Anti-Black Violence
Anti-Black Violence Anti-black violence is a horrific part of American history. I think it is important to address this issue because violence against African American population is still happening nowadays. I am raising the topic of anti-black violence because in my opinion, this chapter of the history was not finished with the end of slavery as many of us believe, and I have witnessed it myself. Based on my experience and after having read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, I think it’s important to be united as a society against whoever commits or supports violence against African Americans.
Having learned from the history, we all know that the violence against black people had started from the slavery period in 16th century. The Africans got kidnaped, tortured, and treated as non-human beings on their way to be sold as objects to the new masters in the new land of America. Millions of African slaves, who have been treated as animals without any right or any voice, died in the way to the new slavery land because of inhumane conditions in the transferring ships. They had no medical treatment, no food or even place to sleep; placed on overcrowded ships full of slaves (you tube video). African slaves have suffered the violence since then; however, the cruelest violence against black population was from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. African Americans have been lynched, tortured to death, doused with gasoline and set on a fire. In my opinion, the case of Malcolm X’s father, Earl Little, is a very clear example of anti-black violence on the of early 20th century. Malcolm X describes his father’s death in his autobiography, “Negroes in Lansing have always whispered that he was attacked, and then laid across some tracks for a streetcar to run over him. His body was cut almost in half” (Haley and X 10). This description illustrates how cruel and savage the anti-black violence was in America at that times. Malcolm X’s father was
Having learned from the history, we all know that the violence against black people had started from the slavery period in 16th century. The Africans got kidnaped, tortured, and treated as non-human beings on their way to be sold as objects to the new masters in the new land of America. Millions of African slaves, who have been treated as animals without any right or any voice, died in the way to the new slavery land because of inhumane conditions in the transferring ships. They had no medical treatment, no food or even place to sleep; placed on overcrowded ships full of slaves (you tube video). African slaves have suffered the violence since then; however, the cruelest violence against black population was from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. African Americans have been lynched, tortured to death, doused with gasoline and set on a fire. In my opinion, the case of Malcolm X’s father, Earl Little, is a very clear example of anti-black violence on the of early 20th century. Malcolm X describes his father’s death in his autobiography, “Negroes in Lansing have always whispered that he was attacked, and then laid across some tracks for a streetcar to run over him. His body was cut almost in half” (Haley and X 10). This description illustrates how cruel and savage the anti-black violence was in America at that times. Malcolm X’s father was