Gates found the front door to his home jammed shut and with the help of his driver to force it open. A local witness reported their activity to the police as a potential burglary in progress. That Crowley had explained. Gates came to the door and said “why because I’m black man in America?” Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct, by Police St. James Crowley. On July 21, 2009, charges against Gates were dropped.
The State Police in Oklahoma humiliated an Army General Gerald for two hours and his son because they were African American. They were told to get out of their car and they were handcuffed without the police having a reason to. The police also asked if they can search Gerald’s car and Gerald said no. The police didn’t respect what Gerald had said and they searched his car anyway. The police brought drug-sniffing dogs since they were African American they expected them to have drugs in the car.
Mr. Crump allegedly got out of his car, and not seeing the faces of who was in the other car, began to tell the teenagers to leave. Allegedly, he saw the driver’s hands go from the wheel, down to his pants, and it was at this time that the gun discharged. However, Danny’s friends say that his hands never left the wheel. Sadly, Danny Adams died from the gunshot wound. Adrian Krump was charged with manslaughter, facing up to 17 years in prison.
I will explore these issues as I compare and contrast the two films. The movie Crash combines the many struggles met by today's racial stereotypes into a collection of several related social problems faced by the film's cast. The movie is set in present-day Los Angeles, a city with an ethnic mix of every race. Their stories link during two days in Los Angeles involving an assortment of characters, two car thieves who are constantly speculating on society and race, a bigoted cop and his younger partner, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter, the white district attorney and his wife, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a mischief younger brother, a Hollywood director and his wife, and a Persian immigrant father. To Kill a Mockingbird deals with many basic lessons in human nature.
Can One Man Save a City? Karim Abdullah English 112: English Composition Here in Chicago there is a man who protests the shootings of young black males. Contrary to popular belief he is not a well-known black Civil Rights leader, but a white man. This is a man who lost his adopted black son to gun violence. This is a man who defaced billboards advertising cigarettes and liquor; protested lyrics of rappers and rap songs for demeaning women, glorifying drugs and violence.
Insidious Disease: Police Brutality Knock, Knock. The police are going door to door, looking for a rape suspect. They knock on the door next to yours: a quiet, legal African American immigrant’s home. He answers, and reaches into his jacket to retrieve his wallet to show his identification to the officers. At the moment, the four policemen open fire forty-one times on the man, and he drops dead.
The Envy of the World: The Portrayal of Black Men in America Patrice R. Gill- Clay Capella University Abstract The Envy of the World With the number of obstacles they confront--from the dangers of drugs, gangs and other criminal elements to still-prevalent forms of institutionalized racism such as racial profiling--young African-American males face harrowing times (Jeffers,2001). In today’s society the African American male is considered as violent, uneducated, lazy, and aggressive. The portrayal from media and film does not work toward improving their images either. Negative stereotypes have dominated the images of African American males and their role in society. Even when there are displays of positive and successful African American
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space Brent Staples employs onomatopoeia to describe the black man who “could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk of the driver - black, white, male, or female - hammering down on the door locks.” The onomatopoeia and cacophony of “thunk” creates a harsh tone. It describes the widespread prejudice, even within his own race. Staples repeats the “thunk” four times, one for each person aside a door, thus the profiling is so common that not one person in the full car would hesitate to lock the door. The second essay uses “thunk” to express how easily he could incite fear in the inhabitants, a fear in which he took pride.
Police brutality was seen as commonplace, and 95% of the Watts police force was white. This helped foster hatred towards the police, and white people, as the black population did not feel equal. The schools that black students attended were of poor quality, and seen as a reason for the lack of employment and employable skills in the black community. The economic impact of the riots can be seen in multiple areas. There were 288 local businesses looted and burned, which were not capable of being rebuilt and never returned following the Watts Riots.
You know how many black man graduate? Not many, because you bring them down to this type of level, where they feel like they don’t have nothing else to live for anyway” An angry St. Louis mother said after her unarmed son was shot 6 time and killed by a white officer. After listening to this I felt her pain because she is speaking the truth. Society had been targeting the black community and black for the longest. It feel like they are pushing us back to segregation times where we was separated by race.