Counting Crows

Tough Love In her book The Bluest Eye, Morrison presents the line between success and failure, drawn by parents’ to their African American children, as a tool used to prepare them for society. The line is depicted through the parents attitudes towards their children. Their mannerisms mimic how society has treated them in the past, moreover, it is a mechanism used to prepare their children for what is to come. Consequently, if the child can’t physically or mentally take it, they fail. If the…

As America entered her antebellum period, there was a shifting of culture while the constitution remained the foundation of the nation, people began to question the injustices of certain people groups, Indians, Blacks and women. What is more, many writers touted the greatness of America, while others doubted whether the institutions of the nation were worth following. Among these writers was Ralf Waldo Emerson and Sojourner Truth. Although it is unknown if their lives intersected, there is a…

(Hurston, 2). Her dreams don’t revolve around money, so she can’t truly pursue them without judgement for giving up the coveted life of comfort she has. On a broader spectrum, Janie can’t move up very much because she is a black woman living in the Jim Crow South. But among her peers she has the upper hand, and lots of…

Does racism still exist today? Yes, of course it does it happens everywhere, people discriminate other people based on their color and their background. Segregation happened a long time ago back in the 1800s, this is where people would have to be separated based on their color and they would have to go to different schools, drink from different water fountains and much more. In America racism there were two cases that led to each other the first one was Plessy vs. Ferguson, and then Brown v…

These Jim Crow laws were implemented to restrain African American men from practicing their rights as citizens- making them as second class citizens. Jim Crow laws became the new norm to restrain African Americans since lynching emanated as too aggressive. It was a passive aggressive method that was tolerated and became a settlement…

Michael Brown was an eighteen year old who lost his life after an encounter with the police. On August 9, 2014 a call was made to report a robbery that had took place at Ferguson Market & Liquor. Around midday, an African American male had been reported of stealing boxes of cigarillos and pushing the store clerk on his way out of the store. The police dispatcher described the suspect as wearing a red St. Louis Cardinals hat, khaki shorts, yellow socks, a white T-shirt, while being accompanied by…

Reconstruction: Revolutionary or Rotten? There is no doubt that the final outcome of the Reconstruction Era could have been argued as both a success and failure. Its successes may have been seen through the political changes and major constitutional amendments, while it could be disputed that its failures of the non-permanency of political changes and immoral practices trumped the attempts made during the period. In the words of Eric Foner, “[Reconstruction was] an unfinished Revolution,”…

Imagine growing up in a place where everyone around you was segregated based on their skin color.How would that make you feel? This made Dr.King want more for colored people. He was tired of separate bathrooms, water fountains, and even restaurants.He wanted a place where everyone could be free and equal regardless of their skin color. Even though he was just a baptist church minister,[a] he fought for justice.Dr.king was a leader in the civil rights movement. He led peaceful protests and was…

The New Jim crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander breaks down the role that Mass incarceration has played in keeping legal racial discrimination, which we once called Jim Crow laws alive. Throughout the book Michelle Alexander explains the history behind Jim Crow laws and the American criminal justice system as they relate to each other. Alexander uses detailed history and hard facts to support her thesis that the Mass incarceration of African Americans is…

way for the exploitive Jim Crow laws; this Supreme Court case destroyed any progress African Americans made during the Reconstruction, in the early 1870s. The Jim Crow laws originated from a song entitled jump Jim Crow, by a comedian, in the late 1820s, Thomas Dartmouth Rice. The name Jim Crow became away of mocking black slaves as old African folk tales came to America of trickster animals, one was of a crow named ‘Jim’, this folk tale was popular…