Black Friday

People Police brutality against black individuals has skyrocketed in the past several years causing an outrage within the community. Although the distinction between the privileges of white people and colored people have been going on all throughout history, nowadays, it’s getting a bit out of hand. Astonishingly, nearly one thousand people have been killed by the force of police brutality in 2015 alone, three out of every five deaths belonged to those of Hispanic and black race (Ribas)!…

lives on. As the literature shows, Harriet Tubman’s story is a snapshot of the kind of oppression black women have been under since enslavement in the United States, and it is also a story of the kind of resistance and resilience black women leaders can possess. Black women live under a duality of gender and racial oppression and as such, lead in this context. How does oppression speak to a black woman’s leadership? This review of literature regarding history…

Suburbanization by Andrew Wiese examines the forces behind the suburbanization of Black Americans in the 20th century and the challenges they faced in doing so. The author emphasized the importance of black suburbanization for the growth of the 20th century the United States. Establishment of suburbs was critical to the study of Black Americans in the United States. The emergence of suburbs was a representative of the new generation of black American, who were socially and economically advanced…

right, according to this research passage, “What was surprising was that race actually turned out to be more significant than a criminal background. Employers were more likely to call Whites with a criminal record (17% were offered an interview) than Blacks without a criminal record (14%). And while having a criminal background hurt all applicants’ chances of getting an interview, African Americans with a non-violent offense faced particularly dismal employment prospects.” (Sharp) I 'm utterly…

mindset people will build stereotypes that anyone who lives that way of life is not good enough to have what a white person has, like a nice house, car, or even a decent job. The other form is minorites who think they are white. Once again this is not a black person thinking they are the color white, but live by the culture of a “white person”. They look down on others of their own race who do not also live by this white culture. They may even look down on their own family if they follow the…

If Julian would have chosen to focus on bringing his mother out of her dated ways of thinking, she would have been able to realize that giving the little black boy a new fermented penny was wrong. This penny represents the, "[H]istorical rise of Southern blacks" as said in "The Penny and the Nickel in Everything That Rises Must Converge" by John Ower. She willfully wanted, "to give the little boy a nickel"(Kirszner and Mandell 617). but all she could find…

drugs, gangs and police discrimination the United States has created an environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest contributor to incarcerations among black males. According to the NAACP “about 14 million whites and 2.6 million blacks report to using illicit drugs” that’s about six times as many whites using drugs than whites, yet when looking at the prison population,…

africans and other races, segregation of children within the south african school system, constant oppression of black south africans, and more. One would think how would this country become this way, when the people enforcing the…

Latino immigrants, LGBT people, and blacks were the new target, low on the totem pole. Police misconduct has been written in our history since this country was born. Brutality in the police force is not isolated, it’s deliberate in its targeting of minorities and poor people. Picture this: hundreds of men working in the disgusting heat of Pittsburgh,…

discrimination in the retail world, where sales clerks have either refused to show blacks expensive items, refused to let them enter, or even watched their every move while shopping. In one case, Rashid Polo, a normal teenager, rose into the spotlight after filming a store clerk racially profiling him and hovering over him as he shopped. Even famous celebrities such as Oprah have been discriminated against for shopping while black. These acts are easily forgotten and forgiven after a week of…