Essay with Rough Draft
Mahdi Pournazari

11/11/20

African Americans want to solve this issue with anger and violence and feel like it is their last resort. Numerous times there have been racist white cops walking free from the law after committing injustices. At what point does the African American community say enough is enough and decide to take matters into their own hands? Eddie S. Glaude from Time Magazine says, “Anger and fear make a combustible mixture. More than 140 cities have exploded since Floyd’s death” (Glaude). This just goes to show how angry people all around America are. They are tired of seeing innocent people in their communities being brutally murdered. Furthermore, when the law doesn’t seem to protect civil rights, people decide to take matters into their own hands. So much anger has been built up from years and years of injustices and they have let it out. Congresswoman Maxine Waters says, “all of this anger and despair was exacerbated by the excessive use of force by the police departments, that the justice department has never ever used its power to do anything about excessive force in these cities”(Smith 169). When a congresswoman, a person who works in the government is saying this, it is a sign that there needs to be change. Anger is a very dangerous emotion, and when more and more injustices occur, it will only get worse.