African-America Personal Response

We saw prejudice and discrimination throughout the book. For example, when Lafayette’s was charged with a crime due to hi, been associated with who did it. When LaJoe lost her benefits from the state due to her on and off husband using her home address and when collecting unemployment benefits which LaJoe did not claim as income coming into the home. In both instances, the Rivers were treated as if they were liars and criminals. Because of Lafayette being from the inner city, there was this predetermine thought about any youth that lived in the inner city from the court system. LaJoe was treated with disrespect by the welfare office because of the prejudgment they had formed about people that lived in the inner city. Due to the location in which they stayed, the importance of healthy living condition was not a priority to the city. They were forced to live in the vicinity of garbage, broken sewer systems, dead animals, etc. Also, the children were forced to either stay in their apartments or play on the railroad tracks because the city had only a few areas for them to play. These areas had become run down and it was unsafe for kids to play in. It is unsure why the was such neglect for those areas of the inner city, but one could only think that it had to do with how this race has been treated for years.

The African American experience is one that is quite different from other racial/ ethnic groups. The majority of the first African American came over, unwillingly, on ships from various African countries. They were brought to America by white, European settlers to be used as slaves in an order to plant and harvest their crops and make money for the white man. This racial group was treated as if they were property and not people. However, with the ending of the American Civil War, African Americans gained freedom, freedom that not all white American were quite ready to handle. After gaining their freedom came the need for education, jobs and suffrage rights. Now in America this racial group has come a long way, having elected its first African American present for two terms, yet still there are many issues that are very prevalent. This racial group has been fighting their way to equality since the birth of this nation. African Americans have experienced an array of conflict, violence, stereotypes, prejudice acts, and discrimination against them throughout their history in America.

At the beginning of Animal Farm all of the animals are equal and must follow the same rules together. As this book goes on the pigs end up separating themselves from the other animals and become more human-like in numerous ways. As the pigs evolve, they start to adopt the same characteristics the humans have such as being very selfish, dishonest, and having no loyalty. At the beginning of the story Mr. Jones was very selfish towards the animals.

1 . What issues most concerned black political leaders during Reconstruction? Reconstruction brought important social changes to former slaves. Families that had been separated before and during the Civil War were reunited, and slave marriages were formalized through legally recognized ceremonies. Families also took advantage of the schools established by the Freedmen's Bureau and the expansion of public education, albeit segregated, under the Reconstruction legislatures. New opportunities for higher education also became available with the founding soon after the Civil War of black colleges, such as Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Fisk University in Nashville,

Jefferson Davis stated in the pre-Civil War years to a Northern audience, “You say you are opposed to the expansion of slavery... Is the slave to be benefited by it? Not at all. It is not humanity that influences you in the position which you now occupy before the country,'; (Davis, The Irrepressible Conflict, 447). The Northerners had not freed the slaves for moral issues; the white majority did not have anything but its own economic prosperity on its mind. The African Americans gained their emancipation and new rights through the battling Northern and Southern factions of the United States, not because a majority of the country felt that slavery possessed a ‘moral urgency’. As the years passed and the

Growing up being an African American male I would often hear that I had “2 strikes against me and with one more strike I would be out.” Now this is something I’ve been told since I was a toddler by my mother, father, grandmother, and on occasion even my teachers. They were implying that being black in America is a strike, and being a male was another strike, and all I needed was one more strike before I ended up behind bars or even dead. So based of what I’ve been told it seems to me that I came into this world with a huge disadvantage. This was disappointing information that was fed to me while I was growing up, but for me this drives me to become the best that I can to be so I don’t become the average statistic. Adrienne Rich writes an essay where she talks about the importance for someone like me to claim my education, Now, I’m sixteen so this would be a good time in my life to start and claim my education.

In response to your article “Why I’d rather be called A Black American than An African American”, you explain why you identify yourself as Black American and the reasons behind that decision such as your personal experiences and your trip to Kenya. Throughout your life, you were asked “Where are you from?” and near the end of your article you responded with “Where I’m from is America, who I am is a black American”.

