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The Caged Bird is a poem about free white people and slaved African Americans. The poem tells us about a free bird that dose what it wants to do like fly in the breeze and eats what ever it wants like fat worms. Then The poem tells us about a caged bird unable to do what it wants. The bird is of course caged, its wings are chipped, and its legs are chained together only able to open its throat and sing. The caged bird can only watch the free bird eat and do what it wants while the caged bird lays there singing in fear. Back in the day when slaves were still a thing thats how places and towns use to be. White people were able to go around do what they want and be free while African Americans could only be forced to things and weren't allowed to do anything but what they were told to do. The caged bird singing in a fearful tone references that African Americans use to sing in a fearful tone because they were scared and that's all they could do when they had free time.

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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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Why, I, as a black man, attend KKK Rallies by Daryl Davis

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Why, I, as a black man, attend KKK Rallies by Daryl Davis

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Daryl Davis, an African American man attends KKK rallies because he became friends with the leader. They first met when his secretary asked the KKK leader to meet up with Daryl for his book. After the interview Daryl started to invite the KKK leader and he always brought his body guard no matter where he went. After a while he started coming over without his body guard and they started to become friends. Daryl started to go to the KKK rallies and the leader said he respects Daryl than anyone else. This is somewhat like the part in the book Their eyes were watching god when Joe and Janie went to the town and no one thought about them or even liked them. After a while Joe and Janie started to get respect from everyone because of all the changes they made for the town to make it better. Everyone started to respect them because their gross town started to become a reasonable decent town.

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

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Too Many Americans Think Patriotism Means Racism and Xenophobia 

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Too Many Americans Think Patriotism Means Racism and Xenophobia 

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The Nation an online news website based on politics and news around the world wrote an article on what it means to be a patriot what isn't patriotism. The article stated that before 9/11 there was only 1 understanding on patriotism which was putting an American flag on your front yard and loving the rights we have in this country. Sense 9/11 happened patriotism changed it's meaning to other people. People started to think that killing non Americans like in 2012 a Sikh temple was attacked by an American claiming he was doing a patriotic act.

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After the attacks of September 11, 2001, patriotism took on many masks and many faces. For some it meant planting flags in their front yards and cherishing the rights we enjoy in this country. For others it took on a flawed and dangerous form. Violence against South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, and Arab Americans skyrocketed in the weeks and months after 9/11. New government policies painted our communities with suspicion and guilt. The notion that patriotism and racism are synonymous was used against us after 9/11, and the horror has lasted 16 years, flowing and ebbing under Presidents Bush and Obama. That notion has only increased in fury under the Trump administration.

I was in New York on 9/11, working downtown not too far from the attacks. In the days that followed I feared for my safety for the first time in my life: not from planes nose-diving from the sky, but from assaults on the subway or on the street. These fears were not misplaced. The first shots fired after the attacks were on September 15 in Mesa, Arizona, when Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh gas station owner, was killed by Frank Silva Roque, a racist gunman who wanted to "go out and shoot some towel-heads." During his arrest Roque screamed, "I am a patriot! I stand for America all the way!" This is how he pledged allegiance to our flag.

Our communities experienced many ensuing acts of hate. In the first week after 9/11, 645 bias incidents nationwide were reported by media organizations. In the months that followed, our houses of worship were surveilled by the NYPD and other law-enforcement agencies, our rights were violated and our dignity stripped at airports, and our children were bullied in school and harassed on the Internet. Government policies such as the Patriot Act and the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System were implemented, the latter of which opened cases against 83,000 Muslims entering or living in the United States. The result of this vast ethnic profiling? Zero terrorism-related convictions.

Meanwhile, the body count in our communities has mounted. In 2012, a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, was attacked by a gunman who killed six people and wounded four others before taking his own life. In 2015, three young Arab students in North Carolina were murdered in their homes by their white-supremacist neighbor. In 2016, a Lebanese-American man was shot and killed on his own porch by a racist neighbor who had a documented history of anti-Arab hate. Related Article

In 2017, our communities are facing hate violence at levels that rival the aftermath of 9/11. The Trump administration-which is now implementing policies that mirror his bigoted rhetoric on the campaign trail-continues to roll out anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant policies that embolden hate groups to attack our communities. President Trump has test-fired several versions of the "Muslim ban," rescinded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and strongly supported the RAISE Act that seeks to slash immigration by 50 percent in a decade, as well as implementing other destructive policies. Since the presidential election, South Asian Americans Leading Together has documented over 150 incidents of violence against those who identify or are perceived as Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, South Asian, Middle Eastern, or Arab American, already surpassing totals from the year leading up to the 2016 election. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, anti-Muslim hate groups grew by 197 percent in 2016, and, according to the FBI, anti-Muslim hate crimes increased by 67 percent in 2015.

In February two Indian-Americans were shot by a gunman screaming, "Get out of my country." Days later a Sikh man was shot on his driveway in Washington State by an assailant screaming, "Go back to your country." In August a Minnesota mosque was firebombed in what the governor rightly declared an "act of terrorism." In May, Jeremy Joseph Christian, a known white supremacist, harassed a Muslim passenger on a commuter train in Portland. When three men tried to intervene, Christian stabbed two of them to death. Reminiscent of Roque's racism in 2001, Christian proclaimed at his arraignment, "You call it terrorism; I call it patriotism!"

After these attacks, the president remains silent. His silence is a clear signal to the Roques and the Christians of the world that white supremacy and Islamophobia are not only admirable, they are patriotic.

Our communities know that the highest form of patriotism is dissent: We have lived it for 16 years. We've spoken out when we've seen injustice, and we've crowded airports to protest an unlawful "Muslim ban." We've stood united with those from all faiths, colors, and backgrounds, against racism and division in Charlottesville, Boston, Berkeley, and beyond. We've stared down ACT for America-the nation's largest anti-Muslim hate group-and forced them to cancel nationwide Islamophobic rallies originally scheduled for September 9.

The toxic patriotism that hate groups have practiced for 16 years has brought our diverse communities together, anchored in a patriotism of love, not fear. This September 11, I will remember that this is the true patriotism-working with our communities to protect each other, and in doing so, to form a more perfect union.

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Too Many Americans Think Patriotism Means Racism and Xenophobia

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After the attacks of September 11, 2001, patriotism took on many masks and many faces. For some it meant planting flags in their front yards and cherishing the rights we enjoy in this country. For others it took on a flawed and dangerous form.

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Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form 

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Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form 

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On CBS at October 18 2018 the CBS news channel talked about a trend that's starting to come back called Blackface. They talked about how blackface was a form of art used against African American people because it was very racist. During the history of America blackface was in theaters, on the streets, or in homes all used to make fun of African Americans. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, in chapter 2 When Jane and Joe went to that town the two men were pretty much using blackface humor when talking to Jane and Joe. They didn't have 1 sentence without making fun of them that was racist or not.

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Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form

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What is white privilege? The question was answered by Peggy McIntosh's book that was published in 1988. The book called "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." Peggy said that white privilege was an imaginary force for white people so their not being racially profiled by others that are also white. White privilege started way back in history and we have white privileges because of all the historical events that happened like slavery. White people also think that we are better than any other race because of all the privileges we have in this world. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, a character named Mrs. Turner was a racist African American lady that was racist towards black people because she thought she was better. Just like white privileges white people thought they were better because of all the privileges we have.