Death of an African-American Teenage Male With the recent not guilty verdict in on the case of the murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin‚ many people in America are wondering what is going on. Just over a week ago a jury concluded that George Zimmerman was not guilty of the murder of the unarmed African-American teen Trayvon. This has caused quite the controversy once again within this country over the matter of race. Many believe that George Zimmerman racially profiled Trayvon
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The Plight of African-American Males Staheen Murray Empire State College College Writing Lisa Mastrangelo April 20‚ 2011 The issue amongst this group is the dropout rate that has affected this group in epidemic proportions. Due to oppression discrimination and racism the African American in America is still struggling for meritocracy today. With the of lack of education‚ poverty and imprisonment‚ the Black male is now being considered an endangered species. With
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our playing time. She reached up and clicked the power button on the boxed television. I watched the screen from a distance as colors slowly appeared. Eager to find out‚ I scrambled over towards the t.v with a group of friends.There was a African American male well dressed in a black suit and red tie. Thousands of people surrounded him. The man held up his right hand‚
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African American Males and Disparity in the Justice System XXX Cultural Diversity in Professions Within our justice system there is a large disparity between the total number of African American males living within our society and living within our prison walls. African Americans males are often faced with overcoming environmental‚ economic and sociological inequalities while growing up as well as a lack of opportunity. Many of these issues may in fact lead to un-proportional
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Suicide Among African Americans Today I ask myself‚ “What is something that has an effect on African Americans today?” After days of much thought and coming up with nothing I said‚ “Well‚ I’m an African American… What’s something that has been effecting my life?” SUICIDE… Whether it be committed or attempted‚ suicide is something that I see to be a growing issue among the African American culture. I believe this to be brought on by either 1. Depression 2. Fear or 3. Mental Illness Suicide
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Illiteracy Among African Americans Becca White Writing 123 Instructor Sydney Darby 27 May 2008 Illiteracy is a growing issue in America. The U.S. Department of Education funded the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) in 1992 that estimates over 90 million Americans fall well below an eight grade literacy level (Rome‚ 2004‚ pp. 84). Nowhere is this tragedy more prevalent than among the impoverished African Americans. Illiteracy has always been higher among African Americans now the gap
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The Media Portrays African American Males Unfairly Educators and parents are very aware that the images children see in the media leave an impression on them. How African American males are portrayed in the media can affect the way African American boys see themselves. Too often the media covers stories that portray African American males as failures and ignore all the progression of African American males in this country. In the last century black males have gone from slaves to become successful
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sides? Let’s talk about the big thing in America here recently‚ African Americans and cops. When it comes to the media do they try to stir us up more and get us going for one side more than the other? Do they tell the whole story they report or just what gets people’s attention? To those who believe it is all one sides fault‚ let us take a look at the whole situation. I am not one to say there is no disenfranchisement among African Americans‚ but is there as much as there is being stated? In my opinion
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Health Disparities Faced by African Americans and Mexican Americans Christie Rice Nursing 410‚ 6851380 June 9‚ 2013 Abstract Health disparities exist in the United States based on race‚ sex‚ age‚ disabilities‚ socioeconomic status and geographic location. A specific look at race will find many contributing factors. Mexican Americans and African Americans have large gaps of disparities when compared with Caucasians regarding hypertension
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The criminal justice system today is just a redesigned way to limit the freedom of African Americans. Today‚ even though African American men only make up a little over 6% of the population‚ they make up over 40% of the people that are incarcerated. Part of the reason this stat is so disproportional is because of history. Historically African Americans have been oppressed first through slavery‚ and then through the Jim Crow laws and segregation‚ and now through the criminal justice system. The criminal
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