Power In African American Society

A necessary and common fight for equality has been one that has survived throughout all of man’s existence. Due to recent racial divide and the product of racial profiling, a movement has risen up to combat these common issues. The most recent and most well-covered is the Black Lives Matter Movement. Even though it has been lauded by some media sources and individuals as the next great movement to champion for civil rights, the Black Lives Matter movement is not the same as the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s nor is it likely to be as successful. If the Black Lives Matter Movement continues with discrepancies in ideology, lack of clear leadership, and trends of hate, the movement is doomed to fail.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a loosely‐coordinated, nationwide movement dedicated to ending police brutality that rose to prominence in late 2014. It takes its name from a hashtag started by three Black feminist activists Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi but the movement and the hashtag are not identical (Freelon, McIlwain, & Clark, 2016). BLM has achieved national reputation through their online and offline organizing, obtaining extensive news media coverage and glowing references in music and entertainment television. Based on a horrendous incident that sparked a concern for a lot of Black people across the world, the sudden need for a social movement was born called BLM. Black Lives Matter is a national organization working for the validity of Black life and also working to rebuild the Black liberation movement. Black Lives Matter broadens the conversation and highlight the incidents around state violence to include the ways in which Black people are intentionally left powerless at the hands of the state. This referring to the ways in which Black lives are deprived of basic human rights and dignity. According to the article The Murder of Walter Scott, which talks about race and class, “African Americans are less than 13% of the U.S. population yet they are nearly 50% of those killed by the police. North Charleston has a population of 104,000, 47% Black and the police force is 80% white (Miah, 2015)”.

Americans of African descent still have limited economic freedom, even after the end of the civil war on Monday. The hugest or in other words the most serious problem after the Civil War it was hard work. After the Civil War, Americans of African descent in this release, but we do not know where exactly to go, especially in the south. They traveled far, but some remained and hard work because they did not have anywhere to go and no one to see. Also, they were not able to get all of their land, and thus began the cycle of poverty known as sharecropping. War in South Africa to prevent Americans from exercising civil and political rights - is another example of a border post is passed Black Codes which were discriminatory

Race refers to a group of persons who are different from other groups due to their alleged genetic and physical traits. On one hand, racism is the preconception that members of a certain race are prime than individuals of other races. In America, white supremacy is the belief that whites are superior to others. White supremacy took different forms, such as colonialism, slavery, and apartheid and has led to institutional racism. Members of minority races, particularly African Americans, have experienced institutional racism in both political and social institutions in many forms including discrimination in health care, employment, incarceration rates, housing, education, and politics. On the other hand, racial worldview entails declaring oneself to be superior over

The social forces that these races have faced may have been a struggle to us after reading about them but for them who have lived through it could possibly have seen it as a test they had to pass to survive. For the African Americans, the characteristic that best resides with them and that they could not fully obtain was love. Their social force was families were torn apart making it so that they could never see each other again. The reason I say that this was a social force for them was because the children would have been taken from their families sometimes at a young age. To those children, if they were not taught that no matter what happens their parents love them, they would have thought their parents did not care for them and just let

Second, Andre Perry controvert black and brown students lake of “soft skills” for college and careers. He also disagree that, our society always treat black people not fairly, according to the NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) report, that African Americans are incarcerated six more times the rate of whites. Here is an example in his article: “Approximately 6000 17 year-olds in Louisana were prosecuted as adult were prosecuted as adults last year, which has had a devastating impact on individuals and communities”(P4). That is a big problem for African Americans, if their teenager life is spending in jail. How can they study and learn in school? The system needs to be fix. The students need help like trained

In today’s world people are more focused on getting money and will do whatever it takes to get it. When you have money it brings power, but the ultimate source of power is knowledge. People are very pompous in society, and don’t want to know anything, and remain adamant. Individuals who are black has it bad from the beginning they are born. What black individuals don’t know is that blacks had the largest library in ancient time. The library was found in Alexandria Egypt. The books and scrolls were burnt by white men because black people knew how to read and write. Whites did not want blacks to have any education. Whites always wanted to be superior. Whites are always belittling black people and saying only thing black people are good at are

The 1960s, including the dark social developments of the period, are an obstruction to understanding the present states of African Americans, contends Clarence Lang. While Americans commend the present commemorations of different dark flexibility breakthroughs and the decision of the first dark president, the impacts of neoliberalism since the 1970s have been especially destroying to African Americans. Amid the four centuries of the Trans-Atlantic slave exchange individuals from several distinctive ethnic gatherings with incomprehensibly different dialects and societies were conveyed to the New World from districts of Africa extending four thousand miles along the mainland 's Atlantic Coast (Lang, 2012).

