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Richard Wright's Black Boy Before The Civil Rights Movement

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Richard Wright was born after the Civil War but before the Civil Rights Movement. If Wright were writing an autobiography titled “Black Boy”, today in 2017, about a black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about white people horribly expressing racism against African Americans, the brutality police officers perform on blacks, and the positively protesting movement, Black Lives Matter, which people engage in fighting for the rights of African Americans. During the time period of “Black Boy”, whites were awfully expressing racism towards African Americans. They would discriminate, despise, and violently mistreat them. If Richard Wright would be writing an autobiography about the life of a black boy today in 2017, he would write about whites frightfully expressing racism towards African Americans. One reason Richard would …show more content…

In the article "A Policing Culture Built on Racism in Baltimore” written by The Editorial Board, they claim that community leaders have been for years complaining about police stopping, frisking, and arresting black citizens without justification. White police officers were violently racist towards African Americans which resulted in the situation being very harmful for them. Additionally, a white New York City police officer was pressed with no judicial charges after he death-choked an unarmed black man from Staten Island, named Eric Garner (Holland Cotter 2015). As stated in the article, “Riding Society of Racism”, written by Ann Marie Doley, “There is too little outrage--especially among whites--concerning black deaths at the hands of white police officers”. She claims the conclusion that “the only reason that these killings keep happening is

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