Black Spot

BB King Autobiography... By Cameron Coleman Riley B. King was born to a family of poor sharecroppers on a plantation near the small town of Itta Bena in the Mississippi Delta. King's parents separated when he was only five and his mother took him to live in the nearby hill country in Kilmichael, Mississippi. By age seven he was doing the work of a grown man in the field. He was only nine when his mother died. He found inspiration in the music of the African American church. He dreamed of…

The Pursuit of Happiness, directed by Gabriele Muccino, tells a story about an African American man living in San Francisco. His name is Chris Gardner, who devoted all of his life savings into an investment to sell a device known as a portable "bone density scanner." He is a hard-working, caring and loving father who struggles financially to provide for his wife and son. With his wife working back to back shift to make ends meet with their rent bills. She is unable to live a life of stress with…

Do you ever put yourself into someone spot, and feel like what they been going through? Even though, we are all brother and sister and we should stop judging other people of what we look like.People should stop judging other people because A lot of people race, talking to other people base on what they look like, and We are all the same inside and doesn't matter what we are in the outside. People have different races and belief such as being white, black, mexican, latino, asian, and etc.…

Cameron and Christine off with a warning so when they got home, they had an argument about how Christine was treated and that Cameron wasn’t “black enough” to do anything about it. The next day, while Cameron is working, he calls cut on a scene and is very pleased about how it turned out. The producer comes to Cameron concerned about one of the characters who is black, is talking too much like a white guy and wants the scene shot again. Cameron complies, but is very angry about what the…

August Wilson’s “Fences” depicts black man’s, Troy’s, struggle in the white man’s world. The color of the body was a determining factor if a person’s position and role in a society. Though, an outstanding baseball player in prison, Troy’s professional career was disappointing because of the color barrier in Baseball League. Being abandoned by his mother, being raised by an abusive father and being African American in a racist culture, life becomes a real struggle for him. Troy thinks that the…

On August 13, 1955 a man named Lamar Smith was shot in the middle of the day by a white man. Dozens of people watched this murderer gun down Smith, however, the killer was never indicted because every witness claimed that they witnessed him murdering Smith. There are tons of cases similar to Smith’s situation, when the murderer gets away because of their skin color. However, throughout the Civil Rights Era African Americans made the greatest sacrifice, protestors nearly risked their lives trying…

the servers who befriended him the most turned out to be the black servers. He knew what it felt like to be discriminated against, as his unusually narrow build and sunken chest became the object of ridicule throughout his youth. Well-honed psychological lines of defense had been fully developed by this point in his life, and certainly his new friends could relate. Appreciating his company, and accepting him into the culture, the black servers, both from local communities and from other…

According to Said, it was simply impossible for Conrad to imagine a world without imperialism (424). He could not see the natives ruling themselves. When Achebe called Conrad a thoroughgoing racist, he meant it derogatorily. However, he was actually quite spot on in with that terminology in the sense that Conrad was very clever in the way that he distanced himself from the tropes of racism in his novel. He used an unknown framed narrator to narrate the narration of another main narrator Marlow.…

Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, has won many awards and has created a significant spot in the history of literature. Lee was brought up in the South, and that became a motivator for her to write this novel. In the book, the author navigates us around the unjust world in the racially biased Southern USA in the 1900’s, through the eyes of Jean Louise Finch, or as one may know her, Scout. The book is a virtual portal to the world Scout lives in. Lee takes the readers on a journey in…

not much older than me, jumps out of the car. He has black hair that sticks up from his head. He is wearing a gray short sleeved t-shirt and jeans. I can't see his other features because it is so dark out,…