Category: African American

Racism is a choice that some decide for themselves or they follow their leader. President Trump accused Representative Elijah Cummings of doing a bad job and called Baltimore rat and rodent infested. President Trump also told minority congresswomen to go back where they came from. According to the Politico President Trump tweeted So interesting to…

In the 18th century, the debate of slavery was a popular subject but was mainly only discussed by the white men who had never known the other side of the story and had never experienced firsthand the squalor that the slaves truly had to go through day in and day out. John C. Calhoun, author…

The United States is a melting pot of countless different cultures and races, and they are all given equal rights under the law. Ideally, this means that all people would be treated equally, but there are still many instances of racism that occur every single day. However, these instances arent as obvious as racism was…

Racial discrimination in the United States is a social problem that had existed since the colonial era when white Americans were privileged to have socially sanctioned rights at the expense of other races in the country. The inequalities exist up to date as people of color, namely African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and others, encounter…

In her lyric, Citizen, Claudia Rankine writes, because white men can’t, police their mimagination, black men are dying. These words illustrate the predisposed attitudes white men identify with black men. In this context, it is in reference to police brutality toward African Americans during the 1990s. It suggests that rather than understanding a person as…

The speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an evolving experience for the mindset for all those who opposed the rights of people from a different race than theirs.  I Have A Dream&, is a speech well known for its acknowledgement towards the fact that people are not defined by the colour…

America is still a racist country. I would say racism is still practiced in America in various cities, institutions of learning, places of work, and even in the streets. Yet racism is a barbaric behavior that I suppose should be long gone and non-existential in society. Racism in America is manifested in various ways; for…

The Oxford English Dictionary defines racism as A belief that ones own racial or ethnic group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one’s cultural identity, racial integrity, or economic well-being; (also) a belief that the members of different racial or ethnic groups possess specific characteristics, abilities, or qualities, which can…

Many people believe that racism in America is an issue of the past, but after fifteen decades, after abolishing slavery, the United States is still a slave to its racist past. Americas political system was built on the basics for racism and slavery to thrive since the development of the Jim Crow Laws and the…

Racism and discrimination towards colored people is still going on but would you expect it to happen at an amusement park or beach? Over the summer I went to seaside heights and me, my friends, and her mom were getting something to eat, so we decided to sit in a pizza shop since mostly everyone…