Caribbean Examination Council

School Based Assessment

May-June 2023

Name of Centre: Port Kaituma Secondary School

Centre #: 090059

Name of Candidate: Marcelyn James

Candidate #:

Name of Subject: English A

Name of Teacher: Ms. Devika Dhanrajh

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

ACKNOWLEDGMENT …………………………. 2

THEME ………………………………………………...….. 3

PLAN OF INVESTIGATION ………………….. 4

DATA COLLECTION …………………….……………5-10

REFLECTIONS ……………………………...…………11-13

WRITTEN REPORT ……………………………………14

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW ………………15

ORAL PRESENTATION …………………….…… 16-17

REFERENCES .....................18

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Due to our teachers' diligence, the School Based Assessment research process was successful.
Without their support and cooperation, it would have been challenging to complete this assessment. I
would like to give thanks to God for my health, wisdom, and capacity to comprehend everything that
was studied and taught.

I am grateful to my family for always supporting me, ensuring that I strive for greatness and
never falter.

Finally, I want to express my gratitude to my friends for always having faith in my capacity to
overcome any obstacles.

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 THEME

RACISM

TOPIC

THE INFLUENCE OF RACISM ON HATE CRIMES

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 PLAN OF INVESTIGATION

Each group member selected the following theme, which is Racism and the topic is the in

fluence of racism on hate crimes. A major reason why this topic was selected is that Racism is a
plague on minority races, it has caused many traumatic events throughout history, pouring out about
crimes done on innocent individuals just because of their race .This research will help to better my
understanding of how racism is a driving catalyst for hate crimes. This will also expand my knowledge
and vocabulary on this topic. The artifact used in this School Based Assessment are an online journal,
poem and visual .The researcher intended to collect relevant information using internet access.

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 DATA COLLECTION

AN ONLINE JOURNAL

PREVENTING RACIAL HATE CRIMES MEANS TACKLING WHITE

SUPREMACIST IDEOLOGY

A hate crime occurs nearly every hour in the United States. Saturday afternoon was no
different. Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old white man, drove to a grocery store in a predominately Black
neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. He then filmed himself shooting 13 people (11 Black and two white),
killing 10, including a retired police officer and an 86-year-old woman who had recently visited her
husband in a nursing home. During his domestic terrorist act, Gendron even to the time to apologize to
a white man for pointing a gun at him.

Simply put, the rise of hate groups and the increase in the number of hate crimes in the United
States is an epidemic. Over the past 20 years, the number of hate groups in the United States increased
by over 100%. Though the number of hate groups dipped during the end of Barack Obama’s first
presidential term, they rose sharply in the middle of his second term and continued to rise during
Donald Trump’s presidential term. Hate crimes were over 200% higher in places where Trump
campaigned in 2016.

When we examine who uses guns to commit mass racial violence in the United States, we find
that many of these domestic terrorists look and think like Gendron. From 2012 through 2021, nearly
three in four murders classified as domestic terrorism were committed by right-wing extremists (most of
whom were white nationalists). In 2020, 55% of perpetrators of hate crimes were white, 21% were
Black, and 16% were of unknown racial backgrounds. Sixty-two percent of hate crimes were about
race/ethnicity, nearly 25% were about sexual orientation/gender identity, and 13% were about religion.

In addition to the types of individuals who commit hate crimes, the locations where they
happen are notable. In Gendron’s case, he purposefully chose a grocery store in a Black neighborhood.
There is a long history in this country of white mobs terrorizing Black neighborhoods (e.g., Tulsa,
Rosewood, Wilmington). In January 2020, members of “The Base,” a neo-Nazi white separatist group
aiming to start a race war, were apprehended in Maryland and Georgia thanks to good law enforcement
work. It is no accident that members of this organization were apprehended in the two states with the
most affluent communities of Black Americans.

