Analysis Of The Community Is Anomic, By Kirst Ashman

Imagine living in a town that was once thriving with successful businesses to a community that barely exist. As you travel down the deserted roads of your community you are surrounded by boarded up memorable buildings, deteriorating homes, and empty storefronts. The water tower that stands tall for all to see is now covered by rust. While the streets in which you are traveling on show signs of frequent patchwork in an effort to salvage the road. As you pass by what once was your favorite mom and pop’s restaurant you began to reminisce on the time you spent there with loved ones. This has become the story of residents in Boley, Oklahoma; one of the first all black towns in the state.

Segregation took a huge toll on African Americans emotionally and ecumenically. Schools where segregated, and black schools where known for being hugely underfunded. So they started off with a bad education, which makes getting jobs harder. This was true even in colleges, which were also segregated. Not only that but because of racism an employer would always hire a white person over a black person. Black people where also generally paid less. Even if a black person got money they where not allowed to live in the same neighborhoods as white people or even go to the same shops. So there was never the possibility of moving up the social later. “He has been a beggar economically, a beggar politically a beggar socially a beggar even when it comes to trying to get some education” (Malcom

A significant investigation into the field of trauma is whether those affected experience and responds to trauma in ways as other diverse groups of individuals. Biological, psychological or sociocultural factors are causes in the differences in the response to trauma, and are additional shields against the development of PTSD (Ruglass, & Tackett, 2016). It has often been realized that there are limitations when grouping individuals according to race, ethnicity or culture. When referring to race, biological or physical characteristics are used to classify groups of people based on (e.g. Caucasian or African American, etc.). Identifying one with a particular group based on culture and heritage corresponds to their ethnicity. Racial or ethnicity minority group members typically experience a significant amount of racism, prejudice and discrimination, due to their minority status. Although racial and ethnic minority groups comprise about thirty seven percent of the United States citizens, Ruglass & Tackett (2016) assert that there is little research in trauma on these

“All told, seven people were killed, and more than two dozen were injured” (Hunter). This is very unfortunate because it took a tragedy for politicians to stop blaming the “negro” population; however, politicians did not take the blame. Policians portrayed an image of understanding and action when in reality it was a little too late; their neglect resulted in fatal consequences. Housing reform was now the main goal in order to stabilize this crippled community. However, this late housing reform after the tragedy in 1936 led to urban decay of the Seventh Ward; many were migrating out of the Seventh Ward in search for housing elsewhere. Turmoil in the city led to an uninhabitable location, leaving the once booming black Seventh Ward as an abandoned parking lot and a memory of what it once

In spite of their freedom, the majority of these blacks lived in the poorest areas of the city, and they were banned from schools and other public amenities. White employers were hostile to African Americans refusing to hire them for anything but inferior jobs, and white customers frowned upon interacting with the black employee. This led to a downhill spiral of all African Americans economic status. Furthermore, if you were a slave during this time period, your opportunity for economic growth was almost nothing. Slaves were still owned and controlled by their masters; therefore, they were confined to the land on which they worked.

This was a city that was known for its violence, crime, and poverty. Author Wes Moore gives us statistics throughout the book. We know that when Author Wes was in middle school, 99% of the children were black and 70% of those children were on the school lunch program. At the time, Baltimore City had a dropout rate of 70% and its graduation rate was 38%. “In 1991, 11.7% of girls between the ages of fifteen and nineteen had given birth. More than one out of ten” (Moore 100). Drugs were not uncommon either. According to Author Wes Moore, “There were over 100,000 known addicts in Baltimore, and the real number was arguably higher. The city’s population was just under 700,000” (111-112). When a child is exposed to these situations and scenarios, especially when they are a part of daily life, it becomes a norm in. Other Wes Moore witnessed these events take place. His brother was involved in the dealing of drugs and, later on, Other Wes Moore became part of the drug business as

Tumultuous times were caused because thousands of African-Americans had no place to live without a job. Other African- Americans are looking for family members which led to many African- Americans walking around towns looking for family members which could be chaotic.

Racial inequality is a multidimensional problem in America. If the problem was simply minorities in America are less well off than their white counterparts, the problem could have been solved long ago. This narrative isn’t about racial inequality, its root causes, or its solutions; yet racial inequality plays a central role in that night’s events to the point where it should be mentioned. Racial inequality is a generational, economic, social, psychological, and every other facet of society people can analyze, type of problem. Northern Philadelphia is a prime example of racial inequality at its worst in America. Entire swaths of blocks consumed by poverty, drugs, and gang warfare are common in the streets of the predominately black and hispanic North Philadelphia. The heavy police presence on some blocks

They were treated differently. Many could not get a good job and if they did they were payed less. Any african americans moved to the city to get a job but never could. This not only was bad for the economy but it was bad for the city. The city was filled with the homeless. The word ghetto originated from this time because of the dirty streets filled with the homeless. There were many protest so president Lyndon B. Johnson passed the policy known as the war on poverty. The government started more job training and hired more black people on purpose to ease racial tension. From there on African Americans found many jobs with a decent wage to hold their own. Many of these changes were thanks to the many who stood day and night to protest for their rights as an American

