Racism Through The Eyes Of a Veteran

Olamide Adegbesote
Dr. Henderson
Core 140 Section 004
26 January 2012
Racism through with(predicate) the eyes of a Veteran
The struggle of African Americans against racism and its limitations is an old-fashioned battle that still exists in our present day society. Although it is off the hook(predicate) to say that significant achievements have been made against it today, it is still perspicuous that racism is very much at work in our society. The effects of racism are no new things to Dr. Frances Henderson, a mother, grand-mother and professor in African-American literature in plaza Tennessee State University and Fisk University. Growing up in the north, in Cincinnati, Ohio in the 60s and later migrating to Nashville, Tennessee in the South in the 80s, she experience the effects of racism at both ends of the spectrum.
Growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio in the 60s and 70s, she was familiar with the Underground Railway System, a body of communication whereby slaves running away from slavery in the South, travel to towns in the North where they were given food and clothing at enlighten stops by sympathetic people. Her hometown, Cincinnati was the first train stop across the Southern border.



However, even though the North was considered a haven from the slavery and racial oppression in the South, thither were still a lot of people in Cincinnati, who still had the old ways of thinking about African-Americans only when never openly showed it.
As such, growing up, she experienced a more covert form of racism which was more savage and insidious than the form of racism occurring in the South principally because it was never shown at the surface level. The type of racism she experienced was more institutionalize and even though her family belonged to the upper nub class of the society, there were still many instances where they experienced institutionalized racism at one point or the other.
No matter how financially comfortable an African- American family was at that time, there were certain parts of town that...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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