In this week's reading, Kristen Green gives us a lot of historical details about the federal governments attempts to force Southern states to integrate and also the white reaction to that integration. How do you react reading these details of protest?
The unveiling of the white brutality towards blacks really portrays the unjust and hateful beliefs of the white supremacists. In Ch. 14, Kristen talks of the event, know as "Bloody Monday," where garbage collectors hosed 50 demonstrators, at an evening vigil. Green also talks of the many ways blacks practiced nonviolent demonstration tactics, such as: sit ins at white businesses, marches with picket signs and posters that said, " I Have Lost Four Years of 'Education.' WHY FIVE?" This shows how blacks just wanted basic rights and fought for those rights in a peaceful way, while whites used abuse and dominance tactics, to control blacks.
ReplyDeleteIn this week's readings a found it a bit difficult to keep up with all these different conflicts that took place between chapters 14-17. With that said I found a few stories shocking and hard to imagine while reading. When I read I like to visualize context at the same time, it was hard for me to do so, knowing that this was the hardship, scrutiny and abuse my past generation faced in the past for me to have this freedom the society to go and do as I please. There was so many protest by blacks so they could be seen equal and earn the right to sit in restaurants and shop freely in stores etc. I loved the fact that when they got a few schools to reopen and desegregate, there was also diversity in the staff and white certified teachers and student teachers left from all different states to help. On the other hand I hatted that a couple black students had to be escorted to school and suffer being spit an thrown garbage on.
ReplyDeleteI believe they abused blacks who was fighting for equal rights because the whites felt blacks was just week and incapable of being well educated. So i guess desegrated the schools they thought would disrupt their education because we are seen as slow.. on page 208, after Kirsten's father began coaching a all black baseball team and his first time being around blacks. She stated "that her dad's prejudice began to fade away, he was realizing that blacks weren't slow thinking as he had been taught." This comes to show that all white children should have been granted the choice to judge blacks based on their own experiences and not what is taught. What your being told or what others assume is not always essentially true.
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