The oppression that is cast upon the black community is the result of racism. Racism has been around since the time that two different races encountered one another. Being that both, oppression and racism, have been a problem for hundreds of years, they cannot be expected to go away in the matter of half of a century. In order for racism and black oppression to be nonexistent, children will have to be taught that they are equal no matter the color of their skin. It is not morally right for someone to be oppressed because they were born a certain skin tone. There are good and bad people of every race, and unfortunately, it is usually the extremists that get put out into the media to give that ethnicity in general a bad name. Even though this
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The Ferguson unrest in 2014 was an example of the movements in this day in time. Michael Brown was killed by a police officer for stealing cigarillos. Cigarillos are 99 cents per pack. This event was about more than stealing, this was about what this police officer was taught. Unarmed and moving towards the police officer, Brown was shot 12 times. Again, this was about so much more than the crime that Brown committed. Brown was not right for stealing and he did put himself in that situation, but he absolutely didn’t deserve to be …show more content…
Gray had a switchblade knife, which is illegal in Baltimore. He was taken into custody and along the way he got his neck broke. He was in the back of a police transport van when this incident occurred. Gray had handcuffs on and leg irons but someone forgot to put his seatbelt on. The violence was again brought on by the way that these police officers were brought up and what they were taught. This was not an accident and should not be treated as one. It is a shame that these people who lose their lives at such a young age because of police brutality. Once again, the riots began and the media covered it. Again, stores were burned, looted, and destroyed. Why? In the name of Black Lives Matter movement. Without this riot, it would have been just another news story that everyone forgets about in a few months, but this riot is what made it memorable. This riot was to show how much of an effect that oppression has not only on today’s black generation, but every other races generation
The Ferguson unrest in 2014 was an example of the movements in this day in time. Michael Brown was killed by a police officer for stealing cigarillos. Cigarillos are 99 cents per pack. This event was about more than stealing, this was about what this police officer was taught. Unarmed and moving towards the police officer, Brown was shot 12 times. Again, this was about so much more than the crime that Brown committed. Brown was not right for stealing and he did put himself in that situation, but he absolutely didn’t deserve to be …show more content…
Gray had a switchblade knife, which is illegal in Baltimore. He was taken into custody and along the way he got his neck broke. He was in the back of a police transport van when this incident occurred. Gray had handcuffs on and leg irons but someone forgot to put his seatbelt on. The violence was again brought on by the way that these police officers were brought up and what they were taught. This was not an accident and should not be treated as one. It is a shame that these people who lose their lives at such a young age because of police brutality. Once again, the riots began and the media covered it. Again, stores were burned, looted, and destroyed. Why? In the name of Black Lives Matter movement. Without this riot, it would have been just another news story that everyone forgets about in a few months, but this riot is what made it memorable. This riot was to show how much of an effect that oppression has not only on today’s black generation, but every other races generation