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Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies

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Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies

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This Ted Talk describes how and why Daryl Davis attends KKK meetings. Becoming friends with the national leader of the clan, Daryl discovers that ignorance breeds fear and fear can lead to hatred. He also says that when two enemies are talking, then they are not fighting. Overall, the big take away from this talk was about respect. Davis did not have to agree or conform to the KKK leader and vice versa, merely respect each others opinions and the right to those opinions. When people do not respect one another, then they are ignorant. Ignorance breeds hatred. Davis says he is just a musician, nothing more, and that if a regular guy like him can do it then so can everyone else. Why is it not so simply? Davis was able to befriend the national leader of the KKK to the point where he decided to leave the clan. Why can't everyone just do that and end racism? As seen in Their Eyes Were Watching God, racism is a staple of American culture. We see this through the evolution of Janie. Before being born her grandmother was a slave, and her mother was conceived when she was raped by her owner. Janie was conceived when her mother was raped by a white man. Janie luckily did not have to face much in terms of racism besides conversations with Mrs. Taylor and while staying in some white areas for short periods of time. Even so we can see three generations of racism in just one book, let alone the generations before or after. The ugly fact is, racism is embedded deep in American culture and at some points in history was habitual. Our Declaration of Independence states that "All men are created equal" yet for many generations slavery was commonplace. The U.S. government was created by white males, without the input of blacks or women. To destroy racism we must dig up these horrid flaws in our government. This creates a new challenge, the fact that as a democracy it is not very simple to just edit the Constitution. So while Daryl Davis's single situation worked, it is not so simple to repeat. Racism is embedded in our government, and while it is not habitual anymore, still is around. To tie in with other sources, we must acknowledge racism so that history may not repeat. Ignorance breeds fear, which in turn breeds hatred. Hatred is the source of racism and in order to dissolve it we must not allow ourselves to become ignorant towards its evil existence.

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Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville

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This poem seems to be about a slave girl who lives in their owners house. The underlying message plays to both racism and sexism. First, slavery is obviously racist and a savage tactic used in the South to take advantage of the high cotton prices. We learned in APUSH that slavery has the potential to be highly profitable but wrecked the South's economy and thus a war was fought to end it. The house slave would do the cleaning and cooking that the owner needed done. All slavery is cruel, but by comparison it was better than being in the fields. All this relates to the whole idea of racism that has been exposed throughout this entire project. The next idea this poem evokes is sexism solely because it is a woman slave who is confined to the house. A woman, who also happens to be a slave, is told to stay in the house and do the domestic duties. Similarly to Caged Bird, once slavery ends this theme that women should stay in the home and do the domestic duties continues. So, by being told where to be and what to do this sexism has now taken on the main principles of slavery. The poem is not a metaphor for this sexist idea, but the title of it and the gender of the house slave can lead one to believe it is. The poem is very similar to Caged Bird because both have themes of imprisonment against ones will and the want to be free. The poems compare women to caged birds or to house slaves. As a society today, humans in the U.S. are much more open to indefinite gender rolls and allowing people to create their own destiny. In this sense, we are all free from the shackles of discrimination more so than any of our ancestors.

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This week's poem is by Rita Dove. The House SlaveThe first horn lifts its arm over the dew-lit grassand in the slave quarters there is a rustling-children are bundled into aprons, cornbre...

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The real racism exposed by Hurricane Katrina

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The real racism exposed by Hurricane Katrina

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When Hurricane Katrina hit, it was a devastating blow to New Orleans. The big easy also happens to house about 40% white to 60% black when analyzing the U.S. census from 2010. The delays in rescuing and restoring New Orleans after the hurricane were really the doing of journalists and politicians who somehow created entirely false stories about murder, rape, and other nasty things that were taking place. Journalists wrote stories of cannibalism and New Orleans became pictured as this anarchist city, which delayed rescue teams who feared for their lives. These delays also led to a couple deaths of people who could have been saved. Afterwards, an underlying theme occurred that because it was a predominantly black city then emergency services need not to hurry. Angry citizens then came to the conclusion that if it happened in a white neighborhood these outrageous stories would not have been created. Very similar to this is the hurricane in Their Eyes Were Watching God. After fleeing, Tea Cake and Janie stay at a city while others start to rebuild. When Tea Cake goes out, he is recruited against his will to clean the city for the white citizens. Obviously cleaning the whites city was more important during this time. Once Janie and Tea Cake escape, they return to their predominantly black town in the everglades which is unsurprisingly still a mess. Both hurricanes show the racism that whites had and still have towards blacks, which also preaches to the goal of this project that if we are to expel racism and sexism from our lives we must acknowledge its past horrid existence.

