First, the Civil Rights Movement began. This movement took place between the years of 1947 and 1968. During the Civil Rights Movement, one of the most famous and influential icons was the Notable Dr. Martin Luther King, who coined the phrase “Non-violent”, a testimony to the black community not to lash out and act radically as they had been treated by the white community, but to instead respond with love and compassion. In the Civil Rights Document that we were required to read for class it says, “Through nonviolence, courage displaces fear; love transforms hate. Acceptance dissipates prejudice; hope ends despair. Peace dominates war; faith reconciles doubt. Mutual regard cancels enmity. Justice for all overthrows injustice. The redemptive
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According to an article that we read for class, Rethinking the New Left, “’Black Power’ was evidence of what was labeled ‘racism,’ ‘fascism,’ ‘a reverse Ku Klux Klan,’ and violent black supremacy”(Van Gosse 116). The Black Power Movement was lead by the great Malcolm X during the years of 1968 and 1980. During this transition of phases, the well respected, Malcolm X had begun to tell the black community that the non-violent ordeal would not get America to where they had hoped for it to be. Malcolm X tried achieving their civil rights through the use of violence, similarly to that that the whites had used to keep the black population from rising up (Hoover. Archives). The Black Power Movement as defined by Joyce Ladner, a well-versed research associate at the Washington University, was “the ability of black people to politically get together and organize themselves so that they can speak from a position of strength rather than a position of weakness” (quoted in Ladner 1967, p. 8). During this period, many groups developed such as the Black Panther Party, created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, respectively. According to PBS’s article, This Far by Faith, a document explaining the history of black violence, a section dedicated to the Black Panther Party states, “the Black Panthers authorize the use of violence as self-defense. The first point of their founding 10-Point Platform reads: ‘We want …show more content…
The system has been made by the whites to eliminate the power that the blacks have worked so hard for. Mass incarceration of blacks, especially black men, have opened the doors for many other problems and have inevitably created a sort of domino effect. After bringing up ‘charges’ on the man, whom is referred to as the head of the household and the provider of the family it automatically disrupts the stability of the home. It causes the much more stress on behalf of the mother, and as a child you hate to see your parents struggling, so you feel obligated to help out- resorting to selling drugs because it is quick and fast money. The result of that is that now the child is putting his freedom in jeopardy, which if caught and convicted ruins his possible future. “Alexander explains how the criminal justice system functions as a new system of racial control by targeting black men through the “War on Drugs.” The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, for example, included far more severe punishment for distribution of crack (associated with blacks) than powder cocaine (associated with whites). Civil penalties, such as not being able to live in public housing and not being able to get student loans, have been added to the already harsh prison sentences” (Center for Law). It has become so easy for you a
According to an article that we read for class, Rethinking the New Left, “’Black Power’ was evidence of what was labeled ‘racism,’ ‘fascism,’ ‘a reverse Ku Klux Klan,’ and violent black supremacy”(Van Gosse 116). The Black Power Movement was lead by the great Malcolm X during the years of 1968 and 1980. During this transition of phases, the well respected, Malcolm X had begun to tell the black community that the non-violent ordeal would not get America to where they had hoped for it to be. Malcolm X tried achieving their civil rights through the use of violence, similarly to that that the whites had used to keep the black population from rising up (Hoover. Archives). The Black Power Movement as defined by Joyce Ladner, a well-versed research associate at the Washington University, was “the ability of black people to politically get together and organize themselves so that they can speak from a position of strength rather than a position of weakness” (quoted in Ladner 1967, p. 8). During this period, many groups developed such as the Black Panther Party, created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, respectively. According to PBS’s article, This Far by Faith, a document explaining the history of black violence, a section dedicated to the Black Panther Party states, “the Black Panthers authorize the use of violence as self-defense. The first point of their founding 10-Point Platform reads: ‘We want …show more content…
The system has been made by the whites to eliminate the power that the blacks have worked so hard for. Mass incarceration of blacks, especially black men, have opened the doors for many other problems and have inevitably created a sort of domino effect. After bringing up ‘charges’ on the man, whom is referred to as the head of the household and the provider of the family it automatically disrupts the stability of the home. It causes the much more stress on behalf of the mother, and as a child you hate to see your parents struggling, so you feel obligated to help out- resorting to selling drugs because it is quick and fast money. The result of that is that now the child is putting his freedom in jeopardy, which if caught and convicted ruins his possible future. “Alexander explains how the criminal justice system functions as a new system of racial control by targeting black men through the “War on Drugs.” The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, for example, included far more severe punishment for distribution of crack (associated with blacks) than powder cocaine (associated with whites). Civil penalties, such as not being able to live in public housing and not being able to get student loans, have been added to the already harsh prison sentences” (Center for Law). It has become so easy for you a