Where Have We Been Where Are We Going Analysis

Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?
Growing up in the South, I was raised in a middle class home segregated from any contact with white people. I would hear adults talking but was more concerned, at that time, with playing and having fun! It was when I started school and boldly faces to face with the hatred and intolerance presented at Wrens Elementary school in Wrens Georgia,(if memory serves me correctly) The past is constantly mirrored in the present-day. I am dismayed that an enormous quantity of Black minority today are discrediting all those that came previously before them and made such strides in changing the world so that they would have better opportunities. There are many factors, I know. But my perception is that it is destructive

behavior and demeaning to our ancestors. African Americans to a vital degree, the history of African Americans are the history of the United States. Black people escorted the first explorers and a Black man was in the midst of the first to die in the American Revolution. The enslavement of Africans was liable for the South’s wealth in the nineteenth century and steered to the country’s most violent domestic friction. After Blacks were freed from captivity, their continuous subordination headed to arbitrary occurrences of violence in the rural South and throughout urban America. (Page 168).

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The life and circumstances of African Americans during these times were difficult beyond our imagination today.

Traveling into the aspect of slavery, slavery seems distant from the discussions over concerns that split white and black people in the world currently. Slavery was not just a unique aspect of American culture for three centuries; it has been a critical fragment of our nation’s life. African-American history has played an essential role in the shaping of politics, economics, and culture in the United States. As slavery developed in colonial America and the United States, so do slave codes laws that defined the low position of slaves in the United States. The instructions different on or after state to state and from time to time and were not always enforced. “Slaves could not marry or even meet with a free Black.” “A slave could not leave a plantation without a pass nothing his or her destination and time of return.” “And no one, including Whites, was to teach a slave (in some areas, even a free Black) to read or write or to give a slave a book, including the Bible.” “Violations of these rules were dealt with in a variety of ways.” Even though the slave was defenseless to his or her owner’s desires, slavery as a body was defenseless to outer view. The future of what will not change is the Issue of

Race.
“The legacy of slavery continues more than 150 years after its end in the United Sates.

We can see it in the nation’s Capital and the White House, which were built with slaves’ labor, but we can also see it in the enduring poverty that grips a large proportion of the descendants of slavery.” (Page 172) African Americans have made earth-shattering progress in many areas. A March took place in Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The energy from the people generated by the March in Washington changed the America people. It helped to stimulate the country. Education comes after the March of “I Have A Dream” speech, the African American

population
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in the United Sates has placed special meaning on obtaining an education. There is still a lot of work to be accomplished. Blacks have made incredible progress in terms of acceptance for college degrees but so have the White people. There are few African Americans who are entering into positions that very few people of any color reach. Higher education for Blacks reflects that there are no guarantees. Twenty percent of Blacks rose in the middle class outdone their parent’s wealth related to fifty percent of whites. The Black Americans vision of rising movement being passed out successfully was embraced by blacks. On the other hand the general economic picture for blacks has slowly improved over the past fifth years. Blacks are much better off today 2015 because of the movement struggles endured. Though each struggle black folks gained the possibilities of moving forward to gain the right to vote, education, wealth and employment for income (“refers to salaries, wages and other money received.”) Wealth which I see as a more general term that embraces all of a one’s measureable assets, which includes land and other types of possessions blacks have gained after their rights was signed and passed. In closing, I’d like to say, “May you have the future of your choice; may you have a thousand reasons to rejoice.”