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about racism and how people treat black people. I think we need to learn things about each other. We all need more love less hate because we don’t all know how to be nice or nicer. We all need to start thinking about a way to stop racism because people are committing suicide because of racism mostly young people. We need to start learning more and more things about each other, and be nicer not meaner because some people only know how to be mean because they only hang around people who were…

options and of course, the dreaded 1%ers. But black people have a whole other reason to hate Wall St and it's about time we all learned about it. THE DARK HISTORY OF BLACK PEOPLE AT WALL STREET Go to Wall Street today and you'll see shiny buildings and crowded stock markets. However, a different type of trade existed in the 1700's but back in the 1770's. Then, it was the site of a popular slave market where slaveholders bought, sold and traded black people and Native Americans like products.…

Black people of the United States were socially limited by several factors, though mainly by segregation and discrimination. At the time, the court stated as long as the services provided to white and black people were of equal quality, segregation was legal. However, the ideology of the equal quality was far from the quality in actuality. Some black folk were not very concerned with the segregation laws. They focused their attention on nourishing the black community than unifying with the white…

of all ages in movies with the black characters either dying or being side characters. The problem with this situation has always been a growing curiosity for me even when I was younger; I always wondered why there were not more people of color, people who were represented an accurate depiction of how the world actually looked, and I am sure that many other black people have felt the same way. Even as I am older today, I still wonder why there are not more black people in movies. Though the…

we I am referring to we, as a people. We all are guilty of stereotyping one another, in fact it’s something that we learn to do, it usually first taught by our family. Stereotyping is basically wrongly believing all people are the same based off certain criteria’s. Once you are old enough to go to school and begin to interact with other culturally diverse people you pick and learn new things about others, and you began to stereotype for yourself. Two groups of people that are constantly facing…

The stereotypes of black individuals in today’s society is mostly that they are lazy, uneducated, loud, and overly aggressive, not everyone believes this, but enough do. Media chooses to highlight the stereotype that blacks are more dangerous, by making it seem as if they are involved in a higher number of crimes than they actually are involved. Media outlets are able to do this by covering crimes that involve black people at a higher rate than they cover crimes that blacks are not involved.…

Tienna Fenton Armed and Dangerous? An Examination of Fatal Shootings of Unarmed Black People by Police 1. Major Themes This article focuses on the ever present discrimination of African Americans in the United States and the recent increasing number of blacks killed by police officers. The first theme viewed is the perception of blacks in the media as well as the perceptions blacks have of law enforcement. Blacks in America seem to be viewed as older than they actually are, children and…

movie opened my eye and touched my heart. It was hurtful to see white people portraying blacks as monkeys. I never knew that certain children songs and cartoons were racist. For example, “Catch a Nigger by the toe. If he won't work, then let him go”. At first, I thought the rhythm of the song sound very fun, however, I tried to look closer to the meaning of the song, I got scare by the negative presentation it had on black people. This was very shocking to know that certain cartoons showed…

Black people made many contributions to the United States in the 1800s. They faced discrimanitioin, but they always tried to make life better for other black people and themselves. They had booming businesses, fought for education rights, and even helped start the gold rush. Black people had almost no rights. In fact they couldn’t “testify in court against a White person, reactive a public education, homestead public lands, or vote.” However they believed that they ccould change that by…

most are the Blacks, as they seem to get the most negativity from many. Even today, Black people are still severely affected by racism, which causes public outrage by many in the Black community, to the point where they created the tagline, “Black Lives Matter”, which is a group of black protesters who claim that any other lives aren’t important, and say that black lives only matter in the world. This leads me to my question, “How can I resolve issues revolving around the Black people to end…