Is Black Pride Racism?

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“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” (Malcolm X) The African- American race as people have faced many challenges and has been through many struggles and oppressions. These events in history have fostered a sense of pride and for some hate in later generations. The pride that African- Americans have is usually referred to as Black Supremacy, Black Pride, and Black Power. The ideas of these prides are for black people as whole to have strong sense of who they are as a people, self-worth, self-determination, and equality. Every race should have these feelings, but some people take this to heart and find it offence because there are extremist groups who take these to beliefs above and beyond. Black Supremacy is not racism unless the Black race starts degrading other races and forming extremist groups to eliminate other based on the beliefs of pride.

Nobody denies that in the past and present there has been racial acts against the African- American race. When the Africans first arrived here from Africa as slaves, they were not treated equal or considered humans, and were called heathens because they did not worship the God of Christianity (“Racism Timeline”). Most people would find it very hypocritical that the first European settlers of America came over for freedom of religion and to escape hate of the other religions, but were so quick to hate someone they have never seen before that didn’t share the same beliefs as them. Slavery separated families, degraded black people until they felt like animals, and placed value as property on another human being. Slave owners used this hierarchy to justify slavery and support that Africans were biologically inferior; Caucasians (whites) Ethiopians (Africans) Mongolians (...

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