Oppression Of Black People In The Usa

Racism in the United States has not remained the same over time since its creation. Racism has shifted, changed, and shaped into unrecognizable ways that fit into the fabric of the American society to render it nearly invisible to the majority of Americans. Michelle Alexander, in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness shatters this dominantly held belief. The New Jim Crow makes a reader profoundly question whether the high rates of incarceration in the United States is an attempt to maintain blacks as an underclass. Michelle Alexander makes the assertion that “[w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it” using the criminal justice system and colorblind rhetoric. (Alexander 2). The result is a population of Black and Latino men who face barriers and deprivation of rights as did Blacks during the Jim Crow era. Therefore, mass incarceration has become the new Jim Crow.

Many jail cells and prisons hold more African Americans than colleges and universities. This is a major problem for younger men and women that have to witness this because if this is all they are exposed to then this will be all they know. It does not only affect younger children or teenagers but close family members, wives, and parents. The mass incarceration of African Americans is becoming the norm for our men and women because the ¨white man¨ or the government is subliminally fighting to oppress African Americans and hold them back from any chance of prosperity that they have.

“You are a nothing little nigger” is one of the demeaning phrases African American human beings have heard over the years in an effort to keep them in a state of persecution. This paper will discuss the persecution of the African American. The following documents the struggles, gut wrenching pain, and heart ache of African American people have endured and are still suffering with today.

In this course we learned about many different types of oppression, from the time America was first “discovered” and the discoverers began oppressing the Indians, to slavery, to the oppression of the mentally handicapped, all the way to more “modern” times in schools were students are being oppressed.

Following The Civil War, close to four million slaves were freed, but they were still faced with the systematic oppression of their past. Due to President Johnson’s support of state’s rights, many white southerners were able to place authority over newly freed slaves by establishing Black Codes, the KKK, and segregation. The new freedoms gained by African Americans following the civil war were insignificant because white superiority was heavily present. After the passing of the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery, Black Codes enabled white southerners to legally control blacks.

Social injustice is any form of hate, prejudice, or discrimination towards any group of people. Social Injustice can be towards any person regarding their race, religion, or gender. People often have prejudice against Black people as being poor or gang affiliated drug dealers. This is social injustice even though many African American are not what is stereotyped about them but they still face the consequences of discrimination and prejudices everyday. Unjust shootings, fatal chokings, beatings and rough treatment have all contributed to the present problem of social injustice against African Americans in the United States. In the past and recent history African Americans have experienced many social

The United States’ treatment of African Americans has changed tremendously since the country’s founding up until now. African Americans were first introduced to the country in one of the harshest manners possible. They were brought over on tightly compacted slave ships and then forced into hard labor for the entirety of their lives. This went on for centuries until African Americans were finally given their freedom after the Civil War. Albeit this was much better than slavery, citizenship came with many troubles of its own. The years following the Civil War, known as the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, would prove to be, aside from slavery, some of the hardest times for African Americans in all of U.S. history.

Chapter two discusses the inequality, brutality, and disfranchisement done to African Americans. This chapter also displayed the change African Americans made when they realized enough was enough. Ella Ree Jones was a student at Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery, AL, who acted in the same way Rosa Parks made famous 13 years later. Jones was feeling confined that day but was told to give her seat up for a white man. She refused and argued she was already halfway on the bus where blacks were assigned. The bus driver called the police and they took Jones to City Hall. When they arrived at City Hall the officers beat her with a pipe, kicked her repeatedly, one officer took her head and propelled it into a brick wall, and then pushed her into her cell. Jones was fined and was still obscure on what she had done wrong.

Laws which are made to guarantee natural rights, including the right to life and liberty, communicate that justice does exist as those laws are applied to all cases that are within the rule. Despite the African American slaves having been freed after the Civil War in 1965, they were still treated with prejudice and segregated against. To remedy the injustice African Americans were facing, despite being considered American citizens, the Supreme Court in 1954 had decided that segregation was unconstitutional. However, the decision was made to rectify the segregation that African American students faced in public schools. King, therefore, advocates the breaking of such laws, which he distinguishes as unjust, by stating “one has a moral

Lately, there have been several stories in the news that highlight the mistreatment of African-Americans in today’s society. These stories are horrifying to read as an American who believes in justice and equality for all, and have caused quite a stir in the black community. After the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, a cry went out from the people; the slogan #BlackLivesMatter took life and started to spread throughout the United States. The slogan became even more popular with the people after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This slogan is used around the United States today as a way to bring light to the long unresolved and underlying issue of racism and oppression of blacks in this country. This transaction

There is a vast number of ways that one might experience power. Challenges such as race may affect individuals in very different ways, by geographic or socioeconomic status. Patricia Hill Collins main focus was applied to African-American women, but she gave insight on how domination and identity politics need continuous change in the world. But change cannot be focused on one group, it must focus on all groups for social movements to be successful.

Oppression and vulnerability can correlate with each other. For one to feel vulnerable, this can be caused by oppression. The way the two can coincide with each other is not difficult. Once one is exposed to oppression, the human body can feel vulnerable in many ways. After reading “Between the World and Me” by Coates and watching “I Am Not Your Negro”, you can see and actually feel how African American see vulnerability.

“When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights." - Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan. […] Oppressed by nations who placed themselves in positions of godliness and superiority; by rescuing the 'heathens'. Methodically pillaging our lands, stealing us from our homes, even stripping the very names we cherished. They tried to silence us, bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds (Mexican proverb). From the ashes we arose, breaking the shackles of enslavement. By 1865, slavery was abolished, no longer were our freedoms threatened. This was the illusion that they wanted us to believe, instead they morphed into a new demon; out to strip us of our liberties' and

I never thought I would write a post that in some way validated the oppression of humans, but at that time maybe northern and southern racists were accurate in their assessment that blacks were unable to be functioning members of society. At that time these people thought that blacks were inferior and should be enslaved and most definitely did not have any proof that African Americans could earn a living or properly use their freedom because they never had, and should never be given, the opportunity to do so. To them the people that were already living as "free" should not be and were doing a terrible job at the tasks of civilized society. To these racists that was the truth and nothing they had ever observed had proved otherwise. Fortunately

African Americans have been through all the hatred, and all the abuse already and they thought that the time period for that has been put behind them, but now they see that it has not. I have personally heard blacks talk about how they are tired of being scared and having everyone look at them like they were doing something wrong just because of their skin color. The #BLACKLIVESMATTER is a warning to whites that they have a voice and that they do matter and they would not back down and let them take away their family anymore and put fear in their heart anymore. Most black people believe since we have already been through this we can turn it around like they did back in the day that can be true but nowadays people do not have the same mind set