A few months ago a picture begun circulating around Facebook: it was a picture of an African American women breastfeeding her child wearing her graduation cap and gown. While many including myself found the picture to be extremely beautiful many started attacking this women using racist slurs. The woman was eventually forced to take …show more content…
Martinez gives the example of police brutality against African Americans that is described as a few bad officers. Recently in the news there have been many cases of African American teenagers being murdered by police, when they posed no threat what’s so ever. Instead of taking a closer look and seeing why are so many police officers reacting in such a manor against African Americans, and holding individuals accountable for their actions in order to send a message that this type of behavior will not be tolerated, we tend to brush it of to the side and try and justify this type of