Race & Ethnicity/Selma/Police Shootings

Race and Ethncity will always be an issue that causes a lot of conflict, discrimination, and cuse for tension inour society because we are conditioned to be segregated. The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population.The census officially recognizes six ethnic and racial categories: White American, Native American and Alaska Native, Asian American, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and people of two or more races; a race called "Some other race" is also used in the census and other surveys, but is not official. The United States Census Bureau also classifies Americans as "Hispanic or Latino" and "Not Hispanic or Latino", which identifies Hispanic and Latino Americans as a racially diverse ethnicity that composes the largest minority group in the nation.




Ethnicity is a  shared cultural heritage, and race is a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important. Even though our traits of our different skin tones are determined by the different demographic regions that our anestors derived form, and  we are all human beings and a product of migration,  and members of a single biological species.

If we are developed in the same manner, why is the color of our skin, such an issue?  It all goes back to race being a matter of social definitions and how the true story of America becoming our land.  When the land was "conquered" by Christopher Columbus, as we were taught in school, geometrically the land was "taken" from Native Americans,  they were slayed and their homes were destroyed, and were forced out of their reserves, makes so much more sense. African Americans being sold and traded as a piece of property rather than treated the same as a human being, here is the true American History.
The way our nation was founded lead to the issues racial issues on the movie Selma, a 2014 historical drama film  based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel,^[3][4] Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis. In the film there were several racial and ethnic tensions that still exist in our society today like discrimination and racial profiling. Our society is conditioned to still  stereotype African Americans on appearance, beliefs, values, and job opportunities. Thank God we have overcome the right to be able to vote, but it  took  several protests, several, lives, and lots of abuse both physically and emotionally.



Police brutality today close resembles the brutality in Selma to me. Its like deja vu.

This image is in San Francisco in 2013.



Eric Garner, an unarmed father of six who was not resisting arrest, begged for his life and said over and over again that he couldn't breathe as he was choked to death. This is the last time Eric Garner was seen alive. As we can see in this photo, his hands are visible,all the way to the ground. To make your own opinion about the incident  you can watch the video. The officers were not charged with murder in this case.