Good Afternoon Paige Murray,
When reading your forum I was very pleased and informed by the information given in your forum response. One reason I choose to do a response if because I saw South Carolina in your response. I was born in Savannah, Georgia but moved to Hardeeville South Carolina. Any time I see someone mention South Carolina I’m always interested in learning. The issued that you talked about that happen in Charleston, South Carolina was really melancholy and depressing. Knowing that anytime that could have been one of my family members in that church is nerve wrecking. For someone to do such a crime to innocent people who you don’t know is cruel. I guess while he was growing up and learning is about his own identity and imitating
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In my opinion, like you were talking about stress and frustration caused him to act this way. He was a racist and only wanted to have a confederate flag. So I think his hatred and stress of his own beliefs and others that aren’t agreeing with him cause an eruption to occur. That’s when he walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church with a plan. The thing I cant believe is that news reporters mention how he stayed and listen to the service and prayed with these innocent people before he killed him. His actions should have consequences but internally he needed a better foundation of learning and stress control. I feel like in life even if you feel a certain way its not your responsibility to handle a person. People have rights just like you and if you cant have a discussion just walk away. If Dylann family was in the church and someone did that to them he would be extremely hurt. I just think this example was wonderful because it showed his emotional stress and racism which cause him to react. I’m a big fan of finding ways to control stress because no one should be able to get that angry until your emotions control your regular mind of thinking. I’m sorry to hear that your cousin Myra Thompson got killed may she rest in peace. I hope one day you can find it back in your heart to attend church and believe that God is covering you in your
... lead to his involvement in the events at the end. It was tragic to see him killed, but I didn’t see the loving character that the community saw. I feel of this theme of Love and Hate, Love didn’t get enough coverage. I think this was supposed to be a story about Love losing to Hate, but I don’t think Love was fairly represented here. It was interesting to see the Community at first adamantly deny boycotting Sal’s talking about how they grew up on Sal’s food, and to see how in the course of an evening they were chanting to burn it down. This was a really compelling movie, and to a degree its hard to distance yourself from it. I am a white guy watching it, so its harder for me to see it from Spike’s point of view, but after thinking about the movie for a week or so, he does bring up a lot of excellent arguments. I just hope that violence isn’t the right conclusion.
Many abused The West Memphis Three case to gain power and make a name for themelves. Because of the nautre of the case, it gained a lot of media attention. This attention was mostly due to the fact that the events occurred in such a small, bible belt community. No one knew anything about the occult and definitely didn’t have the capacity to understand it because of the religious bias clouding their judgment. The severity and graphic nature of the boys murders also played a key role in the media’s attention. Nothing like this had ever happened in West Memphis.
He was sentenced to five flat years without the possibility of parole. In prison, he had the same idea about race. He must stick to what this family taught him and stick to the Chicanos. Everybody is prison had the same idea. “Whites sat with whites, blacks with blacks, and Chicanos with Chicanos.” (Baca 114) It was the same thought process of race behind bars. He did just that, throughout his time in jail his close friends were Chicanos and he didn’t trust any other race.
The circumstance that a decorated World War II veteran was just thrown away is absolutely disgusting. A man who risked his life for our country and for our freedoms was shown the upmost disrespect. However, even given these circumstances, things begin to turn up when Mike Colt and his girlfriend discovered the remains of the man and his wife. As the story progresses, things get better and better, eventually until the veteran and his wife were finally laid to rest in the way they deserved. At the funeral officials from the Veterans Affairs came as did officers from the Tampa police, the couple that made the discovery attended the funeral as well, at the funeral there was a total of 56 people that attended. The chaplain prayed, a bugler played taps, rifleman fired their shots, and the veteran and his wife were laid to rest. It’s a story that makes you feel good. Even though the beginning was depressing, the wrongs were righted and the ending is that of a happy
In 1963, there was a very influential speech that was given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that states, “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” In 1963, many people of the racial minority wanted to see equality between racial minorities and majorities. Recently, the racial relations between minorities and majorities have been made public through outbreaks that have been televised nationwide. One of the most well-known incidents was on the night of the February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman, a self-proclaimed "citizen watchdog," followed and ultimately killed a "suspicious" teenager, Trayvon Martin. The question on everyone’s mind: “Was this a matter of self-defense or cold-hearted
This 26 year old man wanted change for all individuals. He was shocked of how violent the white people would get over the simplest happenings, such as drinking out of the wrong water fountain. At times, Mr. Daniels would be naive; he wanted change, but he was expecting it to happen right away. He also thought that the southerners would be talked into accepting the blacks. He didn’t realize some of the southerners were so passionate about discrimination. He made enemies with lots of white people because he stood strong with his colored friends. Sadly, this led him to being assassinated on August 20,
Like Wilkins’s piece this narrative was very easy to follow. But where the two differ is Savory’s piece has more details to make her point and even includes other stories she has read or been told. It could have just as easily been a jumbled mess, but all the details she included lead into one another and kept a constant flow. Take for example these few sentences, “In the past, the Bible has been used to justify slavery, segregation, and even denying women the right to vote. As the daughter of a minister, all of this seems strange to me. Like my father, I would like to think that religion is better suited to promoting love—not hate.” (Savory). The detail of how in the past people have used religion to justify their hate leads right into her talking about being a preacher’s daughter. Another effective point in Savory’s writing is the constant use of symbols. Such as the light vs. dark symbol that is so important it is even the title of the story. In this case the symbol of the light being acceptance and the dark being any form of hate. For example, “The way I saw it, if I turned off the spotlight, no one would be able to see the real me. In the darkness, it was easier to hide.” (Savory). But another constant symbol is that of her linking the way African Americans were treated and how homosexuals were treated. She links her experience of what happened with the civil rights movement and what
It was a glorious April 4th evening as Martin Luther King and hundreds of followers were gathering for a civil rights march. Many cheered on as the civil rights leader graciously out step on the second floor balcony of the Motel Lorraine. Roaring cheers rose from the crowd rose up as Martin Luther King stand there waving his arm with his heart warming smile waiting for the uprising taper off so he can continue with his speech. When suddenly a piercing blast broke the noise and the crowd’s cheerful spirit died. A cold chill went through all who were present fore in the back of their minds there was no doubt that their King had just been shot.
