In the present day there are some products that Nike would not have to do and at the same time do very well. One of their brands is Air Jordan, and in my opinion Nike is able to go without this brand. Having a sub brand under their big Nike one is economically right, as both Nike and Air Jordan are producing the same products for the same sport. Therefore since they make very similar products Air Jordan should merge together with Nike and that way it will be better for their economy. Nike is also a producer of baseball equipment. One of the products that they could eliminate is the production of baseball gloves because it has barley part in this market as Rawlings dominates most of the baseball glove market. And Nike is not a huge competitor against them since there are bigger companies that could challenge them but Nike is not one. That was they will save money on the production of these baseball gloves that do not sell well. Similarly, Nike also produces tennis clothing and shoes. But these products are extremely similar to the ones under their running products, similarly to the Air Jordan situation. Once again it would be better economically to merge these two brands together to increase the profit of Nike as a whole.…
Conforming is something that is expected from everyone, but who benifites from this conformity? Shavar Jeffries, Holly Brewer, and Amy Tan might have an idea. Shavar Jeffries’s New York Times article “Black Men: Stigma, Status and Expectation” discuses the historical and present racial stigma against black men in the United States. Jeffries covers the dehumanization of black people, the discrimination against them, and finally the current day prejudices and stereotypes held against them. Holly Brewer’s article “Stereotypes” addresses gender stereotypes and their effects on young people. Some key points include a list of gender stereotypes, how young children are when they are presented with their “gender roles”, and how aware yet inactive…
In her essay “Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women” Jennifer McLunes states that “Hip-hop owes its success to the ideology of woman-hating”(222). She states that hip-hop condones an attitude of objectification, sexism, and homophobia. That rarely does an artist break the mold of rampant sexism. While she is right that some lyrics may be interpreted as chauvinistic and perhaps even sexist, this is not majority of the music. McLunes argument is not valid because hip-hop’s artists, the environment it is born from, and its culture is a celebration of materialism not misogyny.…
The analysis of Traditional, Hegemony and Black masculinity the requirement for power is absolute. Power “is not a thing, but a relation.” (michel-foucault.com). Power is created by some entity generating a condition that overpowers another individual or group. The power creation generates different types of power. Sovereign power is the obedience to the law central authority (michel-foucault.com). There is a Sovereign powers display in every visual media piece. The sovereign power displayed in visual media is suppressive to the greater good. The Birth of the Nation film created or captured the narrative that Black men are dangerous. The danger is completely linked power. The power to take is the true concern. All the Black males at one point in time wanted to take something from the central power.…
During the 18th and 19th century, racism was very actively ruining innocent people’s life. It stopped the America from moving forward, because it was stuck on the color of a man’s skin. With that being the case, many interracial families were not accepted by the law or the eyes of the man. Though interracial marriage became legal in 1967, many men and women who tried to pursue a relationship with another race were taunted, mistreated, and often killed. Within the 21st century, minds that were once afraid of a man’s skin now slowly started to welcome different race marriage within the family. This being the case, the offsprings of the interracial parents did not have to be afraid of being proud of their heritage, instead they started to be able to embrace it.…
African men are more different than the white males. The African males seek their women for…
There are no prerequisites for love and belonging, we are deserving of love and belonging simply by reason of existence. This is one of the abounding stunning ideas found in Brené Brown’s work. However, this was such a foreign idea to my way of being and of relating to the world that I had no salutation node towards it nor an A-ha moment. Only after repeated readings and listening did the clouds disperse. Theoretically I recognized its truth, but at some level I felt this truth did not refer to me.…
Eric Foner argues, in Give Me Liberty, that former slaves' definition of freedom mirrored that of white Americans. In The Souls of Black Folk, the author, W. E. B. De Bois supports this argument. De Bois says blacks just wanted to be treated the same as the white man. They wanted to be accepted into society, instead of discriminated against because of the color of their skin. De Bois states, “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”1 De Bois goes on to say this is the problem that caused the Civil War. De Bois explains, “Negro slavery was the real cause of the problem.”2…
Black masculinity itself is a subject that in the recent years has come under scrutiny for its portrayal of the black male as violent, aggressive and oversexualised and disregarding them as emotional fully realised individuals. Due to the influence of the media in mainstream society these representations have become negative stereotypes attributed to African American men preventing them from truly discovering their identity out of the gaze of white America. With movements such as the Black Lives Matter movement (2013) created in response to the highly publicised killings of African Americans as well as their treatment at the hands of law enforcement ;also the BBDC 'Black Boys Don’t Cry "a project designed to deconstruct the ideals of black…
