In TKAM, Mayella Ewell is supposedly raped by Tom Robinson. During the trial, instead of defending the innocent man who was only trying to help her, she tried against him and defended her father, who actually hit her, resulting in his murder. This exhibits white privilege. Innocent Tom didn't have the privilege that Mayella did. White privilege is in the news today too.
#alllivesmatter is a "movement" started by people to counteract black lives matter. While black lives matter is directed towards the violence targeted at African Americans, all lives matter is a passive aggressive response from people who are defying the movement.
Yes, all lives do matter, but that's not the point. The purpose of this movement is to promote pride and support members of the black community. By saying all lives matter, people ware turning the focus to themselves as opposed to trying to change these upsetting events that have happened in the last few years, and to me, that's just backtracking the progress that we've already made.
-Zosia
Racial Inequality
Friday, December 4, 2015
Thursday, December 3, 2015
News Today
Duke Racism? This link is about racism incident that happened literally around the corner at Duke University. where there is poster of the black lives matter slogan was vandalized by a Caucasian person using derogatory words. To me this was just unnecessary there was no point in this person going out to do this, if that person really feel like that they should have just kept it to themself because that was so rude of someone to do. And the people of color that attend the University may feel unsafe or weary of their surroundings because they don't really know who could do something like that or it is like that. A section in To Kill a Mockingbird that reminds me of this is Mrs. DuBose is talking to Jem and Scout about how their dad represents Tom Robinson. "Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for!" By Mrs.DuBose saying that,that shows how low of a person she is. Her saying that was so unnecessary and disrespectful, and to say that to children was just over the top and didn't make any sense.
~Sequan Patterson
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
TKAM in the News
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yale-student-halloween-costumes-christakis_5644baa8e4b045bf3dedfe1e
The article in the link above is about some certain controversy about cultural insensitivity through Halloween costumes at Yale University. A women on one of Yale's committees' sent out an email warning campus students to watch out of offensive and insensitive costumes. Many people got offended really quickly. Students started to get upset with the comment because they felt as if some were being called out for not standing up for something they believe when in reality, they were but were never really heard.
I feel like this happens all the time. People stand up for things without getting acknowledged for it or listened too. For example, even in TKAM, if you never noticed, there were some smaller characters (and Atticus) who felt like things aren't equal ever when they should because it doesn't matter if you have more money or opportunities or the color of you skin is different. Those smaller characters stood up for what they believed but were never really noticed for it except maybe once or twice publicly except for Atticus.
Also, the insensitive and racist costumes are already a topic of conversation on their own. The costumes are most of the time a mixture of overdramatic stereotypes that get more hurtful over time. They make me think about how all races have a certain stereotype attached to them as sad as it is. I remember while reading that multiple times someone/people have based a certain type of talking on a certain race (example: Calpurnia talking about how African American's talk compared to everyone else). It makes me think about how even now, if you're a white girl (or your gonna be a white girl for Halloween which is something I saw someone do), you need starbucks and uggs or something like that. In all honesty, it may not seem hurtful but it can be. You never know how someone feels about something like that.
Overall, incidents like this happen everyday and we can stop it because it's not okay.
The article in the link above is about some certain controversy about cultural insensitivity through Halloween costumes at Yale University. A women on one of Yale's committees' sent out an email warning campus students to watch out of offensive and insensitive costumes. Many people got offended really quickly. Students started to get upset with the comment because they felt as if some were being called out for not standing up for something they believe when in reality, they were but were never really heard.
I feel like this happens all the time. People stand up for things without getting acknowledged for it or listened too. For example, even in TKAM, if you never noticed, there were some smaller characters (and Atticus) who felt like things aren't equal ever when they should because it doesn't matter if you have more money or opportunities or the color of you skin is different. Those smaller characters stood up for what they believed but were never really noticed for it except maybe once or twice publicly except for Atticus.
Also, the insensitive and racist costumes are already a topic of conversation on their own. The costumes are most of the time a mixture of overdramatic stereotypes that get more hurtful over time. They make me think about how all races have a certain stereotype attached to them as sad as it is. I remember while reading that multiple times someone/people have based a certain type of talking on a certain race (example: Calpurnia talking about how African American's talk compared to everyone else). It makes me think about how even now, if you're a white girl (or your gonna be a white girl for Halloween which is something I saw someone do), you need starbucks and uggs or something like that. In all honesty, it may not seem hurtful but it can be. You never know how someone feels about something like that.
Overall, incidents like this happen everyday and we can stop it because it's not okay.
