Racisim_In_Friday_Night_Lights

Racisim In Friday Night Lights On July 2, 1964 Lynden B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act prohibited discrimination in most public places, deemed discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin illegal, and allowed the Justice Department to institute suits to desegregate public schools and other facilities. In Odessa, Texas, it was seen as a pain to enforce, and was just another attempt of the federal government to meddle in places where they should not meddle. In 1988, although there were no hate crimes against blacks, whites and blacks were certainly not very friendly. In everyday speech, the residents frequently use the term nigger to describe various things such as the appearance of a person. In addition, blacks and other minorities were forced to live below the tracks and attend their children were made to attend a separate school from the rest of the city’s children. Racism is the ideology that maintains one race is inherently superior to another (Beach 2003:444). In Odessa, Texas no one believed they were doing school, odessa, attend, white, texas, race, person, minorities, blacks, another, whites, tracks, town, things, society, should, separation, rights, residents, public, places, one, meddle, discrimination, color, children, belief, allowed, act, 1964, wrong, wherever, way, very, various, until