Black Africa Americans
By Shontrel Wilson
Violence Against young black people
-Violence against black people that shook the world was a 14 year old boy named Emmet till and was brutally murdered by white males after a white women claimed her flirted with her in Mississippi.
-The Trayvon Martin was a young 17 year old who was walking home after getting skittles and a Arizona tea for his little brother on a friday day night he was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch person George Zimmerman.
- George Stinney was a 14 year old boy from South Carolina who was falsely accused for raping a year 12 and 9 year old white girl and was the youngest person accused in the United States 20th Century
Facts
-African American comprise only 13% of the U.S population
and 14% of the monthly drug users but are 37% of the people arrested for drug - related offenses in America.
Facts
- 80% of Police & City Officials Resign After A Black Women is Elected Mayor in a small town Missouri town .
Facts
- In 2009 African American are 21% more Likely then whites to receive mandatory minimum sentence and 20% more likely to be sentenced to prison than white drug defendants.
Stereotype
Stereotype against black people all started when Billy Van portrayed black people on his show creating stereotypes and making black people look dumb poor and low class people. Now today just by his show black people are accused of being gang bangers are drug dealers and just all around black people just by the way the News and public see's us.