We are living in a country where it’s okay for Peyton Manning to lose a super bowl game in 2010, and walk off without showing any sportsmanship. There were actually people defending his actions, and saying it shows how competitive he is. In this same country that we call the “land of the free”, when Cam Newton walks out of an interview for being disrespected right after one of the biggest losses he’s faced, he’s called a sore loser. Although, it is 2016 and everyone is subjected to equal rights, there is a lot of evidence clearly showing otherwise. Police are supposed to “protect and serve” the public, and yet who protects us from them? Who are they? The African American race is, and always has been treated like the red head step child of this
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They were taken away from their homeland, and forced into slavery for the American man’s benefit. You could call slavery the modern day kidnapping without ransom. How is it that this one race is looked down upon for being displaced? In James Baldwin’s essay “On Black English”, he furthermore proves blacks were set up to fail. “The brutal truth is that the bulk of white people in America never had any interest in educating black people, except as this could serve white purposes” (pg. 80). During slavery, the idea was to keep them away from learning unless it behooved the master. A slave with knowledge was a danger to society. You could not possibly control a group of people if they knew an ounce about what was really going on. The fear was that one person knowing that this institution was inhumane would stir the pot and tell …show more content…
Maybe just maybe there is the slightest change that this country was on its way up, but then that’s too much like right. In an article on USA Today they had results from a survey conducted from 2008 to 2011. “In all, 51% of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes, compared with 48% in a similar 2008 survey. When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56%, up from 49% during the last presidential election”. Those results show racist Americans have increased in only three years. Racism is a learned Police brutality against this race has always been an issue. Especially, in major cases that were publicized, and cases where the officer would be acquitted of any charges brought against them. Within the last few years there have been so many cases so close together its mind boggling. There have been too many men, women, and children losing their lives at the hands of someone who really didn’t have a reason. The first thing you hear is “I thought they had a gun”, or “I feared for my life”. This obviously sends the black community into an
They were taken away from their homeland, and forced into slavery for the American man’s benefit. You could call slavery the modern day kidnapping without ransom. How is it that this one race is looked down upon for being displaced? In James Baldwin’s essay “On Black English”, he furthermore proves blacks were set up to fail. “The brutal truth is that the bulk of white people in America never had any interest in educating black people, except as this could serve white purposes” (pg. 80). During slavery, the idea was to keep them away from learning unless it behooved the master. A slave with knowledge was a danger to society. You could not possibly control a group of people if they knew an ounce about what was really going on. The fear was that one person knowing that this institution was inhumane would stir the pot and tell …show more content…
Maybe just maybe there is the slightest change that this country was on its way up, but then that’s too much like right. In an article on USA Today they had results from a survey conducted from 2008 to 2011. “In all, 51% of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes, compared with 48% in a similar 2008 survey. When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56%, up from 49% during the last presidential election”. Those results show racist Americans have increased in only three years. Racism is a learned Police brutality against this race has always been an issue. Especially, in major cases that were publicized, and cases where the officer would be acquitted of any charges brought against them. Within the last few years there have been so many cases so close together its mind boggling. There have been too many men, women, and children losing their lives at the hands of someone who really didn’t have a reason. The first thing you hear is “I thought they had a gun”, or “I feared for my life”. This obviously sends the black community into an