A White Heron

robberies to raise money for heroin. In prison Robby expresses that, “Robbing white people didn’t cause me to lose no sleep back then. How you gon feel sorry when society is so corrupt, when everybody got their hand out or got their hand in somebody else’s pocket and ain 't no rules nobody listens to if they can get away with breaking them? ...I’m sorry about that and I’m damned sorry that guy Starvos got killed…as far as robbing white people, ain’t no way I was gon torture myself over that one”…

BLACK LIVES MATTER: Navigating White Silence, Fear, Denial and Privilege. The final shot of Poussey Washington’s lifeless face sent chills down my spine. Her cold body—the end result of a blonde haired, brown-eyed white woman using her white privilege to maintain a monopoly on her illegal panty-selling business in the hit Netflix’s series Orange Is the New Black (OITNB). This final shot exemplifies the current issues in our county concerning law enforcement, white privilege, and black lives.…

For example, Ida mae grew up in a small town where a white man would come through weekly and start firing of shots at any black man, woman, or child that he came across. This went on and on and the government never persecuted him for anything. However, when the tables flipped and an African American was accused of the slightest wrong, for example opening the door for a white woman and saying something that she was uncomfortable with, or being accused of stealing…

cosmopolitan canopies, “settings that offer a respite from the lingering tensions of urban life and an opportunity for diverse peoples to come together” (Anderson xiv). While his experience of Philadelphia as a black man is different than mine as a white woman, I believe cosmopolitan canopies can be identified by any person if they are looking for one. Anderson 's definition of a cosmopolitan canopy is broad enough that nearly all of the heavily populated areas of Philadelphia can be classified…

At the end of reconstruction, Southern whites wanted to recreate the image of the south as tolerate and humane. This ideology is known as the “lost cause” the lost cause states that the civil war was fought in order to maintain states’ rights and protect the family. The idea of states’ rights being the reason for the civil war created an image of the south as tolerate. As well as restored the souths feeling of bravery, rebellion, and resistance against the national government. The creation of…

This paper examines the controversial issue regarding racism in the law enforcement system. Statistics in regards to minorities and white people are included to show in numbers how people are actually being affected by the treatment of those in law enforcement. Two college campus rape cases are discussed in order to display the difference in sentencings given to two athletes of different races. Lastly, the ideas of institutional racism as well as the Implicit Bias theory are explored.…

freedom and a hope for a better life to the African American community. Three decades later, the idea of a better life had been forgotten. Instead, the Black Americans had begun to endure their suffering, pretending that the unfair laws created by the White Americans were fair. Paul Dunbar describes in his poem, “We Wear the Mask,” the roles that African Americans began to play in life in order to survive. In his poem, you are able to understand the pain, fear, and hope that comes with the…

on the relations of blacks and whites. This film covered several time periods including the 1940s through the 1980s. Forrest grew up in Alabama in the fictional town of Greenbow. He grew up in a home with his single mother who always told him “don’t you ever let anyone tell you that they’re better than you… you’re the same as everybody else.” These values were instilled in Forrest and he acted by them accordingly. He did not treat anyone differently. Black and white were all the same to him. In…

career but he still keeps up with racist comments and accusations at rallies in today 's campaign. The use of these pictures of Trump in the past is followed by a picture of him and a side by side of Americans at his rally. The video goes to show white and blacks fighting as if in a racial disagreement. Meanwhile, Trump 's voice is saying, "..I have a great relationship with the blacks.." However, Trump is shown in the complete opposite…

people earn but not others. White privilege is the belief that white people benefit from unearned advantages compared to other common races. White privilege exist here in America simply because the majority of our population is white. White privilege is seen in our everyday lives and for white people it is mostly “Something you wouldn’t notice unless it were suddenly taken away”. Job opportunity, media portrayal, discrimination, and policing are all affected by white privilege in our society…