Summary Of Stamped From The Beginning

Since the beginning of time, African Americans have been discriminated against and racially profiled. In the informative book Stamped From the Beginning, author Ibram X. Kendi illustrates the anti-Black racist views and shows the hardships endured throughout the early years of America. Today, many people believe racism is something that started overnight, uneducated in the true history of racial disparities. However, it is something that is constantly recycled in different forms and fashions. The crippling debate over racial disparities has been divided into categories. The three different major groups each have their own viewpoints and beliefs (Kendi, 2017). Being that white people are seen as angels, who can do no harm to anyone. Discrimination
There were a handful of people who believed in this theory. While assimilationists felt as if humans were all created as a single species. They argued that the origin of the human race, as a whole, developed in Europe’s Garden of Eden. Another theory, the curse of Ham, another one of the widely spread racist theories amongst the communities. The curse of Ham theory indicated that black people were living their lives through the punishment for being children of Ham, which is the son of Noah. Even though this curse doesn’t mention dark skin, it was altered to justify slavery (Haynes). It was only Africans who were considered to be living out this curse. Unfortunately, English men constantly over sexualize black and African women. There were numerous cases of rape and molestation inflicted on black women by white men. It was also extremely rare for a white man to take accountability for their actions, especially when society automatically points blame on a person of color, at any given