Laws cannot regulate attitudes, which is why even long after the Civil Rights Acts were passed, many states did not enforce them immediately, it took time. This is why there were still hate crimes. Further, even though affirmative action has been passed, it has been shown and widely told that when there are two of the same exact resumes circulated, with two different names, one sounding like a white person’s name, the other sounding like a black person’s name, the resume with a white person’s sounding name will get an interview or call back or job more than the resume with the black …show more content…
Can states and the federal government mandate people “play nice on the playground” like the principal does in school? If no laws are broken, then technically nothing wrong is happening, right? No. At the first dialogue circle students shared their stories of their mistreatment from community members such as cops, judicial meetings conducted by the school, and peers who asked harmful questions. Several students expressed how they felt stereotype, undermined and how others did not believe their successes. Many students explained they came to Cazenovia College to get away from the drama, the shootings, and the racial slurs at home. Freshman expressed their illusions of Cazenovia College as a safe place are quickly crumbling. However, at the end of the dialogue, after everybody had shared, Katie O’Brien spoke up. She said she had heard three main issues and therefore, on the spot, created three subcommittees including education, community relations, and judicial processing and student safety. Yesterday, February 14th, the student body held a second dialogue, one which was much more positive and solution driven – a personnel or office of multi-cultural affairs was added to the original list of three solutions. This past week, Cazenovia College has started to address the issue of fair treatment for students of ethnic minority. Although