African Americans In The Present Summary

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What strategies have wealthier whites used to divide poor whites from African Americans in the past and in the present?

I totally believe that each society in all countries has different kinds of racism in religious, skin colors, and society classes as well. In my view, people cannot give up of racism because there is variety of level of education and background of conceptions, which is inheritance from previous generation.

Michele Alexender shows that racism in these days could be covered by using laws justice. So it could be emerged even if there are civil rights. By contrast present with past we figure out that Anyone has laws power able to be racist when he uses the harsh punishment. Such as, prevent of voting ,schools loans and rigid paroles. Use the system’s law as what he would uses it. Judge, police officer ,or anyone else has a powerful .

I believe that divide people into sections or caste are an obvious racism that Michelle Alexander would have extremely avoided in this book. In fact, it is not fair for black people to be separated in society, they are part of it. I’m pretty sure; if we separate white and blacks in schools and cities we make organized crime. So, in future we will see awful Outcomes.
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if we do those types of strategies, we will be formulated the end of whole things in USA However, we still have modern and efficient alternative choices such as, doing rules on each person who did fault and pay attention away of his color. In these days, sometimes-black people still believe that they cannot obtain their rights because they are blacks. For example, when I was in my country I heard news about Rumain Brisbon Who is a black guy and shot by a white policeman in Arizona 2014. Rumain was unarmed when policeman shot him. So, black people revolute in front police office because they feel this was racism. As a result Black people wore a white musk and hands up during their

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