Racial Injustice In America

Being an American means to fight for what we perceive to be justice for all when face with a challenge that systematically affects a large portion of our population. Throughout every era of your young nation's history the American people had always had to face injustices. Although, it may have taken different shapes and forms what never changed was that we always went through with what we believed to be right and adapted to the problem at hand all for the sake of what was right.
On october 24, 1929 America face the biggest economic hardship it had ever experienced, The great depression. As the U.S was pouring millions upon millions of dollars into the stock market as well as relying too much on credit that it began to create debt that …show more content…
Russian Communism was on the rise and it stood for almost everything the U.S stood for. From the 1940 all the way up till even the early 1990’s America did all that it could to stop communism from spreading across europe. This developed into many proxy war some of which have had profound effects on our nation like the Vietnam war or the Korean war(5). The reason we fought so hard and for so long is because we saw what ruin a communist nation could bring onto itself and rather than just stand by while the red menace took nation after nation we fought for the freedom and justice of the other foreign nations. Take Germany for example after the war the nation was split into the democratic west and the Russian controlled east.Russia had decided to cut off west berlin From water and supplies and like the shining examples of justice that our nation is the U.S sent air drops to west Berlin sending thousands of pound of food to the impoverished west(1). Through America many western nations were able to avoid the economic ruin and social collapse of communist nations such as North Korea and Venezuela for …show more content…
For many years jim crow laws were put into place and de jure and de facto segregation were commonplace(1). African Americans were put into an disadvantageous position from the very start. They were paid lower wages they were treated like second class citizens and they were constantly mocked and lynch by their white American counterparts. Things continued like this for many years with African Americans until enough was enough.. From the 1940’s onwards the civil rights movement lead a campaign against the injustices that had experienced at the hands of their fellow Americans. The black civil rights movement took a nonviolent approach to end their suffrage. They held many rallies/ demonstrations such as the march on Washington and did all that they could to make people see the wrongs that been dealt towards African Americans. Boycotts were held(montgomery bus boycott)(1) as well as rallies, they were relentless. In the face of the ignorant and violence the civil rights movement endured lynchings arrests rioting and even murders all in the name of racial justice. In addition, many of the mainstream civil rights activists had a policy of nonviolence to fight the hate all in the name of equality and