Polish American

An average African American in Chicago would argue that the law in our society is unjust. However that is not true at all. Cases in trial ultimately began turning into laws that would help our society. All these cases that happened lead to a just society in 2015. The justification of the law is for everyone of all ages, people of all ethnicities, of all colors, both genders, and yes that includes African Americans in Chicago. In order to explain to an average African American that our society…

My Spirit is My Strength The class Black Literature and Faith has helped me to deeply reflect on the real meaning of what my culture is. Throughout the class we analyzed books, songs, and poetry of many African American individuals for an understanding deeper than what I have ever been shown before. In this class, I have seen examples of women and men who have stood up trying to change the minds of others to stop the world from seeing in just black and white. From this I have been shown how my…

In his speech, which was delivered at The Organization of Afro-American Unity Homecoming Rally, he stated, “ I 'm for peace, but the only way you 're going to preserve is be prepared for war.” People always believed that Malcolm X was for violence, but really he was for the non-violence, but he knew that if you were…

also subjected to racial profiling. Ever since the events of 9/11, people have been looking at Muslims and middle easterners in general in a different way. In one such case in 2013, a woman sued the FBI and an airline for forcing her and two Indian Americans off of a plane in Detroit. The case made international news as the woman, Shoshana Hebshi who is half Arab and Half Jew, was placed in a filthy cell, stripped searched on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. This would be considered unacceptable to…

Before taking this class, I didn’t know what to expect. A few friends recommended the class but gave little insight on what the class would be about. When I read the title and description of the class I believed that we would be a simple Black history class, but after taking this class, I learned that it was so much more. Before, I thought I had Blackness figured out seeing that I am a Black woman, but after taking Introduction to the Black Experience, I have learned that there is so much…

Rosetta E. Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003. Print. Thesis: Studies of the Civil Rights Movement that have treated religious self-understanding do not examine the role of an African American religious worldview and gendered; particularly Black women’s, interaction with Black religious traditions and institutions and with U.S. social life. Substantive Questions: 1.) Would the Civils Right Movement been as successful without the…

Without blatantly stating it, society has found a way to ensure the legal separation of the African Americans from the whites. White people (mostly, of course) aren’t going to deliberately say, “We want to live in a segregated lifestyle; the whites to one side and the African Americans to the other.” They are, however, going to do anything in their power to make this happen without actually coming out and saying it because that would be rude and politically incorrect. David Roediger states that…

She was the beat He was the Drum When I was growing up, my dad was the drum, my mom was the beat, and having those two people by my side and seeing what they did with their life 's made me want to do better and more. I didn 't know what I wanted to do when I was in college, but my mom died from breast cancer when I was five years old. She had clogged arteries that boosted me to go to college to become a surgical doctor for hearts. I just feel like I 'm closer to her,and I couldn 't help her…

my son’s education is important to me. Placing him in the best schools is what any concern parent would want for their child. Clearly, society would prefer to have ghettoization. During the slavery period, African Americans were deprived of an education; even freed Africans Americans were forbidden to learn. According to an article from the Library of Congress, the 1847 Virginia Criminal Code states: “Any white person who shall assemble with slaves, [or] free negroes . . . for the purpose of…

Sartre argues for an absolute universal human freedom; blacks, women, and men are all free to choose bad faith. His argument indicates that blacks are just as free as whites. In choosing bad faith, this is true but the true concept of this changes in the systematically racist society. A true indication of this human freedom is the ‘look’ described by Sartre in Existentialism is a Humanism. As argued by Matinot, the black man is not simply being charged with raping Lizzie because he was on the…