[Blake]

Why DO Afican Americans complain? Why should they complain in the workforce when they make a whopping 60 some cents to every white person’s dollar? Why should they complain when thousands of their ancestors have worked, fought and died for a country that still has yet to recognize that they are not being treated fairly? Why shoud they complain that they have only minor sections in history books when they helped build kingdoms? Why should they complain when they have the shortest month of the year alloted to them to celebrate their elaborate history? Why should they complain that inner-city public schools (where many of their children attend and where many of them are concentrated) don’t give them sufficient funds to supply their children with adequate and equal schooling to white suburbs? Why should they complain about people not wanting to admit that the nation owes them?

They have every right to complain about the injustices that take place on the educational, economic and political levels. They have every right to make as much noise as they need to to get heard by those who run this country. They have the right to make people acknowledge what may never be put into history books. They have every right to feel a little perturbed that although ‘you all’ say that the glass ceiling has been broken for them, the statistics constantly show whites ahead of the game in most aspects of society. They have a right. I have a right. Is it OK for me to have gone through 13 years of public schooling and know more about Anglo history than my own? Why should it be so hard for me to get educated African Americans and their accomplishments?

You think about this. You do some role reversal. The civil rights movement is not over. Not until the black dollar equals the white dollar. Not until people like you recognize that hundreds of years of oppression, neglect, scrutiny, lies, murder, inhumanity, degradation, etc. isn’t made better by affirmative action or a few new laws. Mindsets must be changed – starting with yours.

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Name : Blake, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 19, City : Philadelphia, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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