Free people of color

The Republican Party, it’s referred to as the GOP (Grand Old Party) it’s one of the two major political parties in the U.S , the other being the Democratic Party. By anti-slavery activists in 1854, the Grand Old Party dominated politics nationally. Also, in most of the North for most of the period from 1860 to 1932. There have been 18 Republican presidents, the first was Abraham Lincoln, from 1861 to 1865, and then George W. Bush, from 2001 to 2009. The recent Republican nominee was former…

The civil rights movement was a time in history that made an impact on the people of America. It was an era when society was trying to make the segregation between black and whites , disappear. Maya Angelou grew up during this time period and went through the stress of having people discriminate on her because of her skin color. The civil rights movement made a personal influence on Maya Angelou’s poetry, as revealed in her poems , “ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, and ,” Still I Rise”.…

means all white men. If this is a free Country why can't Black People be consider equal and free? Even though Thomas Jefferson wrote in The Declaration of Independence all men are equal he owned more than 200 Slaves. Muslims are not all terrorist, some come to America to get away from their country because they didn't like it there, not to come to America and cause chaos. Just because we have different color of skin doesn't make us any different from other colors. This is the reason why Iwant to…

Marguerite Ann Johnson was born on April 4, 1928 to Vivian Baxter and Bailey Johnson Sr. Johnson had trouble growing up due to the color of her skin. In 1945 Marguerite Ann Johnson would graduate high school and give birth to her son Clyde Bailey “Guy” Johnson (Cox, 113). During her singing and theater career, she took the name Maya Angelou. Unfortunately Maya Angelou passed away on May 28, 2014 at the age of eighty-six. Angelou’s style of writing was influenced by her childhood and her…

A Vision Of Beauty Having a place for your own can be very helpful. Reaching out to nature instead of people can lead you to encountering a vision of beauty. A Vision Of Beauty Having a place for your own can be very helpful. Reaching out to nature instead of people can lead you to encountering a vision of beauty. Nature itself has lots of secrets keeping from us. It is up to us to go out and discover this classified inner beauty. The place that I like to spend time is in a forest near a river…

influential person during the battle for equal rights. He was an American Baptist minister born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta Georgia. King delivered his famous speech, “I Have a Dream”, during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Many people then did as people do with LGBT; Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Transsexual gatherings and protests today and completely ignored the March and the persecution endured by the African American community. That was however until King delivered such a speech that…

the increase in the number of incarcerated people in the United States over the past forty years. The number of people getting put in prison in the United States started to increase since the beginning of War on Drugs in 1982. “US is home to 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world's prisoners”, states the documentary 13th. There are currently more people in jail for a drug offense than the number of people in jail in 1980. The number of people incarcerated went from 40,900 in 1980 to…

discriminating people of different categories and treating them unequally, acting act discriminatory behavior and justifying it. Outright discrimination is not always seen to those acting out discriminatory behavior, but evident to the victims of these unfair treatments. This can be seen in implicit bias, defined by Johnson to be unconscious discrimination. Johnson mentions an Australian study that shows white people are more likely to get a free bus ride, if in need, then people of color, even…

many topics. Some of them being, “How do we know anything?”, “Free will”, and “The meaning of life”. Nagel has discussed these three topics based on human nature, our perception, and the external world. One of the topics, “How do we know anything?” relates to what exists in one’s mind, if it even exists and whether we view ourselves to be the only thing that exist and everything being just a figment of our own reality and imagination. “Free will” is argued to be either true or false, depending…

“black body” a lot and how it is constantly under threat. When Coates talks about the black body he is referring to the color the skin of African Americans. I choose to write about this topic because why do people get treated so poorly because of the color of their skin. I do not understand why it is so difficult to be able to live in unity with fellow humans regardless of color, race, beliefs, or gender. As a white male, I can’t say that I faced the kind of diversity that Coates has been…