Miscegenation

Detroit, once a symbol of progress in the American economy, has become the failure story of 20th century America. A main factor consisted in racial discrimination towards black people, bringing consequences such as racial division on the society and class inequality. However, racial discrimination did not exclusively brought capitalism towards Black Detroiters lives, but also oligarchy played a role. In the 1940s, Detroit’s economy boomed, becoming the 4th largest industrial job market in the…

Harriet Tubman was an effective leader, a liberation bringer and a wanted criminal. She escaped from slavery only to journey back into slave states nearly 20 times to rescue people- some friends and family, but mostly strangers- from the bondage of slavery. Her life and leadership was nothing short of heroic: a tale of true servant leadership and self-sacrifice for the freedom of those suffering injustice. Everything she accomplished, she did while living under enormous oppression herself, yet,…

One issue that still seems to be quite a problem in the United States is racism and discrimination against minorities. Even though the civil rights movement was a while ago, and we as a country have made progress since then, it is still something we see and hear about almost every day. In a perfect world, I believe we should all be treated equally regardless of how we look on the outside, or what religion we follow. I think eventually most of all racism will die out, but there will always be…

Effects of Inherent Racism in Ferguson As citizens of the United States, we are all racist because we have grown up in this biased society. As humans we are only born with a certain amount of instinctual knowledge and the rest is then learned over time. In our society due to media and the nature of the people of the United States we are inherently racist and lying to ourselves saying that we are not. “Racism has been an issue since humans existed” (Burylo). Through word of mouth and actions,…

CRITICAL REFLECTION In North and Central America, there is an increase of black women every year who migrate into Canada and the United States of America from the African continent or other countries. When they arrive the women are expected to come into Canada or U.S.A. with the awareness that they are going to be following the laws made by each countries society. I am one of the people who moved to Canada five years ago from Nigeria, Africa. I have come to accept most of the laws here, but…

This statement claims that due to the fact that European and U.S colonial powers were a product of the European Enlightenment, they believed in the equality of all human beings. The Japanese also believed that within the spheres of race and culture, they shared these similarities with their colonized subjects. Therefore, European, U.S. and Japanese colonial endeavors were not a product of racist discrimination but a tactic developed to lift the status of women within in the areas that they…

Sexual Violence and Its Impact On the Black Community Sexual violence is a largely overlooked issue within the black community affecting an intolerable amount of young black girls. Black Women’s Blueprint, an organization that endorses the global equality of Black women conducted a study in which they found that “Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18”. Black girls who experience sexual abuse choose to keep silent about…

Article overview The article by Brooms and Perry (2016) focuses on the critical issue that has been in the rise in the United States of America in the recent years. In this regard, the article discusses the hypothetical reasons for the rise in the killings of the black men by the white police officers is due to racisms. In this context, racism is taken to have features that include the fact that the white believe that the black race is culturally and biologically considered to be inferior in…

Being different is something that people in society do not understand, and it frightens them. Society has standards and expects something out of us all. Racism is one of the main argued topics about “being different”. Racism has been something that goes way back, and has been the reason for many laws. From the slave days, the KKK, Martin Luther King, all the way up to today, racism unfortunately still exists today. Although there have been laws made, bringing about an impact, it still continues.…

The Issue Of Racism “You’re a terrorist!”, is something that has been said to me many times to me throughout my life. “I can’t breathe!”, said a black man in New York with asthma who was put in a chokehold and killed by police even though he said it repetitively. A black male was shot and killed by a police officer while unarmed and surrendering in Ferguson. A french magazine group was killed for making fun of a holy figure of Muslims on their magazine cover. An unarmed colored male was shot…