Blog post # 3
i saw another side of scout when scout thought that the lady's were cool by how they were looking, its like if she actually could have a lady side that would work on her if she turned like that but since she liked it, it makes me feel like shell be like that more in the future.
the ladys were cool in fragile pastel prints:most of them were heavily powdered but unrouged: the only lipstick in the room was Tangee Natural. Curtex Natural sparkled on their fingernails, but some of the youngest ladies wore rose. They smelled heavenly.
another side of scout that i saw was her not being rough and mean aggressive instead she was being noble and right, because she took from what Atticus tells her, and basically how he is unviolent. instead of fighting Cecil Jacobs and just gets called a coward. drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away, "Scout's a cow- ward!" ringing in my ears. It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight.
Somehow, if I fought Cecil I would let Atticus down. Atticus so rarely asked Jem and me to do something for him, I could take being called a coward for him. I felt extremely noble for having remembered, and remained noble for three weeks.
A part from TKAM that really provoked me and filled me with anger was when Atticus went to the post office and got spat on the face by bob Ewell over helping Tom Robinson in the trial.
according to ms Stephanie Crawford, however, Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him.what i thought was terribly wrong here exactly everything that Mr.Ewell did to Atticus from spitting on his face to threatening him. what thought that Atticus was right, because Atticus didn't bat an eye just took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and stood there and let Mr.Ewell call him names.what should have happened was Atticus to say something smart that Mr.Ewell couldn't understand and walk away, and also for Mr.Ewell to just leave Atticus alone because it only made Mr.Ewell look even worse of a person.
I would like to relate this to Baltimore, MD — A police sergeant was suspended Tuesday after cellphone videos captured him spitting in the face of a handcuffed man. Although the man was restrained on the ground and not fighting back, police charged him with assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. in both of these situations the someone spat on someones face, the victim getting spat didn't do anything but on the Baltimore situation it was because he couldn't, and on TKAM Atticus didn't want to because he knew what was best.
i saw another side of scout when scout thought that the lady's were cool by how they were looking, its like if she actually could have a lady side that would work on her if she turned like that but since she liked it, it makes me feel like shell be like that more in the future.
the ladys were cool in fragile pastel prints:most of them were heavily powdered but unrouged: the only lipstick in the room was Tangee Natural. Curtex Natural sparkled on their fingernails, but some of the youngest ladies wore rose. They smelled heavenly.
another side of scout that i saw was her not being rough and mean aggressive instead she was being noble and right, because she took from what Atticus tells her, and basically how he is unviolent. instead of fighting Cecil Jacobs and just gets called a coward. drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away, "Scout's a cow- ward!" ringing in my ears. It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight.
Somehow, if I fought Cecil I would let Atticus down. Atticus so rarely asked Jem and me to do something for him, I could take being called a coward for him. I felt extremely noble for having remembered, and remained noble for three weeks.
A part from TKAM that really provoked me and filled me with anger was when Atticus went to the post office and got spat on the face by bob Ewell over helping Tom Robinson in the trial.
according to ms Stephanie Crawford, however, Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him.what i thought was terribly wrong here exactly everything that Mr.Ewell did to Atticus from spitting on his face to threatening him. what thought that Atticus was right, because Atticus didn't bat an eye just took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and stood there and let Mr.Ewell call him names.what should have happened was Atticus to say something smart that Mr.Ewell couldn't understand and walk away, and also for Mr.Ewell to just leave Atticus alone because it only made Mr.Ewell look even worse of a person.
I would like to relate this to Baltimore, MD — A police sergeant was suspended Tuesday after cellphone videos captured him spitting in the face of a handcuffed man. Although the man was restrained on the ground and not fighting back, police charged him with assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. in both of these situations the someone spat on someones face, the victim getting spat didn't do anything but on the Baltimore situation it was because he couldn't, and on TKAM Atticus didn't want to because he knew what was best.
blog post # 5http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bail-set-10k-student-arrested-racial-threats-35520450
what happened here was that a 19 year old male named Tysen Campbell got bailed in jail for $10000. He was arrested on campus Monday and accused of making racial threats against black students and others on social media.This relates to my motif because its dealing with race, the white male was being racist and threatening black people on the campus, and a lot of students did not show up to school because of the threat. This also relates to TKAM because of the trial with Tom Robinson Bob ewell and Mayella Ewell. what had happened here was that ewells were blaming a black male named tom Robinson for raping and abusing Mayella they did only because Mayella tried to take advantage of tom robinson by kissing him but Tom Robinson refused and Mayellas dad found out, and accused Tom Robinson but only because he was black. Without good evidence the ewells won an unfair trial.
what happened here that was wrong was how the ewells won an unfair trial because they didn't deserve to win, they werent telling the truth. What could have happened right was for Mayella to just tell the truth, even though her father Mr.Ewell would of beaten her badly it would been the right thing to do.
