Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

As every human being knows, African-Americans have brawled to overcome adversity in order to acquire diversity. We have been degraded for thousands of years, through the awfulness of slavery to the 1950 and 1960’s civil rights movements to the riots in the early ‘90’s to the still prominent segregation that exists today. Blacks throughout history have always discovered new ways or fought new battles to help the world realize that we are human beings too; we should not be cast aside like an unknown disease that people fail to learn about and to understand. We celebrate holidays together, we go to church together, and some of the closest families are African-American families. Yet the Black community fails to grasp the idea that constantly is holding us back from becoming the majority in the world: unity. Many black Americans don’t know that black people created many of the inventions that exist today. Many black Americans only know of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. because the white man told us who they who they were and are over and over again. We as blacks have always had adversity, segregation, and prejudice within our own race. Starting with slavery, the slave owners always had a black lackey to watch