Wells-Barnett still have implicating effects on the world we live in today. The subtle and obvert racism in today’s media coverage of police brutality, and the mere normalcy of these brutal attacks on our neighbors of color, reflects poorly on the history relative to the progress of our nation’s sentiment for a group of people who continue to be oppressed. It is difficult to describe the gut-wrenching feeling that I felt when reading this text on the mere basis that human beings were treated this way in the past; it cuts even deeper when you realize that black Americans today still have similar fears to those of post-Civil War African Americans. Moving forward as a nation, I hope we continue to prosecute the offenders of
Wells-Barnett still have implicating effects on the world we live in today. The subtle and obvert racism in today’s media coverage of police brutality, and the mere normalcy of these brutal attacks on our neighbors of color, reflects poorly on the history relative to the progress of our nation’s sentiment for a group of people who continue to be oppressed. It is difficult to describe the gut-wrenching feeling that I felt when reading this text on the mere basis that human beings were treated this way in the past; it cuts even deeper when you realize that black Americans today still have similar fears to those of post-Civil War African Americans. Moving forward as a nation, I hope we continue to prosecute the offenders of