Black separatism

the eyes of society which is why women and children end up being the most impoverished population and mass incarceration of black men makes this even worse for black women. Race is an additional burden to the differences that men and women have. Table 4.1 shows that black males have the highest unemployment rates, blacks live in the most concentrated communities, and blacks make about $2,000 below the average median income in Baltimore. It also shows that whites make more no matter what their…

Although Black Nationalism may be seen as more radical than King’s propositions, its founding ideas also bear many similarities. In his speech “The Ballot of the Bullet”, Malcolm X begins by using King’s first step: collection of evidence. He focuses on how Democrats and other Whites have broken their promises to the Black people repeatedly. The movement’s disillusionment with White society is also similar to King’s…

that the black male is seen as an imminent danger to society, no matter the age. It is a constant idea that black men are absent from a child’s life, a constant idea that people questioned my life with. My father is involved in my life, and my father is not absent, or a threat to American society, something that should not have to be said but I will most likely have to say until his demise. In modern media today it is typical to see a black male absent from a child’s life, to see the black males…

movie is Black…

binoculars that see black life from a distance, never with the texture of intimacy,” writes Michael Eric Dyson in his essay “Death in Black and White”, which is a New York Times article in response to the deaths of Alton B Sterling and Philando Castile by “the hands of the police.” Dyson is talking about how white America will always struggle to understand black people. White America’s inability to understand African Americans is echoed in Claudia Rankine’s essay, “The Condition of Black Life…

character was from the newer or older generation, their views about race and the status of their interracial relationships was affected. In situations dealing with white supremacy and black progression, older individuals, both white and black, tended to be content with keeping blacks in an inferior position. For older blacks, like Sandy and Mammy Jane, their goal was to conform to the standards of whites. They were more likely to be subordinate to whites and desire to stay in low-ranking roles…

narrator becomes involved in a brutal box-match against the other workers. Similarly, in “The Lottery”, the village initially, seems calm. Yet, at the end, it is revealed that due to the long held tradition, a person, who has picked a paper with black dot would be stoned death as a form of sacrifice in order for the village to “prosper.” Both of the stories convey the importance of tradition. Along with tradition, arises the idea of conformity. Because human beings seek for comfort, they are…

The term “thug” has become synonymous with young black males in the United States. This stereotype owes its origins not to rap music, but to the racialized political atmosphere of the late 1950’s (Abagond, 2015). The notion of the stereotypical black thug of today took hold in the 1990’s with the advent of gangsta rap (Abagond, 2015). As rap has grown in popularity, integrating the thug stereotype into mainstream movies, television shows and even advertisement campaigns was easy and systematic.…

The jail was created in order to keep peace and maintain chaos to one dominant space. The jail is an entrance point to the criminal justice system. In this system, people are arrested and booked for performing crimes, this includes basic misdemeanors. A jail is supposed to hold persons of a dangerous behavior, such as rapists and predators, but this isn’t generally the case. A great majority of persons confined in this type of space belong to a different social category. American jails are known…

Questions that Jefferson brought up was why couldn’t the colonies induce the slaves into the state instead? The problem found within that reasoning Jefferson foresaw the backlash of racism to the blacks by the whites, which would only divide them further. Jefferson observed the distinction of the blacks and whites, although different in particular areas of culture, musical talent, and color of skin they were endowed with the same higher level thinking and the ability to learn as the white people…