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.…
There are more than seven billion people that live in this world; therefore, you have more than 7 billion different types of culture. The diversity-religion, language, race, politics, etc- greatly vary amongst us all. Say a girl grew up in family that had everything work out well for her and she had life pretty good. Now place her in a different family situation. The things that go on in her life and the way she turns out to be can be completely different than right now. Her education she received and economic class she is in easily could have changed. The tradition she carries and the food, including the way she eats, could have been unlike the way it is today. She could have grown up speaking differently and dressing differently than she…
Today, the number of deaths including black people in custody has continued and black people are disproportionally stopped and searched on streets. After the case of Macpherson life for the black community was expected to change, however to some it is known that the changes have been extremely disappointing. Black people feel they are less likely to get a decent job, they feel they are treated disproportionally by police, by being stopped and searched and within communities (Janet et al,…
African Americans who don’t receive opportunities for advancement naturally get frustrated with society, which may catapult into violent outbursts among sections of the highly disadvantaged population. Even those African Americans who were subjugated to and suffer to this day from the brutalities of discriminatory policies may, and have every right to, feel oppressed by this system. Looking at the issue from a societal view, I argue that the higher authority has to take certain measures to ensure peace for this generation and incoming…
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.…
When it comes to the countless arrests, searches, and take downs of young black men and black male groups, the fear that the hunters think motivate them is the fear of being robbed or attacked by black males or these young black males attacking others. However, the actual “fear” that motivates these hunters is racial profiling and discrimination against black men/people in general. Our everyday media plays a big factor in this aspect. The way our media portrays black men is warped with stereotypes and typecasts, forcing into our heads petty ideals that most black men are overly aggressive, sexual, athletic or that they have little to no emotion. The hunters grow up on this corrupt media, therefore when its time to protect people (when it comes to the hunters being cops) its already embedded into there heads that black men are “the most likely to rob, attack, or become violent”, and these flawed ideals heavily influence their decisions.…
In February 2012 It was a story on the news that caught my attention. This story was about a 17 year old named Trayvon Martin African American boy whom was shot by George Zimmerman. While walking from the store he noticed an older Caucasian man following him. After a short confrontation a struggle ensued. Trayvon scream for help where not answered and was killed.…
Africans Americans faced many problems after being set free after the Emancipation Proclamation. They were freed men according to the law, but were they really free? They still faced the same racism and prosecution that they had before when they were slaves. They were still treated badly by the white man, as a second class. A black man couldn’t go to the same schools, ride on the same buses, or even drink out of the same drinking fountain as a white man. There were many double standards throughout society.4…
It’s not a secret that there is still injustice and racism amongst the African American community. Too often I hear and read these type of stories about us protecting ourselves or our loved in return going to jail for it. And a lot of time these type of stories always seems to only consist of us. I wish the system wasn’t rigged, but it is. It is like we have a right to be free, but so many of us get lectured, when we exercise our freedom. The stand your ground laws, hardly if ever have been demonstrated to apply to us, just against us. An Aurora woman facing felony firearm charges for firing warning shots at the gunman who killed her fiancé and father of her two children. In the Chicago tribes 26-year-old Ashley Harrison is getting convicted…
The story of African-Americans throughout the history of America has been the story of the struggle for human rights. This group of people have been forced to fight for freedom from slavery, freedom of the right to vote and freedom to exist as equals with white Americans. African-Americans struggled for human rights in the USA from 1945-1970 and were forced to fight for equality using two main strategies, of which the most successful was non-violent non-cooperation. Nevertheless, despite the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 and acts accomplished by 1970, there were still rights to be tended to later in the future. Therefore, it is essential to examine the types of strategies used to gain equality especially Martin Luther King, how successful…
The group that i'm going to to be talking about is African Americans. African Americans mostly come from Nigeria/Cameroon. Some oppressions are in 1619 the first African American servant arrived in the American colonies. Less than a decade later, the first slaves are brought into New Amsterdam.…
Today, African Americans are literally dropping dead physically and mentally. Males to be even more specific, We are not only killing each other but we are falling into this system the government has set up for us. It’s what I’d like to call “Black Death”. Black Death is not just the killing of African Americans but the incarceration of us as well. We are close to 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated populations. We are incarcerated at six times the rate of whites. It amazes me just a little that African Americans were 58 percent of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans at that time only made up approximately one quarter of the US population. According to “Unlocking America”, if blacks were incarcerated at the same rates of whites, today's prison populations would drop tremendously, approximately 50 percent. One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001. According to “Unlocking America” this means that if this continues, one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime. It’s a shame studies can show and give factual statements that black males unborn could possibly end up in jail. Nationwide, African Americans represent 26 percent of juvenile arrests, 44 percent of youth who are detained, 46 percent of the youth who are judicially waived to criminal court, and 58 percent of the youth admitted to state prisons center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. So not only is this system of “Black Death” affecting adults, they’re corrupting our young African Americans as well. What I mean by corruption is the public school system. Not only is the government giving our young leaders of the future the bare minimum and just passing them on, they’re feeding them lies. Public school districts are failing to educate students, if students lack education they will not be prepared for the world which will cause them to fall into these stereo types of not being able to success. Education weekly’s studies show…
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.…
We have our first African American president and many African Americans are taking higher positions. Many things in our society are not being recognized, such as police brutality, white people talking to us any kind of way and not having justice when white people kill one of our brothers and sisters. As I keep stating, white people are privileged, meaning in some bad situations white people wouldn’t get in much trouble. African Americans in society today are basically portrayed by the white people. White Americans portrayed African Americans as football players, basketball players, or criminals. As I see it black men feel like they cannot see themselves outside that portrayal. Black men feel that’s their only opportunities to make it in the world, besides being a criminal.…
In the past years within the United States, black people were treated as an inferior race to the white community. This was seen from the actuality that African Americans were subjected into the world of slavery (Ager…