Essays on Racism

Within the federal courtroom, is the scene of individuals who lack money and education being fed into a machine just as animals are to make meat. Such a metaphor illustrates the harsh reality of unfair mandatory minimums and drug policies. With racial elements being the…

In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” King wrote, “ smothering in an airtight cage of poverty…”. This is one example of how King uses metaphor to compare “smothering in an airtight cage of poverty” to the poverty of what African-Americans had to face. In his…

Racial minorities made up about 37.4 percent of the general population in the US and 46.6 percent of armed and unarmed victims, but they made up 62.7 percent of unarmed people killed by police and all happened to be African Americans or Hispanics. This only…

Many theories of gender segregation at workplaces were developed and practiced by various theorists. Some of the theories developed were the Marxist theory, the Human Capital Theory and many more. Marxist theory, which originated from the works of 19th century German philosophers Karl Marx and…

In his memoir, Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, Martin Luther King Jr. provides a fascinating profile into the dynamics between racial relations and American democracy in the Modern Civil Rights Movement Era that spanned from the 1950s to 1960s. Through the characterization, setting, and…

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his…

2017 has been a year that has once again shown the world how split the society of the USA is. The recent election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States is for many people a symbol of the interior situation and…

Racism can be described as an unusual thing which misleads and classify folks based on color, caste, cultural background and religion. Barack Obama, a politician, who served as the first African American president of the United States, wanted to solve the issue of racism. “He…

Off the burnt-out grassy shoulder of US Highway 17, just outside of Charleston, lies a small, neglected roadside plaque. The sun-faded and cracked lettering on the commemoration offer a terse summary of a forgotten slave rebellion. Described as “the bloodiest slave revolt in colonial America,”…

When we begin to review the “why of where” concept we unveil a system of interconnected people, places, environments, and locations. (Castree, Kitchin, Rogers 1) These four ideas used in the definition of Human Geography show how “the world operates spatially”, (Castree, Kitchin, Rogers 1)…