Ferguson, Missouri resident Michael Brown was killed in August 2014. Subsequent protests have spawned an national conversation about race in the United States. Describe some of key moments in that conversation, citing both events from your textbook and the personal experience in your own community.
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWERS MAY VARY AS STUDENTS INCORPORATE THEIR OWN EXPERIENCES. Nonetheless, the textbook describes some key events in the increasing polarization of racial politics in the aftermath of Ferguson. It notes that the Ferguson police department has tried to minimize confrontation in annual protests by, for example, not arming themselves with assault rifles and not dressing in full uniform. Bernie Sanders embraced Black Lives Matter in the 2016 presidential campaign and a number of prominent black politicians as well as athletes, e.g. Colin Kaepernick, have kept the issues surrounding Ferguson in the national conversation. AT the same time, backlash has occurred among whites, as evidenced with the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
[STUDENTS MAY ALSO INCORPORATE MORE EXPERIENCES UNIQUE TO THEIR COMMUNITIES.]
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Which of the following is NOT true concerning the Bill of Rights in our U.S. Constitution?
c a. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution after it was ratified by the states. b. Several prominent members of the Constitutional Convention, such as James Madison, actually opposed the Bill of Rights. c. Most states already had existing constitutions that enumerated the rights of the individual. d. The Bill of Rights was a prominent element of the new Constitution and it was written into the document early in the process. e. Several states at first refused to ratify the new Constitution because of its lack of a Bill of Rights.