They felt as though the more abuse they gave, the more power they gained. However, some slaveholders become so obsessed with the thirst for power that their actions lead to the deaths of innocent people. The violent scenes that Douglass presents are nothing short of horrifying. He reveals that slaveholders often got away with murder with out any type of punishment or jurisdiction. An account of this is when a slaveholder by the name of Mr. Gore whipped his slave, Demby, to the point where he could not bear it.
Staples suggest that people still tend to portray black men as violent and dangerous individuals from racial tendencies without rationalizing and thus causing stress to the victims (black men) because they’re seen as threats despite their true nature. In the past, black men have had reputations that associate themselves with murderers, thieves, rapist etc. thus making people around them feel anxious and/or concerned. I feel Brent Staples' Black Men and Public Space was insightful. He really expresses what racism was like for him and every struggle he went through.
These codes resembled the lives of gang bangers. Several points in the piece that could have easily contributed to the influx of violence among young teens are: a) all new Jacks to the game must know that he will get rich, will go to jail, and will die; b) rats or snitches are not allowed in the community and must be dealt with; c) the boys in blue, or police officers, do not run anything and the gang controls the hood; and d) they should be a real ruff neck. When these ideas embed the minds of young Black males, they are hard to control. At the time, and even now, Tupac Shakur has been an influential figure in the hip-hop community. So if he is promoting such codes, it is not long before others follow.
This cultural representation of African Americans, which we discussed extensively in class, was the most significant type of racism that faces Brian Copeland in his life. African American men have long been stereotyped as an over sexed, homophobic, highly violent, and abusive man with rap songs such as “In Da Club” adding to how we in society view them. This stereotype has become so ingrained in our perception of African Americans that even blacks themselves view themselves this way and those who don’t act in this way are viewed as traitors almost and are called fake black people or even “Oreos.” This was the case for Brian Copeland, who growing up in the primarily white city of San Leandro was constantly harassed for being black by the white residents. Brian Copeland decided to not be an abusive father and get an education to become successful. While working at his radio station he became the target of hate mail from black listener who criticized him for being too “white” and accused him of being “not a genuine black man.” This caused him a great deal of personal turmoil, making him asking the question what is a genuine black man?
These people that label their selves as “nigga” but if a person who is not of color is to use it we are racist. Isn’t that a double standard? How is it ok for you to say it but we are not allowed without being called a word that a lot of people overlook….Racism will always exist until people of color stop killing each other. I read an article called “salute to all gangbangers” written by a black man about black on black crime. Everyone in the south was in an uproar because they thought the KKK had written it.
English 101 1:00 October 28, 2010 Discrimination of Violence In modern American society, rap artists feel that they must coincide with societie’s view of thug rappers, by hardening their image. To Americans, raps image is infamous for hood rich lifestyles, danger, and attributes such as “machine guns and silencers” (Tucker 326). A life of death always at your back and a smoking gun at your finger tips. An image fueled by a countries lost moral ideals in which support the acts of violent nature. Cynthia Tucker expresses her belief that, “Gansta rap is fueling a thug culture, that is destroying the lives of black Americans by glorifying violence” (326).
The demonization of African Americans in America comes not only from Whites, but also from those of their own race. The imaging projected worldwide by American mass media of Blacks, especially Black males, fly in the face of reality. Those images have some small amount of validity, but they are crafted from the Black underclass, and then used to depict the entire 100% of Blacks. It’s not just the white media, the black media also does Blacks a grave disservice by helping to destroy Black people's reputation worldwide by modeling images that many inner city youths, who already have enough negative models, think are true Black America, worthy of
(1) Based on Cecil Foster thesis, he gets the point that racism is still a big problem in our world today and most people were not noticing how bad it was getting in reality. Foster point out about the Rodney King verdict was generated the worst violence outbreak since the Watts riots. Rodney King, an African American man who was badly beaten by Los Angeles police, because of that triggered he became the main focus of how bad the race was a big issue.what they did to Rodney King caused the people to get angry about how the police brutality and racism. Also, people were burning fires everywhere , damaging , stealing breaking business. (2) Forster first example was when he first visited Canada during the Montreal Olympics.He came to
Every race has people that are discriminatory and this includes groups lime the black panthers other African supremacy groups are just as guilty in the category if racist groups as the KKK. The problem with hate groups are that they skew views people have about other races causing them to themselves become racist subconsciously. Studies have taken place at Stanford university as well as the university at California berkley that have studied racism and subconscious racism are still a very prominent aspect of humanity. Part of the problem in the unsuccessful attempts to kill racism is that there are people who don't admit that it's real anymore. Acceptance is a viable part if repentance.
It doesn’t happen nearly as much as people would like to believe, But it dose happen. Police see minorities as more trouble and they think that they would be more likely to commit crimes. Also they are more violent toward minorities. Police have beaten black people who have committed minor crimes for no reason. These incidents are reported and the cops are quickly fired and charges for there crime.