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Social Justice For Black Americans
“Progress has been made as far as social justice for Black Americans is concerned”. Meaning that as far as social justice for Black Americans is a concern progress has been made, that social justice for Black Americans has progressed and gotten better. While laws for Black Americans have improved, social justice for them has not. I disagree that progress has been made as far as social justice for Black Americans is concerned.
I disagree with the prompt because social justice for Black Americans is still a concern to this day. People are still concerned with the social justice for Black Americans because it is still a problem. Many Black Americans have become famous for their writing and poems regarding their views and feelings on how social justice for them is still a concern, such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes; from the Harlem Renaissance. Also Maya Angelou and Tupac Shakur from the modern writers. From the Harlem Renaissance, for example in the poem “Sympathy” (Dunbar) he explains how he knows how the caged bird feels because he himself feels like a caged bird trying to get out of this cage of social injustice for him and his fellow Black Americans. Another example of this is in the poem “I, too” (Hughes) he
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Also another example of this from the modern writers views, in the song “I Aint Mad At Cha” (Tupac), he explains how to this day he can’t understand why their still experiencing this social injustice towards himself and other Black Americans and how it feels like a “ghetto we can never leave”, how he hopes and prays for a change; “I beg God to find a way for our ghetto kids to breath, Show a sign make us all

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