https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1 en-us 2018-12-10 15:53:29 UTC 2018-12-20 16:31:33 UTC hello@padlet.com christian_sacharczyk https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/312991015 White privilege is a unseen advantage. A unconscious benefit that white people have over blacks or other minorities. White privilege is not meaning that whites have not struggled or have things they didn't earn, but instead means there's a overall more acceptance for whites. Being white, in terms of white privilege, is essentially being normal, where everyone else is not, causing more prejudice focus on minorities. This can be seen in police brutality, strong border policies, and bias opinions or stereotypes. This can relate to TEWWG trial at the end where the jury was all white men and Janie was alienated from not only the whites but also her fellow black community.]]> 2018-12-10 15:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/312991015 christian_sacharczyk https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/313450045 "Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole."(Ta-Nehisi Coates). This quote shows the gap between whites and blacks from slavery to present day. This article starts of talking about Clyde Ross, a black man born in 1923, who lived on a farm with his family in Mississippi. Every harvest the Ross family was submerged in more and more debt due to the prices for farming tools being raised because of their skin. They owed over $3000 to the bank but due to the fact that the elder Ross couldn't read, knew no one in law, and the police refusing to help because of their skin, they had to sell everything they worked for. This can relate to TEWWG due to most blacks, like Tea Cake, couldn't read and they had to work together, like in the Muck, to stay afloat.]]> 2018-12-11 15:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/313450045 christian_sacharczyk https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/313672338 Within this short story, Jamaica Kincaid explains the story of a girl. With the repetitive teachings of how to do house hold duties shows how women are the hard workers and under appreciated. Especially at the end with the line,  "you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of women who the baker wont let near the bread?". This quote shows that even after all that a women does for society and men they are still disrespected and its blamed on them. This relates to TEWWG because black girls were the "mule" of society. This can be seen throughout most of Janies relationships.]]> 2018-12-12 00:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/313672338 christian_sacharczyk https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/313672462 Florida was hit by a major hurricane that killed hundred of people, mostly poor blacks. This article states that the reason there were so many more black deaths then white was to due to their wealth class and not being able to afford a way of transportation away from the coast. Which leads to the reason why the hurricane was not important to Americans because it killed mostly poor blacks which shows white privilege.  This connects to TEWWG because this was the hurricane that struck in the novel and it showed how the white were making blacks bury the dead at gun point and how the blacks were being put into a pit while whites got a coffin.]]> 2018-12-12 00:41:12 UTC https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/313672462 christian_sacharczyk https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/313672607 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells her story of living in Nigeria. She explains how one of the boys who helped her family was labeled as poor by her parents and she was shocked when she went to his village that his "poor" family could make things or function. Then uses the example of her roommate in college expecting her to not speak English, listen to main stream music, or even use a stove which shows how her roommate, as a American, assumed her, as a Nigerian, was poor and didn't understand. This connects to TEWWG because of the towns reaction to Janie seeing Tea Cake. They assumed since he was poor that he just wanted her money and that he was a horrible person. This shows a common theme throughout wealth, race and gender of bias stereotypes.]]> 2018-12-12 00:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/313672607 christian_sacharczyk https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/315202598 Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks out on how, "There's a way in which certain people take too much comfort in progress, For instance, we can have progress for the rest of American history and black people could still be unequal."(Ta-Nehisi Coates). This shows how society is moving forward but is also leaving behind certain aspects like race equality. Coates believes, which is shown in TEWWG, that until America recognizes its moral debts of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the concept of separate but equal,  the country can never be whole. There will always be that gap between blacks and whites, and while society moves forward in life, the old tensions won't move until a debt is fully paid and equality is achieved.]]> 2018-12-17 15:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/315202598 christian_sacharczyk https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/315211631 "Progress comes if it's to a critical mass of white peoples' advantage," Ta-Nehisi Coates said. Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the disenfranchisement of going to colleges named after racist individuals, like Woodrow Wilson, and letting students leave "reminded of how much more complex issues are than how we debate them on a daily basis."(Chloe Searchinger).  This connects to TEWWG by the empowerment of the whites within he book. There's never a distinct presence until the end of the book but throughout the novel there is the overcast of a white existence. At the end the trial showed how much power the all white man jury had over Janie or after the hurricane how the white men held Tea Cake at gun point and forced other blacks to bury the dead. Which shows the complexity of race and empowerment relating to white privilege.]]> 2018-12-17 15:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/315211631 christian_sacharczyk https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/315494140 As seen in TEWWG, Janie's husbands all show male privilege. Her first marriage with Logan showed his entitlement of wanting to be served and pampered. Giving the impression that Janie was Logan's servant. In the next relationship with Jody, he abuses her mentally and sometimes physically. Jody justified his actions with saying it was "normal" showing the male privilege. Tea Cake is next, out of the three he was the best to Janie and had a fair and equal relationship. One thing did happen where he had to assert his dominance so he beat Janie to prove hes the alpha male. This shows male privilege because he was acting like the "king of the castle" kinda like Jody just not at abusive extent. This proves the gender inequality that still is present today.]]> 2018-12-18 13:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/315494140 christian_sacharczyk https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/315495322 “When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler... I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?”(Jesse Owens). This shows that discrimination followed blacks no matter what they did. Even winning 14 medals for America did not change the fact that there was segregation. Jesse Owens when to Nazi Germany, won four gold medals, and came home to hatred instead of celebrations. This is seen in TEWWG by the blacks were forced to clean up the dead from the hurricane, even though the hurricane killed more blacks than whites and destroyed their communities, the whites forced them to clean everything themselves at gun point showing that no matter what happens, good or bad, there is no difference and the color of your skin doesn't change ]]> 2018-12-18 13:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/315495322 christian_sacharczyk https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/315495842 Jackie Robinson's story is less focused on the racism shown in TEWWG but  ore focused on what it took to break that segregation. Jackie was used as a successful experiment in baseball that proved peaceful desegregation was possible. Baseball was used as a common ground that whites and blacks could both agree and work together on setting the foundation for the civil rights movement. Jackie inspired many blacks, like Jesse Jackson, that they can be equal, “When Jackie took the field,” Jackson declared, “something reminded us of our birthright to be free.” This quote can loosely be connected to Janie's trial when she told her story and the white women believed her because a women has to tell her own story. Showing race desegregation among women who felt Janie's pain making Janie a Jackie Robinson figure within TEWWG.]]> 2018-12-18 13:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/christian_sacharczyk/9lkr94pobay1/wish/315495842