Analytical essay – Walking while black: Michael Brown, black men and white police officers
The article “Walking while black: Michael Brown, black men and white police officers” is written by Ishmael Sistrunk and published in the newspaper “The St. Louis American”, August 13, 2014. The theme and focus is about black people’s rights and responsibility for not creating all these prejudices for white people by being violent and making criminality, something about the prejudices and stereotypes of black people and the violence that the police does to the black people, because they have all those prejudices and stereotypes.
The article concerns the tensions between the white policemen and the black American citizens. Sistrunk describes this issue by referring to Americas dark past with slavery og uses this as a starting- point to claim, that it hasn’t changed much since. Although the slavery of black people ended more than 150 years ago, black men are still second- class citizens and are in some situations still treated like slaves and inferiors in the American society. “The tension between police officers and young, black men is nothing new. It’s not isolated to Ferguson or North County or even St. Louis. Though slavery ended nearly 150 years ago, young black men have been treated as second-class citizens by politicians and police ever since”.
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