Black separatism

Black Intellectuals have always been caught between the preverbal rock and hard place. They have constantly had the dilemma of establishing their existence not only in the white world, which seeks to diminish and minimize them as mere cases of either affirmative action or charity, but also the Black one as well, who has no conception of the work and the toil that these individuals face day in and day out in their intellectual inquiry into the political, social, and economic workings of our…

Black Lives Matter was a international activist movement that helped fight for equality towards the African Americans. This movement began as a small but fierce rebellion in a St. Louis suburb exploded into wildfire that has engulfed the whole country. It has done something all too rare in our time: it’s escaped the control of the ruling establishment, which police repression nor Democrats have been able to stop the movement because of how powerful it was to the world. Most recently in 2013…

Sojourner Truth gives a speech with no name. Only a pleading question: “Ain’t I a Woman?” 1974. The first meeting of the Combahee River Collective. Finding that they struggled with white women regarding race and black men regarding gender, a feminist coalition forms in recognition of the black woman’s struggle in both race and gender hierarchies. 2013. The modern Twitterverse. In a moment of self-described frustration, Mikki Kendall starts a hashtag which ends up trending in 61 US cities,…

When people in America took the Implicit Association Test, results showed that “almost 90 percent of white people in America...show an inherent racial bias for white people versus black people” (Goyette) which creates red flags for a country that is supposed to be prideful of its diversity. The one question that this raises is why? Why is it that white people find people of the same race to be more appealing than African Americans…

October 2014 Black Activist: Malcolm X Malcolm X is known for being as one of many contributors to the controversy of black segregation in America. Like many of the civil right’s leaders he fought for the black’s freedom and rights doing whatever it took to make society see the racial problems in America. Although his ways and thoughts of achieving freedom for blacks differed from most, Malcolm ideas and beliefs were on similar levels with the other activists. His aspirations for blacks in…

The Black Muslim movement was started by Elijah Muhammad and aimed to promote Black equality and Nationalism. The movement looked to empower African Americans and help them to achieve political, economical, and social success. Whilst in jail, Malcolm devoted his life to the Nation of Islam and changed from his slave name of Malcolm Little to Malcolm ‘X.' He continued to his study of the Islamic religion until he was paroled in 1952. He followed with the movement and moved in with Elijah…

Beyond Skin Deep Racism and bigotry are behaviors evidently learned through submersion within a society polarized by ones difference in skin pigmentation. Abundant throughout our history and highly prevalent in our current society, conflicts between different cultural and ethnic groups have created a divide amongst citizens in the United States. Ironically speaking, from a scientific perspective, race amongst the human species is invalid and merely a construct of the human imagination. The role…

with his actions. The narrator writes a speech on how the way to progression for blacks is through humility. Even though he doesn’t truly believe it, he goes to give the speech to the town leaders. During the night, he partakes in a battle royal wrestling competition, sees a nude dancer, and fights for electrically charged money with other boys. At the end of night he is presented with a form to attend the black college. At college, during Founders Day, he is asked to give a tour to an…

storyline, the image of the “black-box” is mentioned approximately 20 times. This box plays quite a large role in the plot of the story in that the pieces of paper inside of it ultimately determines the fate of one the villager’s lives. Whichever individual draws the sheet of paper from the black box with the black dot on is plagued with the fate of the lottery. This villager is sentenced to death by means of stoning by the hands of the remaining townspeople. The “black-box” is representative of…

Black students complain about stereotypical comments made about them in the classroom, generalizations of opinions made by individual Black students to reflect all Black students, and the failure of White faculty to acknowledge and incorporate Black perspectives in the curriculum (Guiffrida & Douthiti, 2010). This kind of behavior makes it difficult for Black students to approach White faculty for assistance (Schwitzer, Griffen, Ancis, & Thomas, 1999). Fries-Britt and Turner (2001) note that…