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 Adults who engage in acts of racialized violence often exhibit discriminatory and problematic
behavior as youths. In a Dallas suburb, a nine-year-old white boy banged on his neighbor’s door and
then hit it with a whip. He was looking for the nine-year-old Black girl who lives there. The mother of the
girl told him to leave or she would call the police. The family alleges the boy then scratched their car.
The girl’s father went to the boy’s home and spoke to his father. Bryan Brunson, the white father of the
boy, told the Black father to get off his property. Brunson then shot a gun at the Black father and was
later arrested. Adults like Gendron are often children like this nine-year-old who come from parents like
Brunson. They also have family members who stay silent while they wreak havoc.

The Brunson incident occurred in 2022, yet it seems like something we might read in a history
book about 1822, or maybe even 1955 when white people often snatched Black people from their
homes, beat them, lynched them, and murdered them like what happened to Emmett Till. Racial hate
crimes cannot just be explained away as mental health issues from a “lone wolf” or “bad apple.” Hate
crimes are a consequence of a social system that perpetuates white supremacy. An individual’s
prejudicial attitudes are molded by family, friends, and other social networks in their neighborhoods,
schools, and churches. White supremacist ideology is highly influenced by cable news and social media
that perpetuate division. Consequently, white supremacist ideology reveals itself later through more
normative and commonplace acts of racism (like racial profiling, predatory lending, and discriminatory
hiring) as well as targeted violence and mass murder.

White supremacists often use fear of their status in the racial hierarchy as justification for
violence. Gendron not only wrote the N-word and “Here’s your reparations” on his gun, but he also
wrote the number 14 on it. The number 14 is used to symbolize a white supremacist slogan: “We must
secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” This slogan fully embraces
replacement theory, which is the ideological assumption that white people will eventually go extinct or
at least lose economic and political power.

So, what will it take to address these hate crimes? Well, changing hearts and minds will not do
much. It will take policy change. It will take structural change to the institutional spaces that segregated
us and lead to othering. First, states and the federal government can use Maryland’s Lt. Richard W.
Collins III Law as a blueprint for strengthening hate crimes. The Lt. Collins Law states that a protected
identity like race just has to be one of the factors, rather than the sole factor, to be classified as a hate
crime. Days before his 2017 graduation from Bowie State University, Lt. Collins (who is Black) was
murdered by Sean Urbanski, a white University of Maryland student. Five years later, the Lt. Collins Plaza

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opened at the University of Maryland. Second, policymakers might consider classifying hate groups as
gangs. This will give law enforcement more resources to pursue the organizational structures of hate
groups.

Overall, it is clear that a growing group of white people are perceiving a group threat regarding
their power and status in the racial hierarchy. As President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “If you can convince
the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket.
Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” This is the ideology we
must address.

Reshawn Ray, “Preventing Racial Hate Crime, Means Tackling White, Supremacy

Ideology’’ ,Brooking Education,The Brooking Intitution,May 17,2022

www.brookings.edu/blog/

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A POEM

"My Skin Is Not A Weapon" By Wheeler Josiah

It's hard being on that black list.

I know, struggling with the racist,

Protest it's gonna get violent.

I know we're all struggling.

Look to me color's all you see,

George Floyd his neck under your knee,

Bettie Jones killed on Christmas Eve,

By the cops we all loved.

Protest our rights are what we need.

Tear gas in my eye help me please.

How'd this all lead in history?

My skin's not a weapon.

Having to tell your child,

The person you want to have everything,

That because of their skin tone

They might not be liked,

Or get special opportunities.

Or to have to teach them to not let police think you're a threat.

Because God forbid that.

Some of us live that.

Publishes by: Wheeler .J

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Published on: July 15, 2020

www.abc,poetryprocessracism.com

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A VISUAL

Dizain,Hate Crime Mind Map, Adobe Stock, 2022,www adopestockimages.com

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 REFLECTION ONE

The three ways used to gather information for my research on the theme of Racism for the topic
"The Influence of Racism on Hate Crimes" and how they've all formed my ideology on the theme and
topic for the School Based Assessment SBA.

The Online Journal, Titled "Preventing Racial Hate Crimes Means Tackling White Supremacy
Ideology" highlights and advances my understanding of how racism is linked to the supremacy of a
particular race over another and how the other race faces injustice against them. The journal further
uses statistics as a way to give a better understanding of this prevailing issue and how it has reduced and
increased over the years.

