Examples Of Victimization Of African Americans

Victimization is a part of survival rather than an existential strategy that is practiced by the people who want to have an upper hand. In the society of a country that is constituted of heterogeneous population, victimization seems to be an integral feature of the dominant society and the dominant culture. This is much true with the African American society which suffered victimization in the hands of the European (native) Americans. There was victimization not only of the blacks by the whites, but also the victimization of the blacks by the blacks themselves.
Deprived of their history, their language, their education, their family structure, their access to capital, even their gods, African Americans post-slavery were strangers both to themselves