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¶ … Hanston Town Crisis case study presents us with a town that is expanding rapidly in population and experiencing demographic change to include African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans -- even Jews. We are asked to consider the committee of five white people appointed by the mayor to help Hanston accommodate its rapid demographic changes. Obviously the real crisis in Hanston begins with this mayor's utterly tone-deaf decision. If the ultimate goal in Hanston is multicultural inclusiveness (as opposed to homogeneity achieved through racial cleansing) then the make-up of the committee is wholly inappropriate. Here we follow the definition of McDonald (1998) who offers a description of "a multicultural society in which there is ...diffusion of power among a variety of groups" (87). The mayor's failure to include any blacks or Latinos or Asians on the committee sends a strong message, and the mayor would be advised immediately to include on the committee at least one black or Latino or Asian-American committee member. If the purpose of the mayor's committee is to address the question of how best to accommodate the new members of society -- and to get them to unite around an obvious common civic purpose -- this kind of inclusive gesture is paramount.
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After all one committeee member is described as "organizing the town to oppose the state's propsal to put a residence for mentally retarded adults in their community." That enough people can be organized for such opposition indicates a strong desire on the part of Hanston township for a homogenous purpose -- after all, a large number of mentally retarded adults inhabiting a relatively small town can lead to difficulties with pedestrian and automobile traffic, increased strain on limited social services resources, and also quality of life issues such as littering, noise pollution, and indecent exposure. This should not be confused, however, with the committee's attempt to accommodate Hanston's new black, Latino and Asian-American citizens: after all, intermarriage between these groups and white persons is relatively common in the twenty-first century, something which more or less never occurs (for sound eugenic reasons) with the mentally retarded. This would extend the…
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Execution of the Mentally Retarded: How the Law Was Changed Jim Ellis a hero to some people. You can't say he got the law changed single-handedly, but without him and his strategy, it might never have happened. Ellis is a law professor at University of New Mexico and the former president of the American Association on Mental Retardation. He has worked for nearly 30 years on behalf of people with
Thus, execution of the mentally retarded is not only illegal, but immoral as well. Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn of Amnesty International wants to expand this logic to include the mentally ill, stating, "Severely mentally ill people are not the worst of the worst" (Weigl 2006). Works Cited Hansen, Liane; Siegel, Robert. (2002 June 20). Analysis: Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional to execute mentally retarded people who've committed crimes. All Things Considered: National Public Radio.
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