Artifact Annotations by Erika Edwards https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35 African American Lit en-us 2017-02-07 02:37:47 UTC 2025-10-19 01:53:16 UTC hello@padlet.com bell hooks Anger and Rage eredwar18 https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35/wish/152021464 In bell hooks' Killing Rage she states, "Black people are routinely assaulted and harassed by white supremacist culture." She also says, "If black people have not learned our places as second-class citizens through educational institutions, we learn it by the daily assaults perpetuated by white offenders on our bodies. hooks does a great job on connecting these quotes with anger and rage. When blacks express rage it is suicide and when whites express rage its murder, either way an African American will never be able to get away with what a white person can. bell referenced Emmett Till which made me research the story , he is a perfect example of what hooks is saying. Emmett Till was murdered at the age of 14 for reportedly whistling at a white woman. He was then kidnapped from his uncles house, beaten, mutilated, and shot. His body was then sunk in the river.

]]> 2017-02-07 02:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35/wish/152021464 eredwar18 https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35/wish/152027356 2017-02-07 03:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35/wish/152027356 Maria Stewart, Why Sit Ye Here and Die? eredwar18 https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35/wish/155231602 In Stewart's Why Sit Ye Here and Die, she brings up a very important issue that has been going on since the beginning of time and is still going on today. Stewart States ," Methinks were the American free people of color to turn their attention more assiduously to moral worth and intellectual improvement, this would be the result: prejudice would gradually diminish, and the whites would be compelled to say, unloose those fetters! Though black their skins as shades of night, Their hearts are pure, their souls are white."  This is so true on so many levels. I really believe that racism/prejudice  came about from a bunch of  ignorant people who had no clue  what they were talking about and they passed it down again and again making others believe that the fact that these people are different looking from them that something is wrong with African Americans. I believe being prejudice is still a thing today because of how stubborn we all are with our opinions. Once you firmly believe in something its hard to change the way you look at it.
"What! Won't these stupid white geese even let me go to school without hissing and biting at me?" Although this little boy wants nothing more than to get an education these geese (representing whites) are hissing and biting because he cant be any wiser than they are for he is black. They aren't seeing that this little boy wants to learn, and wants a brighter future for himself. They just see the color of his skin and cant get past it. 

Nast, Thomas. "What! Won't these stupid white geese  even let me go to school without hissing and biting at me?"                                                                               The New York Public Library Digital Collections,            digitalcollections.nypl.org, 27 August 1868,              https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-fbf4-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
]]> 2017-02-21 17:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35/wish/155231602 Malcolm X, Message to the grassroots 3/21/17 eredwar18 https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35/wish/161568310 In Malcolm X's "Message to the Grassroots," He reveals the very real issue  of how African Americans arrived to the united states, not willingly but forced out of their homes having no control of what happened to family, to be taken on a ship, treated like cattle or worthless cargo by the people that our country look up to the most. The mayflower brought in the enemy not the savior. We were taught in elementary school to celebrate our founding fathers but really what is their to celebrate?  Celebrate the men who kidnapped us? Celebrate the men that beat us to death with no hesitation? Our founding fathers are no fathers for they are our kidnappers. Malcolm states, "The number-one thing that was not allowed to attend the Bandung conference was the white man. He couldn’t come. Once they excluded the white man, they found that they could get together. Once they kept him out, everybody else fell right in and fell in line. This is the thing that you and I have to understand. And these people who came together didn’t have nuclear weapons; they didn’t have jet planes; they didn’t have all of the heavy armaments that the white man has. But they had unity. Instead of us airing our differences in public, we have to realize we’re all the same family. And when you have a family squabble, you don’t get out on the sidewalk." African American began to look at the situation themselves and realized aside from where they came and where the ended up being, that although we are all different shades of brown with different religions, we still share so much in common due to the fact that we were all being oppressed by the white man, and when they realized this they put aside their small differences to come together to go against this common enemy.
This is the ship the Pilgrim fathers traveled here on. It looks innocent and very welcoming. But little did we know that these "innocent " men are the ones who took the innocence out of all African American countries. This ship was a thick disguise to the brutality that would later come from the people on it. However our "fathers" brought us on a very different ship in no humane matter.
Our ship didn't have free time to go out and enjoy the fresh air, we didn't have food to enjoy, or hammocks to lie in. We had the floor, and chains, and the fecal smelling air. If you were to see these different ships next to each other you would be appalled. These fathers were never fathers to us.
Mayflower
George Arents Collection, The New York Public Library. "Mayflower." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-b271-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Slave Ship
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Slave ship." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-d564-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99]]> 2017-03-21 16:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35/wish/161568310 Mahogany Brown, Black Girl Magic eredwar18 https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35/wish/166285724 "You ain't posed to love yourself Black Girl
You ain't posed to find nothing worth saying in all that brown ...Black Girl, you aint posed to be loved up on" a quote Brown writes that may be a little too familiar with black girls today. We are constantly told that we are too much and if we're not too much then were not enough. White oppressors get to tell us what we are supposed to be so why don't we give them some of their own medicine and show them what we are. Why don't we show them our black girl magic. Show them how were black girl fly, our black girl brilliance, and how black girls shine. If we let these negative people try to tell us what we are then we will become it. We have to love ourselves and show it too, there is no other option available. How can we expect someone else to love us if we don't even love ourselves?http://www.bet.com/video/blackgirlsrock/2015/highlights/michelle-obama-m-a-d-girl-speech.html
In Michelle Obama's Black Girls Rock speech she reminds black girls on why we are so special and why we need to educate ourselves and rise above all of the negativity by our white oppressors. If you didnt understand black girl magic before  listening to this speech I am 99.8% sure that you will after the fact. We are supposed to love and be loved and smart and kind no matter the circumstances because we are black girls and we have risen above, that's just the magic in it.

Michelle's Speech
http://www.upworthy.com/michelle-obamas-instantly-classic-speech-at-the-black-girls-rock-awards-is-a-must-watch]]> 2017-04-13 16:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/eredwar18/770cubm1du35/wish/166285724