How successful was Reaganomics in the years 1981 – 89? Reaganomics was Reagan’s economic philosophy, which emphasised low taxes and deregulation, which it was thought would stimulate the economy. He aimed to revive the economy by decreasing taxes, which would encourage people to work harder and buy more. He also aimed to reduce the size and role of the government, cutting public spending and minimising welfare state arrangements where possible. He also wanted to deregulate state and federal government requirements and liberate business and allow capitalism to flourish making people more prosperous and enabling them to pay more taxes, decreasing federal deficit.
Instead of the Détente, Reagan wished for a peace built by America’s economic and military power. Ronald Reagan’s policies were based on the ideologies of spreading freedom and democracy around the world to block the advancement on Soviet Communism. He promoted democracy and all its qualities to countries throughout the world including the Soviet Union. His peaceful policies significantly contributed to the end of the cold war. Reagan detested the oppression of Marxism-Leninism and in 1982 he gave a speech at the British parliament during which he expressed the hope that it would end up “on the ash heap of history”.
It brought about the mass fragmentation of the movement and saw two main civil rights campaigners SNCC and CORE split from the cooperation of the NAACP and SCLC. This significantly reduced the momentum of the movement, which was at its peak between 1945-1960. The two fragments of the movement were now in strict competition for media space and funds for their protests. SCLC and NAACP suffered greatly with their membership numbers being reduced which made it almost impossible to organise any strong national campaigns that would enforce de facto change. The introduction of the Black Panthers, which dominated a vast section of the Black Power movement, could arguably be accused of hindering the civil rights movement.
The Nazi’s had been successful in changing and impose their views on the young and vulnerable people. The Teachers were forced to re-plan their lessons to be about the Nazi beliefs. History was taught but only to show the positive side of the Nazi regime; Biology was used to promote the Nazi racial beliefs; Physics was used to teach the children to make weapons; and time given to P.E trebled. This is
From the early days of Richard’s childhood, Richard was always alienated from his environment. Even though he tried to distance himself from the prejudice all around him, the white people still tried to turn him into the stereotypical southern black person. However, throughout the story Richard is also alienated by his own people and perhaps even more then from the white people. Richard was always a rebel, from his boyhood to his older teenage years. Richard’s grandmother was always excessively beating him.
Also, ‘The Black Panthers’ were a very violent group and saw King’s campaign as time consuming and feared it being forgotten in the process. The group called for a revolutionary war against authority, but it never happened and there are many conspiracy theories as to why the group ended. King was later assassinated at his hotel, showing that his race was still not equal, and some people still looked down on African Americans and didn’t like the change. Although all of these activists had the same idea and values, they had very different ideas of how to achieve their ideal society. Doctor King, Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers all contributed to the major changes of society’s attitudes towards the African American people by targeting very different audiences in society.
To conclude, black people all over the world, wherever they live were for a long time victim of racism for their skin color. People treated them badly only because they had a darker skin color, forgetting that that we are all humans and the color of our skins an where we come from doesn’t indicate our personalities and beliefs. Black in America suffered a lot for reason of racism and went through the hard ships and difficulties
History Essay Question #1 The rise of black militancy in America arose from a history of racial discrimination and oppression against black people by the white government. These are some of the key points: lack of affordable housing for black people, harassment of blacks by police, excessive police brutality against blacks, lack of employment opportunities, discontent with the limited goals of the civil rights movement and its advocacy of nonviolence, they also questioned the usefulness of nonviolence and no longer sought to include whites in the movement. By the late 1960s, African Americans still suffered from many disadvantages, including poverty rates that were much higher than those among whites and physical health that was much worse. Racially motivated violence persisted as well, as seen in the assassination of Martin Luther King by a white man in 1968, a significant segment of the black community felt deprived of their legal rights as citizens, frustrated by what they saw as the slow pace of racial change and ongoing racial inequality. Militant leaders like the Reverend Albert Cleague spoke of self-determination and separatism for black people, arguing that whites were incapable and or unwilling to share power.
Civil Liberties: Discrimination Ever since the Civil War, the United States has been faced with the issue of discrimination against African Americans and women. Many people in the United States believed that African Americans did not belong in society, they were not considered as human beings but as property. They discriminated against them at work, in school, and on the streets. They were segregated from everyone else because of their skin color. Americans also believed that women did not have rights.
In addition, many Caucasians including the female protagonists in both texts felt some kind of racial guilt for what transpired in the past. In Disgrace and A Blade of Grass the female characters who reflect this racial guilt experience a loss, which leads to a tense friendship with a black African character that is resolved only to a degree by the novel’s conclusion. Firstly, Marit in A Blade of Grass and Lucy in Disgrace feel racial guilt and experience a loss. To begin, Marit believes that “blacks deserve fair treatment and are not receiving it” (Desoto, 276), and Lucy recounts a story where “blacks were beaten and evicted from their homes” which is “inhumane” (Coetzee, 124). In addition, both characters endure a loss: Marit’s husband, Ben, is killed by a land mine that he runs over while driving, and Lucy is raped by several black African males.