Why I Hate School: A Look at African American Culture

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The notion of self-hatred present in African American culture is irrefutable, as is the fact that it is misconstrued, and unchallenged. The unparalleled powerful emotion of internalized self-hatred currently plaguing the minds of numerous Blacks is abnormal phenomenon developed over centuries. It is not a nameless occurrence empty of coherent justification. It is the consequence of an intentionally condemned system of suppression and oppression. Society has established a massive approach to preserve the notion of white normality. Everything that deviates from this white normality is looked down on. As the privileged class continues to define normality through mass media, African Americans are unconsciously forced into lives cloaked with self-hatred.

The misconstrued portrayal of Black America in the media magnifies the negative aspects of the culture to the point that it deforms reality. These media outlets operate as sources of psychosocial exploitation. These programs are intended to fracture African Americans’ sense of racial identity, and harmony by depicting the worst images of themselves, while simultaneously persuading them to respect, value, and trust only Whites. It is a concealed arrangement of power that secures the prolongation of white supremacy by ensuring that African Americans continue to be the most culturally debased and most economically oppressed people in America.

Recently, racial controversy arose surrounding a new movie called The Hunger Games. A couple of hours following the debut, racist comments surged through Twitter’s mainstream. The anger and irrationality conveyed in many of these tweets were the genuine sentiments of our next generation’s prospective educators, policy makers, physicians and av...

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