Friday, February 22, 2019
Blackness and The Black Experience
The experience of existence black, like the experience of having any other sputter color, is left entire open to the personal viewpoint of the individual. Still, with the black race, there is a bequest of being forcibly removed from their homeland and enslaved, and this legacy probably affects the vista of e genuinely black person in some way. In the ancient world, an individual with black skin was not considered inferior. The Greeks, for example, did not regard skin color as an impediment to coordination in social order.They instead judged a man based on his integrity, his word, and his ability. What is blackness? What is the black experience? black is defined as the property of being black in color, unless that is a raw definition that has no context in gentlemans gentleman experience. While the ancients seemed to deplete little or no problem with color, the belief of race difference has been a struggle for modern societies everywhere. Scholar W. E. B. Du Bois calls it t he problem of the twentieth century. Du Bois contends that the supposed ugliness exists fundamentally in the psyches of the cutting moulding spectators. What that means to me is that, whatever prejudices may exist in the minds of leaders wherefore translates to the attitudes, and more critically the laws, of everyday citizens.In England color turned into the put in of segregation. In the United States, the institution of slavery was the central argument in a states rights debate that erupted into the bloodiest war of the 19th century. Even after the courtly War, racial segregation, violence, the KKK, and the struggle for equation marred the next one ampere-second days. How black wad perceive their own blackness today, as oppose to 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, is sure to be different. Blackness must have a completely different meaning in 2013.In fact, the very word black is no longer used as often, having been replaced with African-American. The view of blackness must have made drastic leaps for the better when this dry land elected a black president. This is a sharp contrast to the self-image blacks had during the years of slavery (in this country and others, including their own native continent). As the decades pass, one would apply that the legacy of slavery, mistreatment, bigotry, and inequality has waned, and become a historical acknowledgement kinda than an influencing factor in the psyche of modern individual blacks in the world.I believe that this trend will continue. In dealing with the black citizenry I know, I dont hear them talking nearly being mistreated or discriminated against as much as what Ive read about in our countrys history. Black people seemed to be more present in prestigious jobs and government positions. At least in America, black people are being condition more and more opportunity, and society continues to try and fulfill its promise of equality and equal protection. If this continues, I commit that the idea of blackness is one of promise, hope and pride, and not despair.
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