https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds en-us 2017-03-24 16:17:00 UTC 2025-09-25 02:16:55 UTC hello@padlet.com 1181470 https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/164394246 It amazes me how there is still discrimination in the world after everything that has been put on the African Americans in America you would think that there wouldn't still be racial barriers ]]> 2017-04-03 16:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/164394246 1181470 https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/164395240 It surprises me how much African Americans still bring themselves down such as jay z and Harrison Barnes bringing down themselves and others by making those of the same skin color as them feel terrible about themselves ]]> 2017-04-03 16:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/164395240 1181470 https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/166630788 Race may cause some people to look at what you have and they will view it differently I do not see any racism in glenbard east but that doesn't mean it isn't else wh]]> 2017-04-17 20:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/166630788 1181470 https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/166631357 Forming a identity for yourself is a personal deal and should t be influenced by the people around you however it is influenced in modern society by the media such as music where jay-z only talks about light skin girls and his wife was accused of skin lighting it is things like this that connect to the story when mrs turner talks to janie and janie disagrees about judgment on someone solely based on there skin color]]> 2017-04-17 20:50:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/166631357 1181470 https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/166631368 I think this conversation really shows what colourism was back then from what it has morphed into in modern society mrs turner talks about "lighting up the race " even though her husband and all the people around her are darker skin and do not like mrs turner at all and would rather not talk to her ]]> 2017-04-17 20:51:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/166631368 1181470 https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/166632453 I think that Janine plays a much smaller role on race in the story she Marty's someone darker than her when in the beginning she didn't even know she was black but Nannie on the other hand has completely different view point she believes women should be completely dependent on men she grew up in a time of slavery. I believe Janie would agree with the articles but Nannie would disagree ]]> 2017-04-17 20:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1181470/8z6pi7f9lbds/wish/166632453