Systematic oppression that Black Americans have endured throughout their history in the Untied States

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King, Jr. The past eleven weeks in this course introduced you to the discipline of African American Studies. It allowed you the opportunity to receive a more complete narrative of the experience, history, and knowledge of African Ancestry individuals living in a county that they were forced to inhabit, build its wealth, and then see that country deprive them of the very freedoms and wealth they created. At the same time during the eleven weeks, we continue to witness that same systematic oppression manifest itself as injustice, specifically the killings of (Black) people at the hands of law enforcement (over 850 [total people] in 2017). For your final exam, you are to write a three-page (3) minimum paper reflecting on the course, African American Studies as a discipline, and the current oppression Black Americans face in the United States. In the paper you should reflect on your ideas/stereotypes/expectations of Black Americans before you began taking the course; how those ideas/stereotypes/expectations changed, maintained, enhanced, and/or altered while taking this class; and what you learned about Black Americans, African American Studies as an academic discipline and alternative to Eurocentric education; and propose and analyze what systematic changes you think should occur, if any, to ensure that Black Americans are included fully in participating and profiting from the country and wealth their labor created. It would also suit you well to reflect on your past forum entries, as well as other people taking the course. In your opinion, do you understand the systematic oppression of Black Americans? Do your classmates? Or do you or they maintain the same narratives that have perpetuated our societal expectations of Black Americans? Do you and your classmates view the current state of Black America as a result of personal, individual, and group failings or have you learned enough in the course to understand the systematic oppression that Black Americans have endured throughout their history in the Untied States?