I can relate this to when Aunt Alexandra- shows racism towards Calpurnia, when she was talking to Atticus.this was very unfair like the other article because it was unfair Aunt Alexandra was being rude to someone that did nothing her.I honestly thing that some people deserved to be others people shoes to understand how it feels like being treated unfair like that.
what happened here was that a 19 year old male named Tysen Campbell got bailed in jail for $10000. He was arrested on campus Monday and accused of making racial threats against black students and others on social media.This relates to my motif because its dealing with race, the white male was being racist and threatening black people on the campus, and a lot of students did not show up to school because of the threat. This also relates to TKAM because of the trial with Tom Robinson Bob ewell and Mayella Ewell. what had happened here was that ewells were blaming a black male named tom Robinson for raping and abusing Mayella they did only because Mayella tried to take advantage of tom robinson by kissing him but Tom Robinson refused and Mayellas dad found out, and accused Tom Robinson but only because he was black. Without good evidence the ewells won an unfair trial.
what happened here that was wrong was how the ewells won an unfair trial because they didn't deserve to win, they werent telling the truth. What could have happened right was for Mayella to just tell the truth, even though her father Mr.Ewell would of beaten her badly it would been the right thing to do.
I can relate this to when Aunt Alexandra- shows racism towards Calpurnia, when she was talking to Atticus.this was very unfair like the other article because it was unfair Aunt Alexandra was being rude to someone that did nothing her.I honestly thing that some people deserved to be others people shoes to understand how it feels like being treated unfair like that.
She waited until Calpurnia was in the kitchen, then she said, “Don’t talk like that in
front of them.”
“Talk like what in front of whom?” he asked.
“Like tan hat in front of Calpurnia. You said Braxton Underwood despises Negroes right in
front of her.”
“Well, I’m sure Cal knows it. Everybody in Maycomb knows it.”
I was beginning to notice a subtle change in my father these days, that came out when
he talked with Aunt Alexandra. It was a quiet digging in, never outright irritation. There
was a faint starchiness in his voice when he said, “Anything fit to say at the table’s fit to
say in front of Calpurnia. She knows what she means to this family.”
“I don’t think it’s a good habit, Atticus. It encourages them. You know how they talk
among themselves. Every thing that happens in this town’s out to the Quarters before
sundown.”
News Today
disabilities discrimination
In todays world there's a lots of discrimination against people with disabilities. this article talks about what this people feel when a person sees them or takes the handicap parking lot wen they really don't need it or when the taxis don't give service because they don't want to deal with the extra work.
We all humans actually do all theses opinions, we might be thinking we're helping them but we're actually making hem feel stupid and their not. Some might not intend to make them feel like this on purpose but other people do. they see this humans like they are nothing or that their a really weird human specie when they are not. They are humans just like everybody.
" Mr. Underwood didn’t talk about miscarriages of justice, he was writing so children could understand. Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and
children, and Maycomb thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in The Montgomery Advertiser"
When Mr.Underwood talk about how they kill Tom only because of his arm remind me of discrimination against people with disabilities. I guess other then racism at him for his color they were racism at him because of his arm.
disabilities discrimination
In todays world there's a lots of discrimination against people with disabilities. this article talks about what this people feel when a person sees them or takes the handicap parking lot wen they really don't need it or when the taxis don't give service because they don't want to deal with the extra work.
We all humans actually do all theses opinions, we might be thinking we're helping them but we're actually making hem feel stupid and their not. Some might not intend to make them feel like this on purpose but other people do. they see this humans like they are nothing or that their a really weird human specie when they are not. They are humans just like everybody.
" Mr. Underwood didn’t talk about miscarriages of justice, he was writing so children could understand. Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and
children, and Maycomb thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in The Montgomery Advertiser"
When Mr.Underwood talk about how they kill Tom only because of his arm remind me of discrimination against people with disabilities. I guess other then racism at him for his color they were racism at him because of his arm.
Black vs. White
"Scout," said Atticus, "n*****-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything...trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves."
During the 1930's, racism was very strong in the southern states and segregation was in effect. In this point of the book, Atticus is giving scout a lesson in how racism works. He's explaining the power of language, not only as a way to shame those who don't fit the racist line, but also to set the terms of the debate.
In what Atticus was saying, I think he should've refrased it in a way that wasn't very bias toward negroes, because then it looks like he's favoring black people over white people, in hoping that that idea rubs off on Scout.
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