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= sources = 1 https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/News/2018/5/20/Tunisia-pilot-boots-passenger-over-racism-against-black-attendant

2 https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2016/03/tunisia-dirty-secret-160316153815980.html

3 https://thearabweekly.com/tunisia-become-second-african-country-legally-prohibit-racial-discrimination

4 https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g297943-i9229-k11363716-Worried_about_racism_because_I_am_black-Hammamet_Nabeul_Governorate.html

5 https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/chouaib-el-hajjaji/black-tunisian-women-ceaseless-erasure-and-post-racial-ill

7 https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/justice-reconciliation/38219-mobilizing-for-social-justice-black-tunisian-activism-in-transitional-justice.html

6.https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/75786

8 http://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/11664/racist-acts-in-tunisia-some-police-officers-don-t-even-file-complaints === best article for examples of racism, published sept 3 2018

9 http://northafricapost.com/25772-tunisia-parliament-adopts-anti-racism-law.html = new parlement law enacted October 2018

10. https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/opinions/pourquoi-les-tunisiens-se-mobilisent-contre-le-racisme-212651574

11.https://www.lawfareblog.com/another-first-tunisia-criminalizes-racism

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Fifteen percent of the country identifies as black and many of them face prejudiced on a daily basis. Words like "monkey", "slave" , and "dirty negro" are used to dehumanized the black population. . Physical assault is also prevalent for the black community. On August 23,2018, several young Tunisians started to throw rocks at a pregnant woman because of race. The situation soon turned into a fight and several people were injured Ghayda Jeanne Thabet, a communication officer of a minority support group, explained to reporters after the attack "This is not the first time that such a racist assault takes place in Tunisia; it happens often," The Tunisian Government denies that racism and exists within the country and yet studies have proven otherwise. A study conducted in in April and May of 2018 by Afrobarometer recorded data from 12 hundred respondents. The table below shows some of the results. Laws

Tunisia in the last decade has gone from completely denying the existence of racism within the country to now passing laws criminalizing it. The creation of the law began in 2011 after the Tunisian Revolution. The Revolution was a huge civil rights push that ended up removing the current president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and creating a democratic state with free elections. While the new constitution contained several Articles, it never addressed specifically to the form of racism that much of the black population faced on a daily basis. Article 21 states "All citizens, male and female, have equal rights and duties, and are equal before the law without any discrimination." According to the Tunisian government, this law refers to the equality of all people in value, not the equality of people of base on color and race. Article 23 states "The state protects human dignity and physical integrity, and prohibits mental and physical torture." . This section on protects the dignity of its citizens, even though attacks against a person race may be considered degrading, this law does not protect against it because the Tunisian government denies the existence of racism and therefore this law has no need to address it. Article 47 states "The state must provide all types of protection to all children without discrimination and in accordance with their best interest." This also according to the government doesn't apply to racist remarks. It applies to the physical protection of children, not the verbal or racial discrimination they can face daily. None of these articles are interpreted to criminalize racism and discrimination. Several organizations started just after the 2011 revolution with the goal of making the government re-interpreted or add to these articles to apply to racism. Association for Equality and Development (ADAM) and Minorités, and M’nemty all held marches, events, seminars and protest trying to win the support of the public and Tunisian government officials Initially, the movement began on social media because traditional media wouldn't cover it. These protests were met with strong resistance from the population majority. Arab nationalists believed the protest were tearing the country apart and removing focus from important issues such as Tunisia's failing economy, some didn't believe racism in Tunisia existed and thought the black population was looking for attention. In January of 2018, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed publicly supported the creation of a draft to criminalize racism by adding to Article 21, 25, 47 or creating an entirely new law. Several events prior to this announcement pushed the Prime Minister to support the cause. Civil rights activist credit a girl name Sabrina for starting the talk about the creation of the law. In early 2016, Sabrina was verbally abused with racial insults on the street and reported the incident to the police. However, because of the lack of laws prohibiting it, the police could do nothing about it. . The event did little more than spark interest but on Christmas Eve 2016 a racial knife attack on three black students in a train station which left them all wounded provided more reason for people to demand a law from the government. The drafting of the law started shortly after. On October 9, 2018, Tunias’s Parlement passed a law called “Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination” Act. Under the new law, discrimination is described as "any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, ancestry" or other discrimination that lead to "disturbances, an obstruction or privation." Breaking the law can result in a fine up to 1000 dollar fine and up to three years in prison. Messaoud Romdhani, head of the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, compared the passing of the law equivalent in value to the abolition of slavery in improving the country and daily lives of its citizens.

Article Evaluation Section: Christianity and transgender people
The content in the article Christianity and transgender people is relevant to the topic about Christianity and transgender peoples. Reading the first paragraph informs the reader that there is not straight forward answer that can be generalized to the entire Christian religion and so sets a broad point that future sub-topics address. A distracting piece of the article is the list of Christian denominations that allow transgender clergy in the middle of the page. It distracts readers just because it is a list of denominations with no explanation of why they allow transgender people be be clergy. I believe either the list should go to the bottom of the page and so out of the way or each denomination should have a short explanation of why they allow transgender people. The information used in the page is up to date within a year giving it good credibility for current times. The page is missing the other side of the transgender list. I believe if the page includes a list of denominations that accept transgender clergy, there should also be a list of denominations that don't recognize transgender clergy's to balance the point of view.

Overall, the tone is informative with very little bias one way or the other. However, the viewpoint of Christianity accepting transgender people is greatly over represented. The first line state "Within Christianity there are a variety of views on the issues of gender identity and transgender people." and the the article goes on to talk mostly about different churches that have accepted or allowed transgender people. Only at the bottom of the page do we start to see the other side of the transgender issue with a couple quotes explaining the reason why they are against accepting transgender people. Giving a rough estimate, the ratio of writing about pro-transgender churches and anti-transgender churches is about 70:30.

I checked source #50 which is a reference to the Bible. The link worked and also gave me a page with the exact quote that was used in Wikipedia. I checked source #60 and it sent me to a NPR article explaining exactly what was mentioned in the wiki article. I checked source #70 and the link sent me to a USA today page where an article explained in more detail then what was included in Wikipedia. All the references came from credible sources. I don't believe it is possible to right a neutral article but I believe the bias' from the source articles are not enough where it could change this article.