Black Friday

passionate, black activists in American history. He gave African American a hope that one day they would no longer be looked…

whisky and takes the money out of the register. Jefferson was going to run away but two white men stopped him and he got thrown into jail. Jefferson had a court case but it was one-sided. He claimed he was innocent but it didn 't matter because he was black. Jefferson 's lawyer even degraded him by saying “What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.” His lawyer is saying that Jefferson is not better than a…

taking an individual stance against racial segregation and atavism. The women depicted in the picture stand outside a forest. Note the trees are blurred as the camera lens primarily focuses on the three ladies. Here, the photographer attempts to render black people visible among the community. The rope signifies the enslavement carried on after the abolishment of slavery. They wrap the rope around their neck in an attempt to gain control of a…

In Stockett’s The Help and Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles the key characters are affected by the society in which they live, in a variety of different ways. The Help focuses on the segregation of society in the 1960’s. It focuses on two black maids who tell their stories to Skeeter, a young white writer. They all work together to challenge these unfair practices enforced by white men and women. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles the story is based on the life of Tess Durbeyfield who is sent to…

presented to the United Nations in next months meeting. They are considering what the police are doing as “culture of impunity.” Even though Chicago is only made up of 33% blacks, in 2011 of all of the youth arrests in Chicago 77% of them were black. It is also known that 92% of the stun gun related arrests were against black and Latino youth. These cases are proving that police brutality is primarily targeting citizens of colored races. However, what makes this brutality a lot worse is that the…

During the time period that Mark Twain wrote his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn black Americans were at a pivotal point in history. They were no longer owned as slaves, and, yet, they had not quite transitioned into the ranks of upstanding society. Mark Twain uses his novel to pull the reader’s attention away from the label of “slave” and towards the actuality that Jim, the runaway slave, is a human being, who in most cases proved to be more upstanding than anyone else in the novel.…

operation of the plantation to him. Sometimes a Negro was the overseer and was generally very cruel in the treatment of the field slaves. These Negro overseers did not bother the house slaves and craftsmen. White overseers would go further than the black ones as they…

Why the Difference? In The United States, inequality is quite an issue. Inequalities are also seen within one race such as the African American race. There are “two black Americas (Gates)”, the thriving and the poor. There are reasons that some are living the American Dream while others are scraping by. How a person grew up, the people around them, their willingness to try, and the resources at their disposal all determine one’s future. Robert Merton came up with a theory called Merton’s…

In the short story “Class” by Sherman Alexie, the protagonist Edgar Eagle Runner tries to fulfill his need to sleep with a fellow Native American woman while struggling to hold unto his marriage. He does this in order to find a better sense of his own identity and heritage. It seems from the very beginning that Runner would have issues with his race and identity. He described his mother by saying, “Velma, my dark-skinned mother, was overjoyed by my choice of mate. She’d always wanted me to…

Words are extremely powerful; perhaps if people understood what a single phrase can make an individual do, feel, or think, we would think not only twice but rather three or four times before we went on in speaking our minds. The United States of America symbolizes freedom; the statue of liberty located in the city of New York, is a good representation of what we as Americans are guaranteed. Freedom of speech, the right to follow any religion, and the right to love and marry whoever we want are…