It is a known but not normally talked about fact that African
Americans endured more then 400 hundreds years of enslavement,
generations of oppression, and continued acts by their
oppressors shortly after emancipation. The slave system of men,
women, and children forced to do their masters’ bidding and
regarded as no more than cheap labor helped to build the America
we cherish today. The cotton boom gave way to a globalized
economy that was built on slave Blacks fought for every civil
right that resulted from Jim Crow, lynching, segregation, and
American apartheid. African Americans were promised 40 acres and
a mule, but the promise was never fulfilled. Black people were
given civil rights, but without economic equality, parity, or
justice. African Americans marched in streets, communities,
college campuses, and towns so that all Americans, including
men, women, gays, lesbians, Asians, Hispanics, and all other
“minorities” could have civil rights and affirmative action
opportunities. However, today, after the