Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is always somebody different.
The American society focuses on that person, or group of people. They made them feel
worthless and they treated them like animals.
Imagine walking down the street and having people stare at you or call you
names, or talk behind your back. Imagine not knowing the time because nobody will tell
you. Why won’t they tell you the time, or spare you some change? Because your black.
Actually, because your skin is a different color, your because your a different kind of
religion. In a way I admire them because they’ve survived for hundreds of years until
they were free, and now that they’re free, the modern white men harasses them and beats
them. I mean, they even had a world wide organization named for them.
The KKK has been around for awhile. The KKK or the Ku Klux Klan, was
started to get rid of blacks and Jewish people. The author of "A Monument to Racism"
writes in her article that she was in Flowery Branch, Georgia, and in front of Danny
Carver’s house, he’s a KKK leader, was 8 or more signs, and on these signs read: "A
brain is a terrible thing to waste, that’s why niggers don’t have one. (Glamour 110)."
Another sign said "NAACP" or "Niggers, Alligators, Apes, Coons, and Possums. Or
insisting that blacks don’t have brains and that they should be treated like animals.
There’s a figurine in front of the yard that had 4 young black men sitting on it with 2
KKK hooded members by them. To top it off, Carver’s lawn was on the Atlantic
highway, the main way through the capital. I strongly agree with Valerie Joseph when
she says that she "wanted to believe that people actually cared, she wanted to believe that
there were lawyers, activists, parents, church groups of all races that were bombarding
this man with phone calls and letters. She hoped that maybe teenagers ...