This resulted in them feeling isolated, being misunderstood, and longing for their formal lives. Correspondingly, research by Chadiha, Adams, Biegel, Auslander, and Gutierrez (2004) states that African American women caregivers, especially those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged and exposed to multiple vulnerabilities, are also susceptible to feelings of powerlessness.

It can be inarguably recognized that as of recent times, the greatest amount of media attention has been rightfully awarded to the racial tension, present inequality, and police brutality demonstrated in the United States. From this, groups such as Black Lives Matter have emerged to protest the murders of innocent black people. However, many members from the outside looking into the groups promoting social awareness are led to believe that they are solely promoting their own ethnicity. Racial inequality should not only spark the initiative of those races experiencing it, but everyone as a inequality does not only effect one group, but an entire society.

Originating in 2012, the political movement known under the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has exploded in size and renown. This movement, which was initially inspired after a police officer was acquitted of all charges after fatally shooting an African American individual, seeks to diminish police brutality against African American individuals and systemic racism particularly in the United States. Sweeping the nation, Black Lives Matter has become an international movement and its influence has only increased with time. On the movement’s official website, the following was written regarding the history of the hashtag-inspired entourage, “#BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and dead 17-year old Trayvon was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder. Rooted in the experiences of Black people in this country who actively resist our dehumanization, #BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society. Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes.” (http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/). The #BlackLivesMatter movement asserts that racism is still prevalent in modern society and exists not only in passive forms. Instead, racism apparently can be both overt and implicit.

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In summation, we looked at social conflict as it related to class, race and ethnicity, gender, and how it explains the Black Lives Matter Movement. As we examined the literature, we asked how and why did the Black Lives Matter Movement begin? What are the problems with the Black Lives Matter Movement? What does social media have to say about the Black Lives Matter Movement? What is the youth’s culture’s input on the Black Lives Matter Movement? How does the Black Lives Matter movement tie back to the police? And where are we going with the Black Lives Matter Movement post-2016? We focused on whether or not the Black Lives Matter movement had the potential to affect change and have a long-lasting impact on society as a social movement. Therefore,

African Americans have been through so much since being uprooted from their home in Africa. Most people do not understand what happened to African Americans and they understand what they had to go through to be where they are today. It went from being kings in the comfort of their home to being thrown on a boat packed like sardines to be forced to work in the fields. The trip was a massacre itself because many did not make it due to the treatment from others. African Americans have always been treated like outsiders and it took many people to sway the perception of others to be where they are today. Through all the ups and downs African Americans persevered and made it out the struggle. African Americans has always been treated badly all groups of people and they always looked down on African Americans. Throughout the history involving African American, it showed the constant inferiority treatment. African Americans were slaves years ago, people still look at blacks as less important than other people. Slavery has a huge impact on our society today because people are still bias and unfair towards African Americans, most African Americans are still living in poverty and don’t have proper education beyond high school which is why they don’t have the equal opportunity for jobs. African Americans still continue to sit in the shadow behind white people.

The media has changed the mindset of many individuals in society. If a peaceful protest is happening, then the citizens are portrayed to be angry and rioters in the media. In today’s society, people gain their knowledge from either reading off social media networking sites and newspaper outlets online. The miscommunication and biased perspectives are formed because of sources that may have an enticing headline such as saying, “Black Lives Matter is the newest hate group.” For someone who might not understand this organization would believe the negative stigma behind it. This organization stands against violence and systemic racism toward African-Americans involving the issues of police brutality, profiling, and injustices. Black Lives Matter holds peaceful protests and meetings to find solutions to help end racial inequality for African-Americans. The headline should state that “Black Lives Matter stands up for unity,” which is respectable toward the organization. However, the media tries not to promote positivity because they want to appeal more individuals with newsworthy articles. The Nationalist Association of Black Journalists Award Winning Artist, Akiba Solomon is a freelance writer who focuses on writing about race and gender. One of her most indulgence writings is titled Thugs. Students. Rioters. Fans: Media’s Subtle Racism in Unrest Coverage. Solomon is a lecturer that instructs and teaches about women and social justice issues. She discusses the intolerant