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Ten years ago today, the presidency of George W. Bush took a fatal hit. Yes, the bog-down in Iraq hurt, but the most devastating single photo of his administration showed him looking out the window as his plane flew over Katrina-flooded New Orleans as he returned to Washington after vacationing at his ranch in Texas. Bush should have been on the ground, as he was in New York City soon after Sept. 11, 2001.

Left-wing mediacrats made that photo their poster for rich people not caring about poor people, or whites not caring about blacks. At a congressional hearing later in 2005, many New Orleans residents charged that racism caused delays in Katrina relief and rescue. They were right, but they misidentified the culprit.

Delays came partly because some politicians and journalists painted a portrait of impoverished, overwhelmingly African-American masses of flood victims resorting to utter depravity, randomly attacking each other as well as police and rescue workers dispatched to protect and save them. Black politicians denigrated black residents: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin spoke of "hundreds of armed gang members killing and raping people" inside the Superdome and said many of his constituents were in an "almost animalistic state." Police Chief Eddie Compass spoke of "little babies getting raped." Political organizer Randall Robinson said the "thousands of blacks in New Orleans ... have begun eating corpses to survive."

Even those who see cannibalism as benign don't think it happens after four days. It didn't take that long for media hysteria to spread. CNN's Paula Zahn spoke of "literally, people walking around in feces" and "bands of rapists going block to block." Her colleague, Chris Lawrence, raved about "mothers with their babies literally living in raw sewage ... helicopters are literally just completely surrounded the city ... people are literally dying at the Convention Center. ... There have literally been groups of young men roaming the city, shooting at people."

These stories, at best metaphorical but largely mendacious, literally led to good ratings. Facts had a hard time catching up. Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan later said four murders had occurred in the entire city during the week after Katrina hit, which made it an average week, but from press reports he thought "at least 40 or 50 murders had occurred." New Orleans Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss later complained about "classic urban myth" and said that if media had been speculating about the behavior of "middle-class white people its hard to believe that these kinds of myths would have sprung up so readily."

When Wolf Blitzer on CNN at the end of Katrina week said, "Had this happened in a predominantly white community, the federal government would have responded much more quickly," he was probably right. Had politicians and reporters not made racist, false assumptions about black behavior, rescuers would not have thought their operations demanded military precaution rather than humanitarian speed. Had commanders not seen the need to arrive at the Convention Center with overwhelming force, in the media-driven expectation that residents would shoot at them, they would have been able to evacuate people from there a day earlier.

The New York Times was one of the exaggerators, but at least on Sept. 29, 2005, it reported that "the most alarming stories that coursed through the city appear to be little more than figments of frightened imaginations." Hype was not a victimless crime. It slowed down rescue work. Two patients died while waiting for evacuation helicopters grounded for a day by false reports of sniper fire. And yet, instead of emphasizing the need for accurate reporting, NBC's Brian Williams told his national audience that the hurricane would "necessitate a national discussion on race, oil, politics, class, infrastructure, the environment, and more."

George W. Bush came to New Orleans this past weekend. He's said that he could have done better a decade ago. Many reporters have not been so honest. If you're interested in more on this subject, you can read a book of mine that Thomas Nelson published a year after the hurricane hit: The Politics of Disaster: Katrina, Big Government, and a New Strategy for Future Crisis.

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The real racism exposed by Hurricane Katrina

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Ten years ago today, the presidency of George W. Bush took a fatal hit. Yes, the bog-down in Iraq hurt, but the most devastating single photo of his administration showed him looking out the window as his plane flew over Katrina-flooded New Orleans as he returned to Washington after vacationing at his ranch in Texas.

