The Negative Effects Of Slavery

What is it like? What is it like to be an African American in this time period? Well let me tell you a little about an ordinary day of an African American man or women. We get stared at by every white person in a predominately white area as if we aren’t supposed to be there. We still get made fun of because of our skin color or how we annunciate our words. We get called ghetto if we don’t dress like or act like the “white people.” We are dangerous to be around because of the false allegations made by racist. We get shot at by policemen because we looked suspicious to them. Does that sound like a pleasant life to live to you? To me it is screaming HECK NO! It is terrible because we are living in the after effects of slavery. We are still suffering from slavery whether we know it or not for the following three reasons: our diet, self-hate, and families. You are probably wondering how an African American’s diet has a connection with slavery …show more content…
That number is astonishing residual effect of slavery. once again this problem originated from slavery. Slave masters would get the female slave pregnant by a male slave and after the baby was born, the male slave had nothing to do with the baby. He didn’t know he had to stay and raise the baby because he wasn’t taught to do that. The baby was only born to increase the number of slaves. The mothers would raise their child alone not knowing that was the improper way of doing that. But they had nobody to tell them that so as a result African Americans today are still doing this. Such large numbers of children are born to single mothers and it is clearly the wrong model for a stable, secure future for African American people. Critics say there is a direct link between an absent father and an increased chance that the child will drop out of high school and have a criminal reordered. This can be changed if people are willing to