Persuasive Essay On Women Of Color

“The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive - she is the ultimate outsider.” This quote was written by Mrs. Mamphela Ramphele, a South African politician, who identifies the pain and troubles of Black women. Black women for centuries have been treated unfairly and belittled by their race and sex. Black women are the outsiders of America. They are a minority inside a minority. Black women are mistreated by individuals of society in social media and the workplace.

Black women are always the leading role and image of negative identity. With the many amounts of stereotypes and verbal imagery, people will remain persuaded across the United States to believe such biased standards. They are persuaded to view Black women as characters in storytelling about incapable gender, race, and social class. Being slandered by the same oppressors who statistically rates them highest amongst all other races of women, also strips them morals, worth, and labels Black women destined for drug-abuse and incarceration.

Black women’s bodies have always been seen as different. They are deemed as exotic and highly sexual because of the protruding nature and curvaceous shape of their hips, butts, and breast. An example of this exoticism and ridicule can be traced back to the early 1800s. Sarah Baartman, also known as the “Hottentot Venus” became an object of fascination, degradation, and humiliation. Her features were not foreign to Khoisan Women. However, the Europeans who kidnapped her and the people who went to view her body as an exhibit could not believe how big her butt, breast, and hips were. Sarah did not fit into the white standardized image of the body, so her body was seen was unnatural and even un-human. One online magazine writer asserts that, “what

Two of the most hot-button issues faced in the 2016 election included abortion rights and gun control. Since President Trump’s election these issues have remained at the forefront of political discussion. With several months still remaining, 2017 had already claimed the reputation for the deadliest year for mass shootings in America’s history (Wilson, 2017). We began 2017 with six killed in the Ft. Lauderdale airport and progressed, to 58 killed in Las Vegas at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, to the most recent incident that left 26 dead in a Texas church. In addition to these three most notable events, there have been many other shootings that have brought the causality total to 112 with 531 wounded from mass shootings alone (Wilson, 2017). These senseless deaths left the American public emotionally drained and searching for a solution to a problem that the government is hesitant to proactively address, but rather leaves to the individual state’s discretion.

Much of America’s past is a controversial subject that many Americans would like to remain an untold history. Americans like to believe that damaging events like slavery and state-sponsored oppression took place lifetimes ago, and that we have proudly moved on together as a nation. However, the belief that these events are exclusively in the past and that we are a new, more open-minded society is seeing history through a white racial lens. It is easy for a white in the United States to say that the past should be left in the past. Yet, for minority racial groups, specifically African Americans, the past still has staggering effects on their people today. One formal system where white Americans greatly exceed African Americans is in the quality of education. Both in the past and now, whites have enjoyed a much higher education standard than African Americans. Whites seem to have greater funding, more dedicated teachers, higher qualities of materials, better infrastructure, and much more. This issue must be better addressed. With the current system, the United States is losing the potential opportunity for its African American citizens to excel. My hope is that you will discover through the information I provide that our education system still is unequal. Mrs. DeVos, you can use your power to help African Americans through funding, fighting discrimination, and collecting unbiased, truthful data.

got players involved and they came together to take a stand because they believed they were puppets of the owners and they really didn’t care for them it was about the money the whole time. Teams around the whole league took a knee during the nation anthem stretched and just did whatever but didn’t stand for the flag. If you don’t like how Black Lives Matter pursues its agenda, you should welcome the NFL players’ approach. It’s silent it’s not disruptive and it’s entirely nonviolent. It doesn’t block traffic, occupy police or terrify onlookers.

It was during the first week of INT that I started to feel more in depth with the racism and its different terms. We talked in detail on intent, reverse racism, and white supremacy after watching few videos for each matter. It turned out that there are deeper meaning and context to these terms than the mere definition.

Every 98 seconds an American is sexual assaulted across America. 1 in 6 American women have been raped or an attempted rape. According to RAINN 4 in 10 women have had an abortion, while 1 in 8 maternal deaths are caused by unsafe abortion. Women’s rights are human rights, around the world women are being denied rights, here in America women don’t have equal pay, rights over their own bodies are in converse, in Africa and the middle east, girls and women are being stolen from their homes and from their schools. Women’s rights are an important topic because women’s rights are human rights, this should matter to all people because this issue is a social injustice all round the world, that has negatively affected women for years. Women should have the same rights as men because many women face systematic oppression, many women are despotism relation to their male counterparts, and the general population is unaware of the seriousness of the issues.

