Reparations for slavery

A hundred and seventy-five years ago European colonist labeled Africa the “Dark Continent.” Whether or not the term was introduced with invidious intent has continually been the subject of much debate among black scholars. The controversy centered on the use of the word “Dark” which Europe, scholars interpreted as being without growth and development. Not that Europe was more developed than Africa, but because the sub -Saharan part of the continent was a complete mystery to Europeans. This…

Many people are willing to take the risk to fight underage prostitution, so they can rescue victims and provide them safe environment. In the same article, Kimberly states, “One of the most obvious necessities, and a struggle encountered by victim service providers across the country, is finding appropriate, safe housing for victims, because simply too few protective shelters exist to fully meet the needs of this population” (184). In addition to the lack of shelters as Kimberly says, there are…

I am disappointed. I am not only disappointed in your failure to stitch the loopholes that have emerged in your morals. But I am disappointed that as a community it has come to this. We have disgraced the gift that we had ever so patiently been waiting for. If we can live through such horrific disease as the Plague and make it to a land oceans away with nothing but the clothes on our backs and still make a name for ourselves, then we should not be here. We should not be in this courtroom today.…

Many people thought racism was over after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but the argument could be made that tensions flared even more in the south following the emancipation. With Jim Crow Laws in tact the southern part of the United States was chaotic. Some influential writers came from this period which really helps the modern generations get a feel for what they were going through. Langston Hughes, who was born in 1901, wrote to try and help influence America into integration and…

While “discovering” America, Columbus destroyed an entire civilization. This was that of the Arawak Indians, whom he enslaved for his own purposes. Columbus was a ruthless murderer who essentially killed and destroyed many lives and homes, with no legitimate reason. The Arawak Indians withstood brutal torture from Columbus and his comrades, but finally, they fled. Still, they were hunted down, tortured, and killed. Now, not one Arawak Indian remains alive today. Columbus was a very greedy,…

By 1865, bloodhounds were seen as a weapon by which the planter class oppressed not only slaves, but white unionists and northern prisoners of war. The savagery of the bloodhounds illustrated what Northerners considered to be the true brutality of the culture of the Southern planter class. In the war’s second year, newspapers in Iowa began to discuss the new use of bloodhounds in the Southern states as literal instruments of control over Southern Unionists. Dogs were indeed deployed by the…

towards Mexican immigrants. Many historians cite the Immigration Act of 1917 as the beginning of these exclusions, but Grace Pena Delgado argues that this exclusion began in the preceding decades. In her essay “Border Control and Sexual Policing: White Slavery and Prostitution along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1903-1910”, Delgado explains how the border became a site of gender and sexual exclusion during this time period. These exclusionary policies began in the late nineteenth century and…

Even though there were not many, some African people did go to school instead of just working all the time for Europeans. In the schools that these children went to they learned that European culture was better than African Culture and they learn this from a young age and this will stick with them. A. Adu Boahen, author of Africans Perspectives on Colonialism mentioned how education was like and some of what they were taught about. “They were people who worshiped European culture equating it…

entire population of people. Racism was constructed to justify the use and mistreatment of other ethnicity’s. “Race and freedom were born together” The creation of race explained why some people could enjoy freedom and some couldn’t. “Slavery predates race.” Slavery wasn’t invented to punish an inferior race, but race was created to justify…

Racial discrimination between different racial groups has occurred worldwide for centuries, and continues to be a significant issue in many countries. Looking specifically at the United States, African Americans have faced racial discrimination since the slave era, and continue to face problems that come from this horrible practice. One of these problems is that African Americans face greater disadvantages in comparison with Whites and other racial groups when it comes to education. As seen in…