Essay on People

The very first step of the criminal justice system is the interaction between police and people. Police, after the criticism and hate they receive, still disproportionately target minorities. They decide who to stop, who to check, and who to blame for illicit actions. Unfortunately, many times their decisions are based on racial profiling. Innocent minority citizens are apprehended much more than whites. For example, statistical evidence shows that black drivers are likelier to be stopped than…

Police Brutality When cops continually use their training and tactics in ways that brutally harm and injure people, it is unjustly wrong. It is becoming an assumption that white cops are purposely targeting African American citizens. Cops are rushing to conclusions and taking lives or seriously injuring people. Once these citizens are injured it makes it very hard for them to believe in or even trust the law, which in turn is causing a major concern nationwide. Take for instance the…

options and of course, the dreaded 1%ers. But black people have a whole other reason to hate Wall St and it's about time we all learned about it. THE DARK HISTORY OF BLACK PEOPLE AT WALL STREET Go to Wall Street today and you'll see shiny buildings and crowded stock markets. However, a different type of trade existed in the 1700's but back in the 1770's. Then, it was the site of a popular slave market where slaveholders bought, sold and traded black people and Native Americans like products.…

affected millions of people and is one of the deepest social problems in history. The history of what we call racism is the discrimination of other people’s colors and religion. This worldwide issue has caused countless problems. Off the top of your head, how many T.V. shows can you think of that have mostly black people? Netflix is facing an online backlash after showing its first trailer of Dear White People. The trailer shows a black person at a white school urging “white people” to…

“The End of Race: Hawaii and the Mixing of Peoples” indicate the differences and similarities between people of diverse races and ethnicity. Steven Olson applies the frequencies of genetic mutations in the mitochondria, migration from one continent to another and racially mixed populations where the target is the most American state of Hawaii. Should the world be concerned about the end of the singular genetic ethnicity of each race? And is it going to happen? Race most likely will disappear as…

Césaire and Coates are concerned about the plight of black people. While Coates focuses on his own personal history as a damaged black man and is concerned with how to relate it to his son's current experiences in the wake of Mike Brown's murder, Césaire is calling for attention to the plight the colonization of Africa has left its people in, and what can be done to remedy it. Discourse on Colonialism is not a guide for revolution, but an act of revolt against Western Civilization, and Between…

funeral, and their friends and family are not allowed to mourn their passing. If somebody was to mourn them, they would have to do it in the privacy of their own hut. Unlike in America, where the deceased would still be given a proper funeral, the Igbo people moved the body to another…

Martin Luther King Jr. and many others did a lot for segregation. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done. Many people have tried to stop segregation, but it is just to difficult. Abraham Lincoln once said, “This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.” As we can see, Abraham Lincoln tried to stop segregation. Slavery was one of the first forms of segregation. Slavery started back about five hundred years ago, and still exists today.…

The National Association of Colored People was established in 1909 as an attempt to combat the racial hatred and discrimination that plagued the era. Since its inception the organization has attempted to work with various non-white communities in and out of the courtroom. By supporting such cases such as Moore V Dempsey, Guinn V United States and the iconic Plessy V Ferguson, the group’s influence in both modern day and past civil rights movements cannot be denied. With this in mind this group…

To begin, the concept of referring to all black people as "African Americans" is in itself an immensely polarizing term, as it insinuates that all black people descend from only Africa and that from there their real history only begins once they were forced into slavery in America. It forces one to forget any of the rich history their culture once held and instead makes them remember only a history of submission and pain. As is the primary plot in Dutchman, the way in which Lula speaks to Clay…