He also brings up about how civil right leaders have the right to bash these black celebrities that are putting down their own race. They fought so hard to be free and have the same rights as a white person so he is confused on why they would bash their own race. He should have added more statistics and maybe where he got his facts. He says the homicide is on the rise for black woman and rape is often found with black girls primarily. Where did he get those statistics?
As our country has becomes more desegregated, we learn more and more about equality, no matter what your skin color. In the movie, To Kill Mockingbird, bigotry is a huge factor that affects many lives. While watching the movie, I began to wonder how the outcome of the story would have been different had one character’s skin color been white. The movie starts off with narrator talking about a knowledgeable story from when she was little. Her father Atticus, a lawyer, had a choice to defend a black man, Tom Robison, who was being accused of raping and beating up a young white women.
He would describe how torturous the beatings were and how poorly respected the slaves were. Fredrick stated that ex-slaves used to keep their mouths shut while being enslaved because that would save them from beatings and from being traded. Instead, the slaves used songs to tell their stories, and to this day, people of all color were really moved and overwhelmed by them. Fredrick’s sneakiness helped him escape slavery on September 3, 1838 and he landed in New York were he joined the Abolitionists and became one of the most influential black man in history. His determination influenced other slaves and ex-slaves around the south, he gave them hope when all seemed
The hip-hop artists get very creative with it and it’s interesting to hear and see. In Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women, Jennifer talks a lot about Kevin Powell. Kevin Powell is a writer, he also writes about hip-hop. The hip-hop industry is very challenging and against black women. Black men are capable of doing so many things to go against black women.
Tupac was the biggest Hip Hop icon of the West Coast, he was shot in 1994 but was not killed he then later came to find out that his so called friends Biggie had knew about the shooting and had something to do with it. This then started the famous battle of the East vs. West in the hip hop society. Tupac then in the years to come would make tons of songs that would diss Biggie and of course Biggie would not just take it so he would try and come back at him. Between the two big icon’s Biggie being the icon for the East and Tupac being the icon of the West, they would start a huge war in the hip hop society and cause a lot of hatred. The East rappers and fans hated the West an the West rappers and fans hated the East.
Levee was rejected by the white producer he depended on, then couldn’t keep his cool, and now he has fallen into the trap that has ensnared so many young black men to this day. Wilson wrote this play decades after Ma Rainey’s death, but many of these points are still very relevant to the contemporary African-American experience. Many black men and women find themselves exploited, drawn into crime and living just to survive, and every now and then someone’s creative dreams might take flight. Things have improved since 1927 but the problems are still here, and Wilson did a fine job of highlighting that in a historical
Music videos have contributed to the depiction as well. Violence has been greatly impacted on the black community. From rappers glorifying time served in jail or surviving several bullet wounds, today’s black community believes this is a way of life for some. The black man has decided to trade college for the
Several musicians paid tribute to Tupac and Biggie by mentioning them in songs and by having upcoming artist follow in their footsteps. Both Biggie and Tupac Shakur talents as a writing and rapper will continue to be acknowledged for decades to come. Some people might say these two individual lifestyle is what cause them there death as in excuse for why there are gone or they will say that industry killed them. Being that most rappers today are from the street also, many rapper were drug dealers and jailbirds, however people fail to realize that these artist left there thuggish day behind them and started a career in Hip
He becomes obsessed with sex and acquiring it. It worsens as he becomes more famous until finally as portrayed in the movie he learns how to accept his responsibilities as a man and becomes a good father. Continuing with this sexuality that black men are portrayed as having, we find the rapper 50 cent in his movie talking to his gang. Fifty was asked what he wanted to do in life. He answered, “I want to get money and get bitches.” Again this line furthers the stereotype that black males have this obsession with having sex with as many women as possible never being satisfied, and never respecting any
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.