Take Chicago for example, Downtown Chicago has a large percentage of African-American community members who are victimized in the city every day. Chicago, in particular, has very high levels of cruel and destruction of property crime, which thus turns into violent gang activity that leads to shootings. These African American community members want to live in a safe, comfortable environment, without their children being harassed by the police. They really just want the necessities that any human would want, “steady employment, educational opportunities, respectable property values, adequate municipal transportation, air conditioning, and medical assistance” (Crank). More importantly, these families want their children to go to college so they can get away from this kind of lifestyle. Community members do not ask for this way of life. These members living under these circumstances do not do so under personal choice. No African American chose to grow up their kids in poverty because they thought it would satisfy criminal careers, or because they thought a life of poverty seemed acceptable. More importantly, these members did not plan for their children to grow up with an obligation to join gangs, and get shot, or because they wanted to go out begging for money for their children’s funerals that they couldn’t afford, or even because they wanted to experience desperation or hopelessness for the rest of their lives. Certainly African American community members did not ask for
In order to support his opinion, the author uses historical references to the enormous impact of racial inequality on African American lives. Additionally, Desmond names a set of historical data and rates of the poor African Americans in cities to enhance the reader’s understanding of this complex situation. African Americans were also more likely to get the apartment with broken furniture, windows, and other facilities that confirmed the existence of racial inequality (Desmond, 2016, p.249). To reassert his position, Desmond provides offensive statistics that millions of people are evicted from American homes, and most of them are African American (Desmond, 2016, p.293). As a matter of fact, the author proves that housing discrimination based on race is the primary cause of
In Davarian L. Baldwin’s “Chicago’s New Negroes,” Baldwin explains how black people are aggressive and assertive as they want New Negro Politics. Part of their assertiveness, black working class people are able to form their own culture, as they support the New Negro settlers who migrated to the North. Using the language of the New Negro Politics, black people were able to bypass the stereotypes that were placed on them. Events such as the Harlem Renaissance allowed black people in the North to use art as a way to put emphasis on cultural creators that helped black people form their own culture. Many cultural creators that helped shape the modern world were Jack Johnson, Madam C. J. Walker, and Thomas Dorsey.
In life you begin to learn that things never stay the same because things, people, politics, or anything in fact will eventually change for the good or the bad. For example, Richard Spikes is the inventor who invented the automatic gear shift. He saw that not everyone could not drive successfully with a stick shift, therefore he took the initiative change the way of driving a car. Richard Spikes changed the way cars are and that was a good change, but not all changes are for the best. There are unfortunately changes that are made and they do not help people. In fact some changes hurt or harm individuals. The political change in African American Ghettos during the years of the 1990s until the year 2000 did more harm than good to the African American Ghettos.
Understanding that the poverty of black Americans did not just stay within the home is a big step in understanding urban poverty. Urban poverty reached outside the home, into the parks, schools and playgrounds. With poverties reach being that extensive, there was something other than adversity causing this. Louis Gates wrote an article about this called “Black America and The Class Divide.” (Jr.)
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.
As has been described, research at on the Levi Jordan Plantation has focused on the African American resident community, and has revealed considerable information about the specialized crafts that were practiced by members of this community. Evidence indicates that the use of these crafts went beyond daily subsistence needs to include ritual use, and demonstrates multi-dimensional patterns of artifact use in their community: functional, social, and religious aspects are evident. It has been proposed that one of these crafts was the manufacture of munitions. As first argued by Brown and Cooper 1990 (4), one of the cabins excavated appeared to contain a high quantity of lead and other related artifacts that indicated the
A new study, based on censes figures from 1950 to 1980 shows that “the United States largest cities have growing concentration of black Americans living in property”. While the overall rate of property in the nation increased slightly in those years to about 13 percent in 1980, the number of people in property in the 50 cities jumped 12 percent at a time, when the cities were losing population. During this time the urban problems are getting worse at precisely the time the nation is doing less about them. Black living in property in major cities has become a big concern for many political scientists, who see the increasing isolation of the poor as perpetuating the
Bernie Sanders has said, “When you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto. You don’t know what it’s like to be poor. You don’t know what it’s like to be hassled when you walk down the street or you get dragged out of a car.” This misused, out of context quote is used to represent the view of a Black Lives Matter Activist who is trying to express the truth about what it truly feels like to live in a fairly poor black community. However this story comes from a different perspective because not all Africans are poor because you can see many stories of successful African-Americans who have a high education with an amazing career for themselves as well as to take care of their families. The one thing that divides America the most right now in my opinion is racism. Over the past year we have heard many news stories about white police who have unnecessarily injured or killed African Americans especially in cases where the victim was unarmed. Racism has been an issue that has been around for awhile and hopefully it will improve as time goes by, but it's certainly not going to completely end anytime