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To Rise Above The Racism Of The Past, We Must Acknowledge It

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To Rise Above The Racism Of The Past, We Must Acknowledge It

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Most of this project and the other sources have a lot in common with this article and Their Eyes Were Watching God. They teach this generation of people about the evils of discrimination. The goal is also the reason we learn about slavery at school, so that we do not repeat the past. Their Eyes Were Watching God provides a look back in time to the way people were treated, talked, and discriminated against. From Hurston's special perspective we can truly see the evils of racism and discrimination, and only adds to the importance of the book and articles included in this project. They all build on the idea that our ancestors had to live through these certain conditions so that we would not have to. In order to validate their efforts, we must acknowledge the evils to the past and remember them so that it will not repeat. This article can mostly be compared to The Power of a Single Story because both show just how important it is to remember the past, even if it is only through a single story because then that story will not be repeated. Racism is not so easily stopped. Through articles, books, and other forms of media we can learn from the past, take steps forward as a society, and remember for future reference. This article tells about the struggles that all blacks had to become socially equal, and Their Eyes Were Watching God shows the extra struggle that minority women had to go through to also become equal. Either way the discrimination did not keep Janie or the rest of the black population down and now modern society does not have nearly as much bias toward one race or gender and the other.
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The Prolonged Slavery of Women is the Darkest Page of Human History

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The Prolonged Slavery of Women is the Darkest Page of Human History

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Early on in American History, slavery was a big issue that wars and political battles were fought over. While slavery was a big issue, women's rights and suffrage were also worth fighting over. Back then it is safe to say that the social hierarchy went from top to bottom whites, blacks, and then females. Even though during the beginning of the women's suffrage movement slavery had just been abolished, consider it surprising that most blacks had more rights than women and even earned the right to vote before women did. Gender roles of that time considered it to not be the women's place in politics and thus did not need the right to vote. This article describes the fight that women like Sojourner Truth had to fight so that women today can vote. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie happens to be the "bad mix" of the time, black and female. The book provides a good way to solidify the reasons in the article as to why women fought so hard for the rights they have today. Janie in her first two marriages can seemingly represent all black and especially women of that time. She was forced to stay in the home, cook, clean, and was more of a possession than a person who could not associate with society. This is very similar to the way most women were treated during that time. When Tea Cake married Janie we can see the juxtaposition as with this marriage we can see the way women should be treated (besides the few times he beat her). During her marriage with Tea Cake, Janie was allowed to be part of society and Tea Cake allowed her to be equals with him. This is the way it should be. As a whole, the black population has had to overcome many obstacles to get to the social status they are today. As Their Eyes Were Watching God and the article show, black women such as Janie also had to overcome gender roles as well as race. If societies like todays tell us anything, it is that the fight was worth it.

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Surviving Disappearance, Re-Imagining & Humanizing Native Peoples

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Surviving Disappearance, Re-Imagining & Humanizing Native Peoples

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This Ted Talk explains the difficulties that all Native Americans go through in trying to survive with White and African Americans. It tells of how the Native Americans believe that we have come from the same Mother Earth and that it is our job to protect our mother. It is also important to remember that we all came from the same place. This Ted Talk gives off the feeling of survival and then thoughtfulness. It started with the Native Americans saying that they survived European oppression and now want to remind us that we all came from the same place and should be grateful for each others presence. This Ted Talk contrasts so much with the other four sources of information I have analyzed so far. Mainly, the other four complain about specific things in society like discrimination, special advantages, and gender roles. The reading makes one feel bad for who they are depending on their gender or race. Listening to this Ted Talk, my faith in humanity was restored because even after being so oppressed like the Native Americans were they still believe that kindness between all races can be restored. By telling people that we all came from the same place, have the same Mother Earth, and in the end we are all human they believe that finally humans will be able to coexist as just the human race. Compared to the other resources that knocked down my faith in humanity, this Ted Talk restored it because even after so much pain and suffering there are still people out there who believe in ideals such as this.

