Murdered American children

hit, and at a meeting of twenty capos on January 15, 1986, Gotti was formally acclaimed the new boss of the Gambino family. At the time of Gotti’s takeover, the Gambino family, with an annual income of $500 million, was viewed as the most powerful American mafia family. In his book Underboss, author Sammy Gravano estimated that during his years as boss Gotti himself had an annual income of not less than $5 million and more likely between $10 and $12 million. To protect himself, Gotti…

The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened its doors on September 24, 2016, for its visitors to exclusively acknowledge the documentations of African American lives, past and present. Although the museum itself does not provide an extensive collection of stories of bygone eras, the contemporary stories that the museum provides have a lot to tell in regards to the African American history, culture, and community. However, the stories themselves are not the only…

past’s realities. What the four films share strongest are the representations of African Americans in the past, and what we can see as immoral today. The earliest of the four films Within Our Gates by Oscar Mischuax depicts a lot of these historical messages/representations that all four films share. The title says it all, it brings an inside perspective of what it would have been like as an African American in the 1920’s. During this race film era we have the infamous Birth of a nation that…

earlier history between the formation of the United States and Philippine relationship. In 1898 after Spain surrendered the Philippines to the United States, President McKinley issued the Benevolent Assimilation program “…which promised that the Americans came as friends and not as conquerors” (Mabalon 29). This eventually opened the gates of Filipino migration to the United States. With poor living conditions in the Philippines, many young male bachelor Filipinos went to the United States. An…

two illegal Mexican immigrants in the 1920s who come to America in search of the American dream. They take low paying jobs to help support them while they live on the streets in Los Angeles near a gated white community. Many within the gated community, including Delaney and Jack, the book’s main characters, are concerned with illegal immigrants being near their community as they fear they will be robbed or even murdered. One day Delaney told Jack that, “Society isn't what it was - and it won't…

When I was younger and living in South America I used to watch some soap operas with my mom and dad. Many of this soap operas showed a lot of history especially from Brazil. It wasn’t all true but there was a lot of resemblance with what had really happened in the years where many African individuals were landing in Brazil and the Caribbean colonies. From this large amounts only six percent was landing in United States. One of the big differences is that most of the African slaves arriving in…

white” when comparing two or more things because there is always a “gray” area. This is not the case in Richard Wright’s autobiography, Black Boy. In this novel the reader views the world from the eyes of an African American child as he grows up during the most racist era in American history. The autobiography begins with Richard discussing some of his earlier memories of living in the racially tense South during the early 1900s, and describes the parenting methods and dilemmas in his life. As…

In the eyes of the American people, Asians Americans are usually seen as the “model minority.” The phrase “model minority” means a minority group that is seen and perceived as successful. In particular, some many say that the Chinese Americans are the model minority because they are stereotyped as being overly smart and obedient, which is also a part of being the model minority. Because of the fact that Chinese Americans are always seen as being smart and obedient, many people often overlook…

Trials of 1931 shows how racial relations affected the Black race and their lives which also relates to one race believing they are superior to another. This can also be described in a case known as Emmett Till. Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy murdered by two white men, was carelessly thrown into the Tallahatchie River. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river…

stated in his famous, “I Have a Dream” speech that, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Has his dream really come true? Has racism completely been ridden of or is it still alive? The cases of Sandra Bland, Treyvon Martin, Mike Brown, Rodney King, and many more African-Americans prove that racism is just going to be an ongoing issue. Blacks will never get the…