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Explain The Misconceptions Of African Americans
In today’s day and age, I feel there are many misconceptions and stereotypes about black people in general, some that have existed over a hundred years. This is why I chose this topic for my senior project to try and get a better understanding of how and why this all started and is still going on to this very day. There are many issues stereotypes that spawn from the time of slavery (1619-1865).I feel slavery was the beginning of all the struggles blacks would face from the time of of enslavement right until this very day.
Black people or should I say Africans problems all started when we were forced away from our homeland in 1609 and brought to America to be crop mules. Before our enslavement Africa was a place of substance and of rich culture
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