There are 917 active hate groups in the United States of this year. According to the Southern Poetry Center the number of groups surged in response to President Barack Obama’s election and the economic downturn. Back then, African Americans weren’t comfortable in their own skin. They were being judged, made fun of, and not being treated the same as others . All African Americans want, is to just be comfortable in their very own skin, they want to be able to go out without being looked at weird or being judged or not seeming like they don’t belong.
Around 1954, the African Americans didn’t feel right in their own skin, unlike the whites. The African American people would get all