Colin Ferguson Analysis

First, ask yourself how would you feel after hearing the news that one of your family members had been lynched? Throughout the chapters 1-8, we can experience and observe the disheartening history of violence and lies. It is additionally an irritating depiction of a partitioned country on the very edge of the social equality development and an eerie contemplation on race, history, and the battle for truth. Throughout history, the conditions of the lynching, how it affected the legislators of the day, quickened the social equality development and keeps on shadowing the Georgia people group where these homicides occurred. During the 1900s until 19600s various African-Americans experienced various harsh conditions of violence, never being granted the right to vote and being segregated from whites based on their race and skin-color from their white masters. In general racism between whites and blacks can be seen throughout the globe during the era of slavery

It is evident that there are still a number of falsehoods that contribute to the adversity many people of color have to overcome in this country. Yale Law School professor, Harlon L. Dalton and Sociologists Naomi Gerstal and Natalia Sarkisian dissect two such falsehoods in their respective essays. In his essay, “Horatio Alger” Dalton takes on the rags-to-riches myth commonly portrayed in Horatio Alger’s works of fiction. Likewise, Gerstal and Sarkisian’s study on Black, White, and Latino families reveals data that debunks the widely held belief that families of color are weaker and more disorganized than their white counterparts. While both essays examine myths that negatively affect Black and Latino people, the authors often use different

Alexander summarizes her interpretation of the period when a number of black individuals were elected into government offices with the phrase “black faces in high places.” By this she means that although black individuals were elected, this development actually obscured the problem rather than remedied it. Alexander writes that in 1974, 64 percent of new federal employees came from minority backgrounds. These changes helped a relatively small group of African American households, and left the rest behind. On account of these changes, the idea that hard work was the way blacks could overcome institutional challenges was born. By masking the government’s responsibility to help all African American households, colorblindness led the public to believe the country

The election of Barack Obama as the 56th president of the United States raised many hopes that the “Black struggles” was finally over. For conservatives, Obama victory reassured their beliefs that there was no longer such thing as racism and that every American had equal rights and opportunity to pursue the American dream. While many people have come to believe that all races have equal rights in America, Tim Wise argues in his documentary “White Like Me” that not only does racism and unconscious racial bias still exist, but that also White Americans are unable to simply relate to the variety of forms racism and inequality Blacks experience. This is mainly because of the privileges they get as the “default.” While Wise explores the variety forms of racism and inequality today such as unconscious racism, Black poverty, unemployment, inadequate education system, and prison system, the articles by the New York Times Editorial Board, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), and Adam Liptak further explore some the disparities in the criminal justice system. Ana Swanson points out in her article, “The Stubborn Persistence of Black-White Inequality, 50 Years after Selma” that while the “U.S. has made big strides towards equal rights,” significant gaps still remains between the two races. With the Supreme Court striking down a “portion of the Voting Rights Act that stopped discriminatory voting laws from going into effect in areas of the country with histories of disenfranchisement,” civil

Colin Ferguson was born January 14, 1959 in Kingston, Jamaica. His father Von Herman was the managing director for Hercules Agencies, a large pharmaceutical company. Mr. Herman was highly regarded and recognized as a prominent businessman in Jamaica (Montaldo, 2017). Ferguson had four brothers and afforded the privileges that wealth offers in an extreme poverty area. He graduated from Calabar High School in 1969 with a grade average that was ranked in the top third of his class (Montaldo, 2017). In 1978 his father was killed in a car crash and a short time later his mother died from cancer. He would then suffer the loss of the family fortune. At 23 years old Ferguson left Kingston, Jamaica and moved to the U.S. on a Visitor’s Visa (Montaldo, 2017). Jamaican culture is different than American cultures. A study completed in 1997 concerning 225 Jamaican adults, it was found that Jamaican men were considered coarse, reckless, aggressive, lazy, tough, arrogant, stern, disorderly, robust, rigid, autocratic, courageous, and hard headed (Carpenter & Walters, 2011).

