Misconception Of Black Man Essay

America the land of the free and the home of the brave, but when I live in the everyday inequality and predetermined limits on our minorities, all I see are the chains of the ignorant and the fear of the unfamiliar. All minorities face this, but especially black men, like my father, uncles, and cousins, and even more so if their skin is darker. There is a misconception of the black man that has been instilled since the slavery days. According to Atlanta Black Star, “The propagation of the myth of the predatory Black man has been used to instill fear…to justify their brutality and violence against Black individuals, communities and continents.” (Moore). No more. We are tired of being steadily depicted as something that is an ailment to society, and we have been crying out for a long time and now the majority has acknowledged us again, but this time we want a permanent resolution. These injustices reach back to the days of our people being considered 3/5 of a human
Whether it be the hate crimes for our skin pigmentation or being considered to be a lost cause, we matter. We are not the “super predators,” that Hillary Clinton has dubbed our black men to be, we matter. We have fought alongside our white brothers, while still enduring discrimination, in wars upon wars, and yet we have not been acknowledged until recently, we matter. This fight has been fought since we set foot on this land, now just with a different name. First it was the Nat Turner’s Rebellion slave revolt, then the Civil Rights Movement, and now this. We are tired of having to fight, but we will not stop until America understands and enforces measurements to stop the oppression, the dehumanization, the criminalization, and other injustices, towards the African-Americans, because Black lives matter