Double Racism in The Black Community

When the slave trade first began as we know it, slaves came from Africa. They were taken from their land, lifestyles, and families to perform hard labor for a culture and society they knew nothing about. Being raised in the United States you often only hear about the slave trade here and how it was “presumably” ended with the civil war.

What you don’t hear about is how slaves were also shipped to Jamaica, Haiti and the Virgin Islands. You don’t learn about how’s these islands had to fight for their Independence as well. Now in 2009 the Black Community is still fighting a different form of racism.

For one, racism between blacks and whites still very much exists. But what about the racism between blacks? Black by society definition is anyone with dark color skin. However, many blacks are fighting within themselves over their true identity. You have black people from Haiti, Africa, Jamaica, and America. Yet many Americans, especially children, feel if your not a black American than your not truly black at all.

The fight on racism is not over, it simply shifted from area to another. There is no reason why black people who originated from the same place are now fighting over a name given to us by a society that beat and segregated us to begin with. Who do we appreciate is we scream F the white man all d then fight our black counterparts because they are from a different part of the world? When is the education system going to stop giving a biased version of world history and began teaching it as it should be known? Being black, whether from American, and island or Africa, should be rejoiced. We come from a long line of people that learned to fight and persevere. We should not be fighting each other. Instead we should be banding together in the war on poverty so that we may all succeed.

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