Voices in America

The video I looked at is by Ron Christie, under struggle. The first point that I picked from the text is black struggle. In the video he talks about how everything starts from the family. He also said that 80% of children in the African American Culture is born out of wedlock. On page 40 Cornel West says that there is loss of hope and absent of meaning in the black culture. He also said that black families need to come together and reestablish our black family roots because we have been missing this for generations. The second point I want to used is the black images. People tend to fellow the things that they see. So most likely if a mother had a child out of wedlock, her child might also repeat the same steps as the parents. In the book on page 42 Cornel West said that African Americans are influenced greatly by the images of comfort, convenience, machismo, femininity, violence, and sexual stimulation. SO what most people see, kind of inspire others to do it too. Cornel West also said on page 42 that these seductive images contribute to the predominance of the market-inspired way of life over all others-and thereby edge out nonmarket values-love,care,service to others-handed down by preceding generations. The third point i will use is liberal structuralist because the black community need to step up and form leaders. Cornel West said on page 44 that liberal Structuralist shapes the suffering and the lives of people. These are the people that you can call our freedom fighters, if we had more people that would complain about the things thats going on, maybe people will be more willing to do better and we could correct some of these problems that we face in the black community today.