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Personal Narrative: Power
The name of the television show I decided to watch for 30 minutes was “Power”. Power is a drama series about an African American man that lives in a stunning Manhattan penthouse, and the power and success that come with owning a fortune 500 business. He lives a double life of also operation a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential. The five things that stood out to me as being a product of progress since the Civil Rights Movement were as followed. The first thing I noticed was the nice penthouse in Manhattan. In the 60s only about 14% of the population was blacks and about 86% were whites and homeownership for blacks didn’t really exist. The second thing was a white man having sexual intercourse with a black woman. In the 60s
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