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    Why Black People Are Poor

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    the Black community are disproportionately affected by the wealth gap due to institutionalized racism in the USA. The continuation of discriminatory policies and lack of understanding creates a cyclic environment where Black people are not able to gain as much economic freedom and prosperity while groups in power blame them for “not working hard enough” or “taking handouts.” It is

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    Throughout history the voice of the black man has been silences and his rights oppressed. There was a time where we as black people were only seen as a number but we have overturned this and continue to flourish in the community and workplace today. We have survived centuries of violence and racism and our resilience and refusal to back down or susseed has brought us to the place we are today. We have fought strongly together for the right to be treated equally and to be given the same opportunities

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    I think black lives matter because they're no different than other races there just a different skin color but they are the in the same in the inside also Cops are shooting them for no reason, white people a bombing their houses,Trump says bad thing about black people, The KKK were killing black people. Some cops are shooting black people for no reason. According to www.huffingtonpost.com a black person was reaching into his car to get his wallet to give the cop and the cop shot him dead.More than

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    White people don’t have any reason to bring down the black people. Because black people bring down their self. From killing, fighting, stealing just any and everything. All the white people do is just sit back and watch the ignorant black people do foolish things. Knowing black people we always have to blame it on somebody though. When you turn on the news all you see is black on black crime, people fighting, brawls and everything else. But then as soon as a white person murders a black person

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    People View Black Transgender People as a Joke Photo Credit: NY Times Elle Hearn is an African-American transgender woman who has devoted the past few years to support and depend black people, especially black men, from the brutality, harassment, and killings, from police violence. Hearn saw a video on social media featuring an interview with Lil Duval, a black comedian on a morning radio show in New York City called The Breakfast Club. The show caters to a viewership of African-Americans. During

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    Should Black People Buy From Their Own Businesses? When African people arrived on the shores of the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean, the world was altered completely. Following slavery, especially in America, money went directly to white people because the jobs were governed by them. Today, the majority of wealthy people are white. As times have changed, Asians, Middle Easterners, and Latinos or Hispanics have become business owners in the U.S., while the people that buy from them are mostly

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    The origins around the view of black people are formed from slavery (Green 1998). The abolishing of slavery only increased stereotypes about black people (Green 1998). The oldest stereotype about black men is Sambo. The Sambo stereotype date back to the colonization of American. Sambo was a “dumb, child-like man who was happy to be slaves, but do to his natural affinity for laziness required his slave master contain direction” (Green 1998). The Sambo stereotype was embraced by mainstream white

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    This year, the American police have already killed more than 500 people. Of those, 25% have been Black, even though Black people make up only 13% of the population. Last week in Louisiana, two White police officers killed a Black man named Alton Sterling while he sold CDs on the street. The very next day in Minnesota, a police officer shot and killed a Black man named Philando Castile in his car during a traffic stop while his girlfriend and her four-year-old daughter watched. Overwhelmingly, the

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    documents show that black people are prevalent to various criminal cases compared to the white people. These claims have been based on allegations that the police force is bias and they suspect every black person by taking them in even on minor offenses. The black community is also faced with the problem of misrepresentation of their cases leading to them filling most of the United States prisons. However, there are substantial pieces of evidence that clearly show that the black people are actively involved

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    in the movie through many of the attitudes and actions that people take towards the other race they live in their day by day. What is more, Mandela constitutes one of the most important figures in South Africa, especially for the black race as he liberated them from the apartheid. From those days Mandela has been recognized worldwide as a major symbol of the rainbow nation; a reality of distinction between the black and the white people and its establishing differe nces. In the movie, it is highly

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