davis, tony journal why i hate a&f

The author in this article is going on about why Mcbride hates abercrombie and fitch. Is because one it changed to what is was origanally founded on which was selling outdoor products. The other one is that it now only appeals to gay white men and women. So that it completely switched from what it was founded on and why it was founded. Also McBride doesn't like the way that they hire workers in to work in the stores.

Throughout the article Mcbride goes on to talk about how it was founded and how it became to where it has been and pretty much why it became to what it has now. Many of the resoans it has become the way it has is because of the way they market the store in magazines and other areas. Mostly though it has marketed towards gay white men who are middle to upper class. also mcbride goes on to say that is has become more like a "vice" we don't talk about it. It is just an acceppted way of living. Mcbride relates it to pleasure we don't go around talking about pleasure in our everyday lives but we accept the fact that it their and move on. Other thing McBride touches on is the thing about being part of our society because we are caught up in things that are going to make us feel like we belong to something. That is what is in, in our society and most people follow the trends of society. also McBride mentions that it has not caught on with people of color because nmaybe the way that it is marketed i don't know why it hasn't or maybe because it is trying to only be sold to whites and if anything white gay men. so people of color do not want to be associated with that.

1. Why has it changed to what it was originally founded for because of all the big names that shopped there in the past?
2. Why is it such a big deal with the store in the first place?

At first the article was kind of shocking because i never heard of A&F being founded for the outdoors men and women back in the early 1900's. Then later as she went on and started to talk about how it only is marketed to gay white men and such i started to realize that this is true because of the people that work their and many of the people that you see in a gay parade usually have and A&F shirt or something with the symbol. Also with the colors of the shirts mostly bright and very noticeable standout colors they have a lot of so i can see now why McBride is say.

Davis, tony journal frank yu

In the article called yellow Yu is trying to show that their is more to race being black and white because he talks about his race problems because he is Asian-American. He said in the begining that you can not write racism because people are not born racist they see it in their everyday lives like kids learn how to be racist from their parents. Even if they are not racist as a kid the way they say their parents act is the way that they usually turn to if they are stressed out because its what they know that comforts them not what they dont. So what Yu is trying to say is that even though we may not intentionally be racist we still are at times because it has been ingrained in us at times and the people of color are always feeling like they had something go bad because of race and it is not always true. So he said their is no way to write race.

First impression Yu said because he has colleague at wok who would come up to him and start a conversation with him and mostly refer to movies and other things that reminded him of Yu being asian and not like who is everything going or did you catch the game last night. None of those types of a conversation and really his colleague is not thinking of being racist but to Yu he can come off racist.

1. Why is it that every little thing a white person does to a minority always seem racist?
2. Why is it that if a white person do something to a white person we let it go?

These are not shocking arguements to me because i can see it happen in everyday life and i do not think that it is going to stop.

Davis, Tony Journal Eye on the prize

The movie was very informative about the way blacks were treated from the south and it starts off with a crazy situation and it has two black kids from the north came down to visit family in the south. These kids were only 14 years old and really had no idea what kind of enviorment that they were coming into. The kids got down there and one of the kids named Emmett Till was dared to go and talk to a white girl. This is something not done by any blackman in the south because they were not seen as people and the whiteman used any excuse to beat up or kill a black person. So thats what happened to the kid and later they found his body and his mom had an open casket funneral to show the rest of the world what happened for just talking and being black in the south.

Also after that many things have follewed in sequence and it started with Alabama starting ti intergrate one of its high schools. This caused huge mobs and needed to call the national guard till they finally could get into the school and start to learn and while they were in school they had their own personal guard to walk them from class to class. Also they did sittins and many other tactics to try and get the country to notice every thing that was going on fro Rosa Parks to Dr. Martin Luther King.

1. Why did they not do anything after the funneral of the first kid and how bad he was beaten?
2. Why did the people get off from killing the kid?

This movie was very shocking and it started right in the begining with the kid being killed and the showing of the body and how bad it was beaten?

