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A Savage Legacy: Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Racism Today The video, A Savage Legacy: Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Racism Today, explains the concepts of discrimination, prejudice, stereotypes, cultural relativism, egocentrism, ethnocentrism. The video provides clips of the history of slavery among blacks and relates it to the racism of today. Even though there is only five genes that determines skin color, skin color continues to affect someone’s destiny. In this program, it centers on a pattern of segregation and genocide evident in King Leopold’s Belgian Congo rampages, the terrorism of Jim Crow, South Africa apartheid rule, and less recognizable examples that persist in today’s global community. Slavery caused Blacks to suffer, and allowed …show more content…

They mocked them as monkeys and simple minded figures of fun. I think this is why a lot of African Americans today are so musically inclined and so full of talent. Blacks today are so talented and have a unique way of showing it. There is a lot of teenagers that do not like education and would rather become famous than go to school. Blacks still attain less education than Whites. Some researchers suggest that there are some young Black males that are not always successful in school, because they don’t want to be seen as acting white. These young males tend to drop out of high school and turn to illegal activities. The mentally that they feel that speaking proper English is associated to White culture. I feel that this is a negative impact from slavery because Blacks talked differently. Blacks talked differently because they were less educated. I don’t think talking proper English is a form of acting white, it’s a form of education. This could be another form of a generational curse placed on uneducated families. I could imagine if one’s grandparents and parents are uneducated, and they don’t know proper English, how will they teach their children proper English? Their children could learn proper English in school but when they come home they could be looked down as acting white. I can personally relate to this situation. I have meet some uneducated people and because I talk proper English they want to make comments. They can say things like, “Oh you think you better than somebody, talking white”. Its mind blowing that racism and discrimination fail to go

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