African Americans Research Paper

African Americans have experienced many things racially throughout U.S. history in so many ways. First and fore most African Americans instantly became a notable minority group when they were captured in Africa and brought over to the U.S. and to be integrated into slavery. Since the times of slavery they have been a minority group. Over the course of American history laws have been developed to enforce discrimination against African Americans. For instance, they were not able to either eat or go into “white” restaurants or able to use the bathrooms or water fountains that whites used. They were told they had to sit on the back of buses and not in front, that’s if they were even allowed on that bus. African Americans were not allowed to vote.
Some of the social concerns were that years ago a “black” person was considered as 1/5 of a white person and today they aren’t. Some of the concerns that we have faces and still face are the groups that think that society should be all white, these groups known as the KKK and the Arian Brotherhood. The KKK groups spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement during the Reconstruction era in the United States. As a secret vigilante group, the Klan targeted freed men and their allies; it sought to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white citizens. One of the biggest political concerns would be that for years African Americans have been discriminated against and as we all know brought over as slaves and had absolutely no political rights. One of the concerns was that they couldn’t vote, if you look today we have an African American President. I don’t think that anyone years ago thought that we would have an “black” president. I think that it has changes tremendously over the years, and I don’t see a problem with having a black president. His whole mission coming in as president was to capture Osama Bin Laden, and he did just that. Some of the cultural issues would be the holiday Kwanzaa. Its not like our Christmas where we wake up and open presents. They have to follow their religion and how to celebrate it. Kwanzaa is observed each year from December 26 through January. Participants in Kwanzaa celebrations affirm their African heritage and the importance of family and community by drinking from a unity cup; lighting red, black, and green candles; exchanging heritage symbols, such as African art; and recounting the lives of people who struggled for African and African American