Essays on Racism

Reconstruction, the process thought to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy, was destroyed. The answer to what is at fault for the ending of America’s efforts to reverse past mistakes, is, at the very least, debatable. 1865, the year…

In Florida of July 2013, a man by the name of George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin; which began the activist movement, Black Lives Matter, later beginning the hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter). Following Martin’s death, Black Lives Matter…

Our criminal justice system in America has offered the suggestion that being black is a crime. Each case that involved a police officer killing an unarmed black person has left society with an empty void every time the defender was determined not guilty. This social…

Political participation are actions carried out by citizens within formal institutions and the legal mechanisms of the political system. Citizen participation is exercised when the citizen carries out public actions that have as their destination the interaction with the State in the sense of influencing…

Black Lives Matter, also known as BLM, is an international activist movement, originating in the African American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. There have been a lot of protests, riots, and fights due to police officers not being convicted…

Protest movements have sprung difficult conversations in order to create social change, and the impact social media has made on these topics has allowed conversations to be talked about in new ways. Since the shooting and killing of Black teenager Trayvon Martin by police officer…

Race is one of the correlates of crime receiving attention in academic studies, government surveys, media coverage, and public concern. Roughly eight-in-ten blacks with at least some college experience (81%) say they’ve experienced racial discrimination, at least from time to time, including 17% who say…

White supremacy suggests many cruel and terrifying things which include inequality, exclusion, injustice, and vigilante violence. The issue of white supremacy and racism seem to explain the theory of Durkheim, Simone De Beauvoir, and W.E.B Dubois. Collective consciousness is a fundamental concept for Durkheim that…

Numerous individuals do not appear to understand the value of the Civil Rights Act and the foundation on how the bill affect their lives. My plan is to provide the importance in how the establishment began. This led to the movement behind the civil rights…

Racial inequality has brought negative change to our people and sent some of the most innocent through prison and death. Our most significant successes will arrive when all types of people can coexist peacefully and effectively, despite color, gender, age, and beliefs. Inequality creates emotional…