Black Kids

hurtful to see white people portraying blacks as monkeys. I never knew that certain children songs and cartoons were racist. For example, “Catch a Nigger by the toe. If he won't work, then let him go”. At first, I thought the rhythm of the song sound very fun, however, I tried to look closer to the meaning of the song, I got scare by the negative presentation it had on black people. This was very shocking to know that certain cartoons showed oppression. As kids whom watching that kinds of…

their son was born. Jordan was a wealthy and good looking kid, but as people grow up they change and kids (especially black kids) are no longer seen as cute. When black kids are beginning to no longer be kids people begin to view them in different ways. There are many racist people in this world and it causes the need for black kids to be very cautious of what they are doing. Kids learn about different races at a young age and especially black kids need to learn that some people treat them…

readers. Using his daughter as an example is great, because some people that read this letter had kids too. They wouldn 't want to explain to their kids why they are not allowed to go somewhere where all other kids are at. It can hurt them a lot especially because they do not understand yet about racism and hate. This can make some people change their mind about racism because they forget colored people have kids just like them. All parents want what is best for their…

not only forced Blacks to use separate bathrooms, water fountains, restaurants, etc., but also, harmed and even killed them with no consequence. Ingrained in almost everyone’s mind, racism became the societal norm. This racism - epitomized by The Help through Jackson, Mississippi - repeated itself throughout the south. Representing society at the time, Kathryn Stockett in The Help depicts African-American life in the 1960s as restricted, perilous, and hopeless. Whites prevented Blacks from…

Black men are expected to look a certain way by societies’ definition of the ideal body type for a black male. Mincey et al (2014) found the idea of masculinity for Black men is similar to some traditional aspects of being a man; there are also ideas that are specific in being a black man. It was proceed in the article that society mainstream has a lot of influence on this topic. Masculinity doesn’t only have to do with looks; sometimes it has to do with the opportunities black men get in the…

poor, but I did not feel it at the time. I think that was because of Mama.” Ed’s mom worked very hard, maybe even harder than his dad to make sure her family always had food on their plates, and to make sure her kids were as happy as could be. “Daddy worked hard and had to because as a black man, nothing came easy.” Schools were segregated all the way up until 1954. Ed was in the sixth/seventh grade(“Integration: 1954 to 1963”). Growing up, his aunt was his teacher. During the school day, he…

Think about how many black people got prosecuted for acts they did not perform. It just doesn’t seem right. In the old days of the South, racism was a quite common and usual idea. There were few that recognized the unjustified flaw in this idea; Atticus was a character in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee who is a good single father. In these days of the South many people are racist and their kids started to become racist as well; however, Atticus strives to teach his kids differently. Atticus…

race influenced self-identity. McBride had realized that he was different from both black and white at an early age. He noticed that both black people and white people stared at his white mother with her black family, seeing how they started him and his family ,he couldn’t help but see “that she looked nothing like the other kid’s mother”, she had stood out in a coward of black parent waiting to pick up their kids. McBride saw the stares that she got from the other parent nevertheless he was…

for the better. Plessy v.s ferguson took place in 1890, when there was the separate car act. That act did not allow blacks to sit with whites all across Louisiana. If someone sat in the wrong place they would get fined $25 dollars and 20 days in jail. In 1982, two years after the act was put in place, Homer Plessy sat in the wrong compartment and even though he was one-eighth black, he got arrested for violating the separate car act. After he lost in court twice in the lower courts, he…

media about the black people that attended my school. I’ve watched and mostly heard about how badly black people have been treated unfairly all over the news and my social media accounts, but to witness that kind of behavior in front of my own eyes really made me feel completely different about the situation. It made me realize that African Americans really do go through numerous amounts of violence based on the color of their skin and something should be said about it. Although, some kids did…