Hello,
Welcome to my blog! My name is Brooke van den Berg and I am enrolled in Mr. Harding's United States History class at Potomac Falls High School. The theme I have chosen to blog about this year is race. I chose this because race difference is a large conflict in the USA currently. We have been recently having a small, but growing, racial war in America concerning the two groups of individuals that are white police men, and African Americans. I chose this article to demonstrate that there is going to be a much larger problem that we can not control if we don't fix the racism conflict. Most African Americans believe that they are treated more poorly than the average white-American. One belief the rebels try to convince themselves of is that there are harsher penalties given to black people for the selling of cocaine because more African Americans sell crack cocaine than powdered cocaine, and the consequences are higher for those selling crack cocaine. This is absurd because the people who pushed for the penalties to rise were of their ethnicity. Charlie Rangel, an African American congressman in the 1980's, supported the thought to make the consequences of selling this drug more severe. I agree with this article because it is explaining that we need to end this race war and be more mature and less irrational when trying to come to a mean of agreement of what needs to be changed to compromise and make everyone a little happier.
I really like your link, I always learn a lot from Thomas Sowell. I'm old enough to remember the hearings you mention, but perhaps African Americans simply changed their mind since then. Do you think maybe there's a generation gap, where Black Lives Matter are pursuing different methods than their predecessors? You don't have to answer that, just wondering. Hopefully, our class will explain why black and white Americans have such different viewpoints.
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