Factors explained from lynchings jrc

  In  the book"A Red Record by Ida B.Wells"  she uses and explains many factors that were created out of the lynchings of 1892-1894. One of those factors were "bear his burden" (Royster 78) which defined the oppression of African-Americans. Another keyword phrase that was mentioned was "Negro domination" (Royster 77) which  is the fear that white southerners had of a black person actually developing in a white ran society. In other words they feared African American dominance. Lastly there was a key word that Ida. B Wells explained which really ties of all these together and that was "Anarchy" (Royster 78) which is an absence of government, lawlessness and disorganization within a society. All of these became factors of the act of lynching towards African-Americans.

Blog assignment 3 The superior race jrc

              During the 1800's lynching was practiced by poor and rich white southerners It was a brutal execution of hanging blacks from a tree that followed a programme,the act of shooting bullets into the already dead bodies of African-Americans. It was a shocking revalation to white southerners to witness African -American growth in society. Who were once known as black "brutes" had now assembled organizations such as the Freedoms Bureau that established educational facilities and ways for black people to acquire their own land. This of course was unacceptable to white southerners because it meant they were losing power and control over black people. It tarnished their theory of "white honor". In this blog post i will use text from "Southern Horrors"edited by Jacqueline  Royster to discuss how white southerners went about gaining back their status as superior  over African-Americans.In the book "Southern Horrors" edited by Jacqueline Royster the reader will be introduced to Ida B.Wells , An African-American journalist and newspaper editor.
                    Ida B.Wells was also a woman that spoke out against lynching and racism among blacks and women. The  biggest lie white southerners used as a reason for lynching black people was that it was justice being served to their white women. Black men being the main target of this because they were accused of raping the white women. The allegations were very false because white women were particularly very fond of black men as well as being secretly involved with them. Ida B.Wells spoke on this in many of her editorials, giving different cases of this activity. One of those cases that she mentioned came from the "Cleveland Gazzette" in 1892 where the wife of a  white minister in Ohio accused a black man of rape. Mrs. Wells quotes the young lady when she says " He visited me several times. I did not care after the first time and had no desire to resist." (Royster pg.54). The woman confesses this to her husband in court along with the fact that her and the black man were intimate which sparked a marriage. White women knew that accusing a black man of rape would clear them of interracial infidelity, the act of a white person secretly being intimate with a black person behind their spouses back and then marrying them. According to the southern whites the key to gaining back power as the superior race is to humiliate ,degrade and inflict violent acts towards the black community. Accusing them of rape would serve as degradation. I feel that black men should have been more smart back in the 1900's because they knew that conversing with a white woman came with consequences.  I don't understand why black men would put themselves in a situation where the attention would be on them, giving the white southerners another opportunity to target african americans.

Writing workshop for assignment 2 paper jrc

 

           Arsenio Jordan

                            
                                    Before the civil war began slavery and white supremacy violence hindered any chance of African-American development. However after the civil war ended we find that slavery has now demolished and African-American labor takes its place. Black people were no longer considered slaves but rather as pension earners. They now had the option to leave a lifestyle of captivity and violence and start a new life or continue to work on the fields and receive minimum wage. Although most of the black people shunned the idea of leaving behind an enslaved lifestyle that offered free food and shelter. The trend of these former slaves now working for money was part of the blueprints for building African-American development. Unfortunately white supremacy violence still lingered long after the civil war and groups such as the Klu Klux Klan still terrorized black people. However white supremacy violence could no longer be used in a sense of ownership towards a black person but rather a form of terrorism. This served as a controlling mechanism to slow and eventually end any form of development in the negro society.  This sparked the fall of the reconstruction era.  To elaborate more on this I will first use text from “When I Was A Slave Edited by Norman Yetman” and then I will go into “Southern Horrors Edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster”.

                In the book “When I Was A Slave Edited by Norman Yetman”  the reader will encounter actual recorded memoirs of former slaves being interviewed about their previous life in captivity. Many of them shared their heartache of horrendous torture. However they also explained a self-sustainable beneficial lifestyle that would impact the decisions they made later. Former slave Mary Anderson was one of the many that were interviewed about life as a slave. At the age of 86 when interviewed she mentions the benefits of having good food and homemade clothing. This is definitely a factor of living in a self-sustainable work culture. The slaves made their own clothes so they never needed money to buy any. They also knew how to grow crops and cook their own food.

