African American Ethical Issues

The debate over whether “race matters” is getting more complicated as news and social media put a spotlight on social injustices that are specifically affecting African Americans. Throughout history, race has always been a major factor in determining superiority, in which the framers and founding fathers of this nation created a system to serve and protect the white man. Race is still an issue today as our system of checks and balances go unchecked and unbalanced. These issues are specifically evident for African Americans who are not served fairly and just. How could race not matter when people of different groups live within a system that was designed for a specific group? This is the crux of the problem that many African

African American Studies is a very complex subject. To confuse African American studies with black history is a common occurrence. African American studies is much deeper and more profound than just Black history alone. There are many unanswered and unasked questions among the Black American culture which causes confusion and misunderstanding in modern day society. In unit one there were many themes, concepts, and significant issues in the discipline of Africana studies. Both W.E.B Du Bois and Vivian V. Gordan touched on many concerns.

During this time period, African Americans could not marry white folk, carry weapons, travel places without permits, and had difficulty finding jobs due to segregation (even if they got jobs, the pay was not equal compared to whites (also there was no chance for them getting higher class jobs, only lower class)). The African American children could not even go to the same school as Caucasians. These were the black codes. The 14th amendment ended the black codes, but later on Jim Crow Laws appeared which were similar to black codes. Jim Crow Laws happened later on in the 19th century.

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The situation of the black american during this period was one of change. In the years leading up to the civil war, the southern states were dominated by comically high amount of slaves, with almost 90% of African Americans in the United States being in chains. The abolition movement was growing though, and gaining a large backing. Come 1861, the cries for abolition were deafening, and the South seceded, firing the first shots of the civil war on Ft. Sumter.Lincoln signed the Emancipation Procolamtion in 1863, freeing all slaves except in the border states, to punish the South and cement Slavery as a driving force behind the war. The civil war

“This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the south to,” (martin Luther King JR. Some people should respect colored people a lot more, just because they have colored skin doesn’t mean they should get treated differently. Treat people the way you want to be treated. If you have nothing nice to say then don’t say it at all. All he wanted was colored people to be treated the same as white people. If you could go back and see how African Americans were treated you would want to change stuff. I don’t see why African Americans treat differently because their skin color. Wouldn't you want to be treated the same as everyone else?i know I would wish and pray to be treated like everyone else.

Though social problems affect a wide variety of people from all races, classes, and cultures; minorities, specifically African Americans, encounter social problems on a multi-dimensional basis. Poverty, employment rates, discrimination, and other social problems strike African Americans in such a way that it is nearly impossible to separate them; each individual has different background, socially and physically, that would determine in which order his or her social problems need to be solved. Impoverished blacks in the inner city may have difficulty finding or keeping jobs, while others may have jobs, but face troubles with work discrimination that prevent them from moving upward .Underemployment, workplace inequalities, and unbalanced

Did you know, every 28 hours an African American is killed by a police officer or security guards? If not, have you seen the popular trend #blacklivesmatters on sociable media? This is truly unfair to them because the police officers are not treating them inclination other relations of different breed. Police official do not parley African Americans equally inasmuch as of policies that aim African Americans, increased count of black deaths object by to inhumanity, the number of somber vs. pure apprehend.

Since the 17th century, African Americans have been ridiculed, devalued, and oppressed. To be more exact 1616 is the year that African Americans started to become an enslaved race. Slavery was just the first chapter in the book of African American oppression. Ever since then society has treated the black community, as if they do not belong in America. The Jim Crow laws made it so that black people were excluded from a majority of the rights and resources that were supposed to be available for everybody. Mass incarceration is just a new, but subtler, version of oppressing the African American community. This is all due to our “justice” system. Our culture’s justice system needs to be reformed because, race affects your everyday life, mass incarceration impacts you when you are in and out of prison, and too many people feel that American is a colorblind nation.

Over the years white culture has taken over the world. They still are in control even in the 21st century. Europeans enslaved and taken the lands of people like Africans and Native Americans. Even after Africans were freed from slavery and the Native Americans were given back land, the inequality did not stop. They were separated by the color of their skin in everyday life, from jobs to even public restrooms. It’s in cultural appropriation, police brutality, and in racist societies like the KKK.

Traditional the groups that have been talked about and subjected to these ethics are the white males. Considering these are the main people that have been discussed as the norm all of history the people that have not been included would be the African American community. This community has not been involved because throughout history the African American community has not been seen as humans or even part of the past for an extended period. To bring in the African American community, we can bring in many different ethical decisions and moral understanding because of the history of the community.

Times were tough back then for Bessie and Sadie while living in New York, I can’t believe how they kept themselves up during these times. If it was me I wouldn’t know how to do it, mostly the way people would treat me back then. I loved how they kept to their word and got an education and made it through life and did what they wanted unlike some African Americans back then. It still made me sick how they were treated back then though, no one should ever be treated with disrespected like how they were. Every human deserves respect, no reason why but everyone does. I understand that back then that people were taught different and all but I just don’t understand how they could just do that to someone.

Human history has been plagued by violations of human rights on the premise of superiority and entitlement. From the earliest cases 10,000 years ago between Kenyan hunter gatherer tribes in Nataruk resulting in mass murder to more recent cases involving the Rohingya and Myanmar nationalists edging towards genocide, the continuing difficulty to resolve human rights violations highlights its relevance and importance. Despite the atrocities that have filled human history records, human rights have seen progress in even the most early of civilizations dating back to 539 BC when Cyrus, King of Persia, outlawed slavery and vouchsafed freedom of religion. Granted that human rights progress and restitution has pushed farther ever since, David Frum,

African Americans have overcome many challenges, but they are still fighting to be treated fairly. African Americans were enslaved for hundreds of years, and they were considered property. They provided free labor and worked from sunrise to sunset. African American women that were enslaved often experienced physical and sexual abuse. In addition, they did not have laws that protected them. Most of the laws that were created only protected Caucasians. However, in 1865 African Americans were no longer slaves, because the thirteenth amendment was created. The amendment banned slavery, so people were not legally allowed to be considered property. Although African Americans were no longer slaves, they still experienced discrimination and segregation. African Americans often had to sit in certain areas and attend certain schools, because of the color of their skin. More simply, African Americans were often treated differently based on their race. Furthermore, African Americans today still experience racism and discrimination. People claim to be color blind; however, they judge African Americans on their appearance. For instance, when people label African Americans as criminals or low class because of the way they look. Furthermore, African Americans still experience stereotyping. Overall, African American have overcome may challenges, but they are still fight for equality.

Imagine… going through the street only able to go to certain restaurants, schools, and other places that are around a crowd. Imagine… being whipped and tortured to work in a field all day every day. Imagine… this happening to you, all because you are a little different. Racism has been a real problem in the world for thousands of years. Many people have tried to stop racism, but few have succeeded in bringing a permanent stop. One major act of racism is the topic of African Americans; throughout history African Americans have suffered slavery, torture, and persecution because they were different.