Al Sharpton

and forth in my living room. Finally, I calmed down a little I sat down and turned on the television. I turned it to the news channel and saw the headline “Local Thug Gunned Down by Heroic Police Officer”. All I see is Zaire’s body lying face down on the concrete. So soon? I thought. Tears began to stream down my eyes. Gunned down? He doesn’t even own a weapon. What possessed this officer to kill an unarmed man? A segment of Zaire’s past was featured they labelled him as a murder. My heart sank as I watched the news. All I can ask myself was A Local Thug? All he was trying to do was turn his life around. I began to cry, why did I have to find out this way? So what’s next? He’ll be the next trending topic for the next few days and Rev Al Sharpton comes to the rescue. The only problem with that is that they didn’t know him. I grew to love this man to learn about his life and yet they can summon it up in one segment? They didn’t know him I like did. He was the complete opposite if a thug. Now he’s gone and his side of the story will never be…

1999). In the case, eight men were tried, but only one was convicted of murder and four were charged with lesser convictions like weapon possession and rioting. Not to mention, when black protestors as well as his family members marched through Bensonhurst following his death, they were mistreated and disregarded. Residents cursed them out and threw food at them. To add more salt to the wound, they even proceeded to chant “useless, useless” as a sort of taunt due to its similar sound to the name…

The two predominant groups in Crown Heights Brooklyn are Jewish and Black. What started the riots in August was the death of a young black boy because of a Jewish driver. There had always been tensions between the two groups, and this was what caused the pot to boil over. Anna Deavere Smith wrote an ethnodrama from a collection of interviews she did during the time following the riots. She wrote and performed the ethnodrama for everyone to see, and through doing this Smith was able to bring…

meaning keep stretching us thin and turn each other on one another. They are looking for America to collapse. The citizens of the United States need our government to do anything necessary to keep our population safe. One thing the government is in fact in charge of would be making sure the United States citizens are safe through any mean of punishment. Human rights activists believe this is not the case and there should be no reason for using harsh interrogation techniques. Guantanamo Bay is…

“Should national security override free speech?” Freedom of speech was first established in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1791, and almost two centuries later, in the International Declaration of Human Rights, the UN recognised freedom of speech as a human right (reference). The question of whether or not national security should override the freedom of speech has been, and continues to be a controversial subject, particularly among governments and law-abiding…

If I were to name the twenty-first century, I would call it the Age of Disaster. Many events have happened throughout the course of the twenty-first century that forever changed lives all around the world. To kick off the twenty-first century, a group named Al-Qaeda, planned a terrorist attack. The plan went in full force on September 11, 2001. Two planes crashed into the Twin Towers, destroying the towers within hours. A second plane also crashed into the Pentagon. A final plane was thought to…

Al Capone Al Capone was a crime boss and his success flourished in the 1920s. He owned towns, and almost owned the nation. Throughout the years, he has been a subject of many art forms such as movies and books. Even though he was responsible for many violent murders, Capone was still a celebrity during the 1920s. Capone caused the people that knew him to shrink in fear, while still making America awe at him. When Prohibition was put into place, people like Capone stepped in and took…

Al Qaeda is a terror group with a deep religious ideology, which it uses to justify their actions. Al Qaeda has a Salafi-Jihadi ideology, a dogma that has found its beginnings with Jamal al Din al Afghani. Four main terms that formulate this ideology are Salifism, Jihad, Hijra, and Jahiliyya. Al Qaeda engages in what is called a lesser jihad, meaning creating a better community, expanding it or defending it through terror attacks or war. Greater Jihad includes betterment of the community and the…

misrepresented and viewed in that way, so for the show to present this issue in that derogatory way is very influential and offensive to Muslim Americans. In other television shows such as the very popular fictional drama Homeland where Brody the main character who was captured and tortured in Afghanistan. When Brody returned he announced his Islamic faith, which resulted in hate towards him and then was assigned a CIA officer to look after him in case he was a threat or a spy. In this…

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were many ideas/ forces used in our history that were most accountable for maintaining the power of the West. Nations such as Europe, the United States, and Great Britain used their superior power to their own advantage. Technology and great resources were things that helped them succeed in controlling and maintaining their hold over the West. Without their superior thinking, these nations would not have been able to keep their power without…