of my friends make racist terrorist jokes even though islam isnt a race.
They also make arab jokes which is kind of insulting to me even though those people
are too stupid to understand that Im not arab. I am however privileged in one way. Im a
guy so that makes me more privileged than women. For example, no one is ever going
to tell me to get a girl to help me with something heavy while people do that to women
all the time.

Nick Del Rio

The privileges that I believe I have is being a male and bilingual ( English &
Spanish ) being anywhere close to the border. I believe being a male there is a privilege
for more jobs. More jobs like construction or anything to do with lifting stuff. Some jobs
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prefer males over females but there are also a lot of jobs that. Being able to speak
english and spanish in San diego mostly is a privilege because there is a lot of jobs for
translating. The non-privilege that I believe I have is being low-income, being hispanic
and the way I dress. I chose low-income because I really cant buy stuff I really want or
need and a lot more. I chose being hispanic because there is a lot of racial profiling with
hispanics. I've had a couple of occasions of that happening, for example I was walking
around a store with my friend and there was a worker following us through the whole
store every time we looked back the person was pretending to work. I put the way I
dress because I don't like wearing really nice clothes, because I think of the price on
how much they cost. I wear old clothes that I have had for a while because if I mess
them up it won't be a big deal if I rip them or dirty them, because of that when I wear my
raggedy clothes my mom gets mad at me because I look poor or something but when I
go to stores I notice a lot of workers looking at me probably because of my clothes. I
can help out some people out on translating stuff but I don't know a lot but I can help,
also being a male I can help out some people on moving big stuff etc. yes, I am willing
to, I believe that girls have just as much as rights as men do, I've heard that 2 women
started fighting in war. One other way I can use my privileges is to stand up for women
or stand up for somebody that's smaller or just stand up for somebody in general
Thien Nguyen
I first learned about privilege from my parents when I was younger. It was a positive
word, used it to describe people who had more than us. A privilege is something one
could earn from hard work and determination. At first I was extremely confused about
why privilege was so negative, I would hear people say things such as white privilege
or male privilege but they would never explain what it meant. It wasnt until after I
involved myself into the conversation that I learned that by acknowledging privilege, you
are recognizing that you benefit from other peoples oppression. While I was growing up
my parents would often find themselves in fights and arguments and it eventually led to
them divorcing and me moving into my moms house with my sister. I never found
myself to be misplaced because of my race probably because I am and appear as an
Asian American, but no one recognizes the part of me that is African American. Even
though I have not been directly impacted by acts of racism I do recognize that the idea
of privilege is the moral center of the social justice movement, an orb around which all
the topics of movement revolve. I benefit heavily from male privilege and I know that
with the advantage that I have been blessed with, I can help member of the opposite
sex in achieving their goals and aiming for a world of equity.

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Nick Del Rio

12/9/15
Lisa

Research Process and Source Summaries

I do notice and agree with this article that racism to African Americans from Latinos
does go unreported, but i believe the only reason why Whites Vs. Blacks is the main
reported issues is because of slavery. There is a lot of interesting things I seen in this
article like A black family, a mother of three teenage children and a 10 year old move
into a small house in Compton over christmas vacation. When a friend came to visit,
four men in a black SUV pulled up and called him a racist epithet, saying that black
people were barred from the neighborhood, they then jumped out, drew guns and beat
them with metal pipes. I've never heard of this before at all, this probably wasn't on the
news at all. Honestly before reading this I personally thought that Latinos and African
Americans were on the same page but after reading this i noticed that's not true at all.
Quote: Racism in America often has been reduced to white against black
discrimination.
Response: This is very true all around the United States. I believe its like this because
of slavery
Question: Why?
Quote: As Latin American immigrants continue to flood the United states, both legally
and illegally, discrimination against African Americans grow.
Response: I personally see how this makes sense
Question: How?
Quote: A black family, a mother of three teenage children and a 10 year old move into
a small house in Compton over christmas vacation. When a friend came to visit, four
men in a black SUV pulled up and called him a racist epithet, saying that black people
were barred from the neighborhood, they then jumped out, drew guns and beat them
with metal pipes.
Response: This is crazy all i have to say
Question: Why did they go to Compton for christmas?

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Nick Del Rio

12/7/15
Interview Highlights

I am going to talk about Mrs. Roberta Alexander. She was a member of the Black
Panthers during the civil rights movement.
One thing that shocked me was when she talked about her father, she said My
father was a slave, he grew up on a Indian Reservation. when she claimed my
father was a slave in my head I was like wow, thats crazy, that wasn't long ago, I think
I said wow out loud. The rest of the day i was just shocked and thinking about that, I
talked to my mom and said In class we had to interview somebody and we interviewed
my friends grandma and i was telling my mom how she said her father was a slave and
saying thats crazy thats not long ago!

Another thing I was surprised about is when she said The Black Panther Party
sent me to japan with another spokesperson. I thought that was pretty cool that the
fact that they kind of went world wide.

When Roberta first got involved she was a part of the breakfast for children
before school program which they made food and gave it to the kids so they wouldnt go
to school hungry. They used local chruches to cook and get donations from chruches to
give to the kids. Then she worked on the newspaper, they put out newspapers every

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week, they would get news articles from other Black Party groups from all around the
country and sell it.

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For this project we had to get two articles about privilege, one article about privilege in
Mexico and one article about privilege in United States. After choosing these articles we
had to make a summary about them and write our thoughts.

For this project I choose to research all crime rates in Mexico compared to crime rates
in United States. A lot of the statistics really shocked me, here is an example, rape stats
over a year Mexico = 14,993 seems like a really big number but the stats in U.S. =
84,767 over the past year. Heres another example car thefts, Mexico = 141,007, U.S. =
1.25million over the past year. There's a lot more of other crimes i can talk about but
those are the main ones i found out the most interesting.
For this project I choose to research all crime rates in Mexico compared to crime rates
in United States. I focused on the main stats like Foreign prisoners, Murders committed
by youths per million, jails, Murders with firearms, rapes, drugs, auto theft, and serious
assaults over the past year. There was a lot of statistics that shocked me, for example
this is the main one, Rapes over the past year Mexico = 14,993 United States= 84,767,
six times MORE than mexico. Honestly I thought Mexico would be a lot worse but its not
at all in fact six times better than United States. Now to foreign prisoners, I was not able
to find exact numbers but according to the site Mexico's stats were ranked 80% more
than United States, thats a really big difference between Mexico and U.S.

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