To say that “Slavery happened a long time ago” is completely wrong, it hasn’t been long at all. African Americans have been free for 152 years now, that’s only 2-3 generations, your great grandfather lived in that era. People fail to see how cruel slavery really was, yes they didn’t have rights, yes they worked against their will, but that’s not even the worst part of it all. Slavery had a huge impact on African Americans physically and mainly mentally, we as a nation destroyed their mental state, forced them to believe that they weren’t human, they were “niggers”, only good for free labor and when you felt like beating someone. It doesn’t end there though, people say slavery ended after the civil war but it didn’t, truth is shortly after the civil war they created . For instance after the civil war African Americans didn’t really have homes or anywhere to go, so they created those laws before they even had the chance to work and …show more content…
In a documentary I watched as well named “13th”, it claims the purpose of the film was to try and subliminally implement the notion in our minds that African Americans are basically lesser than white people and/or should be afraid of them, ultimately tainting the African American image to this day for some. Into the late 1900’s, during the Nixon administration days, the Nixon administration released something they called “The War on Drugs” which its main purpose was to have a mass incarceration of the African American people, by introducing crack/cocaine into the poorer neighborhoods for low prices. The CIA was caught trafficking tons of crack/cocaine and were specifically targeting African American fathers to rip them out of their homes and ruin thousands of lives in the