The Separation Of African Americans In Usher's Song Chains

In the song ‘Chains,’ by Usher featuring Nas and Bibi Bourelly say, “You act like the change/ Tryna put me in chains/ Don't act like you saving us/ It's still the same/ Man don't act like I made it up/ You blaming us/Let's keep it one hundred/You gave the name to us/ Nigga/ We still in chains/ We still in chains/We still in chains/ We still in chains/ We still in chains/ We still in chains/ We still in chains/ You put the shame on us.” This song can resonate with Underground (tv series), Roots, and 13th (Thirteenth). This paper will discuss African Americans are still living in a post-slavery even after the law had abolish it. It will show that even when Africans Americans were in slavery, they still fought for their freedom.
Underground (tv
Underground (tv series) shows how African Americans were treated during slavery. It showed the separation in class when it came to light-skin African Americans and dark-skin African Americans. It exposed the brutality African Americans received at the hands of their masters. In the Underground (tv series), Rosalee was a house slave which means she live with the slave owner and his family. Rosalee’s mother Ernestine had children with Tom Macon who was the owner of the slaves. She used her sexual relationship with him to keep her children protect from working in the field. The slaves in the field showed that they did not like Rosalee because she worked in the house and she was pretty. They did by when she walked in the room they would become quiet and walk out and act like she not there. In Roots, it showed Kunta Kinta as man who came from a nurturing home, where Africa was not in a primitive, but with people who know how to write, read, and even making things. Kunta Kinta was smart and wanted to go to college. Africans were not dumb like Europeans had said in their history about them. It showed that many Africans did not sell their people for guns like Europeans tried to blame them for the reason slavery happen. It talks about how some Africans did have slaves, but they could earn their freedom and some even married into those families. Both series showed the resistance that slaves had for slavery. This is same resistance that African Americans having when it comes to police brutality that we are experiencing today. The movie 13th is a functional paradigm. The reason its functional paradigm because it starts with slavery and bring up to present day time of the injustice that we are still receiving. Society has associated African American as criminals especially since the 13th Amendment had set us free. The south had to find another way to help their economy, so using crimes was