For long, the black Race has existed in America but being prejudged by the white race has caused loss of many black lives and created a feeling of insecurity in the black society.…
Maria W. Stewart delivered an emotionally charged lecture that expressed her views regarding African American freedom and treatment in America. Stewart addresses many other positions and logically appeals to them. Stewart was trying to send the audience a message of awareness to the continued injustices and mental barriers America is facing. She uses allusions, pathos, and anecdotal evidence to effectively portray her position.…
“With his black brothers of Africa and his brown and yellow brothers of Asia, South America and the Caribbean, the United States Negro is moving with a sense of great urgency toward the promised land of racial justice.”…
After reading William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’s “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” it’s clear to understand what a hardship African Americans must have gone through during his time. Prejudice was at the forefront and Du Bois wrote about the “vast veil” he metaphorically wore that kept him shut off from much of the world. Du Bois expressed how life had been for him, being a “colored man”. He really makes you feel his pain, when Du Bois states, “How does it feel to be a problem?”(pg 292). You can’t imagine how it must have felt to grow up thinking that just because of the color of your skin you must be a problem. Being the year 2013 we don’t really see color as much, (I know that’s not the case with all people), however during Du Bois’s time I really can’t imagine how unbearable it must have been for the minority. Life’s not easy as a whole, and then to throw in the fact that you’re not good enough just because of the color of your skin is…
The 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, purposely spat at a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it… I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks.” In modern day society, stigma around the African-American race is still prevalent leaving ignorant people expressing harsh assertions, which are not true. African immigrants, from different areas of the continent, and African-Americans possess traits of utmost valor to surpass the injustice and brutality of their lives.…
The African American generation of today is in extreme distress, they kill each other more and more everyday with very little remorse. They kill each other because they don’t value life and some of them are too young to realize that not only did they take someone’s life, but they also destroyed their own. The murder rates of blacks in the United States are higher now than they were 25 years ago. More young black Americans die from homicide today in America than those of whites. More young black males are being imprisoned due to the rising violence in the black community leaving their women to raise the kids on their own. Black females have been affected more in a psychoanalytic and sociocultural perspective because of how black women were treated in the past.…
“In the eyes of white Americans, being black encapsulates your identity.” In reading and researching the African American cultural group, this quote seemed to identify exactly the way the race continues to still be treated today after many injustices in the past. It is astonishing to me that African Americans can still stand to be treated differently in today’s society.…
Since its early days as a nation, the United States has had a reputation for glossing over its mistreatment and oppression of people of color, especially African Americans. Not aiding matters is White Americans turning a blind eye to the injustices faced by minorities. Despite several advancements that have come since for POC in America, including the outlawing of segregation and the election of the first Black President, this country is still far from perfect when it comes to resolving racial issues. And even as remarkable black scholars and activists have been trying to reach out to Caucasian communities to make a difference, the message has yet to fully be comprehended 150+ years after the abolition of slavery and 50+ years following the…
Today, healthcare has advanced through extreme procedures in the past that the United States government will never get to make-up for. Innocents were tortured in hopes that they were leading towards finding a cure for their diseases. The Tuskegee Experiment is one of the first documented experiments in the United States that fully admits to the wrong doings they performed to African Americans in their program. The Tuskegee Experiment was, by definition, the same as a clinical trial in today’s society, but that changed quickly. In 1932, the United States told nearly 400 African Americans that they would get free treatment for their disease.…
The three-decade period beginning in the 1940s and carrying over into the 1960s was a highly important era for the African-American Freedom Struggle. During this period, black Americans were living in a highly militant environment, not just in the Deep South but in the entire United States as a whole. The era was also defined by highly organized efforts by black Americans to defend their personal dignity, to achieve legal recognition of civil rights and to gain greater socioeconomic status. The importance of the Second World War (WWII) regarding African-American rights and freedom is frequently overlooked in today’s society.…
America is in denial. “I don’t see color” and “It’s not about race” are the first phrases heard when a racial issue presents itself and although they sound like harmless, well-meaning words they continue to suppress the black voice in America. When 18 year old Mike Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, MI earlier last year the masses came together to mourn for the loss of child. However, for every outpouring of sympathy, there was a racist comment to match it. Everyone across the nation had something to say about this small town boy’s death.…
With Bernie sanders campaign coming to an abrupt end for the democratically pyrrhic victory of Hilary Clinton, our nation faces a torrid commencement of a future of financial gridlock, consistently confounded abilities of negligence to we the people, and a final drop of the hatchet and permanent dismemberment of what used to be the American dream as they continue to feed further in the lie that the lower class deserves to be there, the middle class is getting poorer and the rich getting richer and therefore those who refute their oversimplified version of “the truth” must be lazy, poor, incompetent, or just plain out stupid. Essentially, what made America great, is dead. In this upcoming election we have two options. A vindictive con-man, seeking vengeance from a civilization that never did him wrong. He was born into wealth, and as a result he shall live out his days in wealth, never being able to comprehend the…
America was founded in 1776 at Independence hall and the founding fathers put forth a…
The president of 2017 may not have been what many were expecting and probably one of the most hated result, but it everything came down to Trump defeating Hillary Clinton and his first one hundred days in office. Our president today is the identity of Donald Trump through one cause and a whole lot of effects, leading to the United States of America we know today. Was it a good choice?…
Race has been a major issue of American society since the colonial era, playing a puissant role in the political system of the United States government. The term “race” has changed throughout history, but America’s history of separating people based on race creates a clear view of how most racial minorities' have been treated in this country. Racial minorities have faced many inequitable experience and have had the civil right excluded throughout United State history. African-Americans are not the only racial minority group who have been mistreated. Chinese Americans and Native Americans have had virtually the same experiences, but African-Americans illustrate a direct and perpetual view of racial inequality throughout history on a more extreme…