As a junior in high school who is college bound the problem of affording college is at the back of my mind. I go through many scholarship websites, and I found one scholarship particularly caught my eye. The scholarship application only required you answer one question, which was. If you could tell one thing to the entire world what would it be? I simply answered with, I would tell the world that Black lives matter. I gave this response because mainstream American society, as a whole, does not see Black lives of having equal value to others.
We can see this with the issue of police brutality, also in how Black people in American mass media are usually relegated to a small set of stereotypes, and other problematic things in our culture. But more focustly because Black culture that has origins throughout the African Diaspora is being appropriated i.e. dreadlocks, cornrows, rap music, and AAVE (African-American Vernacular English). These integral parts of Black culture are being imitated by those who are neither part of nor paying homage to the Black community. All the while, Black people are being demonized for embracing THEIR heritage. For example in 2014 the US Army banned many …show more content…
She started her own nonprofit organization to help working class families to have the ability to have affordable housing options. After 10 years of developing her non profit she decided to apply for a new job because my father had found work in a different state. She applied for many jobs and easily got interviews but she received no job. She was curious as to why no one had hired her yet, until one interviewer answered her question. The interviewer in so many words told her that if she got rid of her dreadlocks and wore a more “professional” hairstyle she could have the job. She did decline this woman’s offer, but to this day she always her dreadlocks in an updo at work in fear that her loose hanging locks will not be deemed
We can see this with the issue of police brutality, also in how Black people in American mass media are usually relegated to a small set of stereotypes, and other problematic things in our culture. But more focustly because Black culture that has origins throughout the African Diaspora is being appropriated i.e. dreadlocks, cornrows, rap music, and AAVE (African-American Vernacular English). These integral parts of Black culture are being imitated by those who are neither part of nor paying homage to the Black community. All the while, Black people are being demonized for embracing THEIR heritage. For example in 2014 the US Army banned many …show more content…
She started her own nonprofit organization to help working class families to have the ability to have affordable housing options. After 10 years of developing her non profit she decided to apply for a new job because my father had found work in a different state. She applied for many jobs and easily got interviews but she received no job. She was curious as to why no one had hired her yet, until one interviewer answered her question. The interviewer in so many words told her that if she got rid of her dreadlocks and wore a more “professional” hairstyle she could have the job. She did decline this woman’s offer, but to this day she always her dreadlocks in an updo at work in fear that her loose hanging locks will not be deemed