Police Brutality In Richard Wright's Black Boy
Black Boy 2017 In the autobiography, “Black Boy” by Richard Wright, describes the life of a poor, hungry young black boy who seeks for a better life. Wright was born after the Civil War but before the civil rights movement. If he were to write an autobiography today in 2017, about a black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about the negative effects of police brutality, how African Americans are still divided in education, and why African American unemployment is twice the rate of whites.
Wright would include the negative effects of police brutality because it has caught the attention of our community this past decade due to the technology we now possess. According to the article “Racial profiling has destroyed public trust in police. Cops or exploiting our weak laws against it” by Ranjana Natarajan, police brutality continues to happen to people based on religion and ethnicity. Our laws are supposed to provide equal treatment to all people under the Constitution of the United States. In another …show more content…
In 2015, the rate for African American employment was 9.5% compared to 4.5% for whites. The article, “Education Gaps Don't Fully Explain Why Black Unemployment Is So High” by Gillian White, provides data over the years on how African American unemployment rates have always been historically higher. For example, in 2011 the percentage of white people who did not attend college was 6.9%, while the percentage of African Americans who did not attend was severely higher at 16.1%. Another article, “Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites” by Drew Desilver, provides more evidence that African American unemployment from 1954-2013 has always been twice as high as white unemployment. Wright would feel with upset with society for letting this happen and not providing the necessary means to decrease the rates of African American
Wright would include the negative effects of police brutality because it has caught the attention of our community this past decade due to the technology we now possess. According to the article “Racial profiling has destroyed public trust in police. Cops or exploiting our weak laws against it” by Ranjana Natarajan, police brutality continues to happen to people based on religion and ethnicity. Our laws are supposed to provide equal treatment to all people under the Constitution of the United States. In another …show more content…
In 2015, the rate for African American employment was 9.5% compared to 4.5% for whites. The article, “Education Gaps Don't Fully Explain Why Black Unemployment Is So High” by Gillian White, provides data over the years on how African American unemployment rates have always been historically higher. For example, in 2011 the percentage of white people who did not attend college was 6.9%, while the percentage of African Americans who did not attend was severely higher at 16.1%. Another article, “Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites” by Drew Desilver, provides more evidence that African American unemployment from 1954-2013 has always been twice as high as white unemployment. Wright would feel with upset with society for letting this happen and not providing the necessary means to decrease the rates of African American