In 1865 slavery in the United States of America ended, and since then the Black Community has been told to: get over it, move on, and, “leave the past in the past.” Since 1865 this country has taken steps toward making “improvements”; in the year 2008 we elected our first President with brown skin! Is that progress or what? Has the United States of America, the land of the free, home of the brave, and the place where all were created equal, left its race issues in the past? As much as we would like to keep our rose colored glasses on--the land of the free has not changed as much as one would hope since 1865.
Entertainment is defined as an event or performance meant to entertain others, so around the 1830s, at the hands of Thomas Dartmouth Rice, …show more content…
When people are not exposed to what they judge they tend to place everyone into a category, thus accepting what they have been told. Implicit attitudes are associations that we make in our subconscious. An Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures the strength of any given association (Weiten, 2012, p. 533).For example, an IAT that measures associations between races can show that a person pairs images of blacks with negative things and pictures of whites with positive things . Implicit attitudes are the reason that Universities feel the need to prepare its minority students for the racial tensions they will encounter; this is the reason I had to be prepared by college admission officers to deal with the racism that I may or may not encounter on their campuses in the year of …show more content…
However, it is through said examples that we see that the United States of America has not moved past the color of our skin. In the past few years there have been countless marches, protests, and campaigns, such as Black Lives Matter, that have forced the world to pay attention to the ugliness that still thrives in this land of equality. It is because the black citizens of the United States of America are still being slaughtered by those meant to uphold the law, slandered in the media, and inequitably treated by the system that establishes morality in this country that we still have to chant and march for justice. These facts and findings show that while the United States of 1865 has changed, it is not behind us, but is living beside
Entertainment is defined as an event or performance meant to entertain others, so around the 1830s, at the hands of Thomas Dartmouth Rice, …show more content…
When people are not exposed to what they judge they tend to place everyone into a category, thus accepting what they have been told. Implicit attitudes are associations that we make in our subconscious. An Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures the strength of any given association (Weiten, 2012, p. 533).For example, an IAT that measures associations between races can show that a person pairs images of blacks with negative things and pictures of whites with positive things . Implicit attitudes are the reason that Universities feel the need to prepare its minority students for the racial tensions they will encounter; this is the reason I had to be prepared by college admission officers to deal with the racism that I may or may not encounter on their campuses in the year of …show more content…
However, it is through said examples that we see that the United States of America has not moved past the color of our skin. In the past few years there have been countless marches, protests, and campaigns, such as Black Lives Matter, that have forced the world to pay attention to the ugliness that still thrives in this land of equality. It is because the black citizens of the United States of America are still being slaughtered by those meant to uphold the law, slandered in the media, and inequitably treated by the system that establishes morality in this country that we still have to chant and march for justice. These facts and findings show that while the United States of 1865 has changed, it is not behind us, but is living beside