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I don’t think they could’ve done anything more than what they were doing. I say that because if they would’ve done more they would’ve gotten their “head busted” like John Gray’s friend Brookley Field. In those times, what authority did a black person really have? They didn’t have anyone to take up for them and were punished without question so I don’t think it was much they could really do. I think the experience of fighting made them realize what they were fighting for. Once, they understood that they were fighting for their worth and for what’s right, I think it made it more of an impact on them. My grandma is 88, so her experience was totally different from mine. She experienced segregation at an all-time high. My experience with segregation
is nonexistent. For example, in Murfreesboro there is a place called Walters-Grill. Back then, my grandma had to walk through the back and Whites could walk in the front. Now, I can walk through the front. Times have definitely changed and I think it some aspects it has improved very much. Racism is most ways, has definitely improved. People aren’t getting lynched for their skin complexion. Although this is true, racism has also stayed the same in a lot of ways. People have segregated themselves and instead of seeing people as humanity being one race they see people as the color of their skin. Police brutality against blacks is a big problem in the United States. At no point is an unharmed human suppose be shot, killed and or harassed by a police officer. At no point is that okay. My parent’s experiences in their teenage years were also different from mine. My mom did not experience any racism upon her but it was more likely to happen in her time rather than my time. Now, we have interracial couples but in the 1980s or before then, that was less likely to happen. I think that it would be way harder to be a teenager then than it is now because we have more of an advantage to a lot of things.
The struggle for racial equality was not just a physical conflict; what I learned from this book is the fact that in addition to the physical abuse, the far damaging abuse was mental. I learned through Melba’s character in the book that many of her external conflicts turned into internal ones. From all of the violence African Americans experience, they had to live their whole lives watching over their shoulders, always thinking someone is going to hurt them. Another perspective I got from this book is that if more black people had stood up, the change we want will be achieved so much faster, even though we suffer from a system that was meant to keep us down. Without realizing it, we help keep the system going by being afraid to fight it. What I found interesting was the fact that white people were afraid blacks would one day fight back, meanwhile blacks were so afraid to stand up over their lives. “The Warrior’s Don’t Cry” was a good book to read and I learned a lot from it about the pain and struggle of black
One of the most destructive forces that is destroying young black people in America today is the common cultures wicked image of what an realistic black person is supposed to look like and how that person is supposed to act. African Americans have been struggling for equality since the birth of this land, and the war is very strong. Have you ever been in a situation where you were stereotyped against?
Even though whites and blacks protested together, not all of them got punished in the same ways. Even though it wasn’t folderol committed by either race, racists saw it as this and would do anything to keep segregation intact. Sometimes, the whites would be shunned, by society, and not hurt physically. While the blacks, on the other hand, were brutally kille...
According to the article “A Tale of Segregation” the white men told William Minners dad “You’re going to stay here and when all the good and white people have gotten their water, and when everyone is gone then you can do what you want to.” William and his had to wait because the white men implied that white men were the good men and colored weren’t. Also according to “A Tale of Segregation” Williams father said “this was a real act of prejudice” his father said that because they waited 30 min and it was their turn to get water so the white made them stop because their color. “Theres gonna come a day where this won’t happen anymore” said Williams dad in “A Tale of Segregation” he meant being racist and hating against colored people won’t last
Segregation began in 1896, after slavery was abolished and ended in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act all throughout America, but did it really end the racial segregation? or changed how one viewed African Americans. Although the law ended Segregation, we still see segregation in different areas in our world as well as in housing, schools, employment, and even economic status in 2016. “America Has a Big Race Problem”, “How policy built segregation in Baltimore”, and lastly my personal experience will provide evidence on how segregation still exist in 2016, as well as what started it.
For blacks, life during segregation was very difficult. Racism, which is bad enough, led to things much worse for African Americans. “Along with restrictions on voting rights and laws to segregate society, white violence against Af...
My perception of our world is that racism exists everywhere, even in the land of liberty, America. I am aware of the fact that there is racism against not only blacks, but also whites, Asians, along with people from all other ethnicities. I believe racism is deplorable in any form. Therefore I do my best not to be racist in any way.
When it came to the people in the “Freedom Movement” at the end they would never be the same. For the young black kids, they never thought that white people could actually be just like them. They were raised still to pick cotton, work, and
They would get hosed, yelled at or even threatened to get killed, which those people need someone who had courage to stand up for them.Tom Pendergast a historian in seattle who has studied the 60’s saying “ It's like the brother that is mean to the others because it was the most feared by the colors”.That the 60’s were a pretty bad time for twh colors because they had nobody there to help fight. Later martin luther king came with all he had to fight for them which helped them take off the pressure off their shoulders and have a voice for what they wanted.This point has been agreed from Matthew Cooperland of West Linn, Oregon saying “That he would agree that the 60’s where hard for the colored people and what they had to go through can't be easy”.That the color people that were living in the 60’s had it all rough then what we thought they had. If the United states would have got involved with the problem maybe the colors would have not been more appropriate to fight.The 60’s may have been a bad time for them but the colored people still lived like it was nothing because they had nothing to do because they would get arrested if they fought. The colors are a good race because they have inspired music and other things to have that martin fought
The African Americans has to realize that segregation was still in progress and so they had to be mind full of the places they went and the things they said. They weren't accepted in certain places or they had to use the back way to get into certain places. Overall they weren't excepted and had to watch their backs where ever they
...ners they continued to fight. As more and more African American students were admitted into white Southern schools, segregationist continued to retaliate and defend their schools against them. No matter how difficult the situation turned out for some of them, and without much help from the government, African Americans did everything they possibly could to protect their educational rights for the sake of their future and success, and in the hope of promoting equality for all African American people of the United States. These students became the symbol of freedom and opened up the window of opportunity for all black people, for their ancestors, and for the future generations to come.
But still in those moments of brutality and pain, they still remained calm and acted through the words through the words of their leader Martin Luther King Jr. Like Parks, King was another civil rights activist. He was the voice of the African Americans and always promoted peace in his campaigns. Even after witnessing many of his people be beaten gruesomely and hosed on the March to Montgomery, one would think that maybe this event would be the one to force blacks submit or listen to the police officers when they said not to come back. But no, that wasn't what happened. They immediately came back again, making the statement that they would not fall down that easily. Then turned back and walked away. This historic act of civil disobedience that King made was what won their voting rights. He won because he was able to look past the miseries they were put through and continue through nonviolence. Which is why the way the way they were to handle the situation was so important because if it was up to leaders like Malcolm X to lead, the situation would've worsen because he was the type who encouraged for violent ways. If the blacks had come back with the intention of harming the whites or had fought in the same way the whites did and carried weapons, there would've have been no
Throughout my life as a young black girl I have suffered an incredible amount of discrimination and micro-aggressive occasions that have made me at one point second guess my worth. As the result of growing up in a predominately white neighborhood I always felt as if I was prisoner in a world that did not want to see me reach my full potential. I was constantly bullied because I did not fit the normal Eurocentric beauty standards, constantly questioned in disbelief because my hair was too long to be real, and mocked on how dark my skin was. At that age I realized that something was different. In life I would have to work ten times harder than anyone else because of the color of my skin and I was undaunted by this realization.I vowed to devote my life to my education to make a difference land
Being an optimist, right off the bat, i would hope people, even my roommate, would notice my calm bubbly personality. Most try to notice the pessimist in people, but me? I try to find out what value people have, in hope they do the same to me. I want my future roommate to know, i can make a change. I want to invent vaccines, prolong people's lives, find the cure to cancer even.