When you think of Chicago, what's the first word that comes to mind? For most, "pizza" is the first thought and if that's what you're looking for, Lincolnshire will not disappoint. Embracing Chicago's famous style of wood-fired oven pizzas, Lincolnshire offers both classic renditions and new spins on this savory feast. True to Chicago's style, however, this neighborhood stays diverse both in its attractions and culinary stylings. While this thriving Chicago neighborhood has plenty for its resident and visiting carnivores, vegans need not fear; there are plentiful options throughout the city so you will never have to simply settle for another salad. Whether you want to cozy up to an old classic or break away from the norm, Lincolnshire has the
The protesters expressing the anger do not mean that they want to destroy the city or to hurt people, but they want to be heard and to have the right to live as others in the city. William DuBose, an anti-racism advocate, explains his interpretation of the protest in Baltimore. He thinks that the protest in Baltimore is a reflection of the long lasting problem. Author contends, “Despite living in the wealthiest state in the country, the residents of Baltimore’s inner city find themselves in abject poverty. No group is hit harder than young people”(DuBose, par 14). The gap between the wealthy and the poor exists as a long lasting problem in the city. While living in one of the wealthiest state, most wealthy people are Caucasians and most poor people are African-Americans. African-Americans are treated unequally. DuBose says that, “They’re young people who, if they were to achieve what my parents would call success, will be a story so rare that Hollywood might come calling for the movie rights.” (DuBose, par 15) The institutional racism, that contributes poverty and police brutality, directly leads to Baltimore protest. For example, some African-Americans do not have financial stability to maintain living styles, not even talking about to support their children for the higher education. Without the higher education, African-Americans tend to be more difficult to achieve financial sustainability; this is the vicious cycle. While people blame African-Americans for the protest, they do not think about how much African-Americans have to endure, the unequal treatment, even death. The discriminated treatments are all because African-Americans do not have equal opportunity to access resources as Caucasians do. Unfortunately, the mainstream media does not have discussions on institutional racism and
Another link that I find interesting among the Afro-Latino communities of New York City is that racially discriminated races are pushed into poverty. Philippe Bourgois writes about New York City during the crack epidemic of the 1980s. He explains through cultural reproduction theory that although it may seem that inner-city residents appeared to live in a community astray from the mainstream ideals they actually held similar values such as the drive to achieve the “American dream.” He describes the inner-city as a culture of resistance that intends to accomplish its goal of success through the refusal of being stepped on by the “white man.” The form of upward mobility that this culture seeks is usually achieved by
Our quality of life, and our identity, is tied to our communities. The African American people are constantly forced to fight injustices for a place in the “democracy.” African American’s are born with negative preconceptions, but civic engagement can control the narrative. Civic engagement offers concrete examples of positive behavior. It is obvious with the recent media headlines of police brutality; blacks and whites are still not able to effectively communicate. “What affects one directly, affects us all indirectly;” therefore, in our world it is
When asked to validate a statement such as the one mentioned that references the disadvantages of minorities versus those of White -Americans the three most significant obstacles, in my opinion, are employment, education, and crime. If you have a group of people who are subordinate in those three categories, you have individuals who are positively underprivileged. Let us begin with employment or joblessness. Unfortunately, socioeconomic status, income, employment, and unemployment are determined by some level of race and ethnicity. In the early 1980’s when low-skilled jobs and high-wage workers wandered out of the central portion of the city, therefore increasing space and inaccessibility to jobs, that was the beginning of employment trouble and social detachment. Even after managing for local conditions, there was still a sizable extensive employment disadvantage for blacks (D'Amico & Maxwell, 1995) As urban centralization increased and industry continued to move the high, and low wages/skills and minority migration to the inner cities intensified(D'Amico & Maxwell, 1995). It was this continued shift that left minorities reduced to an area that suffered from high rates of joblessness, welfare dependency, crime and single-parent households. There was now an exclusion from job networks and confinement to poor quality schooling, which materialized into lousy working habits(D'Amico & Maxwell, 1995).
According to research 45.8 percent of young black children live in poverty, and black men are more likely to go to jail. However, when the presence of these facts enter everyday conversation they are often considered racist. One of the greatest challenges we have is to heal the divide of our nation and recognize the discrimination that still exists and grows today. Instead of ignoring the problems and facts, we have to ask tough questions. What is happening in our constitutionally equal society, that the color of your skin, or gender, can determine your life? People are scared of recognizing the evidence that America is still living with an overabundance of inequality because such a realization would be terrifyingly contradictory to the idea
African Americans don’t always live in good neighborhoods or have good jobs because some people just won’t hire them. We need to help them, they need to support their families too, they need to feed themselves too, they need to enjoy life too. They are normal people, and we need to treat them as