Why is it that every time someone wants to bring peace or a movement to our world, something always has to interfere and voices are not heard? If they are heard, they usually are not respected and most people lose there lives for saying something that could make a change to our world. As reading through the articles posted for the week of 10/10-10-10/14 the women that speak on there behalf about slavery (anti slavery society), activist, the civil rights movement, and lynching is mentioned.
Our American ethnic history goes through changes and transformations within time. How were peoples identities shaped by the events that took place in there life. Lets look at a few abolitionist and the anti- slavery society. The first article is about Angelina Grimke, she and her sister were in the stage of disliking slavery and wrote letters and had cases for ending slavery. Due to the letters that they wrote, officials in South Carolina had burned them. They were threatened and said if they ever returned home they would be arrested. I got out of the reading that slavery is a sinful act. The both sisters were sticking up to there voices and wanted officials to hear them. I enjoyed reading the appeals from the women. They use some strong and religious terms when trying to prove there points.
Second article was about an abolitionist by the name of Ida B. Wells. She came from a educated family at the time, her family were political activist. Her parents died, when her and her siblings were young, therefore she had raised her siblings by becoming a teacher to support and bring some money and food to the table. Reminds me of Hung who I had interviewed, he also took care of his siblings because he was to oldest and had to bring the food to the table to support them. She brought letters stating how blacks were treated at the time along with the many crucial events most experiences. Talking about white men and lynchings and what the one color meant to the other.
In the situation of Ida, she sat where ever she wanted in the train when riding. She was experienced with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad because they forbade her from siting int he ladies coach. This is when she sued the company, and began writing about her experiences. She brought awareness of fighting against racism and sexist in America and brought it in a legacy of her courage and pride.
The short articles about lynching brought a sense of scarce to me. I am familiar with the term because in high school I had gone on the Sojourn to the Past trip with fellow class mates. We visitied the East coast most of the areas where the slavery, civil rights movements took place, and the destinations of some of the influential people were killed. Lynching existed during slavery period and in some parts of the country today. The article regarding
Activists demand hate crime probe into Black man’s horrific dragging death brought horrific scenes to my eyes I can only imagine what the man had gone through. If he was tied to a truck and dragged until his body parts were removed can only bring horrific scenes to your mind. This had happened in Paris, Texas to a young 24 year old, black man. Who knew lynching would still be popular today. They call it the "Jasper-style" lynching. The interview was conducted from the mom of the young man that was killed. Shows racism also exists in many parts of our world today and people can go under and circumstances to be hateful and brutal to individuals. Most of the people that commit these crimes are your own friends. How does that make sense?
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