Warriors Don T Cry Analysis

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Historically, minorities have been mistreated since the beginning of history of America, from slavery to segregation. There is a major discussion on the change of treatment of these minorities. While many believe society has extensively changed many of the ways of treatment of these minorities. Others claim, we have not change the treatment of minorities. These groups believe that minorities that have been mistreated in the past are still being mistreated in smaller proportions. Therefore they are still considered to be mistreated. Despite the controversy, the way society treats minorities has completely changed throughout history. This change of treatment of minorities, such as black people is shown throughout the novel Warriors Don't Cry. …show more content…

For example, a picture taken outside of Central High school, in 1957, during a time of the school integration. When protesters became violent shows some of the changes. The pictured is described as, “President Eisenhower sent in federal troops to protect the nine black students.” This quote depicts the change of treatment, as colored people go from violently being persecuted to being a priority for the president to protect them from mistreatment. Furthermore, the picture also shows the support to create better treatment of minorities. The image shows “little Rock police officers work to keep protesters against school integration behind barricades.” This image conveys the efforts and change of colored students now being able to go to white schools, which will create more equality. And more equality will lead to better treatment of such minority, creating a positive change of treatment. Moreover, the change of treatment is not only shown in this Image, but in many …show more content…

The change of treatment of these minorities is shown through the laws on immigration. For instance, with the new administration of this country, the has been a major enforcement and new guidelines to allow federals to take stronger action on immigration. One of which immensely targeted a minority, Muslims. The trump administration issued a very unnecessary, “order blocking U.S. entry to refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations.” This executive order caused a lot of chaos and protest as people believed it was not right to treat these people like this because of their origins. Moreover, it just shows a really negative change of treatment of this minority by the government. Furthermore, this horrible change of treatment by the government also impacted other minorities, syrian refugees. The Muslim ban by Trump’s administration was not only morally wrong, but it had a greater impact on the refugees who are simply fleeing violence. After, all the backlash of the people for this controversial order. Judicial orders declared it as unconstitutional and decided to only block, “all refugee arrivals for 120 days, and refugees from Syria are blocked indefinitely.” Although, the ban of the Muslim countries was really unjustified, as the people who had valid entry documents had the right to enter the country. This new order depicts a worse treatment of the minorities. By this

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