During this video, I became more and more frustrated. I have briefly understood what white privilege was growing up, but I had never heard it in this detail before. I could not believe that this was how this came about. I was shocked to find out that it started only briefly slavery came about. I thought that once the African Americans came here to the…
A movie based on true events of the 1968 East L.A walkouts where students were treated unequally. Just by watching the beginning and seeing the struggles of these students who were not even allowed to speak in their native language to each other in front of teachers or staff. Punishments that were displayed in the movie were the locking of bathrooms during lunch, speaking Spanish, janitorial work, and even prevent those students that are average from being able to go to college. Paula was displayed as the peaceful protester trying her best to have the School Board give rights to the students. Surprisingly in the movie the School Board rejects and this shows me how much discrimination there was in East L.A. Paula and her friends are showed as…
Directions: Paste the browser below to view the video “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow” (54:35) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mF718GsrOI, and then answer the following questions due 9/18/14.…
Throughout the story, Black Like Me, the theme unity is repeated many times. It can be seen when John Howard Griffin is talking to the African Americans on why they can not get the message through to the white race that racism is wrong. When people ask John what the problem is, he states, “Lack of unity.” (Griffin 32). This statement allows others to agree with what he was saying. One woman, who was responding to his statement, stated, “ Until we as a race can learn to rise together, we’ll never get anywhere.” (Griffin 32)…
Maria W. Stewart delivered an emotionally charged lecture that expressed her views regarding African American freedom and treatment in America. Stewart addresses many other positions and logically appeals to them. Stewart was trying to send the audience a message of awareness to the continued injustices and mental barriers America is facing. She uses allusions, pathos, and anecdotal evidence to effectively portray her position.…
She discussed her ideas on abortion and how she believed that men should share some of the blame/ punishment that a woman receives for aborting an unwanted child since it is equally his fault for impregnating her with the child. Her solution was to require all men who contribute to an unwanted abortion to under go a vasectomy that can be reversed later in life if the man decides to marry and start a family. I believe her idea is actually very good idea, since the vasectomy is reversible and would make a lot of young men think twice about fooling around unprotected and would decrease the number of babies aborted per year. She also talked about all of the black inventors who helped shaped America and its technology, and how we are not taught about these inventors in school. She noted that the man who created the stoplight was African American, yet most of us were never taught this, which was true. I had never heard of this and I think it is important to know and give credit where it is due. Aside from her speech, the event was run very nicely, there were an adequate number of seats for the event, and I appreciated the complimentary food and drinks. I look forward to attending more of our schools on campus events in the…
The filmmaker shows the progress of SNCC, and SCLC, and the Civil Rights Movement, as they fought for equality in the United States. As a whole they met nonviolent, and hostile hurdles, but persevered all obstacles to defeat segregation and earn…
In a video called “I Am Sean Bell”, directed by Stacey Muhammad, one of the men interviewed says “It’s unfortunate that it has to happen over and over again for people to actually feel something about it”. This video features young men featured in this documentary talk about how they feel about the incidents of the police shooting young men and what should be done to change the prejudice and stereotypes that surround young African American teens. The teens in the video feel like the police continually get away with taking the lives of young black men and there is no justice. This is a serious problem because these young men are being traumatized by the brutality of police officers…
When discovering Black’s videos of him sharing his poems and his inputs of life it makes you as an audience draws you in turning his words into a feeling wanting to connect to every word that is coming out of his mouth. In his video titled, So Lucky to Be an American is shot on his front porch with the Arizona sunset in the background, giving it that homey feeling to the video. Connecting the audience first by the setting of the video. Second he talks with a humble tone of voice and slowing his speech, keeping the audience hooked on the words that are coming out of his mouth. In the video, Black speaks of how our country is free and that we are free to speak of what is on our mind. Black says in his video that his “New Year’s resolution is to; stop once a day to remind myself that this is as good as it gets”. He speaks to the audience referring to take life slow and enjoy every moment that life gives. In the video, his audience learns to appreciate life’s journeys and always appreciate everything that is right in front one’s…
I learned many new things from this video. I learned that many people died in the black’s non-violent revolution for freedom and rights. I also learned that most African Americans were paid an average of only about $700. African Americans were denied education at all white schools, and were only allowed a less than average education at black schools. Under the Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education, a number of African American Honors students integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Every day they had to endure abuse from a huge angry mob that protested integration and wanted segregation. I feel that I would not have been able to put up with all that abuse. Those nine students that integrated Central High had great determination and never gave up hope. I also learned that it was a very long and hard struggle for all blacks during the Civil Rights Movement. The KKK terrorized blacks and killed them. Many African Americans were killed before they won the rights that they deserve. I was very proud of all the African Americans that participated in things like the Montgomery bus boycott because it showed that they weren’t afraid of standing up for themselves. I felt joyful that they always had the courage to stay non-violent, because if they turned to violence, the situation would not have turned out the same way. Now I will do anything that I can to eliminate discrimination of anyone because it is a very serious and destructive…
The movie started off with the Birmingham, Alabama church bombing, which resulted in the murder of 4 innocent young girls, and later on in the film a young black man by the name of Jimmily Jackson was murdered by a state trooper for being in a non-violent protest and he didn't fight back. All these murders happening left and right all out of hate because the of the pigment of someone's skin, because in the sick minds of some people being a shade darker than someone meant that they aren't…
Black Genocide was a very intriguing and interesting piece of material that filled my knowledge with much more than I had intended it doing. Before watching this video, I knew a little about abortion but not about the black genocide part. You see, I knew that abortion was a way for the government to obtain legal rights to abort children who weren’t able to be cared for but I didn’t know the government was using abortion as a way to limit the black population. I also knew that African Americans were having a lot of abortions and there were, and still is a lot of abortion facilities but never put together the idea of how they were getting access to this information, furthermore, the connection between eugenics and genocide.…
This song can and was put to many situations but was most commonly know for the civil rights movement. The song speaks of unity in the face of an adversity. It speaks of the light in everyone whether alone or together and how it can overcome darkness in this case it is segregation.…
The married partners, Richard and Mildred, were woken up in the middle of the night and were criminally charged for being in the state of Virginia and being married. Richard was a white male, Mildred was a African American and Native American, and that was the problem that they faced at that point in history. During this time, it was illegal to be of different races and married in 21 states. The Lovings were exiled from the state of Virginia if they were going to be together. The couple had to secretly sneak back into the state to see their families. In the documentary, they showed footage of Richard driving to Virginia with Midlred in the trunk. This stood out to me, and that was when I really understood the courageousness of two people fighting against the laws put in place to keep them apart. I also really enjoyed the fact that Mildred Loving was the one to speak more and be outspoken about what they were doing. Richard was the more quiet one, which also does not coincide with gender roles that are placed for them.…
Nina had to overcome many things as a black woman with nothing but a dream. It shows that even if you try not to get involved racism will always impact you. Nina just wanted to play piano, however “after the bombing everything hit me (Nina) and she realized she had to take a stance and fight with her brothers and sister” (Simone). Not physically but through her music which impacted many people. The meaning and bluntness of the song is out there with no need for extra thinking:…