                                 This was all part of the work they had to do for their slave masters.  Then she describes everyday life on the plantation as not being so bad when she quotes “Slaves received good treatment from Marster and all of his family”(Yetman pg.2). Finally she goes in to explain how things changed suddenly after the civil war broke out and the Yankees freeing the slaves. The aftermath of that would be when she quotes ”Some were so glad to get back they cried, 'cause fare had been mighty bad part of the time they were rambling around and they were hungry” (Yetman pg.4). Mary basically states that after the civil war ended the slaves were free to go. Although money and food was hard to come by as well as shelter. This eventually made them come back to the plantation. This clearly represents the transition from slavery to labor work. It was the failure of trying to live in the outside world without the resources given that led slaves back to the field where they could get them back. Not to mention get paid for their work also.  

       

Brainstorming for published book

My plan is to establish a poem that explains how human rights connects to language. Poetry itself is a form of language and can be expressed through creative patterns of words. What i hope to do is construct a poem that clearly explains the relationship between  human rights and language using a made up story or an interpretation of an article that i have read. Since im heavily influenced by music and language is definitely apart of it. My poem will most likely be along the lines of freedom of speech or expression.

ROUGH DRAFT

We as young artists and the pictures we paint

Question if we have rights then why are there constraints?

The brushes that we stroke to create images of life

will mirror our words for wheres the freedom in rights?

Thats CRAZY!! (NEOLOGISM) prof.jerskey

We normally hear the word "crazy" defined as someone who is mentally unstable. While this is still the same meaning today in modern society; we began to see the term "crazy" transform into yet another meaning. In the hip-hop culture there are words taken from every day language and used as a way to describe something good. For instance when i hear a rap song on the radio that i tend to like i normally say " yo that's crazy, i like that". To others it may seem very unclear but keep this in mind. Einstein was considered to many people as a brilliant man. a person who is so advanced in his brain skills that he is no longer considered part of the "normal" population. In fact many people link his intelligence to insanity. Here  inteligence was considered crazy in a negative way. However now in terms of good music or the latest fashion the word "crazy" takes on another form , more specifically in one word, cool.

Law and human rights topic proposal

Arsenio Jordan                                                                           10/1/2011

I decided to choose freedom of expression as a topic choice for my research paper. I have always felt that we as human beings have been deprived of our right to express ourselves verbally and artistically. In my paper I will discuss an example of freedom of expression being denied. One coming from a news article explaining a political cartoon of Rio's City Manager Hector De La Rosa being pulled down from a building by the city at his request. The political cartoon displayed Hector De La Rosa as the “pied piper” who is then followed by Mayor Jan Vick and council members Constance Boulware and Jack Krebs who were depicted as rats. Apparently the cartoon had been up on a seinor citizen building for a long time and the people were enjoying it. Council women Janith Norman, serves on the senior center's governing board and she spoke to Rio's law firm about the situation.The law firm says “the city had no right to force the center to remove it”. The residents in the area even said they felt like their First Amendment rights were under attack. This is definitely a situation where freedom of expression is being denied.

Contradiction in the form of "trickery" ENG 101 JRC

During the times of slavery trickery contradictions played a big role within the society. In most cases there were times where slaves were tricked into believing one thing and then that thing would turn out to be completely different in the end. For an example in "The Memoirs Of When I Was A Slave" edited by Norman Yetman,there was a former slave by the name of Anthony Dawson that was interviewed at the age of 105 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In his interview he quotes "He was a low-down sesesh dat would take what a poor runaway nigger had to give for his change to get away, and then give him structions dat would lead him right into de hands of de parollers"(Yetman pg 26).In this quote Mr.Dawson explains the process of a slave being approached by a poor white man and told that if they traded everything they had then they would be given instructions to get escape slavery in return.Unfortunately the poor white men would take everything that a slave had given them and lead them back into captivity or death. This is definitely a contradiction in the form of a trick because the poor white folks would go against their own word when claiming that they would help the slaves escape. Instead they would do the exact opposite .