African American Racial Discrimination

Through the time there has been much racial discrimination happening in our society either because of the way someone looks, the way someone talks and even the because of their skin color. In the years 1600’s many African-Americans were being used as slaves in Africa. Men worked as farm laborers they had to harvest the crops and plant them. The women worked in the houses of the slave owners they took care of the children, made food for the family and also worked on farming. However, none of these African-Americans were paid for what they had worked for which made their living conditions very bad. On July 19, 2013, President Barack Obama gave a speech to the world on race. In that speech, Obama gives examples on how race has been affecting
In the president's speech in the fifth paragraph, he states “And so the fact that sometimes that's unacknowledged adds to the frustration. And the fact that a lot of African-American boys are painted with a broad brush and the excuse is given, well, there are these statistics out there that show that African-American boys are more violent -- using that as an excuse to then see sons treated differently causes pain.” (Obama). When the author says “And the fact that a lot of African-American boys are painted with a broad brush” his meaning is that African-American men are painted as the bad people in our society because of their skin color and because of their tragedies in the past, this is why people say that African-Americans are more violent than other men because society has painted the faces of these fellow black men as the ones that will steal from you kill you and hurt you. This is wrong because any men are able to hurt someone and steal from someone but because their skin color is not black they are not pictured as bad people. Also, shows how people are more frightened by black males than by white males because they say they are more “violent”. This makes no sense because any person of any color skin can be as violent as a black male not just because you are not black you are not
In the sixth paragraph of the speech, Obama states “Am I judging people as much as I can, based on not the color of their skin, but the content of their character?” (Obama). In this quote, the president is saying that we should think deep inside of ourselves and think about how we treat people differently because of their skin color. He wants us to really think about how we would act in a situation where you're in an elevator and a black man gets in, would you feel threatened because the person is black and because of the stereotypes that have been given to them. He wants us to really think and tell ourselves if we are not judging them by their skin color but by their personality. The tone is now confrontational because it is showing how the president is treating these situations with an aggressive point of view by telling us to ask ourselves and see if we are not the ones that are judging these Africans-Americans by their skin color but by their personality. If people keep judging people by their skin color this will keep being an issue because the idea of race will keep happening because people are not being judged by their