Million Man March On Saturday, October 10th, 2015 “Louis Farrakhan spoke on various issues within the black community today. The theme of the march was very compelling and breathe taking. I went to the march at 11:00 and left around 3:00. Before arriving I saw various people of different ethnic backgrounds and different races. As I was entering the march I was kind of nervous because I did not know what the outcome was going to be, based on rumors. I am glad I attended the march because I misjudged the march and my interpretations were wrong. The march turned out to be very informative. I enjoyed seeing a mixture of blacks with different cultural backgrounds come together as one to fight for justice. I also noticed some people’s wardrobe,
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Farrakhan addressed certain issues that was based on previous class discussions. He discussed poverty, ethnicity, education and more. On each one of these topics Farrakhan spoke on showed many relations on learnings from class lectures. For example Farrakhan discussed ethnicity, and how many people categorize and confuse ethnicity by pointing out different continents they are from. Instead he mentions our ethnicity is defined by nature. In class we have discussed ethnicity in many ways. We have defined ethnicity, matched ethnicity to different people pictures, and discussed how we as humans categorize people based off there looks. Another class topic discussed in the speech is when we watched the video “the new Jim Crow” written by Michelle Alexander. She discussed poverty in her speech, and how poverty rates for blacks are so low that it affects blacks in many ways. Farrakhan discusses poverty but he compares it to the 10% of people in the world that are wealthy and living off the poor. The last thing Farrakhan touches on is education. In our first lesson in this class we had a class discussion based off “how do we think racism could end”. Most of everyone in the class said “the teachings at a young age”. Farrakhan mentions in order to teach our children and the next generation about the history of race it would have to start with the community and people showing stronger and proactive ways to each other. Each topic that was discussed from the speakers in the March and Farrakhan makes me approach the world and my generation in a different way now. As an African American woman, I want my voice to be heard to end racism, discrimination, judgements, and lies. After attending this justice or else March, I do believe many things can change for the black community. Many things such as housing, jobs, incomes, crime rates and more. I believe it just starts with many
Farrakhan addressed certain issues that was based on previous class discussions. He discussed poverty, ethnicity, education and more. On each one of these topics Farrakhan spoke on showed many relations on learnings from class lectures. For example Farrakhan discussed ethnicity, and how many people categorize and confuse ethnicity by pointing out different continents they are from. Instead he mentions our ethnicity is defined by nature. In class we have discussed ethnicity in many ways. We have defined ethnicity, matched ethnicity to different people pictures, and discussed how we as humans categorize people based off there looks. Another class topic discussed in the speech is when we watched the video “the new Jim Crow” written by Michelle Alexander. She discussed poverty in her speech, and how poverty rates for blacks are so low that it affects blacks in many ways. Farrakhan discusses poverty but he compares it to the 10% of people in the world that are wealthy and living off the poor. The last thing Farrakhan touches on is education. In our first lesson in this class we had a class discussion based off “how do we think racism could end”. Most of everyone in the class said “the teachings at a young age”. Farrakhan mentions in order to teach our children and the next generation about the history of race it would have to start with the community and people showing stronger and proactive ways to each other. Each topic that was discussed from the speakers in the March and Farrakhan makes me approach the world and my generation in a different way now. As an African American woman, I want my voice to be heard to end racism, discrimination, judgements, and lies. After attending this justice or else March, I do believe many things can change for the black community. Many things such as housing, jobs, incomes, crime rates and more. I believe it just starts with many