The poem shapes my knowledge of the turmoil faced by the victimized race, and how living with
it can be depressing. The writer tries to find meaning in all of this, even going ahead as recounting the
individual victims of hate crimes. The creator states that his skin is not a weapon, implying that his race
is seen as a threat due to racism when in fact, it is no threat at all

The visual data shows the different forms hate crime takes, this further enlightens me that it's
not always violent as we are made to believe but can be in different forms.

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 REFLECTION TWO

In the materials selected, Several uses is,this can tell you the headspace or emotions that the
writer was going through at the moment.

The online journal "preventing racial hate crime means tackling white supremacy ideology" was
written in a report-like tone, we see this at the beginning of the journal "A hate crime occurs nearly
every hour in the United States..." (Line 2) . There is also a sense of urgency in the writer's use of
language when asked "So, what will it take to address these hate crimes?" (Line 46). A question was
thrown out to the readers, the writer answers it too with possible answers that might be given not be
enough.(line 46-54,). The Writer goes more into depth throughout the journal, states statistics and also
gives real life examples.

The Second material uses emotional standpoint to drive home a message. The major tones the
author uses are sadness ,fear and rejection.(Line 8) "By the cops we all loved," the author feels rejected
and saddened by someone they thought they felt safe with, seeing what might be their true colors. Line
13-18 "Having to tell your child" the author conveys a tone of sadness and fear at this point of the
poem ,almost like preparing the child for slaughter that may or may not happen to then just because
they were born with a different skin color.

The third material is more of a visual representative of the different forms hate crime can occur.
The artist used a simpler approach, Using written words in an image ,the tone is more educative, lesser
emotions and yet one can simply understand just by looking at it.

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 REFLECTION THREE

This School Based Assessment (SBA) has immensely added to my vocabulary and better
understanding of hate crimes and racism, during the course of my research, my analytical skills have
gotten better. SBA has also taught me how to work in a team to get better results on a work and how to
properly share responsibilities among my team members.

Due to the research on the topic and theme, I am fully aware of the implications of racism and
how deep it can go in society. How racism has been an issue for so long and how it affects racial
minorities ,the things that can be done to put an end to it, also what happens when it goes unchecked.

In conclusion being aware of this issue has further shown me that this is not an issue that
should be ignored and that I too can spread awareness on this, and share my vocabulary on this issue to
others.

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 WRITTE

PRESENATION OVERVIEW

The Theme: Racism

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 The researcher will be presenting a poem using formal language throughout the
presentation. The poem titled “Light in Darkness” supports the topic “The Influence of racism
on Hate Crimes”. This presentation is to further throw some light on the SBA topic.

The source which the researcher will be gather information to support this poem is internet
access.

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 ORAL PRESENTATION

Good day to everyone, I will be giving a poem presentation based on the theme

“Racism” and the topic is “The Influence of Racism on Hate Crimes”. The poem is titled “Light

in Darkness”

LIGHT IN DARKNESS

We seek freedom and liberation,

From the deceitful foundations of our nation,

Infringe our sacred rights in justice,

Can we find hope through the darkness?

Black blood is not cheap,

Oh, how sorrowful mothers weep,

Black blood is excessively shed,

While the innocent fill prison beds.

When will it end?

While strolling down the street,

Or envisioning the future in your sleep,

While playing with your toys,

Bullets in casings of alloy,

The sirens, when all goes quiet.

Where is our protection?

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All the shades of earth or sand,

Must unite hand in hand,

While the uniformed take our young,

Our fists will not be hung.

The savage successors of our land,

Have engraved corrupted plans,

Our future will not be black with darkness,

Only but with light.

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 REFERENCES

● Reshawn Ray, "Preventing Racial Hate Crime, Means Tackling White, Supremacy

Ideology",Brooking Education,The Brooking Institution,May 17 2022. www.brookings.edu/blog/

● Wheeler,J , "My Skin Is Not A Weapon" , July 15, 2020,www.abc,poetryprocessracism.com

● Dizain, Hate Crime Mind Map, Adobe Stock, 2022,www.adobestockimages.com

● Olivia,"Light in Darkness" 2019, www.voicesofyouth.org

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