No easy walk stood out to me because it involved children. I read that it was about children being chased down by police and their dogs just because they were protesting. These children weren’t being obnoxious or loud, they were just simply walking down the street on D-Day. The Westboro Baptist Church people deserve that type of treatment and that’s what I immediately thought about when I read the synopsis of this episode.
The episode started off with A.G Gaston recalling some of what he remembers from D-Day. He notes how kids of all ages were walking down the streets in Birmingham. These kids weren’t being rude or disruptive but the cops still took every single kid to the Birmingham Jail. The groups started off small with only a small amount of kids walking up and down the streets. The number of kids started increasing extremely to the point of bringing in
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I’ve heard all my life about how things were unfair but I never put it into perspective because I never saw any of the stuff that happened. To see little girls rolling down the street because water is being shot at them is horrifying. How can anyone do that to people? I know I’m asking the same question everyone else has asked. I never thought it was that bad and I probably haven’t seen the majority of stuff that happened. Those are regular people just like whites and they deserved better. I think it’s funny of the controversy of the confederate flag is so important to people right now and not what actually to blacks not only when they were enslaved but even after they became “free”. They’ve had to fight a really long battle that some would say isn’t even over yet. Anyways, I really didn’t enjoy watching this episode because its something that I didn’t take so serious before this video. My opinion has changed for sure and I’ll probably watch the rest of these videos just so I can understand what happened back then
This is a terrible reality, but one that reigns true. According to Douglass, “There are seventy-two crimes in the state of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of these same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment,” (Douglass, 2011, p. 780). There was no reasoning behind this ill treatment, other than hatred. In comparison to our other discussions when looking at this matter, “Black Hawk’s Autobiography” comes to mind. He also expressed somewhat the same feelings as Douglass when he stated, “the whites may do bad all their lives, and then, if they are sorry for it when about to die, all is well! But with us it is different: we must continue throughout our lives to do what we conceive to be good,”. Neither Douglass nor Black Hawk could come to grips with why it was okay for whites to do as they pleased, but for others, it was considered to be anything but good.
Roswell Street Baptist Church was once a slave plantation, but now seeks to reach intercultural, and intergenerational body of believers. Martin encourages not to be entrapped by nationalism, but to adopt the view Christ has which is His people, from all nationalities. Marin states, “Indeed, if all nations and all peoples would look to to God and acknowledge God as sovereign, there would be relative international order, harmony, and peace.” (Martin, 212, 2004) Roswell Street Baptist church has the history chains of being a “white supremacist” church that judged anyone: Latino, Muslims, and those with dark skin. Through the years their hearts have changed.
This film demonstrated how there is vicious cycle that minorities are put into. The racism and injustice, of politics and the big image design of America. This film is named after the amendment which outlawed slavery, but left a significant loophole when it came to criminal convictions; a clear business in profits. I recommend everyone of all races and ethnicities to watch this. It is very new and shown on Netflix. It connects to this course, along with the movie “Boyz n the Hood” and Adler, Mueller, & Laufer, Criminology book in race and crime; “supports the argument that there are more African Americans in the criminal justice system because of bias operates” and also “the argument that racial disparities in official statistics reflect an actual difference in criminal behavior”(Adler, Mueller, & Laufer, 2013. P. 54). We see the connections of how the criminal justice system works in society and is connected through social factors of those disadvantaged and once labeled as a deviant, always a
I think the most interesting detail within this episode was that during the United States expansion period, politicians and popular belief used “science” to justify their heinous actions towards other non-Caucasian people. They justified enslaving “blacks”, destroying Indians, as not selfish acts but used the inevitability of science and how Caucasians are superior to justify their actions. I just find this surprising that people were so manipulated by science to believe that their actions were justified, even though they were promoting enslavement and killing of other individuals. I think racial science of the past wasn’t used as a tool for discovery but to justify racial disparity and the actions of Caucasians. Racial science in the past was used to fit the narrative of Caucasians and their so called “superiority” over other races.
Although it was very graphic it explained the horrific mistreatment of the slaves that were packed in so tightly they couldn’t even move on their sides and describing it as a slaughterhouse. I found it interesting how in previous history textbooks I had read in high school the conditions of the transportation of slaves had not been explained in such a gruesome way. It was useful in trying to comprehend the unspeakable living conditions in which the slaves had to live
For Finny and Gene, the summer session at Devon was a time of blissful happiness and a time where they allowed themselves to become utterly overtaken by their own illusions. The summer session was the complete embodiment of peace and freedom, and Gene saw Devon as a haven of peace. To them, the war was light years away and was almost like a dream than an actual event. At Devon, it was hard for them to imagine that war could even exist. Finny and Gene forged the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session and acted out in the most wild and boisterous ways. Missing dinner or being absent from school for days to go to the beach did not even earn them a reprimand. “I think we reminded them of what peace was like, we boys of sixteen....We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought to prese...
