Amber Halsey CJ 120 - Cultural Awareness in Criminal Justice Professor Gardner January 14, 2024 Module One Journal There was an instance where I witnessed discrimination when I was with a friend over ten years ago. We were twenty-one years old, going out to a bar and she got approached by a group of Caucasian males. They were taking bets on who could go home with her first. When she politely declined, they were saying things about her race, age, and how she was easy as a woman. My friend is African American, so this could be said as a targeted crime for attempting to pick up a prostitute. The police were called, and all of this was documented. This is the inner most part of the Diversity Wheel we were asked to look at this week in our class. Two historical events that may have been involved with this discrimination factor are poverty and slavery. My friend is African American. We are all familiar with the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery. We live in a primarily Caucasian populated area, so this may have triggered those men to act like my friend was less than them due to the difference in her skin color. The other issue that may have stemmed from this wheel is the issue with poverty. Since we were younger adults at the time, these men may have thought that we were easy due to our upbringing with poverty. We do not live in the most luxurious area, but we did not hit the poverty level standards. This could have been a preconceived notion that African Americans are deemed as living in poverty.