Ethnic Groups and Discrimination

Tanga Morris, I Am African American

Tanga Morris

Axia College of University of Phoenix

Tanga Morris, I Am African American

I am a Black, African-American woman, who resides in the United States of America. I was born here in this country which is why I am considered to be an American, too. I am born from a people who have black racial origins in far away Africa. Black Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States and form the second largest racial group after Whites in the United States. (Wikipedia, 2009). Wikipedia (2009) states “most African Americans are the direct descendants of captive Africans who survived the slavery era within the boundaries of the present United States, although some are—or are descended from—immigrants from Africa.” African people did not migrate to North America to sow their royal oats; we are immigrants who were forced to come to this country against our will in order to be used as hard laborers.

Slavery existed in Europe from Classical times and did not disappear with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Slaves remained common in Europe throughout the early medieval period. Many African societies themselves had forms of slavery, although these differed considerably, both from each other and from the European form.

African American’s face prejudice, segregation, and racism from people all around the world. We even face prejudice right within our own communities. It has been said that African American’s or Black people are low class citizens causing others to have a prejudice against us. The well known story of Brown vs. Board of Education proves that African American’s had to fight segregation just to get a decent education which the dominant race was privy to. But you see it goes back a little further. Africans were also treated in such ways by being used as slaves and “house niggers”. They were forced to provide a life for themselves....