Krystal Smith
Professor Ellis
African American History
5 September 2014
Racism is Not a Permanent Feature of American Society Slavery has been said to be a “stain on the history of the United States of America.” Some believe that racism is a battle that African Americans still struggle with today; and always will. Other, on the other hand, believes that factors than racial discrimination explain the currently disappointing statistics of African Americans today. Derrick Bell, a professor at Harvard University school of Law and civil rights lawyer, argues that racism is far from over. He says that racism is the reason many African Americans struggle with gaining meaningful employment, getting promotions, and living in good neighborhoods. …show more content…
Most white first encounters with blacks are rappers such as Lil Wayne or 2pac Shakur, gangster rappers, boasting about sealing drugs, killing people, and being locked up in prisons. So white take that impression and apply it to the every black man. Whites see teenage pregnancy, welfare dependency, and high school drop-outs in the inner city of New York and then whites apply that assumption to every black woman in the U.S. Unfortunately, whites do not see the 1,341,354 black men in college in 2010 verses 844,600 of black males incarcerated in 2010 …show more content…
The community, which he was killed in, was being burdened with break-ins by a person said to be black male. No one gave a disruption accurate enough to identify a person and with about twenty percent of the residents being black there is no way Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman, could have thought the teenager was theft based on the description given. Trayvon died because Zimmerman had a thought that every black man living in that community was a criminal. The night of the murder, Zimmerman saw a black man at night in a hoodie and had to have thought: “that had to be a criminal.” So, no, Trayvon Martin, a seventeen year old teenager from Miami Gardens Florida, did not die of racism but from a man using racial profiling as a method to solving a community hardship. Hopefully, others, be it law enforcement or neighborhood watchman, will learn that racial profiling is not an investigation
Professor Ellis
African American History
5 September 2014
Racism is Not a Permanent Feature of American Society Slavery has been said to be a “stain on the history of the United States of America.” Some believe that racism is a battle that African Americans still struggle with today; and always will. Other, on the other hand, believes that factors than racial discrimination explain the currently disappointing statistics of African Americans today. Derrick Bell, a professor at Harvard University school of Law and civil rights lawyer, argues that racism is far from over. He says that racism is the reason many African Americans struggle with gaining meaningful employment, getting promotions, and living in good neighborhoods. …show more content…
Most white first encounters with blacks are rappers such as Lil Wayne or 2pac Shakur, gangster rappers, boasting about sealing drugs, killing people, and being locked up in prisons. So white take that impression and apply it to the every black man. Whites see teenage pregnancy, welfare dependency, and high school drop-outs in the inner city of New York and then whites apply that assumption to every black woman in the U.S. Unfortunately, whites do not see the 1,341,354 black men in college in 2010 verses 844,600 of black males incarcerated in 2010 …show more content…
The community, which he was killed in, was being burdened with break-ins by a person said to be black male. No one gave a disruption accurate enough to identify a person and with about twenty percent of the residents being black there is no way Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman, could have thought the teenager was theft based on the description given. Trayvon died because Zimmerman had a thought that every black man living in that community was a criminal. The night of the murder, Zimmerman saw a black man at night in a hoodie and had to have thought: “that had to be a criminal.” So, no, Trayvon Martin, a seventeen year old teenager from Miami Gardens Florida, did not die of racism but from a man using racial profiling as a method to solving a community hardship. Hopefully, others, be it law enforcement or neighborhood watchman, will learn that racial profiling is not an investigation