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Surviving Disappearance, Re-Imagining & Humanizing Native Peoples: Matika Wilbur at TEDxSeattle

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Matika Wilbur, one of the Pacific Northwest's leading photographers, has exhibited extensively in regional, national, and international venues such as the Seattle Art Museum, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, The Tacoma Art Museum, the Royal British Columbia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts in France.

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This poem by Maya Angelou is very similar to Their Eyes Were Watching God because it talks of freedom after being imprisoned. The clipped bird wants nothing more than to soar through the sky and to be free. However, it is stuck in a cage with its wings clipped and unable to go anywhere. Very similar to this idea was Janie's first two marriages in that both husbands were so controlling and forced her to do their bidding. Janie wanted nothing more than to have freedom and a natural, loving relationship. When the bird flies through the air, it is finally free and living its dream. Janie does not feel this way until she marries Tea Cake because he allows her to be a part of society and it is a loving and natural relationship. Both Their Eyes Were Watching God and Caged Bird provide a good example of life while one is imprisoned and when one is free. Janie and the bird speak out about their imprisonment that is unnatural and only when they are free do they discover the meaning in their lives that had been missing.

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Maya Angelou, "Caged Bird" from Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? Copyright © 1983 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Source: The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Random House Inc., 1994)

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Caged Bird by Maya Angelou | Poetry Foundation

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This short story is basically a list of what the author thought women should learn to do. Both this story and The Power of a Single Story relate to Their Eyes Were Watching God because they relate to Janie's assumption of responsibilities just because she is a woman. Themes from The Power of a Single Story suggest that in this world Janie should not be judged just because she is a woman and that people need to see the whole story before they judge. The short story Girl also deals with gender in the fact that it is a list of what the author believes women should be, learn, and do. Both the Ted Talk and the story make assumptions about women without seeing their lives, except for one little piece. When Joe Starks and Janie run off together, Joe has this idea that Janie will conform to his will just because she is a woman, and the author of Girl states that women must know to feel the bread to see if its stale. Both of these assumptions are wrong because they were both made by people who have not seen the bigger picture of Janie's life or of modern women's lives in general. To say that someone should learn, do, or be a certain thing based on their gender is not right and does not take into account the individuals life.

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Children are vulnerable and impressionable when faced with a story. Consequences of this is that they believe that there is only one possible type of character in the story (of life). It is best not to judge people based on their social class, sometimes the best things come from the less fortunate. Do not judge people based on their social class or appearance, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie did not consider herself African until she came to America. The way people are presented in media is the way others think they all are until one actually meets them. To get a sense of who a person is, one must look at all the stories, because the assumptions made from one can be far from accurate. Compared to Their Eyes Were Watching God, what Adichie says is very similar to certain ideas in the text. In the first chapter, when Janie is returning to Eatonville the whole town judges her based on her appearance and lack of Tea Cake. They start to formula what they think happened, but similarly to what Adichie said in the Ted Talk, one cannot make fair judgements without seeing the whole story. The town did not know what happened to Janie and thus made crazy assumptions about her. This is also similar to present day media that is used so often in todays world. With this media, we see certain sides to stories but make assumptions without seeing the bigger picture. We judge and assume based on what we see, which is only a small fraction of the actual event.

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When comparing this article to Their Eyes Were Watching God there are inevitable similarities. Most notably how the article says that white privilege is a built in advantage that all white people have, which shows in Tea Cakes marriage with Janie. As a family they have wealth and status but lack white skin, and when Tea Cake contracted rabies the medicine he needed took too long for it to arrive. If he had been white would the outcome have been different? The article also states that white power is independent of income or effort and that white people in positions of power worked hard to get there. Then it goes on to say that being white is an advantage. Considering that Janie really only dealt with African Americans while in Eatonville it seems odd to think that if a random white person walked in, then they would become mayor instead of Joe Starks. To say that a white person has an advantage like this just because of their skin tone is crazy. Most people in Eatonville would not want the white person to be mayor, and would most likely vote for a black candidate. Isn't the same concept of white privilege? Either way the article seems to be a wake up call for all white people reading it, as though trying to expose actions being done out of habit. Similarly, Their Eyes Were Watching God is like a wake up call to the whites to show their discriminatory actions towards African Americans, and teaches us the ugly history of the deep South so that it will not repeat itself.

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