My+reflection

All four walls of my museum focus on America's unwillingness to change. Throughout this year I have noticed that the problems that plagued our country from its inception have continued to persist today. Whether it is police brutality of blacks, class inequality, racism or religious influence on politics, Americans have become immune to the many troubles that continue to exist. This first wall focuses on the continual mistreatment and subordination of blacks by whites, specifically through police force. Many would like to believe that when the civil rights movement died down (it would be foolish to say "ended" considering the still terrible discrepancies between blacks and whites) the use of police force as a means of dehumanizing blacks would end. Despite the numerous warnings artists and philosophers had given us, starting with De Tocqueville and Douglass in in the early 19th and 20th centuries and continuing onto Tupac through his songs produced near the end of the 20th century, some Americans refuse to believe that this type of mistreatment could go on today. However, the brutal beating of a black man by several white officers, caught on tape by a bystander, contradicts this ignorance.

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