The Young Man Of A Slave, Jarvius Cotton - 1230 Words

The young man of a slave, Jarvius Cotton, experienced the harsh treatment of consequences that resulted in the prevention of voting, but more than a debar in society’s participation, the lack of opportunity to capture the full force of freedom that has the capacity to obliterate the force of captivity in a broken system that declares itself â€Å"just† has enforced him to abide by such laws instead. Cotton’s story further depicts the old saying, â€Å"The more things change, the more they remain the same†. (Alexander) In new generations, new tactics have been used for achieving the same goals in order to improve the standards we mark to meet in the world, specifically in today’s state of society. African American’s have undergone†¦show more content†¦(Alexander) In the pre civil rights movement African Americans suffered a variety of ordained or legislative setbacks and disadvantages such as racial segregation throughout the education system, equal or rather unequal opportunity in employment, access to public facilities, housing, voting rights, and freedom from racial discrimination, which would become future impediments. It was as if they were in a constant mode towards the subjection and oppression of a cylinder filled with the degradation of invasive structures deliberately aimed at and employed to maintain the status quo of setting them up to fail rather than succeed. Furthermore, to paint an even bleaker picture for the baseline economic status of African American families living in the U.S., the net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race. Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks. The black-white income gap is roughly 40 percent greater today than it was in 1967. In the New York Times’s article, When Whites Just Don’t Get It: After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less, Nicholas Kristof writes about race