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(Spartacus Educational, 1997) At the end of the American Civil War members of congress wanted to take away white power southern states. The first of the three branches of the Ku Klux Klan was established in Tennessee most of the leaders of this klan had been members of the…

A group of black women twerk and dance with stereotypical ‘ghetto’ apparel and mannerisms in Taylor Swift’s music video, “Shake It Off”. The video was slammed for Swift’s use of black bodies as props and as glamorized black puppets. Today, white supremacy hides beneath subtle behavior and phrases: for example, non-black people will use the n-word as slang and allege that they are “reclaiming” the expression when they have no acceptable justification as a non-black person, and they have no right…

bar on a Sunday, fans are wearing their team apparel and cheering for their favorite teams, but fans are also checking their cellular phones frequently for the current updates on their fantasy football team. Some fans argue that by playing fantasy football, they are jeopardizing their loyalty to their favorite football team and ruining the sport of football. However, many fans believe that it makes the sport more engaging to watch. Watching American football has taken on a new meaning and…

would make it more competitive- Getting paid to play college ball would make it easier to look at school as more of an opportunity worth taking. More kids would see a reason as to why they should play sports in college. They would work harder in high school knowing that there is a reward not very far down the road. Instead of trying to find jobs during their athletic career they could focus more on their games and practices. All their extra energy could be put into them becoming a better athlete…

by Jackie Robinson and it seems so long ago but this pivotal event is only two generations removed from my generation. Based off this one event, sent a ripple effect throughout all other sports as well, because it allowed many to see what African American new and that was that we are just as good or if not better than our white counterparts when it come sot sports. However, on the other side of the spectrum, you have the majority white opinion at time that says, that black man/woman doesn’t…

think of were African Americans, and it’s crazy to think they were excluded from the MLB just sixty years ago. They were segregated from anything you can think of at the time, and sports weren’t excluded. No matter if you were an Olympian athlete or a baseball all star chances are you’d end up with a dirty low pay job. So rather than give up the sport they loved and performed well at, they created the Negro Leagues. A number of teams ran by and compiled of African Americans. The center of the…

in just about every history class. It’s mainly seen as a story in which a group of colonists decide to gather together and dump crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. But really, it 's much more significant than that. It was the event that unified Americans against British taxation and made them realize the true oppression that they lived under. It was one of the major events that led America to becoming an independent country. But that’s not only why it’s important. The Boston Tea Party…

Cynthia Cartwright (Cindy) who was a teenager during this period. The 1970s were a time of protesting and fighting for equal rights for women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays and lesbians. Nevertheless, the 1970s were also a time of media influences, like music, television, and magazines. Media was an influence that reached Cindy. An African American teenage girl from St. Louis, Missouri, with not many examples to look to for fashion except model and singers in a magazine, that looked…

Geronimo: A True American The brave Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo was able to accomplish many astonishing feats before he died at the age of seventy-nine in 1909. Some of these achievements include continuing his journey of bettering the lives of his people despite his own family being murdered when he was only twenty-nine (27). Geronimo fully embodies the hard-working and no excuses attitude that many Americans strive for. Geronimo in many ways possesses the same moral code and ideas that…

A difference that can be life changing for some, but they all took a different approach than Kaepernick did. These athletes went into their communities and helped out or wore apparel speaking out against the wrongdoings. Those athletes did not disrespect their country in fighting for this cause, they did so by trying to bring the nation closer to whole again because disrespecting the nation will only tear it apart even more so…