Ethical evaluation evaluation of the institutional structures surrounding the thesis, include at least three(3) theorists will be identified and applied to the outline.

POLICE BRUTALITY AMONG NIGERIAN MALES IN PHILADELPHIA

- ABU JAMAL 'S CASE

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming to my neighborhood after dark ' - Dick Gregory

INTRODUCTION

Cultural prejudice is like a virus that is transmitted from human to human and like a parasite eats up a society and its reasoning . These prejudices are reflected in our day to day life . How often we see a white women shying away from young African American male on the street reflecting the basic stereotyped assumptions

that we make about others every day . These inevitable behaviors of which most of us are victims remain unresolved because of the unconscious state it has entered Likewise , people who have been victims of racism in the past develop an extreme judgmental attitude , often labeling a simple act as a racist failing them to ever see well in others

THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION : MASCULINE PRINCIPLES OVER FEMININE PRINCIPLES : MARILYN FRENCH

Marilyn French , a feminist fiction writer , in her work on Beyond Power : On Women , Men and Morals (1986 ' interprets such bigot behavior as an outcome of a patriarchal world that is lured by power and control over women , children , property , and other men and subsequently enticed with the idea of superiority using skin color , wealth , religion and ethnicity as its variable . She suggests that the masculine principle is governed by aggressiveness which prevails over the cultural values ascribed to the feminine principle . Quoting from her work , World wide patriarchal values and perspectives are so pervasive many people believe them to be inevitable . Such thinkers believe feminine principle oriented cultures became instinct because of the superiority of Western patriarchy . She further emphasizes that since western people are oriented in a masculine thought its end result is anything but cultural prejudice . Further , delving on this theory she suggests that we all are members of the in- groups ' that offers us a feeling of belongingness and comfort . And all others become members of the out-groups . It is taken as a fact that members of one group will always be antagonist to the members of the other group . Marilyn calls it a self justifying dialogue that keeps us from self analysis mixing beliefs with attitudes and values , and morality with ethics (French , 1985 ,

.19 . We obediently keep practicing what we have been taught in our lifetime i .e . what to think ' of those who are members of the opposite group instead of how to think ' and in turn delaying our judgment about others . Our faculty has stopped responding to a logical reasoning and it has simply turned into a mechanical thought process . Leading all of us to becoming racist , ageist , and ethnocentric in this patriarchal culture

AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITIES : BRESLIN AND ALLPORT

There is a personality type called the AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY . Such personality is marked by rigidness . An authoritarian personality clings on to the conventional values of their culture , and refuses at any time the need of self - introspection (Breslin , 1974 ,

.51 . While...