Black hole

others and allowed for change to happen. It specifically explained and showed what it is to be a black person in America at that time. No one waited to deal with multiple Malcolm X’s. I have learned a lot from the autobiography of Malcolm X. When I was younger, I told Malcolm X was a pro-black individual. So, it was surprising to find out that he used to hate his own skin color and even that he left his black girlfriend for a white woman. Clearly, he had different personas throughout his…

academy, I was the minority. I wasn’t just the only white person out of twenty-three students, I was the only white girl. That first week was really hard. It was a culture shock. In high school there was black people, so it’s not like I’ve never been around black people before. I actually dated a black guy for…

because the condition based on the fact that African Americans “civil” state never changes. The book At The Dark End of The Street and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration the emphasis on racial identity comes to play the idea for proper justice of a black man or woman does not exist. McGuire wrote the book in 2007 and Alexander wrote hers in 2012,but regardless of the time gap between the years, the issues of racial injustice seem identical historical and current. To emphasis the meaning of…

racism in the US now. It’s not obvious racism but in indirect ways like bias policies. Benevolent racism is rejecting affirmative action for black people. White people say affirmative action is not needed for black people anymore and say that it should be demeaning for blacks to accept it. Benevolent racism is claiming racial profiling is help saving black people lives. White people agreed with racist laws such as the stop and frisk law in New York. Gun control was a part of benevolent racism…

law from those that are to uphold the law. Eleanor Roosevelt once stated “justice cannot be for one side, but must be for both sides” (wisdomcommons.org, 2014). This insight is not carried out by those who uphold the law or pass down judgments. The blacks in America, which make up small portions of the population, have…

during a time when white men were in control of black men. When Jesse was just a child, he witnessed a lynching that he never forget. Witnessing this event and growing up in a racist area has caused Jesse to be a man who needs power, strong masculinity, and hypersexuality over the African American race. The short story opens with Jesse trying to have sex with his wife. With his inability to get an erection, he gets aggravated…

Hell or High Water:Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster Michael Dyson looks at how different groups use religion in the face of a natural disaster. In Hurricane Katrina there were essentially two groups that were a part of the disaster: poor, black victims and those that were supposed to help them. For those that are in a position to help, they often view natural disasters as a means for God to punish sinners and for those that need help they look to God as a comfort and as a way to cope.…

Griffin had many opportunities that black men could ill afford. Griffin was a gifted student, he studied medicine and humanities in France - education was a luxury that many blacks did not have regardless of financial status. Whilst, technically education in America was separate but equal there were often not enough places for blacks and surplus places for whites. In a conversation with a black man Griffin hears that white boys go to college get good jobs, whereas a black boy, if he makes it…

rioters also committed and crime should have been arrested. During this time period Police Officers look the other way when it came to White Americans committing crimes on African Americans. Another example given in the book is when mine foreman shot a black work and turned himself in, but was told to go back to work. There is always a turn of the head when crimes against African Americans were committed. The foreman should have been arrested for murdering the man in cold blood. Another…

continued to work for white proprietors under various forms of labor arrangements. Thus, “legal” segregation came about in the form of Jim Crow laws throughout the South. During this time violence, intimidation, and lynching were common. The situations blacks faced in the years after Reconstruction were quite harsh but the alternatives given by leaders in the African Americans community provided some sort of relief. In their times, Wells, Washington, Turner, DuBois, and Harper were important and…