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Inside a large hospital room in Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital of Plymouth, tear-streaked family members gathered around their bedridden and severely ill loved one, Andre Sansoucy. The darkening sky, that peeked through the narrow windows showcased that the painful day of November 28th, 2014 was coming to a close. Of those gathered were Jessica Sansoucy, A. Sansoucy’s daughter and James Mongello, her fiance. The couple had spent the last few weeks hastily planning a wedding in the hopes that A.…

The skaters of the time were of either black or white ethnicity and did not consist much of other ethnic backgrounds. Although because of the ban on skating, there was a significant loss of diverse mingling and skating with one another, however, “Mayor Street’s spokesman, Frank Keel said of the LOVE Park…

read and write shows great commitment by an African American during a time of slavery. Douglas was a slave that whose duties were to work and obey, not read and write. But, he felt a strong urge to be educated thus leading him on a search to find white people -mainly male children- to help him read and write. Douglas writes “I would bestow upon hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge” (pp.259-260). “I would tell him [boys] I could write as…

scariest part of racism in America. It would take little to provoke some white folk to commit heinous and inhuman crimes to African-Americans. This is shown in many places like the murder of Emmitt Till, an African-American from Chicago who was killed only due to whistling at a white woman. Another event that happened was the burning of the Taplin family where the family was burned in a house fire that was presumably started by some white folk that disliked them. This event left a terrible taste…

fine and dandy when it comes to racism, but we still have a long way to go. According to the Color-Blind Privilege by Charles A. Gallagher, denying race as a structural bias for inequality, we fail to recognize the privilege of Whiteness. Being a white American has some connotation of putting on our “color blind glasses” on just to say that everything is okay. We want to think there is no racism left in the…

Brown, a young black teenager living in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a white police officer Darren Wilson, after shoplifting from a convenience store. This incident sent a shockwave throughout the community and began to draw attention to the racial discrimination all around the United States. Since then, stories have surfaced relating the mistreatment of the African-American peoples of our nation by white officers. Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Trayvon Martin have become household…

The crisp, clear sparkle of a diamond ring has long represented the sanctity of marriage. The traditional diamond engagement ring holds along with the white wedding gown, the exchanged possession of the bride, the requisite of virginity as well as a life of inferiority and obligation for the bride. As women continue to break free from the many chains that have bound them for so very long, our societal ties to this vacant gemstone should be torn as well. With so many lovely gemstones that shine…

hierarchy are higher there by over coming the income inequality. Thus to come back to our societies reflected in medium, the apartheid and the Jim Crow systems forced blacks to attend different schools from the whites. The black schools were deprived of resources as compared to the white school this was an intentional way to make black societies develop an anti-school subculture hence under achieve economically. The term subculture refers to a group of people who share same values, norms…

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. This is where Washington incorporated his ideas and beliefs that skilled labor would help bring African Americans out of poverty and give them equality among whites. Despite opposition of his views, Tuskegee was very popular among African Americans and whites. Though whites did not enroll, they did not object to the idea of African Americans learning skilled trades. A great example of Washington 's strategy was his famous speech in 1895, the Atlanta…

Harris-Stowe. I also moved in a week before everyone else did for soccer pre-season. Right off the bat, Harris-Stowe was a culture shock for me. In the summer math and science academy, I was the minority. I wasn’t just the only white person out of twenty-three students, I was the only white girl. That first week was really hard. It was a culture shock. In high school there was black people, so it’s not like I’ve never been around black people before. I actually dated a black guy for…