Did African Americans Face Colonization

Ethnic Groups and Discrimination: African Americans
 

Although, forced against their will the Africans were one of the earliest immigrants of North America. “They were forcibly taken from their homelands on large slave ships by European Americans across the Atlantic” (Thomson Gale, 2005-2006). African American culture for many years has developed separately from the mainstream American culture; slavery and racial discrimination are two of the main reasons why (©Wikipedia.org, 2010). African Americans has faced and suffered through a large amount of prejudice. The prejudices started from day one when we were forced into slavery. People has always looked at us differently and said things about us that really do not describe all African Americans. For many years, African Americans have been degraded. African Americans have also faced many years of racism from the schools to riding public transportation. We never got the same equal opportunity as white Americans. For example, when we would ride the bus we would be forced to give up our seats to a white person and move to the back of the bus. The entire south was fluttered with a combination of segregation, racism, and prejudice. All southern schools, concerts, restrooms, water fountains and a host of other things were segregated. Segregation was a very big problem in the south, which causes African Americans to migrate once again, but instead of leaving the U.S, they migrated too many of the northern states. All of this came about around some time after the civil war. African Americans have suffered a form of discrimination called, “redlining.” “Redlining is the practice of denying, or increasing cost of services such as banking, insurance, access to jobs,   access to health care, or even supermarkets, to residents in certain, often racially determined,   areas” (©Wikipedia.org, 2010). The redlining began with the National Housing Act of 1934, which this also established the Federal Housing Authority (©...