By Nadirah
Winter/Spring 2020
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom (Malcom x).”
Over the course of my life I have heard people say, “well racism now is not as bad as it was during the Jim Crow era…times have changed”, so much that I almost started to believe these statements but as I have grown up to see what’s happening today, I do not think this statement is completely valid. I do believe, however, that things have changed; but for the better? No, not exactly. Even though social media is super big right and a lot of people’s main source of media, a lot of police brutality and racist acts have gone unnoticed when cameras are not turned on. So even though racist behaviors might seem as everything has changed for the better and has become less throughout the years. I do not believe that is true because just because we do not see a lot of racism as out in the open as the Jim Crow era but it is still very prevalent today…
