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In our society there are stereotypes placed on every ethnic group in our nation. Some of these stereotypes are positive but most of them are negative. "Stereotypes are not an error of perception but rather a form of social control intended as prisons of image." (Walker, 4) I believe this is true. The stereotypes that the society puts on groups of people gets into the people's minds and they either resent them or live up to them. The stereotype that society places on black men has always been a negative one.
In our society today, black men are depicted as thugged out, uneducated, marijuana smoking men. They have acrimonious attitudes, only speak in "black" dialect known as Ebonics and are hell-bent on putting "Whitey" in his place. To accompany his other attributes he deems it necessary to legitimize his status as truly black. This puts him in the same category as all the other prison-bound, shiftless, misogynistic black men that he feels he can identify with. To these men, women......

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