To begin, here is some background on the gangs that will be discussed. One gang that has grown rapidly throughout the years in New Jersey is the Bloods. The Bloods are an African-American gang that started in Los Angeles, California. The primary reason why the Bloods are so huge and notorious today is because they wanted to compete against the intimidation and rivalry of the Crips. It all started when the Pirus, a set underneath the Crips, separated during an internal gang war.
FIGHTING HATE “Hate crimes are crimes committed against a specific race and ethnic group. Victims are targeted because of their race and ethnicity. The first recorded "hate crime" occurred in 1922. The Federal Bureau of Investigation encountered a rising Ku Klux Klan, white supremacist movement in Louisiana. Two people were kidnapped, tortured and murdered while thousands more received threats to their person.
Baltimore has one of the highest rates of murdering and crimes. It was ranked one of the top 25 most dangerous cities in the country. With the support and help from their families, with just one year in Africa, it completely changed the boys from their behaviors to their grades. According to the film, “in Baltimore, 61% of African-American boys do not graduate from high school”. One of the film methods Ewing and Grady used to achieve a purpose in the documentary was they put statistics and facts about Baltimore in black backgrounds to demonstrate how serious the problem in Baltimore was.
Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin Murders occur every day in the United States but some murders throughout history have stood out as being more important than others. These cases often involve young victims who have had their lives taken from them in heinous ways and are often motivated by causes that the rest of us see as unjustified and unexplainable. Two such instances of this are the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin; both were young African American males who were killed over racial issues. When looking at the relevance of specific murders, it is important to look at the socio-political, as well as the historical, background surrounding the case and at how the death of the victim changed public discourse of significant issues in the United States such as race and crime and racial inequality. Trayvon Martin Trayvon Martin was a 17 year old African American male who was walking home from 7-Eleven when 28 year old George Zimmerman shot him at close range in the chest.
Even within the same cities, "murder rate among black teens in Washington, D.C., is twenty-five times higher than that of white teens living a few Metro stops away." There are many facts that prove that the media cannot be the issue in this situation. Also, it isn't even children being violent most of the time. Three-Fourths of murdered kids are not murdered by children, but by adults. Also, the suicide rate of black teens is almost the same rate as black adults.
But the need for this labor was too great to have a white only labor force. African-Americans became an important part in meeting production needs which became their key bargaining chip while dealing with African-American civil rights issues. There were many important events that lead to national recognition of racial tensions such as the brutal killing of Cleo Wright that became an FBI investigation and the first prosecution of whites for abandoning his human rights while strung by his neck behind a car through the black ghettos and set on fire in front of church services Sunday morning. 3 The Detroit race riots were caused through rising racial tensions and poor housing conditions that not only killed 35 and wounded many more, but it prevented war production costing millions of man hours. 4 These circumstances demonstrated the power the black communities had during the war knowing the nation could not afford to put production on hold.
For many, to fit in or be accepted in their “hood” could mean living a life of crime because that is the only way they know to survive. From the power point in class that was discussed, I conclude that lots of African Americans are in gangs. As stated in the article, the metro area of Houston has the most gang members that are active in the community. Gang members are involved in dog fighting, murders, human trafficking and many other illegal things that corrupt our
The problem has a long history. For centuries now, black males have been seen in a negative light in school, college, in the media, and in their families. Urban Prep Academy of Chicago, which is an all male inner-city school in Chicago, who for the past two years has sent 100% of its graduating seniors off to four-year colleges and universities, should serve as a model school for blacks in the inner-city (Unknown). If there are more African American males in jail than there are in college, then this is a huge issue. In America, blacks have fought to have equal rights, and equal access to a better future, so it is time for blacks to start acting like it.
Treatment of African Americans as second class citizens was still bad regarding economics in the north, but not as severe as in the south. For example, a mass migration of brought two million blacks to northern cities to seek out better economic opportunities. Also, unemployment in the north fell from almost one million to around 150000 by 1945. This was due to the creation of jobs in factories during World War 2, when it became easier for blacks to get jobs (although not as easy as it was for whites). In the
She doesn't believe that the 50's should be taken 'literally' because from the 50's there were changes in values that caused racism and sexism discrimination against women. Many of the existing social problems could have been avoided or ignored. Racial conflict was intense in many places, but many suburbs were exclusively white. The poverty rate was higher than today, but at least it was falling. Teenagers had more babies than they do now, but access to good jobs-even with only a high school education-enabled young men to marry their pregnant girlfriends.