Overall in Aykul defense there’s no explanation as to where there’s not a trauma center in the heart of the crimes that take place on Chicago’s south side; since from a political standpoint officials aren’t able to provide a reason as to why- it only leads people to believe that trauma centers aren’t where they are needed due to a racism issue- the deficient levels of empathy and consideration for black lives by those who don’t identify with the black race. An article written by Natalie Moore and Gabriel Spitzer discusses “Why trauma centers abandoned the South Side” in it the two says that “the first trauma center opened in Cook County Hospital in the mid-1960’s” Cook County hospital is located on Chicago’s north side. In total there are “six trauma centers, with only four in the inner city “said Spitzer. More insight was added, Gary Merlotti, a trauma director stated “trauma centers to be good business” It requires more money for a hospital to operate a trauma unit than any other hospital unit- according to Aisha Tate, a former RN nurse who’s worked in the medical field for over 10 years, now doctor at Mercy Hospital in Chicago. Aisha’s my mom and she’s discussed her concerns with me about the city and

Racial segregation has had a long history in Chicago. While separation by nationality had always been apparent in the city, with neighborhoods typically being dominated by a certain ethnicity, no group of Chicagoans experienced the degree of segregation that African Americans faced in everything from the housing districts to public services. Forced to live only in designated areas by de facto segregation, redlining, and other tactics, they had limited chances to escape the cycle of danger and discrimination of the city. Confined to only their deteriorating neighborhoods,they had little chance.

The immigrants from abroad and the African-Americans both left their homelands of restricted opportunities and sought to find better ones. The African-Americans came without proper clothing and skills, unaware of the future obstacles ahead. Their environment and surroundings were significantly different in the South than the lively cities in the North. Before migrating, the African-Americans lives consisted of mainly working in the fields in the blistering, hot sun, or working as servants or tenants for white property owners; they had never laid eyes upon a building or factory. For the immigrants, coming to urban America was an enormous change as well. They were oblivious to the American culture, American politics and economics, and were unable to read or speak English, in most cases. While settling in the northern cities, there were certain harsh conditions that the African Americans along with the immigrants experienced. They both were forced to live with their families in small, unsanitary living spaces due to the intense persecution and racialization from American outsiders. Families in neighborhoods grouped together, and each family member contributed economically to the family income. To relieve these challenges and harsh conditions, both African-American and immigrant groups were obliged to do certain tasks in the new, metropolitan surrounding.

Intergenerational trauma, or historical trauma, is “the cumulative psychological damage that specific groups of people suffer throughout multiple generations” (Hanser & Gomila, 2015). African Americans, as well as Native Americans, are one of the groups said to suffer from the most historical trauma in the United States, most of it stemming from centuries of slavery and subjugation. This paper seeks to show how slavery has continued to affect black people in the United States, starting with slavery and ending with the present. This paper will look at issues that seem to plague the black community in particular, including higher rates of both incarceration and poverty, as well as continued stereotypical and racial profiling, in an attempt

I the article Race the Power of an Illusion, Dalton Conley says, “the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s really marks both an opportunity and a new danger in terms of racial relations in America. On the one hand, the Civil Rights era officially ended inequality of opportunity. It officially ended de jure legal inequality, so it was no longer legal for employers, for landlords, or for any public institution or accommodations to discriminate based on race. At the same time, those civil rights triumphs did nothing to address the underlying economic and social inequalities that had already been in place because of hundreds of years of inequality.” (Conley pp 1). What goes on in the American ghetto is not as glamorous as Hollywood makes it out to be now, this film does a great job at depicting what life in the ghetto for black teens is really like. The ghettos in America are full of broken culture that is left behind from centuries of oppression by the white man. Most teens like those in the movie never make it out of their neighborhoods alive. Thousands of kids die every years from gang on gang violence, damaging all chances of them escaping the ghetto and making something of themselves. Death, gangs, and drugs is the more common way that young people are left with to deal with a life of poverty and survival that seems to have no escape.

In contrary, Sharkey acknowledges that the Knight Ridder Newspaper published a report that found that Blacks represented only a small majority of those who had passed away from Katrina despite the fact that they make up a large majority of the population that was affected the most. (Sharkey 2007) Therefore data used in Sharkey’s analysis uses descriptions of people and the communities that were directly affected by Katrina as a basis for sociological understand of survival and deaths caused by the storm. His findings concluded that, the storm hit New Orleans’s black communities hardest and found that African Americans were disproportionately likely to die in Katrina and were more likely to remain missing. (Sharkey 2007) This is also known as “geography of risk” (Sharkey 2007) as social characteristics are imbalanced and the fact that low income could have made it more difficult to evacuate the city, especially for those without cars or who were unable to get transportation. The government’s lack of organization created extra chaos for those with vehicles as they tried to flee their homes. Since it was decided last minute that the city needed to be evacuated, citizens flooding the streets in a panic for survival.