Jails, prisons and cemeteries are being filled with African American men. ... There is also disparate treatment of African American men. ... Because of slavery, some African Americans may feel entitled. ... Experts are discussing the crisis of the nation's African American men. ... The entire nation is being negatively affected by the crisis America's young, African American men are facing. ...
Many employers were no longer bothered by giving a job to an African-American. ... Many aspects of society have become dominated by African-Americans. ... African-Americans today can claim that they were only arrested for a crime because of their race. ... Another place African Americans have separated themselves is in the workplace. ... Because of these types of laws and justice, African-Americans have been given advantages in America to which whites have no equivalent. ...
However probably most importantly this juxta positioning puts the black African Americans and the black Africans together in the fact they have both been oppressed and persecuted. ... Gast has successfully used the drum as a symbolic link between the identity of the black African-Americans and the black Africans. This has been done by including statements such as "the drum has been our link" and juxta positioning the drums of the African people and the drums of the new African-American jazz music. ... From these findings the viewer is inclined to feel both empathy (because most people have bee...
In one case, which happened on March 3, 1991, four Los Angeles police officers brutally beat African American Rodney King. When this case was brought to court, it was to a nearly all-white community without any jurors that were African American. ... Department of Justice report stated that in 1999, African Americans were 20% more likely to be stopped than white Americans, and police were more than twice as likely to search the car of an African American or Hispanic driver than a white driver. ... In addition, a third of all African American males aged 20-29 are right now either locked up, on p...
Through this education, different groups of people can learn to reconcile their different identities and create a true democracy, as the African Americans and European-white Americans struggled to do in the United States. ... Du Bois says that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in American and the islands of the sea,"" (Du Bois 45) . ... During the Reconstruction period, the U.S government passed the 14th, 15th, and 16th amendments in order to ensure rights for African Americans. ....
