Post# 5

I even as a white female deal with racism on a daily basis. For one, I have always got along better with and felt more comfortable around black people since I was a pre teen. My mothers side of the family are farmers and most of them are prejudice. My sister and I have always been the outcast because of who we are, we grew up in the city not in the country. Things of course are going to be different. Then once I got pregnant at 17 by my kids father and they found out that he was black, they all freaked out and disowned me. So out of about 125 family members on her side, I only talk to about 15 of them and thats the truth. Isnt that a shame? Also another is example was my dads girlfriend as I also explained in my key term definition, she says she isnt racist, but yet talks down on all blacks and says they are worthless. Also she told me that my kids are never going to be sucessful because of their names are "ghetto", and a name is everything. My kids names are Stylz Andrew and Selyseon Princess. To me they are unique and beautiful. Really I dont care what anyone things because no matter what my babies are going to be sucessful and be something big one day. And also when I worked at KFC a black woman came in and I was the only cashier up front and she refused to let me serve her or pack her food. She didnt want me to have anything to do with me, wouldnt look my way nor speak to me. It took me to go get my black manager and tell her to go ask her to speak to her, and the woman ordered. Racism is crazy ignorance to me, we all are the same, if everyone would think logically and realize we all bleed the same color, we are just different shades of colors. I hope one day racism will not exist, but with all the ignorant people that we have in the United States, I doubt that will happen.

Post #4

There were three groups that fought to be treated equally as the white man did in society, they were the Mexicans, African Americans, and Native Americans. What happened to America being the “land of the free”? But yet we have different races of people that are treated like trash. And had to do whatever they were told to do by the white man. I know personally racism is still occurring, may not be as much or as bad as it was in the fifty’s and sixty’s but it still going on. I have a two beautiful bi racial children and my family doesn’t accept my kids or myself, because they are half black. For example to everyone, the government is trying to say our President of the United States Barack Obama is WHITE. But yet back in the day he would be considered black. I don’t understand people that are racist. Anyone that was a minority was not aloud to speak up for just wanting to be treated equally and when they did they sometimes got brutally beaten, thrown in jail, and/or lynched. They couldn’t even walk in public with out being messed with just because of their color. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the leaders of these movements, and once said he had a dream of segregation ending, which would mean blacks and whites would go to school together, work together, possible marry each other. And what happened? His dream came true. I hope one day we all can get over racism and all get along. We are all they same, we bleed the same color the only thing is we are different shades. People are very ignorant.

Post #3

I believe once the African Americans finally realized they were needed for more than just picking cotton and being a slave to the white man led up to the Civil Rights Movement. They were now needed to do the work the whites didn't want to do and also were dependents to the white man for their businesses. Finally African Americans were considered citizens of the United States.
Even though the Constitution and Jim Crow laws were made up, African Americans were still treated like dirt, lynching was still happening to innocent African Americans. I think when the lynchings happened it was the fear in the white man that the African American people were going to take control. The pitiful part about the lynching is that the whites had no remorse for what they were doing to innocent African Americans.
In the beginning of World War II African Americans could only be cooks and clean up after the soldiers which were of course the white man. Before the war ended though the African American people gained their right to be soldiers and fight for their country, the United States.
The way African Americans got treated by the people over seas was like they were kings on a thrown compared to how they were treated back in the United States. Could you imagine how they felt?
African Americans were still treated like trash when they returned from World War II. After so many brutally beatings, lynchings, and so fourth happening they gained all their rights and were treated equally.

Post # 2

Natavism impacted all and any Europeans. If you were not “WHITE” you weren’t meant to live in America. But mostly the Irish were impacted by treating them like dirt, like they were nothing basically. Americans absolutely hated the Irish people and because of that it was very hard for the Irish to find employment and was only aloud to live in certain areas. There were boarding schools that all Irish children would be sent to, they had to wear uniforms that represented America and also were mad to cut all their hair off to just below ear length. They weren’t allowed to keep practicing their culture, for instance instead of speaking their own native language they had to learn to speak and write English. They considered the Asian American to be very different and dirty due to their culture and only could get very few jobs. The jobs that the “whites” didn’t want such as maids and minors were the jobs available to the minorities. All minorities were called savages which in another words means abnormal and/or animals. I think the white man should have just given everyone a chance in living in America. Maybe we would all have one main culture to where there were no American, Chinese, Asian, etc. food and ways of living. Maybe we would all eat a little of everything and do a little of everyone’s ways.

The Formation of Race

When creating the divisions the main motivations were greed, fear and money. They quickly realized as the need for labor progressively increased that it would be quite hard to make a large amount of people to work and do things that they didn’t want to do. The white man became very greedy once the money came rolling in, but their problem was they had to have workers to do the jobs that needed to be done. A system was brought about that would affect the African Americans; they would no longer have any rights what so ever. And when this happened it made the white man’s head get real big, they realized they could do anything to the African Americans and get away with it because the blacks had no rights or say so. They began to brutally beat the African Americans and thought maybe that would keep them in line, and most times than others the beatings were in the view of the public for everyone to see. In the white man’s eye all people of another race but white was not human, they were more like either children or creatures. The white men never had any remorse of what they were doing and didn’t give a care about what the minorities thought or felt. When it came to the white man they became greedy with the Native Americans by overpowering them and forcing the Native Americans off/out of their homelands. They came up with the ridiculous laws that now made it illegal to teach, live with, or to fraternize and let alone recognize the races that were considered to be minorities.