African Americans

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The social group that I chose were the African americans. I chose this social group mostly because I feel like people have so many opinions of it and I didn’t just want to just assume things and I wanted to research and create my own understanding on African Americans. In this essay I am going to be addressing experiences of individuals, communities and perspectives on African Americans.

In the article that  I was reading called “Skateboarding fills gap for young black men in Baltimore” by Baltimore Sun. The experience in living in this particular social group at least in Baltimore seems very harsh especially in the skating world because in the article it said,”the city’s reputation for violence means young men like himself often don’t receive the mentorship they need.” In there community the athletes are overlooked and should be given more attention for their talent.

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The individuals in this collection are very different in many different ways  because first of all the have different cultures and live there everyday life differently. Each of the different individuals have different privileges and and disadvantages when being in there social group. But, in the social group that I picked there are a lot of successful athletes and talented people in general but had to overcome many challenges such as racism  described more in detail in the article” Black Lives Matter.”But there are a lot of communities in the group and they have gone through totally different experiences.

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In this particular group most of the jobs are just labor work and it is hard to get a lot of money in  some communities and it is very hard for most people to understand when they are just given things to them there whole life. I think that people can get a better understanding of challenges that these people may face by researching for example in the article “National Museum of African American History and Culture.”  There are a lot of assumptions on African americans like they live in poverty and the eat little grains of rice off the ground and don’t get me wrong some communities are like that but not all of them and that is what most people don't understand. There are a lot of stereotypes and they are negative most of the time because they are not mostly true.

Basically I gave examples and details on an identity, diversity and justice of an African Americans. I gave links to articles and gave 3 pictures for a visual reference. I hope that people now are not assuming as much and can make their own opinion on African American culture and lifestyle because not everything every says is always true.