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With consistent ridicule and humor, Saturday Night Live attempts to shed light on current societal topics in hopes of influencing a change. On February 14, 2016, in their forty-first season, Saturday Night Live aired an episode with a skit titled “The Day Beyoncé Turned Black.” Rob Klein and Bryan H. Tucker wrote this skin in order to shed light on recent discrimination and racism in the American society. The skit makes fun of the white community in America and is attacking their racism towards…

“melting pot”, where there has been an increase in human diversity over the years. However, the nation has struggled to live up to its standard of an unprejudiced society. Multicultural education is a form of pedagogy that incorporates cultural and race diversity into schools and classrooms (Wilson 1997). The purpose of this is to have students appreciate their culture as well as embrace that of others. It is believed that schools and other public institutions are a driving force to students…

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older brother and I have black relatives. Since I grew up in a mixed household, I never had the tendency to judge or even acknowledge people of another or the same race. Even more so since I had always attended mostly Asian and white schools, I just found myself judging people on their morals and behaviors. I never took a persons' race or ethnicity into consideration. This was the sort of mindset I had until my freshman year in high school after I had moved from Quincy to Dorchester. As…

accusations generated by the public are false, members of this group suffer greatly. O 'Reilly contributes heavily to these stereotypes by perpetuating a negative image of the black community which he relays to millions of viewers. When O’Reily categorizes the Black Lives Matter group as a “violent subculture” and “race hustlers” and accuse them for “much of the violent crime in America is being committed right now” he is creating a generalization which will add onto some the stereotypes the…

Native Canadian writing exposes the pain of racial segregation. No writer worth his salt has ever glossed over the racial violence meted out to them by the colonizers. In poignant and poetic prose they have poured out their sufferings with dignity asking that they be treated with respect and honour. Frantz Fanon in his Black Skin, White Masks poses the question: “What does a black man want”? He gives the answer that a black man wants to be white. It is perhaps natural tendency of mimicry.…

Coates and Baldwin share similarity’s in comparing there life experience for the younger generations. In hope to educate young adolescents about their reality. Both authors try to relay their knowledge in hopes for change. The advice that Coates gives to his son is very similar to the advice that Baldwin gave to his nephew Baldwin has a perspective towards change, and what you can actually achieve in this world. He shows us how even if you are placed in a certain situation you can still do…

Atticus as a compassionate man who believes that no one should be subject to unusually cruel treatment, no matter their race, and spurs self-betterment in those around him. Part one doesn’t directly characterize Atticus as a man who strives to improve others, rather, it alludes to this trait through interactions between him, Scout and Jem. One of the defining moments is when Scout relays the story of Cecil Jacobs mocking him for “defend[ing] niggers” (Lee, 83). Upon hearing these insults,…

The two writers came from Harlem when there was the rise of the black voices who were against the discrimination of the African American. Their writings were mainly based on political and social affairs that were affecting the black people. However, the differences were evident in both writers on how they relayed their messages to their audience using the different styles of poetic writing. Hughes and Cullen may write different poems, but there is a close resemblance to the message being relayed…

In Philadelphia, on April 1861, Alfred M. Green proposed one of the most iconic and inspiring speeches before the beginning of the American Civil War. Alfred M. Green discusses the concept of slavery and freedom in regard to the enlistments of African Americans in the Northern military regiments. Although many of his offers were ignored, Green still continued to advocate for his fellow African Americans and favored the idea for African Americans to fight for their legal status and ability to…