Throughout United States history, African Americans suffered through a great deal of discrimination, hate crimes, police brutality, Jim Crow laws, poverty, and hate groups. Incidents that transpired during this are not typically a part of the American school curriculum. One such example of hidden African American history was the destruction of Black Wall Street. Black Wall Street was one of the most successful black neighborhoods in American history. It all came to an end when a white mob, led by the Klu Klux Klan completely destroyed the neighborhood in its entirety. Over six hundred black owned businesses were destroyed to the ground leaving thousands of African Americans arrested, homeless, or injured.(Graves) Black Wall street could've
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A lot of the African American community blames their disappointments in life on white people. This is all because some black people still have a slave mindset. Slave mindset is when one believes that they don’t have the power to anything in life because white people are superior. Many black people are being raised that one can’t do anything because the white man is going to take it away. We as an African American community don’t support each other. We like to tear one down from each other dreams. Marque- Anthony says “The mindset of being suspicious of each other, tearing each other down and defending those things and ways that are detrimental to us is exactly what is keeping our people down”. Once our community gets away from the slave mindset we can conquer …show more content…
It would have given our current generations an example on how you can come from nothing to something by believing in yourself. The first step in helping more of our black businesses succeed simply given them black love. Our society has to get over the slave mindset and believe in their own dreams and other people's dreams as well. If all of the business owners on Black Wall street created successful business then so can we. Certainly, our contributing factors on why black business fail is not nearly as bad as the things that the African American have dealt with in the
A lot of the African American community blames their disappointments in life on white people. This is all because some black people still have a slave mindset. Slave mindset is when one believes that they don’t have the power to anything in life because white people are superior. Many black people are being raised that one can’t do anything because the white man is going to take it away. We as an African American community don’t support each other. We like to tear one down from each other dreams. Marque- Anthony says “The mindset of being suspicious of each other, tearing each other down and defending those things and ways that are detrimental to us is exactly what is keeping our people down”. Once our community gets away from the slave mindset we can conquer …show more content…
It would have given our current generations an example on how you can come from nothing to something by believing in yourself. The first step in helping more of our black businesses succeed simply given them black love. Our society has to get over the slave mindset and believe in their own dreams and other people's dreams as well. If all of the business owners on Black Wall street created successful business then so can we. Certainly, our contributing factors on why black business fail is not nearly as bad as the things that the African American have dealt with in the