Black hole

gyrations, and a handful of moves like Jagger, the magician stops and stands in place. While smiling, he announces that without the aid of his hands, he has successfully separated the entire deck, reds from blacks. To prove it, the magician begins shaking his right pant leg. All the black cards fall out onto the ground. He follows by doing the same with the left pant leg, and all the reds fall out. The once shuffled cards have now been separated. A true miracle of epic proportion! Half of…

Tom Robinson, a black man accused of sexually molesting and physically assaulting a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Although he is a white man, Dolphus Raymond also feels the effects of inherent racism, as he falls in love with a black woman, has children with her, and society rejects him for his choices. Racial discrimination also affects Calpurnia, the Finch’s maid, because she is a black woman working for a white family,…

serve as a platform for discrimination that has been plaguing this country for years. Everywhere you go, whether you like it or not, certain preconceived notions about the way people are because of the color of their skin invade your mind. Passing a black person on the street might make you walk a little…

has been the value of black people in the world. The founding fathers of America were not strangers to this concept of discussion. Some of the brightest minds this country has seen have made claims about the lack of value black people have in this country. Thomas Jefferson was one of the most vocal people about this topic before his presidency and beyond. While his arguments are overall sound for the time period, some of his points are better than others. David Walker, a black man, replies to…

was just hanging off and it was just a big hole in his face. I just threw him on the couch and laid him in my arms and put pressure on his mouth with the towel.” Locklin couldn’t understand why this sick individual shot the kid. “for no reason .” “ I don’t care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.” Mary Turner was a thirty-three-year-old black woman, hung in Lowndes County, Georgia.…

and are relatable to us today. First off the amount of hatred to Tom Robinson and other blacks in the story is large. As in the story the main problem is the tom Robinson case that Atticus is working on and as the story goes on beforehand though the amount of hatred and disrespect increases as scout the main character of the story learns more about some people and their opinion. Although as time progresses blacks are the only one being hated, but whites as well as in the story, Jem says during…

down. You are from the South and you know that this is a white man’s world.’ (1: p 221). Throughout the novel, he had tried to prove his worth multiple times, only to be taken advantage of and made to conform to the norm of society mandating that black African Americans are inferior and should stay that way. The narrator wanted to be different and do what he thought was right, only to be discouraged because being different isn’t what people want him to be, ‘you’re nobody, son. You don’t exist-…

Opening scene police siren in the background streaks of blood crawl across the street, next to a cold lifeless body full of bullet holes. The body was a young African American teenager who had just been shot. The camera pans around the crime scene to reveal a unidentified hand picking up a bullet casing. The camera then turns to a group of African American girls no more than ten years old outside, at god knows what time witnessing I am sure a traumatizing event. After that you here a voice from…

racist town that does not want to integrate blacks into their every day lives, but they get a new preacher at their church who had different plans. The closed mindedness of whites is seen throughout the novel based upon the views they have, the actions of the characters and the consequences of their actions. As the events in the book play out some things work out…

HIV infection and AIDS are social and emotional situation that alters your life If current rates persist, CDC (Center for Disease Control – Give guidelines and treatment for Diseases) projects that approximately one in 20 black men, one in 48 black women, and one in two black gay and bisexual men will receive a diagnosis of HIV during their lifetimes. We must encourage education and mentoring to combat other the crisis in our community The incarceration rates disproportionately impact men…