The first article I read was called “Plutocrats Despising the Poor: An American Tradition.” A part of the article talks about how millionaires and billionaires are basically telling the middle class and poor should just suck it up and that the 99 percent should stop “envying” the rich and start “emulating” them. Also that we should be glad we don’t live in China or India where people are making 30,00 and in my opinion even people in America only make that much for example some teachers only make 40,000 a year and that’s with a four year degree. As quoted in the article “And most of all they should stop annoying their "betters" with demands for "handouts" like unemployment insurance, food stamps, and other "entitlements." They also talk about how we're forced to endure over the public airwaves the whining and moaning of billionaires and millionaires who believe working people are not bending at the knee to them enough or doing so without the level of devotion. In January Tom Perkins sent a letter into the wall street journal comparing working people’s concern about inequality to the Nazis singling out the Jews for persecution at the time of Kristallnacht, but later did he take back that statement but he did stay true to the message he was trying to send out although Sam Zell did agree with his statement and had defended Perkins. The second article is called “If Obama is such a socialist, then why are government jobs disappearing?” Throughout the past four years Obama has created roughly 8.5 million dollars yet well the labor market has turned around public employment has decreased. “For all the talk on the right about how President Obama is a closet socialist bent on ballooning the government, jobs at the state, local, and federal levels have steadily dried up since Obama took office.” So this leads to the question what is happening and why hasn’t Obama done anything to fix this issue at hand. The article also talks about how public sector employment has fallen…
In the United States, the inequality of many different types of races and genders is very clear. Many people are treated unjustly whether it's from the police, the judicial system, or society itself. A lot of people are prejudiced towards others because of their appearance, skin tone, or who they are and it's a very serious problem. The media that we have today is arguably being used as a tool to make certain groups of people look inferior to others. Many people feel this way because of events that have happened in the last few years across the country from Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown repeatedly being depicted as thugs in the news to racist advertisements in the 1900s. Black masculinity is being manipulated by the media to fit a certain…
Oppression, a word that is commonly used in the social work profession to describe different groups of people who face hardships due to their characteristics. These characteristics include race, gender, and socioeconomic status, which leads to society labeling them as different. The majority of the people who are in these groups make up minority groups. Furthermore, power structure is the overall conflict that prevents these minority groups from advancing. This conflict leads to those who are affected becoming what society perceives them as, in other words, internalizing negative stereotypes given to their group. This analysis will be based on the perspective of incarcerated African American men. This perspective is to describe the barriers…
pronounce but still a very easy book to read. The focus is on the photographs.…
Can you imagine getting a phone call from a family member in jail? This thought went through my head as I saw that one out ten of my classmates had or have a family member incarcerated. Being an African American female incarceration never really crossed my mind on how many people in my cultural are going to jail for crimes that they didn’t commit, minor crimes, and because of the way they look. For example, African American males are being imprisoned all over the United States for crack, cocaine, weed, and the modern day Ecstasy (Molly). Growing up in a community where I experienced drug use, my family wouldn’t allow me to pre-take on these bad habits from the examples above. As I witnessed child hood friends going to prison before the age of fourteen and fifteen, I always thought that it will be better for them once they got out if they were giving a second chance. Looking back into history I found that the government was the primary reason for African American males and females being incarcerated. Furthermore, cocaine and crack was place in black communities to entrap African Americans from better themselves in this society. For instance, education, jobs, and knowledge are some of the things African American won’t have a real shot at getting before the age sixteen. Like most blacks, this is seen as the second generation of the Jim Crow Law, which prevents blacks from getting ahead before whites. Once African American males are convicted of a felony they lose their rights to vote in some states and looked as a second class citizen living in the United States. Research as labeled the United States for having the worst justice system, because of the increasing amount of people going to jail. Also, study showed that African American makeup 30% of the United States and is leading race with 60% for being incarcerated. Moreover, it was shown that once African American is labeled as a felon they will go back to the streets because they are limited to…
I am writing about black men in America. Today's black men have a struggle. They are struggling with colored men and stereo-type. The one thing about black men in America is that they are fighters. They won't give up without a fight. They will try to prevail in anything that they want do.…