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between blacks and whites. Throughout the United States many other shootings, and gatherings have surfaced because of these deaths among the black community. Following the shooting of Trayvon Martin, people rioted the streets shouting, “Black lives matter!” Within this subject, I have my own opinion, which is different than some. Most people believe that black people get treated differently in society and that is not okay. Although in some scenarios, African Americans put themselves…

the United States depicting blacks as the “Super Villain” and whites as the “Superhero”, the news is the media to blame for repetitive false judgment. The news plays the biggest role in reinforcing the black community as criminal.…

absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian the author starts to adapt to the culture of the white kids in his school. But it was not easy because at the beginning the author was rejected by the school kids and the teachers for being Indian. Reading the first chapters of the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian I learned that the author main problem is racism. Not only face racism from the white people from Reardan, but also from his own tribe. Since the beginning…

Police brutality, especially against African-Americans, has an extensive history in America. It’s a recurring problem and its effects on society are often brushed off by those it does not affect. Police brutality continues to have a major impact on our society and through a series of events, leads to several outcomes. For instance, one of the major reactions to police brutality is social movements that are created to both protest and bring attention to the racial profiling and the unnecessary,…

United States. Because of their skin color, they are treated differently, unfairly. In the story of “Sonny’s blue” by James Baldwin and the excerpt Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, both authors have addressed the social crisis for African American. Although the points that both authors indicate are very similar to each other, the environments that they focus on, the struggles they have experienced, and the fear they have faced are dissimilar due to the different time periods in both…

Dyson in his essay “Death in Black and White”, which is a New York Times article in response to the deaths of Alton B Sterling and Philando Castile by “the hands of the police.” Dyson is talking about how white America will always struggle to understand black people. White America’s inability to understand African Americans is echoed in Claudia Rankine’s essay, “The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning”. Rankine recounts the deaths of African Americans by the hands of the police, she…

In “Battle Royal”, Ralph Ellison sets his story after the Reconstruction. In his story, the white, elite leaders of the time, invite the narrator to the hotel room to deliver graduation speech. However, before he can deliver his speech, the narrator becomes involved in a brutal box-match against the other workers. Similarly, in “The Lottery”, the village initially, seems calm. Yet, at the end, it is revealed that due to the long held tradition, a person, who has picked a paper with black dot…

when she says that truth is like, “…a crystal of many sides. Truth is more likely to be found in the complex middle than in the simplified extremes” (3). At the time that Dr. West is writing this essay he has seen the injustice and inequality among American men and woman of different races and how mostly there is only…

a cross street” (Eschholz 346). This quote supports the accusation of discrimination towards African-Americans. The American society and others tend to judge African-Americans based on their color and outward appearance because of how the media portrays them. Contrastly, Hsiang speaks of a discrimination that happens within the same culture. Specifically, the author describes how Asian Americans separate into two groups: FOB’s and Twinkies. To further this statement, Hsiang, the author of FOBs…

feminism, but one of the few African American women to contribute significantly was a former slave, Sojourner Truth. During the nineteenth century, white middle-class women generally did not care about the rights of freed African American women. But there was one woman who dared enter the white middle class world of feminism and she opened the door for many African American women. Sojourner Truth played a key role in the early feminist movement among African American women. Truth was born…