Black Eyed Peas

ad "Everything", the use of old and new clips and different news headlines are shown to prove the racism behind Donald Trump and his supporters towards African-Americans. What do we have to lose? "What do you have to lose?" Trump says this towards blacks before stating "...you 're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs..." Everything, is the answer from these American people. Living in poverty is not a choice to them, they feel underprivileged every day because of people…

that the white male served a 6 months sentence and the black male served a 5 year sentence. Both students committed the same crime, had no prior recorders, but was portrayed to the public differently. In 2008 about 13% of our population was black while this being true, 38% of sentenced inmates were also black. How does 1/6 of our general population make of over 1/3 of our inmates here in the United States? Easy, because of white privilege. Black males were convicted 6 times more than white…

established National Party because they realized that they did not have capital and marketable skills. The black South African started African National Congress because they were discriminated and manipulated by the whites. Although both Afrikaners and South Africans initially opposed the Union of South Africa, the Afrikaners chose to side with the Union of South Africa out of fear of black competition for jobs (Byrnes,…

readers to create an idea of how if feels to be a black man in America. Race plays a role in almost every topic or issue, which provided the opportunity to connect other readings to this book. Race is the primary theme of this book, every topic or experience that he shared could be traced and connected to the topic of race and racism. To develop this primary theme…

America, we have many diverse groups. From these different cultures America picks and chooses who, what, and when to accept these cultures. Black Culture is one that America loves to play games with. "America Loves and accepts black culture, but not black people themselves!” Personally I agree with this statement completely. When one starts to take a look at black culture in America, they usually start with the fashions associated with African Americans. In the fashion world African Americans…

because I have read about the Tuskegee study before. This movie showed what the Tuskegee study was about. This study was conducting an experiment among black men in Tuskegee, Alabama who had syphilis but without treating them. However, while watching I was very surprised at what I saw. The thing that surprised me the most was that it was a black doctor and nurse, who encouraged the men to participate in this experiment without even telling them the true about what they had. I can see why they…

understand that it is still a very complicated matter. That slavery and racism still effects the psyche of many African Americans today. That’s why it’s the story of Equiano is still important today. It might not be right for someone not black to say this, but many Black people today are playing checkers. If they were to take Equiano as a role model, they would learn how to play chess, because Equiano was the ultimate chess player. Every situation Equiano was put in, he always looked at the…

killings of the black men by the white police officers is due to racisms. In this context, racism is taken to have features that include the fact that the white believe that the black race is culturally and biologically considered to be inferior in consideration to another. Another feature is that there is a consideration of a specific way that the back race that is considered to be inferior has to be treated in the society. The study is based on the investigation of the cases that the black…

in class, the story was taken place during the civil rights era. The overall look of Eyes on the Prize is the recounting of the fights by men and women to end the long years of segregation and discrimination. It was during the time where whites and blacks could not go to the same school, ride the same bus, vote in the same election, or in general, participate equally in society. African American were second class in America. In this particular segment, it showed how people were participating and…

Black Lives Matter is an organization that formed in 2012 after Trayvon Martin was killed by a police officer named George Zimmerman (BLM.com). Many people have mixed opinions on this topic, as it is a sensitive subject. Opinions relate to both sides of the spectrum between blacks and whites. Throughout the United States many other shootings, and gatherings have surfaced because of these deaths among the black community. Following the shooting of Trayvon Martin, people rioted the streets…