Overview
Social justice is something we have been working to attain for hundreds of years. In this podcast, I analyze an article written by Liam Stack called "Black lives Matter Protest Leader Live streams the N.Y.P.D. Pounding on His Door: [National Desk]" that I found in the New York Times. Social justice has been a problem for people before we were even established as a country. Since the first enslaved Africans were brought to Virginia in 1619, we have had an issue with social justice. Even prior to that, Europeans during the process of colonization showed a propensity to treat anyone of none Caucasian decent poorly. Fully twelve years later, we find ourselves in a social justice conflict throughout the United States that would rival the civil rights movement in the nineteen sixties, where America saw the rise of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. In addition, to the rise to those most notable characters, America also saw extreme violence during events such as the Watts riots in Los Angeles California. Great progress was made as a result of the tumultuous events of the nineteen sixties. Most Americans would have assumed social justice had normalized after the election of president Obama. Obviously, it has not, so why are more Americans not taking a stand.
Works Cited
Stack, Liam, and Annie Correal. "Black Lives Matter Protest Leader Livestreams the N.Y.P.D. Pounding on His Door: [National Desk]." New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast) ed., Aug 08 2020, ProQuest. Web. Accessed 11 Feb. 2021.