blog assignment two - contradiction

          In the text when i was a slave edited by Norman R. Yetman, are many memoirs of interviewed slaves about their experience during the slavery era. Mary Armstrong was one of those individuals interviewed in Houston, Texas at age 91 (pg 5). Armstrong expresses her feeling and her experience towards slavery, and gives us an inside look of how hard times were back in the 1800. She explains how hard it was and how scary but how she also got away with hurting her mistress Olivia's mother Old Polly. We can all agree that that is a form of contradiction.
          Mary's mother had told her all about how old William Cleveland and old Polly Cleveland were so cruel. How they would beat their slaves and sold slave families to different households. She also told Mary how old Polly  whipped her little sister to death at only nine months. After Mary's mistress Olivia bought her from her parents William and Polly, Mary decided she was going to get back at her. "I picks up a rock about as big as half your fist and hits her right in the eye and busted the eyeball, and tells her that's for whippin' my baby  sister to death". Mary tells her mistress and Olivia's reply was "well, i guess mama has learnt her lesson at that".
         This is a form of contradiction because during slavery if any colored person decided to commit any act of violence against white people they would be put through the worst punishment and even death possible. Also she states how scary it was living in those times, but she has the courage to bust her mistresses mothers eye knowing that Old Polly was white and she was black and that in those times blacks weren't even considered humans to even think about hurting a white person.

Comparison and Contrast (white supremecy)

 In the texts "When I Was A Slave" edited by Norman Yetman and "Southern Horrors" by Ida B. Wells, edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster. I have noticed and what caught my attention is before and after slavery how these African American were either getting treated the same or even worse. Before slavery came to an end innocent "negroes" were getting wrongly accused , beaten and even killed just for being dark skin toned. After slaves got their freedom those tortures did not change. They were getting worse through out the years. The white supremacist were making up excuses just to lynch  and crucify African American. It came to a point were the whites weren't even being questioned about their injustice against blacks. For example in southern horrors on pg 94 Henry Smith (an African American) accused of assaulting a white man and raping his daughter.because of this accusation he was killed in the most inhuman and gruesome way possible. Henry was man with mental issues and there were a few people who had suggested that he were to be put in a home. But that was ignored. Henry did rape the white mans daughter but he did not recall because of his condition, he was remorseful but that wasn't any help for him. His actions resulted in him getting crucified in front of 10,000 people as if it were to be a celebration. smith was physically tortured for fifty minutes, with red hot iron brands shoved against his body. After he was considered dead, kerosene was emptied upon his body. This is how white supremacist brought justice to the blacks.

blog assignment three lynching

 Lynching was very controversial act against African american in the 19 century to the 20th century. Lynching was a tradition white people had with hanging blacks from their neck to a tree. Even though African Americans were given their freedom, their rights were still being violated on the daily bases. No matter who it was, from adults to seniors and even innocent children.
  According to Southern Horrors, the anti lynching campaign of Ida B, Wells edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster states on pg 64 how a bloody riot broke out after the whites felt that African American were disrespecting them. This is what I would call raging racism. Its when using racial motivating anger to commit horrific unfair crimes (against African American). In the bloody riot many African American were assassinated because whites believed that blacks were conducting themselves in an inappropriate and rude manner towards them. African Americans were being treated unfairly because the whites were furious that their voices had to be heard and that they were allowed to pursue their dreams and goals. When blacks actually became someone in life the whites felt that they were taking over.

LIB101 free write

human rights are privileges we are born with that cant be taken away from us, which makes it some type of communication among human beings no matter what language you speak or were you come from. physical verbal and emotional language bond with human rights to become one and to restore equality between us.


what I'm planning to contribute is the understanding of how body language can make a huge difference in human rights