Jim Thorpe

As I reflect on my present state of conciseness, I can honestly say the play, “The colored museum”, has helped shaped my thinking . “The colored museum” was a eye opener in the light of racism towards African Americans in The United States. This play was a precise indictment of the oppression and slavery blacks had to face through the making of America. The author George C. Wolfe, illustrated oppressed economic and social conditions that African Americans occupied and still do. These conditions…

Hypertension (HTN), the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease, remains a national problem (Hanus, Simoes, Amboni, Ceretta, & Tuon, 2015). The prevalence rate of HTN is approximately 1 billion people around the world (Hanus et al., 2015). Moreover, complications from HTN cause an estimated 9.4 million deaths per year (Kjeldsen et al., 2014). It is important to understand HTN and the negative effects it can cause within the human body as an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN).…

The Reconstruction Era was a period of time from 1865 to 1877 about the rebuilding of the South and the establishment of rights for African Americans. This period marked a continuous battle of ideas for the nation’s future. Despite having its flaws, the Reconstruction was a success overall, The Reconstruction provided slaves freedom and citizenship with the amendments passed, gave black people access to education, and finally reunited the states. During the Reconstruction, 3 amendments were…

For quite some time now, the debate whether or not the United States government should pay restitution for the injustice of slavery, has been going on. When it comes to a sensitive topic, such as slavery, it is always difficult to completely gravitate to one side. After doing some bit of research and reading articles, it is safe to say that it would be wise to stick against reparations. The reasons for that, would be because it is simply too hard to identify who exactly is the descent of a slave…

A Speech That Changed America In August of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that helped shaped America into the country that it is today. The speech, titled “I Have a Dream,” expresses the various challenges that the Negroes, or African Americans, experienced during this period. The main point Dr. King was trying to get across in his speech was that all people are created equal. “I Have a Dream” is about inciting change and bringing an end…

The Civil Rights Act was passed on July 2, 1964, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It has been over fifty years and still today this Act is disregarded in a lot of parts of the country just as it was in Oxford, North Carolina in the 1970s. Reading about the aftermath of Henry Marrows murder and how similar the aftermath is to the death of Mike Brown last year showed me that even fifty years later our country still is dealing with racism and…

three young African Americans that were inside. The police were stationed at every entrance or exit in the police station in order to protect the young men and to make sure that the crowd outside does not enter the jail or police station. The police chief was not at the police station or jail when the riots were beginning, he was up in Virginia; Minnesota is questioning the African Americans that were at the circus at the time of the supposed rape. The police chief kept checking up on the…

NOW, are the product of affirmative action. However the African American suffrage, was prolonged and was a much more characteristic of the vicious-circle phenomenon, due to ethnic stratification, structural differentiation and black codes, as well as Jim Crow…

“Oppression is the experience of repeated, widespread, systemic injustice”(Deutsch np). Oppression exists in two main forms: institutionalized practice and the formation of stereotypes. Institutionalized oppression is based on laws and traditions that discriminated certain groups, preventing success and personal advancement. Stereotype oppression is based on personal attitudes and opinions of groups, which develop from falsely acquired information (Nixon np). Oppressed populations are prevalent…

Wherever There’s a Fight by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, is a book that narrows down the struggles of man and woman of all colors to protect and extend their civil rights liberties. It provides stories of events in history that marked the lives of many people.The stories described in the book show how many people were being discriminated for the way they looked, the disability they had, their sexualaty for being black, latino, or Japanese. It gives the reader an image of all the injustices and…