How has America changed since the time of the Civil Rights Movement?
Since the Civil Rights Movement the Jim Crow laws and all the legal laws against segregation have officially ended. Blacks are now "free" but racism is still very common in the American lives.
What are American values?
Freedom, well being of others and ourselves.
What makes us good guys?
I have no answer for this question. America tries to change the world but when it comes to their own country, the bad things are the same, like racism, gun violence. Nothing has changed and we're in the 21st century.
Why should people look up to Americans?
In my opinion we shouldn't look up to America, because it goes against its base principals. Freedom, equality... there is no equality, no true equality.
What are the effects of racial discrimination on the body, mind, and spirit of the people who experience it?
It makes people that are victims of discrimination sad, hurt, emotionally terrible. The body becomes weak, they shake their heads, sit in corners thinking they’re not enough, asking themselves why them.
On the other hand, people who are discriminating, turn evil, their souls turn dark and cruel. They think they are better and aren’t afraid to show it.
According to the experiment of Mrs. Elliott, It took the kids from a minimum of 5 minutes to a max of 15 minutes, to play the racist in full body language and cruel mind set.
Can separate races be equal races? How could anyone say that separating the races was right?
Separated races cannot be equal, cause being separated means you can’t be like everyone else so therefore you are not equal.
When dealing with hate groups do you ignore them hoping they'll go away OR will they only come back stronger?
I have contrasting opinions to this question.
Lets take siblings for example, your older brother is picking on you, if you ignore him he’ll eventually stop and if you don’t he’ll keep going.
But in this case not doing anything to stop it, it might get worse and stronger and just grow and at that point it’d be too hard to take down.
Therefore i think people should fight back but in a peaceful way no matter what the circumstances are.
How did the Black Panthers view their work and what did they endure and sacrifice for their work?
OAKLAND - For many Americans, the name “Black Panthers” brings to mind young, black men in berets and black leather coats carrying rifles.
Fifty years after the group was founded, the Panthers remain a flashpoint in the struggle for black equality in the USA. While it’s true that the party failed to live up to its ideals during its more than 10 years of activism, it’s equally true that its efforts led to greater equity and strength in the black community.
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland in 1966. It was founded to monitor police violence in black communities, a seemingly intractable issue that Black Lives Matter and other groups continue to organize around today.
What the Panthers actually stood for, as well as the group’s many projects and its eventual slide into violence.
The black panthers wanted to help black Americans get things that whites had.
The Government, especially the FBI, did not like that and wanted to shut it down. They started police violence, killing and arresting black panther party members.
"You can jail the revolutionaries, but you can't jail the revolution"
In what ways was the Chicano Rights Movement (El Movimiento) similar to the Civil Rights Movement for African Americans?
One of the things they had in common, is their political rights like the right to vote, both african americans and chicanos had to take a literacy test.
African americans were segregated in the deep south of America, Mexican americans were segregated in the concord old mexican areas (New Mexico,Texas).
Also, labor was based on hard working, low paid mexican workers, who like the the black population before the civil rights movement, could not own a business.
African americans were intimidated and killed and hurt from the KKK and other white supremacists, where the mexican americans, were hurt and pursued from the Texas rangers.
Trying to be in politics shows the common interest of human rights for both moments
These two cultures worked together through the entire Civil Rights Movement waiting for change.
HEALTH CARE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
For blacks, health inequalities are the cumulative result of both past and current discrimination throughout U.S. culture. Due to discrimination and limited educational opportunities, blacks disproportionately work in low-pay, high-health-risk occupations. Historic and present racism in land and planning policy also plays a critical role in minority health status. Even controlling for income, blacks are much more likely to have toxic materials sited in their communities than whites. For example, over concentration of alcohol and tobacco outlets and the legal and illegal dumping of pollutants pose serious health risks to minorities. Another significant factor affecting many blacks is the lack of grocery stores with fresh foods but the ready availability of fast foods with high salt and fat content. Exposure to these risks is not a matter of individual control or even individual choice. Health status disparities are a direct result of policies, practices, procedures, and laws institutional discrimination that protect white privilege at the expense of black health.
Black Americans are sicker than white Americans, and they are dying at a significantly higher rate. These are undisputed facts. Black men live on average six years less than white men.
Black men have shorter life spans than men in South America. Black women live on average four years less than white women. Black women have shorter life spans than women in South America as well. Infant mortality rates are two times higher for blacks. Some racist has commented that African Americans should be grateful for being in the United States; yet black Americans have more low birth weight infants than women in Africa.
Jim Crow laws were laws that occurred only in the South.
They were laws that enforced black segregation in a really harsh way, most of the common laws were like, black and whites had to be seperated, blacks couldn’t eat in restaurants with whites.
This picture i choose, is a sign of what is not allowed to enter and the sad part of the image that kinda caught my eye, was that they put blacks and mexicans with dogs, like if people and dogs were at the same level.
I get that while you eat or shop or whatever you are doing, you might not want a dog barking, begging or slobbering, so that makes sense, but when it comes to people it’s a totally different thing.
People are people no matter what their skin color is or what their culture is, the Jim Crow laws brought hate and cruelty towards simple normal better people that have done nothing wrong; they were victims of violence, death, embarrassment and humiliation for many many years. And slowly this racism problem is going away.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
who was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962