I am an African American and I want to give my perspective on how I think about events involved with the Civil War. My perspective on the Confederate States of America is that it is a lot of Southern States eleven to be exact. The Confederate States seceded from the Union and that’s what started the civil war. The war had a big effect on us they wounded about three million slaves. My perspective on African Americans serving in the army is not really good back because they just want to use us and if one of us dies the whites wouldn’t care. They basically treat us like slaves making us work in the army fighting their battle.

•This course will illustrate African- American history, values, religion, politics, psychology of Africans coming to the Americas, and the development of African-American culture. Moreover AAS 100 will provide students with a sense of what the African American experience is and by doing so we talk about the American experience. This course will discuss:

The number of two-parent African American households is dissolving. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the black family has declined from 80% in 1890 to 39% in 1990. The result of conflict, and warring souls in the African American community, this trend can be stopped and reversed. The African American family must first gain an understanding of what is causing this dissolution, then they can be taught about what principals and skills they must adapt in order to reverse it. Once this is accomplished, the black family must be given opportunities to share this information. By taking these steps, two-parent African American families would once again be prevalent in the United States.

Being black in America involves a process of moving through and adopting from many different cultures. As an African American, I am a descendant of one of the most unique diverse groups of people in America. Nearly all my ancestors carry some European and Native American DNA. Although slavery greatly restricted the ability of Africans in America to practice their cultural traditions; somehow, many of their practices, values, and beliefs survived, but over time have incorporated elements of European American culture. Black culture on another hand exists on multiple planes due to racism, economic and social condition, and location trends that draws from a variety of influences born both in and outside black communities.

The service learning project was created for the students to interact with individuals from a culture different than our own. The exposure to an individual from a different cluture promotes cultural awareness and sensitivity. Cultural awareness enables an individual to acknowledlge differences among people and also to show respect for practices and traditions that one is unfamiliar. In short, cultural awareness assists in teaching the individual to think broadly and not be narrow minded. Healthcare providers often interact with individuals from varied ethnicities, religions and cultures. In order to effectively practice the Hippocratic oath, healthcare providers should have the skill to treat patients using a world view perspective.

African Americans lived differently than white men did during the turn of the century. They faced many problems within the society. Some of the issues they faced were out of their hands. Although things were not the greatest all the time, there were supporters and organizations that they could turn to. Along with these organizations they had leaders that tried to help the race. Many African Americans became successful in the late 1920’s, and still to this day there are many African Americans that are successful.

The view of African Americans “Blacks” and women have always been wrong. People from the start of the movement to move west where the great nation seen today was found by Christopher Columbus, this nation wasn’t always at its best after the movement and whites were settling down. There was a major problem Blacks and Women were viewed as they were unequal to men; they were treated like a second class citizen with no equal rights, now days no one understands what people went through the people that fought for others and their rights to be a human and every individual should have freedom in life To not be controlled by others, now days many people are forcing on social media and technology other than understanding where we came from. Many people have different views as what they want to believe in or just simply move on to the future technology is evolving so fast and its crazy how as humans only knew how to walk on the surface of the earth now can fly over the sky, fly into outer space in such short time. The development keeps growing as time passes by this will defiantly help individually to the fullest who knows in the next ten year or someone could build the first machine to teleport things across seas, or build cars that fly it all depends on this generation and how determent they are.it has been proven that this generation of kids are the worst at academics because of parenting and careless individuals. To think about it the internet has taken over so bad that if it was

The stereotypes in the story, makes it difficult for the readers to conclude the race of each character. People assume that the African American character would be illiterate and uneducated and the white character to be well-educated. During the time period of the story African Americans did not have access to a decent education; making it harder for them to learn just the basics. Whites had access to good education, making it easy to believe the white character is more educated. It is also believed that a person that is well educated will have a better lifestyle when they are older. A well-educated person will have a better job, paying more, and have a better opportunity to afford the means of a luxurious lifestyle. An under educated person will most likely live in poverty, struggle for their basic needs, or live in a declining neighborhood. Behavior is a harder stereo type to use to distinguish a race. Many assume that whites have an entitled attitude toward life. Whites had access to a good education and jobs, they had a “I’m better than you” attitude. On the other hand, many think African Americans were upset because of how easy it was for whites to have better access to the basic necessities such as education and housing.