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I am part of the subordinate group of African Americans. We are not natives to

this country in fact I am a descendent of African Americans who were brought here by

the way of slavery between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries mainly to the

Caribbean or and Latin America. My family traveled to Northern America, this was in

fact as free people. That is were the classification of the term African American

generated from. I learned of the hardships my people suffered in order for us to be able

to have some of the rights we have now. I learned that in are home country my

ascenders lived and built their own homes, hunted and cooked their own food and this

freely. My people were forcibly taken from their homes, their land stolen from them and

made out to be slaves right down to the children some Africans were branded to show

proof of purchase and all were put up for display like some kind of merchandise to be

sold to work for the white man in cotton fields and plantations. My people experienced

migration, immigration, and emigration but this was done by force and others later down

the line freely, but we also suffered from annexation were Africans cultures, values, and

ethical religious and upbringing was stripped away from them blacks were not allowed

to learn period. The way that they were shipped was unethical, dirty filthy ships were

many slaves died do to the unsanitary conditions on the ships. Once they reached

America families were torn apart do to the auctioning of them in to being sold to slave

owners; men, women, and children it did not matter there age Africans were considered

to be no more than basically a tool and there health, well being, pride, and safety was of

no concern or their GOD given right to live just as whites lived we were and still are( in
(some places and people who still believe we shouldn¶t have right and or freedom

racists) considered as animals and this was done with no regards or feelings for

mothers and fathers who would never see their children and or wives/husbands again.

As time went on African Americans like Martin Luther King helped pave the way for us

to start to gain and be given the rights we have obtained. During my time and Dr.King¶s

time there was segregation and slavery and racism were huge. With segregation were

had separate stores, bathrooms, restaurants from whites to shop in a use, buses we

had to give up are seats to whites and move to the back or stand if there was not any

more seats left on the bus. [Well on December 1, 1955 an African American woman by

the name of Rosa Parks and three other blacks (a member of the National Association

for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP) boarded a bus and were seated up

front were the seating was reserved for whites, well as the bus filled with whites Rosa

Parks and the other blacks were told to give up their seats and move to the back, Rosa

Parks refused to give up her seat and the other blacks complied. Rosa Parks was

arrested for her actions. This helped promote Dr.King¶s movement for equal right for us

colored folks and it launched a 382 day boycott of the Montgomery public transportation

system]. During these times we suffered attacks and violate acts of racism from

segregationists. Eventually the buses lost more money than they gained since the

majority of its paying customers were colored and the United States Supreme Court

passed the law which, redeemed segregation on buses unconstitutional] Buzzle,2000-

2009, 2010). Once the order reached us in Montgomery the boycott was ended and

black returned to the usage of using the bus knowing that we did not have to give up are

seats anymore for us this was a great accomplishment. African Americans suffered from
colonialism, by whites coming to Africa and over ruling them in their own country and

also within the United States of America. We also have and still do suffer and suffered

from extermination slaves were hanged lynched when they disobeyed and still today

blacks are dying at a increasly high rate mostly African American men[ between the

ages of 15-24] Opposing Views, 2008-2010). Expulsion is another way we have

suffered taken from our country by force. We experience fusion by being made to learn

the ways of whites and being taught about their culture and history as a means of being

able to graduate school and govern red by their ways here in America. Overall I hope

that one day we are able to live the dream of becoming equal members of society

without race, segregation and discrimination and viewed as humans people deserve the

right to be treated equally and fairly and that we can do and perform the same jobs as

whites and we are no different than them as far as being human goes we are just

different shades of colors on the outside but we all bleed read and have feelings, hearts,

and all the body organs and functions as any other person does. This is my dream a

time of change to come. Truly being able to live an American dream to free at last free

at last Thank God Almighty we are free at last (Dr. Martin Luther King).
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