Many say ignorance is bliss, however the bliss is a one-sided relationship. In a world where people often are ignorant to a whole community of people, there is a consequence that comes upon them, and that is a revolt. In the U.S. ignorance to the need for power in black community is obvious, one must be extremely incredulous to be insensible to it. Black Nationalism and the Black Power Movement were ideologies, riots, and boycotts to free the black man from the oppression he had been forced to face by the White man. Black Nationalism was an idea to push the black man to hold a pride that he has a righteous position equal to that of white man. The Black Power movement on the other hand was taken place in the early 1960’s that advocated for the …show more content…
There had been more and more educated black people becoming aware of the unfairness that was happening between races in the U.S. With this perhaps some of the biggest influences of that generation had come; Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X. Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr., Other big influences. : As Josh E. Peniel writes, “Black Power fundamentally altered struggles for racial justice through an uncompromising quest for social, political, and cultural transformation.”(4). The ultimate goal by the Black community was undoubtedly to sought out equality that they had long deserved. This was shown in big protests, riots and marching that had would continue to occur in the 1960’s when the movement had really begun to peak. The biggest political current would have considerably been Malcom X, a black man who had grew up in Omaha Nebraska, and would continue to hop around from Harlem to the cities of his brothers and sister. He would later go to jail and begin to read all about the discrimination that has been geared towards the black man. A lot of Malcom X’s idea’s had been about fighting more for Black Nationalism. And his “efforts [were] to secure political self-determination, cultural and racial self-definition, and social and political justice in the United