Of course we all know about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri this past August. Michael Brown, who was

Please, don’t shoot! The tension in Ferguson is so high right now that you could cut it with a knife. This is due to the latest shooting of eighteen year old Michael Brown. On August 9, 2014 Brown was the victim of a fatal shooting by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson were walking down the middle of the street, when Wilson drove up and told them to move to the sidewalk. An altercation occurred between Brown and Wilson struggling through the window of the police car until Wilson’s gun was fired. Brown and Johnson then fled in different directions with Wilson chasing Brown. Wilson then fired shots several more times. A total of twelve shots was fired. Brown was hit by six or seven bullets. The last shot that hit him was the most fatal. Witnesses of the scene had different stories about whether Brown had his hand raised above him or not before he was shot. This incident sparked unrest in Ferguson.

1. Plessy v. Ferguson was decided after a period of time where African Americans were granted more rights and freedoms under the law. During Reconstruction (1865-1877), African Americans were allowed to hold public office and vote. Some areas of the South had African American communities that were economically sufficient. After reconstruction ended, the "white man's government" resumed upon the withdrawal of Northern troops and the assistance of the Freedmen's Bureau. Jim Crow laws were passed that placed African Americans in a second class citizenship. This "flip-flop" between no rights (slavery), Reconstruction era rights, and no rights again (Jim Crow) is justifiably frustrating.

This essay is about young African America President Barack Obama who had to overcome all kind of adversity in America growing up as multicultural black young man. His mother was white American and his dad was Black Kenyan citizen. Obama dad left him when he was two years old. His Mother remarried a foreign student from Indonesia. President Barack Obama lived in Indonesia for four years and return back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents who was white American. During his child hood President Barack Obama was raised an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and black and white young man. His grandparents was non-religious believers and he had nonexistence relationship with his grandfather, and there was no role model black men in Hawaii

Riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, New York, and LA; deaths of many including Police officers who would be gunned down for doing nothing but sitting in their car. We live in a society today dominated by a “theory” and fear of racism from the police force. The fact that we had elected an African American president is outstanding and such step forward towards a society of acceptance like we had been in. In the book ‘How Barack Obama Won’ Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser give us a guide on how Obama achieved his victory in each state, as well as teaching us in the process the fundamentals of the 2008 election.

He acknowledges that the resentments of the black and white communities “aren’t always expressed in polite company,” but these resentments are manifested within our society in destructive ways, like racism (Obama, par. 31). The audience feels that he is knowledgeable and credible on the immediate topics affecting our future and our daily lives.

In the story, “Black and Blue,” written by Garnette Cadogan, the narrator talks of his struggles of discrimination and the differences he faces while assimilating into the culture of New Orleans and New York City from Jamaica. It is unsettling to think that the American Dream is not available to everyone because they are seen differently because of their race. Garnette’s story is just one example of the many people who are treated differently because of the color of their skin and overall appearance.

He takes two personal identities: African and American, and he truly combines them into African American, embracing his African roots while showing that he is as American as any white American. In the opening paragraph, Obama says: "My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant." In these statements, Obama quickly accepts his African roots, as he describes a situation that is almost completely foreign to the Americans in his audience. He describes his father 's life briefly, a life that most of his audience would not understand. With these short statements, he establishes that he is an individual and that his history is different from most of the audience 's. However, he immediately uses this difference to connect with the audience as he says: "But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son. Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to

Born Festus Claudius McKay in 1889 in the village of Sunny Ville Jamaica, McKay’s parents taught him respect and dignity for his African roots and heritage (Drayton). At seventeen he ventured outside his village for the first time to his nation’s capital of Kingston. In Kingston, he witnessed discrimination, intolerance, and sometimes even hatred towards people of color and especially those of African descent. One year later

To sum up the points, it can be perceived that in order to understand the concept of personal cultural diversity, the different aspects of one’s lifestyle must be examined and determined in order to point out individual differences in a particular group or society. This is because each individual has different genetic make-up,