Introduction
Consider what we have read and discussed this week as you complete this Webquest. What connections can you make?
Task
Task One: Where are we today?
Question One: Do you feel that race relations are better today than they were in the early 1900s? Explain your thinking.
Click on this link to view known hate-group activity in America.
https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
Question Two: After you have looked at the map, has your opinion changed? How? Use some data from the website in your answer.
Task Two: Politics
This graphic shows the different political views in very simple terms.
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1100/1*oX5Mj7oEmrX8ezuWp6sNvQ.png
Here is another graphic.
Read this article.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/race-reckoning/
Question Three: Do politics have anything to do with racism? How should politicians address this issue?
Task Three: What happened in Charlottesville in 2017?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/charlottesville-virginia-overview.html
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-charlottesville-witnesses-20170815-story.html
Question Four: What is your opinion of President Trump's remarks about the event?
Task Four: Institutional racism and the NFL
Click this link to find a definition of institutional racism:
http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/definitions/institutional-racism-49
Read this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/us/nfl-anthem-protest-race-trump-trnd/index.html
Question Five: What is the take-a-knee-protest about?
Question Six: Do you believe that institutional racism exists in America? Why or why not? Use information from these Webquest sources to support your answer.
Process
Evaluation
Please, submit a Google doc with all of your answers, through the Classroom.
Conclusion
Be prepared to use the material and ideas from this Webquest on an on-demand writing assessment.
Credits
Minor modifications to a published Wequest, "https://www.createwebquest.com/racism-where-are-we-today"