Following this event, many were getting back to the idea that equality does exist in America. However twenty years later they were proved wrong by the new movement that had struck. According to the Facebook post by Mic, “Americans are as skeptical of Black Lives Matter today as they were of the civil rights movement in the ‘60s." In Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon’s essay, “My Selfie, My Self: Ma(s)king Identity in the New Millennium,” the authors claim “...race is no longer a significant factor in American life....insisting that America has reached a “post-racial condition in which race no longer matters…” (494). Black Lives Matter was created by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Mark-Anthony Johnson, in 2012 after the murderer of a seventeen-year old African American boy named Trayvon Martin, who was shot by a volunteer neighborhood watch person named George Zimmerman. According to Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin seemed “suspicious”. According to the article, What Does Black Lives Matter Want? Now Its Demands Are Clearer Than Ever, the Black Lives Matter group made several demands which, “lays out six demands and 40 corresponding policy recommendations to paint a picture of what today’s black activists are fighting for,” but their main focus is on police reform and receiving justice for the deaths of the African Americans (The Nation). They believed that the police officers displayed an unnecessary use of force which was based upon the individual’s race, as opposed to the crime that was being committed.

Will you able to function if you lived in another race’s shoes? Will you be able to function and deal with consequences of being the other race?When we were all fetuses in our mom’s tummy we as humans are not given the options to chose our race. Yet we are still being ridiculed from what we are born with. Racism is one of many elements that in the United States of America affects our society. However, there is a hidden problem that promotes racism. It is the fact that a lot of people try to make themselves believe that racism doesn 't exist. But unfortunately, it still does. Everyone knows about the problem of racism but don 't realize that they are supporting the problem by discriminating against other people 's rights but at the same

The experience of black women’s resistance reflects power and unity against oppression. Black women confront two types of oppression: sexism and racism. Intersectionality can both strengthen the foundation of white supremacy while simultaneously break it down if used strategically. Through unification and relentless effort, black women have found the avenues to shake white supremacy to it’s core, starting multiple revolutions and moving both oppressed groups forward. The cases of Betty Jean Owens and Recy Taylor highlights the issues surrounding interracial rape. They focus on the treatment of victims, the lack of justice and how those specific cases gave rise to the first wave of feminism.

In society in America women are some of the most powerful leaders today, in places such as Afghanistan women have no power. This is controversial considering that women were at some point already provoked when people said that voting is not an option for women, this is not just about human rights, but about human rights for the women born without rights.

Being a black woman, Tiana has many pressures since she has to deal with poverty and discrimination. Influenced by her mother, she decided to go to university because she believed that only education can help her figure out what exactly happened to black women and how to deal with these issues. She insisted that women are capable of exercising equal political and social rights with men. With this belief, Tiana studied hard and got pay off. She was admitted to study at NYU with a Major in Gender and Sexuality Studies. At NYU, she took many classes related to women, race, and history, such as Social and Cultural Analysis, Minority Women in America, and Minority Women in America. She learned how women were described as a weak group in terms of body, intelligence, and psychology; she learned why gender stereotypes became the excuses to legitimately exclude women from

Racism is very much still active and thriving in all parts of United States. While, it may not be as upfront and life threatening as it was back in the early 1900’s it is surprisingly still an issue we face on a day to day basis. Racism is always an extremely sensitive subject when discussed around a diverse group of individuals but does it have to be? Most white Americans tend to believe racism is a thing of the past and tend to downplay non-white Americans point of views when they speak of racial discrimination. Americans pride themselves by saying they only see one color “the human race” but why do we all have to be the same? Why can’t we all be different hues from different backgrounds and still be loved equally? While majority of public racism may have died in the 1960’s, non-whites know silent racism is very much still alive and ruining lives left and right. All Americans need to open their eyes and realize silent racism is the new racism and its affecting non-whites in all areas, the most damaging being racial profiling and discrimination in the workplace.

Today in our generation, much has changed over the years dealing with women’s rights. Women have more rights today than they did back in the early years. Conflict over social values affected the wider political environment and the readiness of institutions to facilitate the movement for equality (Chafe, W, 1978). Some people still believe today that women shouldn’t have a voice. “Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do” (Barack Obama). In this paper it examines the equality in voting, sexual harassment, and women equality in not only the workplace, but in their everyday lives.