Estarlin De La Rosa English 1121
Prof: Jessica Penner World Count: 480
Unit 2, writing assignment
The United States has been a free country since July 4, 1776. But African Americans say they do not share the same opinion of freedom. Since they have been oppressed by the Americans by feeling superior to them.
According to the book Black Lives Matter by Sue Bradford Edwards, this racial indifference dates back to the 1780s where the United States was already beginning to gain strength as an independent country.
A very sad story that this book tells (Black Lives Matter) that in WWII when the United States needed more men to go to the front on the battlefield they used many African Americans to make way for American soldiers . In the same way, the training for these African American soldiers was not the best since all Americans did not want to join with them even if they were from the same country. I think this was a very big act of racism as African Americans were only helping but were not and were not recognized for their actions.
One of the struggles that Martin Luter King Jr lived through, was that he fought to give equal rights to all African Americans who studied and worked hard to give him equality in every public and private place in the country.
These manifestations of King were due to the racial segregation that was lived in the whole country, basically every street, every seat in parks and trains, every school and hospital were divided between African Americans and Americans. As we have to know that all the best Americans had the privilege of all African Americans in the country. To all this must be added the police abuses against African Americans for committing, according to a crime, violating some of these restrictions imposed by the government to make places of people with dark and white skin.
All of this improved little by little but never completely ended as police abuses continued. Because of that in 2013 after the death of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teenager who was shot while walking to a family friend’s house. This young African American was only moving around peacefully when he was shot several times by the police without first dealing with the young man. This and much more were what marked this movement called Black Lives Matter, where they try to defend defenseless African Americans before police brutality.
In 2020 something historic happened with this movement as millions of Protestants came together to demand equality from American police officers against
African Americans. Nothing more is required, just to be able to walk calmly without being attacked by people who feel superior to others just because of their skin color.
Bibliography
-Black Lives Matter by Sue Bradford Edwards
– Nobel Prize.org (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/biographical/)
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