Inequality In The Black Community

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Historically, survival depended on sticking together and in many ways aiming to minimize differences among African-Americans. More recently, in a changing political economy where survival for many U.S. Blacks seems less of an issue, since no uniform, homogeneous culture of resistance ever existed among U.S. Blacks, and such a culture does not exist now. The reasons for this is black people being segregated they have loss a sense of nationalism. Thus it has affected their behavior and the way they think of working collectively against inequality. Individualism in the black community has become a way of life. Making it challenging to foster dialogues, it is believed racial segregation was constructed to keep U.S. Blacks oppressed, it promote a form of racial unity that thrived in all-Black neighborhoods. In comparison, now that Blacks live in economically heterogeneous neighborhoods, achieving the same racial solidarity raises new challenges. …show more content…
It is not enough for black girls to just learn womanhood, they must be prepared to face a whole set of challenges that come with the color of their skin. It is more likely for Black women, as members of an oppressed group, to have critical knowledge into the condition of their oppression than it is for those who live outside those structures. While U.S. Black women’s experiences resemble others, such experiences remain unique. The importance of Black women’s leadership in producing Black feminist thought does not mean that others cannot participate. It does mean that the primary responsibility for defining one’s own reality lies with the people who live that reality, who actually have those

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