In Stokely Carmicheals Black Power, Carmicheal is speaking at UC Berkley, a college in Oakland, California. In his speech titled Black Power, Carmicheal was speaking to a largely white audience while he is black and talking about black lives matter and black power.  In his speech, Carmichael talks about how white people cause oppression to African Americans and no matter what happens there will always be separation and oppression if society is not recreated entirely.  Carmicheal who worked as the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee and later went on to become the Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party.  Carmicheal talks about in his speech how because of history African Americans have always been oppressed because it started with slavery and because society has never fully changed there is still a lot of racial profiling that make African Americans seem inferior to white people.  Carmicheal also talked about in his speech how African Americans had to make and uphold their own schools in the Southeast to ensure that African American children would get the same education as everyone else.  Stokely Carmicheal talks about oppression and how African Americans need to take charge to change oppression and through several sources showing background information about the South Eastern United States during the time period that Carmicheal is in; Carmicheal’s points are solidified through background information about the time period and setting.

The article “Historical Perspectives on African American Education, Civil Rights, and Black Power” provides many examples on how powerful African Americans stepped up to the plate in a big way to help those around them whenever the African American community needed them most. Elizabeth Todd-Breland is a wonderful example of this by being the first African American women to serve as Superintendent of a large urban school district.  She faced racial segregation and also gender segregation as she was not only female but also African American.  She faced hardships pushing to become the best leader she could be for her community but she didn’t let any of those stop her from becoming the leader that helped blaze a path for other African Americans into leadership positions.  It also talks about how even though white northern teachers were excited about teaching African American students there was still a stigma that African American Students just did not have the same intelligence levels of white students.  The article also talks about how even though the African Americans were in these areas with shambles for houses and lived in the slums they sought out education as a way to put themselves in a better situation to move forward in life and get out of the life they lived now.  Although the African American community was paying high taxes and was receiving low wages they still payed for public institutions for African Americans with their own money because they saw education as their only way out of the life they lived now.  The African American teachers who worked at these schools used their meager pay to buy supplies for the children that the state would not fund, showing that the teachers at these schools wanted to help the children get out of the life they so desperately wanted no part of.  They also made arrangements for the children who could not be in school all school year long because they have to work to help their families or other miscellaneous reasons.  This furthers Carmicheals brief point in his speech about how African Americans were not given equal opportunities in school then white children.  Carmicheal says that it is wrong that for African Americans to be able considered “not as bad as the rest of them” then the African American student or adult would have to go to college to be considered equal status to white people, and Carmicheal says that as soon as white people begin to understand that black people are people too and in no way are inferior to white people.  Carmicheal also talks about how Democracy has never worked and never will work where America is trying to incorporate Democracy, America’s view points on racial profiling exist as well which discriminates all non-whites to make them seem inferior to all white people.  Another piece in the article is about Nannie Helen Burrough she believed in single sex teaching because she wanted little girls and woman to have the same opportunities presented to boys and young men and took pride in helping them in school with their well-trained staff.  Burrough became the principle of the all-female school, the teachers and all staff at the school were all black females. The teachers at the school specialized in making sure each girl who came to the school would have equal opportunity and to be sure they see a wide range of occupations they could have.

In Restoring Order the Rule of Law, Sue Rahr, who is an executive director at the Washington State Police Academy has begun introducing a system called the LEED model, which stands for listen and explain with equity and dignity.  (Sanburn)  This system aims to treat all people who come across police officers will be treated with respect wither they are African American, white, Asian, Hispanic etc etc.  Rahr has been spreading this tactic statewide across Washington and hopes to take it nationally.   Carmicheal talks about how when a white police officer responds to a domestic report in an area that is considered the “hood” it leads to more shootings of African Americans because the officer is scared because he is out of place and does not belong there. Black Power goes further into how poverty is a never ending mountain that African Americans are climbing to get out of, because to get out of poverty African Americans need better schools but cannot get better schools because they are poor and cannot afford the taxes necessary to pay for a better schooling system.  Carmicheal goes into this by talking about how that should not be the way it is and that African Americans should not have to bail themselves out of poverty to be treated like white people in America because even poor white people get treated more like humans than African Americans.

In Stokely Carmicheals, Black Power, Carmicheal uses many different examples of oppression against African Americans and uses these in his speech to UC Berkley to talk to and widen their views on African Americans in the US and how it is not fair the situation they are put into and even though they do not do anything to deserve the treatment they get they still receive awful treatment.  Carmicheal talks about how if the US cannot completely reinvent ourselves as a society to completely forget about when African Americans were used for slavery and considered completely inferior to white people than America could begin moving forward in its very conservative views.  Carmicheal is speaking to a predominately white audience and I think he chose some of these to shock his audience and I believe he chose these with one purpose in mind.  “Black Power” is a very powerful speech that includes many details that may be hard to hear but needed to be heard by the public, Carmicheal makes a scholarly choice to give this speech at University of Cal Berkeley because being in California which is on the West Coast that is much more liberal than the deep south people may not be as ignorant and actually listen to his speech.  
