Riots, protests, and uprisings, "Welcome to the new America." The writer of this article, Tavis Smiley, tells us the obvious, America is becoming a military nation controlled by the police. In recent news, the protests in Baltimore, Maryland are sparking young people to take action. Smiley states that America is in a catastrophe because of the unjustified killings of Travyon Martin, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray. He says that the visionary and leader Martin Luther King Jr. who advocated that racism, poverty, militarism was eminent then and is still today. Smiley also argues that all of this is about humanity rather than race.
This article is accurate. Through social media and mainstream news, Americans can watch and read what's happening in the United States citizens, in my opinion mainly African Americans. American history can be taken back to slavery where Blacks battled racism, poverty, and militarism. Then in the 1950s and 1960s Blacks fought for Civil Rights to basically be considered humans in the eyes of white supremacists. Now Blacks are still fighting through the American youth's protests. I believe it's outrageous, why should Blacks have to fight to basically be recognized as humans, to have rights, to obtain justice for unjustified deaths in court? From Emmitt Till all the way to Freddie Gray, Blacks' lives have and are not being justified. Lastly, I do believe that this is first about race, then humanity. Throughout history people have always classified Blacks as thugs, savages, etc. The most deaths from police seem to be Blacks. Also some Whites still believe that racism is nonexistent. Why? Because they don't experience it. Whites are the majority and historically are the "supreme race".
In my opinion, America has the potential to become a Panem, the country from the movie and novel, the Hunger Games.
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