Throughout history, males have been the pre-dominant gender dating back to Adam and Eve. Men have been known to have leadership, bravery, strength, courage, and smarts. Toussaint L’Ouverture and Martin Luther King Jr, were brave leaders. Dr. George Washington Carter was a very smart man. Nelson Mandela was a courageous man. Women may not have been more dominant throughout history than men were, but they too have characteristics that made them great too. But women were known more to be beautiful, ambitious, caring, loving, and nurturing. Harriet Tubman, for example, was a very caring woman because she cared about the slaves and helped lead the Underground Railroad. Rosa Parks was a courageous and brave woman. She refused to give up her bus seat
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From reading an article about African Americans, it states that Malcom X argues that “The single greatest mistake of the African American organization and their leaders is that they have failed to establish direct brother/sisterhood lines of communication between the independent nations of African American people.” I, myself believe that it is true. People portray us, African Americans, as uncivilized and not worthy of equivalence to other races. Ironically, we as a culture complain about the being belittled, but most of us gives that kind of image to the society. African Americans lack communication skills which prevents us from progressing as a race. We as African Americans don’t talk to each other, we all working for the same or maybe different goals. Our clothes, names, street address, and jobs will change, but the basic relationship we have among each other and how society sees us has remained the same. Can anyone notice how prejudiced Blacks can be toward one another? One burning issue that seems to pull apart African Americans is ignorance about each other’s culture and past. We got to look back to history and comprehend that those famous African American males and females did so much for us and stood up for what’s right in the African American
From reading an article about African Americans, it states that Malcom X argues that “The single greatest mistake of the African American organization and their leaders is that they have failed to establish direct brother/sisterhood lines of communication between the independent nations of African American people.” I, myself believe that it is true. People portray us, African Americans, as uncivilized and not worthy of equivalence to other races. Ironically, we as a culture complain about the being belittled, but most of us gives that kind of image to the society. African Americans lack communication skills which prevents us from progressing as a race. We as African Americans don’t talk to each other, we all working for the same or maybe different goals. Our clothes, names, street address, and jobs will change, but the basic relationship we have among each other and how society sees us has remained the same. Can anyone notice how prejudiced Blacks can be toward one another? One burning issue that seems to pull apart African Americans is ignorance about each other’s culture and past. We got to look back to history and comprehend that those famous African American males and females did so much for us and stood up for what’s right in the African American