Blog 4

“In the Dark and Confusion” is center of attention for my argument.   I would like to talk about the meaning of the Sam in the story as a symbolic of the life of African Americans during the 19^th and how the disproportion among the black people affected their lives. Without a doubt, the author portrays the difficulties and struggles of living in a society where a good number of people were being discriminated because the skin color. It shocked me to see the disproportion and the treatment suffered by the black in the hands of the white people especially in the scene where Sam was shot by a white MP, because he wouldn’t go to the nigger end in the bus. The first thought that came to my mind when I read this part was “are you kidding”. I cannot believe that even fighting for the same cause some people still can feel this kind of hatred and disconnection with other people because of their race or their skin color. As states previously, it is clear that this kind of scene portrays the disproportion of the American treatment toward the black people.

Finally, another scene that I would like to talk is the one when the people were in their way to the hospital to see if the soldier was still alive after the police officer shot him in the back. It was very incredible, how the black people seem to be very frustrated about their situation. It was their way to say “we aren’t going to take this anymore. Also, it is clear that this is the darkness that the author refers in the beginning of the article, because they never expected something like this riot happen within their town against white people.

The purpose of this blog is to reflect about the violence in the 1930^th as a result of the economic crisis in the country.  The video named “life in the thirties” captures the difficulties and struggles of living in a society where a good number of people were afraid and desperate because of the economic crisis of the country during the 30^th.  As a result of that, a huge number of people began to lose their jobs and houses. In addition, the people began to feel hopeless and angry because the government was doing little or nothing to solve the situation. In the same vein, people began to take away their savings accounts in order not to lose their savings. At this point, the people started to react violent and took more of their frustrations toward the government, hoping that the government at least pays some attention to their needs. Instead, the government began to use the military force against them in order to put the people under control. It was a little shocked to me  seen a  scene like that, where most of the people were burning things in order to convey their messages, especially because I believed that things like that, only are from third world countries and no for country like this. In addition,  the government began to use others strategies to keep the people cool such make the alcohol legal, something that caused a good result to them.

"LIfestyle and Street justice"

 The purpose of this blog is to reflect about the violence against black Americans in the earliest 18th and 19th century or at least provide the readers with a good educate guess about why these acts of violence were something of the everyday lifestyle. So, according to classroom learning I believe that the violence against African Americans was even subjective and symbolic violence, because of the significance that those acts portrayed to the white supremacy.  For the white people I believe it was a ways to say to the black people don’t mess with us if you don’t want to find some trouble. In addition, those acts of violence against African American meant at that time, that because of their color, they don’t have the right to belong in the land of the white people. However, if something is true about that is that, it illustrates the inbuilt disproportion in America’s treatment of African American and the way in which this violence becomes internalized and invades the most confidential of the group unit. It was really shocked to me to see  the pictures of  entire communities taking justice on their own hands because alleged crimes against their society without respect of the human life. Also, it is a little contradictory to me their point of view, because allegedly   from what I learned based in the videos and course’s lecture is that white people believed that black people were uncivilized and with lack education. However, this “street justice”   without a decent trial makes me raise the following question; whose were the barbarian black people or white people?

Also, It can be concluded, that despite the fact the violence of the 18^th and 19^th against African American, this kind of behavior by the white supremacy have something to do with the culture learned at time than any other factor. In other words, if people live in an aggressive environment they are more likely to become aggressive too.

urban society

      Nelson Mandela said “when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw” (Mandela).  The 19^th century was a period of time characterized for a social and economic disparity among the Irish immigrants who were in searched of a better life opportunity in the new land. In the same vein, Irish people were looked like something bad for the city because of their lifestyle and because most of the citizens believed that Irish immigration would affect the city’s economic because of their willingness to work any kind of job for less money than the Americans. As a result, many Irish people were considerate as less than the Negros and other people from other countries creating in them a sense of isolation by the society or Fences between them and the new world that was coming by the time. It is clear that this situation made them to bond in order to fight back, have better chances of survival and a better community despite the hostility of the decade. Frustrated for their situation many of the Irish people started to form violent gangs which gave them a new illegal form of make some money within the street.

     Also, in accordance with the learned in class, many of the Irish were against the lottery draft after the initial drawing showed that most of the people named were Irish something that wasn’t seen good at all from their point of view . It has made a social clash between them and the local government leaded for a social revolution that lasted several days.