Have you ever thought something was unjust, but every one around you believed otherwise? For many years marriage was seen as a religious and legal contract between a man and a woman. However, in recent years the American population has accepted in increasing numbers the idea that homosexuality exists and is equal. Although the majority of states do not allow same-sex marriage, today there are fifteen states that allow homosexual couples the right to get married, and they also receive all the rights that a heterogeneous couple have. Even if states don’t have marriages, many states may have domestic partnerships or civil unions as alternatives. To those combating the injustice to homosexuals and those in favor of homosexual activities these civil unions and domestic partnerships aren’t enough. On the other hand, we see the stance that the Westboro Church has taken in their hatred of homosexuals. Although the majority of people are in support of gay marriage, including myself, I think it is important to understand the opposition. Therefore, I decided to write my final report on the Westboro Baptist Church and their ideologies against homosexuals, Jews, Catholics, and the military. The main focus will obviously be the church’s feelings against homosexuality because many of their rallies focus on that issue.
I found this film to be a good tool for people going into the criminal justice field. I think it is important for people going into this field or already in it to understand the importance of racial biasing. The exercise in the video that was used where they changed what the juvenile was wearing was very eye opening. Trained professionals were drastically characterizing the same person differently based on their appearance. I found this to be the most powerful part of the video and gave me a better understand how important it is to not judge someone based on his or her appearance. It is defiantly not only relevant in the juvenile system. People in the adult system are also characterized on how they look. I think the exercise they used in the film for juveniles would also be helpful for people dealing with adult
Ever since America was found, there has not been social equality. African Americans were slaves for hundreds of years. During World War II, people discriminated the Japanese. Today, people are discriminating Muslims. People have repeated this part of history so many times, that it keeps happening. South Carolina Slave Laws, established in 1740, starts out article ten by saying “Slaves being objects of property...” (Bowdoin College). In the eighteenth century, people didn’t even think of African Americans as people, just property. This feeling has been passed on from generation to generation. In, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping a white woman. After being claimed guilty, he was shot and killed. “In Maycomb, Tom’s death was typical,” said the narrator Scout Finch (Lee, 275). People were not fazed by a black man being killed because it has happened so many times in the
The Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Church is a very small homophobic, anti- Semitic hate group that regularly stages protest around the country. The group first started as a non-profit organization in 1967. The Westboro Baptist Church is made up of its pastor, and some of his children and grandchildren. The Westboro Baptist church is well known for picketing places and or events they see as supporting homosexuals or Jews.
In his provocative and controversial article entitled “The Black Church is Dead,” Eddie Glaude, professor at Princeton University states:
As every child grows up, normally they are taught that everybody is equal. No matter who you are, race, gender, or color, you are just as equal as the person next to you. At least, that was how I was raised. I was raised in a Christian family where I learned that everyone is equal and slavery was a very bad event in American history. The idea of slavery was that slave owners would buy and use people to work on their plantations without needing to pay them. This meant that is was basically free labor. After reading the books the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Uncle Tom 's Cabin, my preconceived notion of slavery was changed dramatically. My idea of slavery was that African Americans were either brought to America, or were already in America, and were forced to do work against their will. Their work environments were extremely harsh and inhumane. But, after reading these
His cousins decided to join the fight to end segregation by marching down the streets of Birmingham to allow integrated schools in the city. The police fighting back with violence and the message of Martin Luther King Jr. are fueling the people who are fighting with determination in their hearts to be treated as equal. Bryon is eager to help by marching with them and if I can recall, he marches with them once. He sees that the black people in Birmingham are treated differently. They are downgraded and treated like dirty people. When Kenny and he go into the restaurant, the waitress treats them like they are horrible, disgusting people. Another scene in the movie is when the kids and the guy who lives with their grandma go to the movies but they cannot go in the same entrance as the white people. They have to go into the back and can only sit in the balcony
According to dictionaries a cult is 1) a system of religious worship or ritual. 2) A religion or sect considered extremist of false. 3) Obsessive devotion to a person or principle. It is believed that every cult ties into some kind of religion, and religions all have a common basis of “a leap of faith”. Whether this so-called leap of faith is going to heaven or being reincarnated, or moving on to some other planet, depends on the beliefs of the cult itself.
I am well aware of the oppression that has faced many people of color in our society. I did learn a great deal about how our government is to blame for the racial segregation in our society. America has a history of placing laws and policies on non-whites, thus making it extremely hard for them to live a well-balanced life. I thought it was interesting that immigrants were far more likely to work in mining and industrial jobs than whites. I feel as though this a trend that continues today in America, thus it is evident that we still exclude certain ethnic groups in our society. Although I did not have any biases going into this documentary, I learned a lot about how our government has been the main contributor to white privilege in our