Black Hawk Down

that were meant to be for the benefit of all the American people, were unfairly divided. The whites got the privilege of being superior as the blacks wallowed in poverty and extremely poor living conditions. This would contribute to the mistreatment of the African Americans by the whites.…

article was about Black people in media production. This article was written by Zeinabu Davis. Davis speaks on her experience as a Black woman in media production that makes movies. She explains how more times than not in movies, African American people are portrayed as being the bad person, with a bad reputation, especially Black men. She explains how Black people are not included in many shows, movies, etc. Davis says that she has to tell her children not to behave like the Black children in…

It’s during the trial that we see Finch showcase his understanding of equality and his colorblindness allows him to see this case was motivated by racial injustice. Finch gracefully points out to the jury that even though there are probably a few black men who are capable of crimes, “this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men” (Lee 217). It’s here Finch points out both as a lawyer and a person that this is a wrong that needs to be considered and points this…

“dark skin is not valued by one’s peers, community or society” generally, the youth can “develops feelings of low self-esteem and question their self-worth” (Nittle). As a result, of having a diminished sense of worth, “over fifty-five percent of Black girls and boys (aged nine to seventeen years old) engage in using skin bleaching products such as whitenicious, white-glow, etc (Hunter). The ingredients in “skin lightening products such as these have been linked to skin cancer”(Williams).…

perceived danger leads to discriminatory policing against groups and individuals who the police view as suspect assailants. Race plays a role in determining who is a suspect assailant. The traditional suspect assailant is the young Black male. When police interact with you Black males their sense of danger increases and their ability to act rationally decreases. The goal is to get the upper hand. To do this police look for things that are out of place. If something is out of place then the…

The skaters of the time were of either black or white ethnicity and did not consist much of other ethnic backgrounds. Although because of the ban on skating, there was a significant loss of diverse mingling and skating with one another, however, “Mayor Street’s spokesman, Frank Keel said of the…

During the story of Anne Moody there were many accounts of African-Americans facing inequality in many different areas. These areas include things such as unemployment, treatment in the workplace/community, and various beatings/murders on many innocent African-Americans throughout these times. Anne Moody was one who believed that things needed to be changed and can if people have the courage to step up to fight for what they believe in. Anne Moody believed that the civil rights movement was and…

The Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, is a man in a very difficult situation regarding the safety of the African-American community, not only in his city, but all across the nation. On August 9th of this year, Michael Brown, a young black teenager living in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a white police officer Darren Wilson, after shoplifting from a convenience store. This incident sent a shockwave throughout the community and began to draw attention to the racial…

Black feminist thought can be thought of as an understanding behind the intersectionality of race and sex. The assumption that race and sex can be divorced and examined separately prevents many people from grasping the concept of black feminist thought. African-American women are a part of a minority race and minority sex, which they must live with on a daily basis. Therefore, examining race and sex separately is a distorted, biased, and inaccurate view on African-American women in society. As a…

hierarchy are higher there by over coming the income inequality. Thus to come back to our societies reflected in medium, the apartheid and the Jim Crow systems forced blacks to attend different schools from the whites. The black schools were deprived of resources as compared to the white school this was an intentional way to make black societies develop an anti-school subculture hence under achieve economically. The term subculture refers to a group of people who share same values, norms…