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The Mindset of Black America

I want to tell you about my people. We are a race contrived of survivors. We are powerful and enigmatic. We are black Americans. It is high time that our country receive a new perspective on closing the gap between black and white America. This deep rooted concept of inequality has caused damage to the thought processes we have. The disabling mindset of black America has caused me to assume that we are not considered equal to our counterparts.

The history of oppression in black America displays a telling story of how Africans were brought to America and were forced to adapt to a new environment to survive. Many of these aged processes of thinking have been passed down throughout the generations, thus creating a detrimental mentality in the black community. There is no way to assess the damage that may have been created by past abuse, but I suspect that this mentality has assisted pessimistically toward the future of black Americans. Now, it is no longer acceptable for survival as it was in the past. As a result, it does more harm than good.
What happens when distraction is too great and outweighs the positive aspects of our society? To me, the problem is that there are too few African-Americans who stand up against the filth that is continuously played on our radios. It infiltrates the mindset of our youth, which can cause them to become violent and deterred, especially when it comes to respect for women. Women feel a need to dress risqu and inadequate, thus attracting the wrong type of attention. The men stay fixed on 3 prominent topics that show themselves more and more in the lyrics that some indecent artists put out there. These are sex, money and drugs. It's an abashment.
The media's portrayal of black Americans causes dissention in the black community as well. We don't see ourselves as doctors and lawyers, but as basketball players and rappers. The media portrays African-Americans more as entertainers instead of showing us achievers in our occupations. It's common knowledge that a person imitates what they receive from the media. This creates an ideology that interferes with the furtherance of blacks' careers in a broader range of jobs.
Professors Maria Krysan and Howard Schuman comment on the socioeconomic disadvantage with four capabilities of origination. "Respondents are offered four possibilities: discrimination, less ability, lack of motivation and no chance for education." To say that discrimination is

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