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always draw the short end of the stick when it comes to government. Most laws that are created, unless directly addressing rights for colored citizens, seem to favor white citizens over colored citizens. The same thing occurs in the housing climate. White people don’t see a problem with the housing climate because they have access to wherever they want to live. For colored people, however, they are expected to live in a certain area of town, and they have a hard time finding a house or getting a…

American. Both of these men discuss the obstacles and struggles they face because of white oppression. I understand that modern people of color do not face the same kind of oppression that Douglass and Red Jacket faced when they were alive, but today’s colored people still experience their own struggles with oppression. Reading these speeches by these two men has really made me think about our future as people, as a society. Where will we be in the next 10 to 20 years? Will we have progressed?…

Controversially, The Help is a drama packed novel based on the 1960’s civil rights movement in the south, told through the view of three main characters Aibleen, Skeeter, and Minny about how colored maids are treated by their white employers. Although, these three characters are the primary focus, Stockett pulls conflicting and harmonious relationships between these characters that intensify the issues with racial segregation. Aibleen and Minny are the main characters who tell their story from…

Various themes that have taken place thought-out history. The theme of color versus black and white, for instance, makes us remanence about the segregation of colored people the United States and in the civil rights. This movie didn’t show African Americans, because they were portraying and old conservative show that were made by white men. But the riots happening in Pleasantville against the people of color, seem…

dough, don’t it?” (para. 51). Here Bambara tries to show her readers how it is oftentimes a lot harder for colored people to attain higher standings, and much more common for the white people to own a majority of the wealth in the nation. Bambara uses the children’s improper and profane language, as well as the white people’s superior clothing to contrast the differences between white and colored people. The social gap was so large, that the children felt shame and hesitation to even enter the…

were just as capable as the white soldiers to fight in the war, so he led them into war. Even though the African Americans had Officer Shaw by their side the majority of the time, they still ran into problems with the other White Northerners. The colored soldiers still weren’t treated properly and they didn’t get the same treatment the white soldiers received. Even though all of this went on the African American soldiers never gave up and they stood up for themselves in order to get treated the…

separate facilities that were only for “colored people”. In Maycomb, the African Americans had to go to different churches than the white people. During Tom Robinson’s trial, the African Americans had to sit up in the balcony whereas the white people were allowed to sit on the main floor. However, many white men believe that this is “separate but equal” because they thought they were doing no harm by just giving them different public places where only colored races could go (http://www.pbs.org).…

privilege of being ignorant to the problems of women of color. Let me explain, since racism is not something white women experience, these women don’t have to look critically at how the systems and institutions of their society serve to marginalize colored women, and therefore only focus on patriarchy as it is experienced by white…

youth and other minorities and what are the factors that contribute to youth committing crimes. Incarcerated youths are a growing problem in the United States, especially African Americans. According to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) the number of incarcerated person have quadrupled since 2008 from 500,000 to 2.3 million (NAACP, 2016). However, African American men are constitute to occupying…

Ever wondered if The Help by Kathrine Stockett and Lord of the Flies by William Golding are comparable? These two novels are not comparable to the theme, setting, and symbols. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is about a group of British school boys who get stranded on an island; their goal is to try to get off the island while still being civilized and not turning into savages. The Help by Kathrine Stockett is about a white woman named Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan who writes a novel about African…