Society expects success from the Saints so the Saints showed successful behavior to the authority. The evidence shown is why did the community, the school, and the police react to the Saints as though they were good, but to the Roughnecks as they were trouble. The police let them go every time they got into trouble because they were the “good” kids. Their parents could pay their way out of things. Being labeled the good ones to the boys it made the things they did good and they did not think any of it was bad, that it was just for fun and a laugh to the boys. The labeling theory that was for the Roughnecks was the bad boys that did everything bad and that they did for fun but really they were doing it to survive. The Society expected mediocre work and showed that, that is what they expected. The evidence that shows this is the Roughnecks as though they were tough, young, criminals who were headed to trouble. Through the people they saw them as bad and they just kept doing bad things because that was was expected of them. They did not expect nothing less though they all together had a C average so they were not too bad. They just needed understanding of what they were going through. The teachers understood why one of the
Clay grew up playing multiple sports and he felt like he could succeed in job that demands teamwork. Along with the influence of his family he chose to become a police officer. The major problem officers are placed with these days is the trend of the media using racism against officers. Clay believes this is becoming a constant issue in their department because it’s encouraged a lot of people to start challenging officers and fighting them. The problem is that “When one officer from wherever screws up or handles a situation poorly, it makes it like we are all bad and that’s not the case”. He believes that if social media and the news continues to put stories out here with false information it poses a threat to future officers and their ability to effectively do their jobs. Many police departments are starting to back off such as Baltimore City Police and possibly others due to severity of recent events like the Baltimore riot and the past history of the Rodney King case. Clay believes it has now become Cops versus the community and that’s not the case with his department. “People forget that officers, and many others that serve this country are human”. One bad person ruins the rep for thousands of others who are only trying to do their
Social structure theory says that the social and economic forces operating in deteriorated lower-class areas are the key determinates of criminal behavior patterns (Siegel, 2015). On June17th, 2015, Dylann Roof a self-proclaimed white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and murdered nine of its members (Charlson Church Shooting, 2015). Social structure theory would suggest that due to the social and economic aspects of Roof’s life are the reason as to why he committed this mass shooting. His parents had divorced but were temporarily reconciled at the time of his birth. When Roof was five, his father married Paige Mann in November 1999; they divorced after ten years of marriage. Bennett Roof was allegedly
When he was explaining to James why he wanted to kill him, he explains how he is “American, good educated, high class, white, just like him). He is extremely rude to the homeless man, as he asks James “Why haven’t you delivered the filthy swine to me yet?”He uses this to justify his violence and murder of the homeless man, and eventually with his other victims as well. This is an example of conflict theory, as well as he does not view his violence as a crime, and justifies his actions by using his wealth and class status. Since he has power, crime is defined by him and is used to make the poor poorer and the rich richer. He is using the Purge night to advance his political interests, which seems to be eliminating everyone he views as lesser than
As more and more accusations were made by those outside of the Ku Klux Klan’s proceeding those within the KKK felt like their own honor was attacked when those of their leaders was. Those in high positions began to review the very top, only to find that the accusations were true. Thousands began to quit, learning of the endangerment that Clarke and Tyler were to the KKK.
The protest was one of many held the night of July 7th. On July 7, 2016, Micah Johnson shot at a group of police officers, killing five and injuring nine other officers. Two citizens was also injured during the shooting. Johnson was an Army vet who was angry about police shootings dealing with black men. The shooting occurred at the end of the Black Lives Matter protest, around 8:58 pm. Johnson parked his SUV on Lamar Street, in front of the entrance to a college. Lying low, Johnson began shooting at groups of police officers and protestors on Main Street. During the initial gunfight three officers were killed and three others were injured along with a few
Upon viewing the documentary, “Paradise Lost”, one of my first impressions was a feeling of shock at the hysteria surrounding the case, and how heavily it impacted the trial. Another area of concern was the tenuous (or nonexistent) evidence tying these youths to these horrible murders. The entire essence of the prosecution’s case was a confession of questionable authenticity by Jessie Misskelley, Jr, coupled with a community-based fear of a satanic ritual having occurred.