Leo White

arose. A quarrel formed between the two men and the clerk. All three men died except Jefferson. Jefferson being nervous in light of recent events takes a swig a whisky and takes the money out of the register. Jefferson was going to run away but two white men stopped him and he got thrown into jail. Jefferson had a court case but it was one-sided. He claimed he was innocent but it didn 't matter because he was black. Jefferson 's lawyer even degraded him by saying “What justice would there be to…

The Afro American Newspaper framed three ladies standing with nooses around their neck in protest against lynching in Georgia on January 1st, 1946. Lynching refers to death by hanging by the white mob. I chose women in protest as opposed to a violent, voyeuristic lynch mob scene because it demonstrates taking an individual stance against racial segregation and atavism. The women depicted in the picture stand outside a forest. Note the trees are blurred as the camera lens primarily focuses on the…

affected by the society in which they live, in a variety of different ways. The Help focuses on the segregation of society in the 1960’s. It focuses on two black maids who tell their stories to Skeeter, a young white writer. They all work together to challenge these unfair practices enforced by white men and women. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles the story is based on the life of Tess Durbeyfield who is sent to pursue a loose family connection in order to improve her own family’s wealth. Tess is…

Police Brutality When cops continually use their training and tactics in ways that brutally harm and injure people, it is unjustly wrong. It is becoming an assumption that white cops are purposely targeting African American citizens. Cops are rushing to conclusions and taking lives or seriously injuring people. Once these citizens are injured it makes it very hard for them to believe in or even trust the law, which in turn is causing a major concern nationwide. Take for instance the…

The most reasonable explanation for this violence is racially biased thoughts and values were passed down through generations as they were raised. The black population was raised to not like white people and the white population was raised not to like black people. Inherent racism is a difficult issue to put an end to because we do not realize we are racist, it is in our nature. Violence in Ferguson is impacting the young generation, by introducing racism…

Slave workers could perform any task that would be found in any large village with the exception of a doctor. Most plantations had a slave who was skilled in treating injuries and delivering babies. Very few white doctors would treat a slave. Slaves established a hierarchy within their community; the house slaves were at the top of the pecking order unless the overseer was a slave then he was the senior slave; of the house slaves the butler who was responsible…

something to do with people of color not being thought as on the same level as those who are white. According to the Washington Post “The report showed that even after African Americans find work, they earn less than white men with the same level of education.”(Matre 2014) Throughout history we have always seen whites held higher than blacks. I think that our society is being conditioned to try and keep white superiority over everyone else. It is getting better slowly but surely. I do not…

was overjoyed by my choice of mate. She’d always wanted me to marry a white women and beget half-breed children who would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us” (40). We see that he had been raised in a way that looked down on his skin…

America symbolizes a whole world of opportunity for change. The boxing match between Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson in 1908 caused many race riots between whites and blacks. Jack Johnson was the first black man to become a world heavy weight champion (Doss 47). Johnson also defended his title by defeating Jim Jeffries, otherwise known as “The Great White Hope” (Doss 47). Racial tension was very present in the early 1900’s. This fight symbolized a new beginning of racial tension but was also a huge…

color isn’t forced to think about our race. Coming from a mixed race background, I find myself thrown into the middle of all race arguments. I have been discriminated as a Latino, as a white person, and as a black person. Whether it’s a white person telling me that I’m black, or a black person telling me that I’m white, or a Latino person telling me that I’m not Latino because I don’t speak Spanish, I have been discriminated against in all aspects of my race. As a minority I’m always…