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Essay On Being African Americans

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In America, the word race is always a touchy topic. The way that African Americans or and any other race than the “majority” is treated with a sense of inequality from not only the people around you but the government and governmental officials. “Race is a myth; racism is not” People have danced around the topic and haven’t really talked about the inequalities within America. Being African American or any other race has never been easy. “White America” has always been stereotypical of people of color, although people of color have shaped American history through inventions, sports, and political science. They will never be considered equal to the majority. In American culture, media, laws, and institution have a huge impact on the economic and social inequalities in this country. For one, the way that media portrays being a “person of color” is unjustifiable. Within movies, most of the main characters in movies and television shows are white, while people of color are often portrayed in roles such as the maid, the gangster, or the terrorist. This already depicts people of color in bad standing. As well as in the news, African American mainly are portrayed as people who are committing crimes or “he was a …show more content…

African Americans are one of the top people to be profiled by cops and end up in jails for crimes that they didn’t commit. In the documentary “Thirteenth” there were multiple situations where laws were created and supposedly aimed at people of color and mainly African Americans. Such as ALEC a corporation designed to make money off the prisons. As well as the three strikes and you are in for live law that was created by President Clinton at the time. 2,000 of Americans, which were jailed for offenses most Americans would not even consider a crime. They are behind bars because of “technical violations’’ according to the documentary, this law was aimed at African

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