Davis, Tony Journal wright

in this article the author is telling his experiences of growing uo in the south and how it relates to the jim crow laws that were passed in the south. The main point that i was getting out of this article was how to survive in the south as a black man. one was to stay out of the white neighborhoods past sun-set, another one was to never prenounce a white man by his first name always had to say mister and then their name or they would get beatten. Also another thing that was present, but not said directly was never to trust the white-man one instance was that when he was getting a ride and they were all nice at first and then threw a whiskey bottle at him and knocked him off the car and threaten to beat him up more and told him he was lucky that it was us or he would probably have been killed.

Some of the things that happened while were crazy like in the very begining when they got into the fight with the white kids and he was cut with the milk glass and when he told his mother she said dont get into fights with the white kids. Also at his first job when he was getting interviewed and shown around to his co-workers they all seemed nice at first and then time went by and they started to make accusations to get him to leave and so he did. Also when he moved to Memphis and there he said everything was completly different the white folks would actually talk to them while they were working but they kept the conversations limited and only talked about sex, and religion.

1. Why didnt he stand up in the begining at his first job when the two were bullying him?
2. Why would he go to work in a white area when he knew the possibilites to what would happen?

Many of the little passages of this article were shocking that all of this really happened and you can only see so much on the tv and in books about what happened and believe only so much. But when you hear it from an actual person who was going through it and his thoughts and feelings it changes many things that i have heard throughout the years of dealing with slavery.

Davis, tony journal Zinn ch 9

In this article the author starts off by talking about how the slave population is growing very rapidly and that everyone is going along with it "the government, army,laws, courts." everyone pretty much. Also early in the article their are talks about white abolishinest in the north about not ending slavery and that someone was hanged in the south because they tried to put a small scale violence together to stop slavery. The couple of things that i got out of this article which lead me to believe is that zinn is trying to go through and tell everything that lead up to the civil war and really caused it to happen by everything going on in the north and all the things read about going on in the south by the notherners.

Zinn was trying to say his arguments by using the writtings and lectures of other black people in the north like Fredrick Douglas and David Walker who printed many anti-slave articles and lectures. Also he tells stories of some of the major rebellios that happened all though there were many, but some were more impactful then others and also not as common. One was more impactful then others like the one in New Orleans which was probably the biggest with more the 500 slaves and growing as the destroyed plantations after plantation and finally stopped by the US army and militia. there were others that he mentioned like Nat Turner and their rebellion and how 65 people died. Other then that there were not anymore rebellions mentioned. He then talked about Harriet Tubman and her time escaping and helping other escape on the underground railroad. How she made 19 trips to help her fellow slaves to get out of the south and into the north or Canada.

1. How come more people did not adopt Tubman's wayof thinking by either escaping or dying.
2. Why did it take so long for the government to step in and stop slavery.
3. Why wasnt there a stricter law when they made it illegal to bring in slaves.

This article was not that shocking because already read a little bit about it in previous history classes and learned about Douglas and Tubman and their contributions to the efforts in the stopping of slavery. Couple of things that did though was when they talked about the school in Cinncinatti and the little 7 year old girl asking questions about slavery that was shocking because a 7 year old having questions like that showed how impactful this was to the whole country. Also when the one lady Fanny Kemble a famous actress of a plantation owner. After the Brunswick canal was built in Georgia. She said that "the irish are not only quarllers,rioters,fighters, and drinkers they are passionate, impulsive, and warm-hearted, so they may show passion to the slave so they cannot work together on the canal." This was shocking because they thought that working togerher they might rebell together and could start something that could jeperdize the south.

Davis media blog

In the movie Braveheart they portray the Irish and Scothish even though we did not talk about the Scotish, but the Irish and how they dont really talk about the Irish but in history they kind of touch up about the british being there and having british rule and trying to get rid of catholicism and turn everyone protestant like they are tring to do in scotland. So in the movie the english are invading scotland and trying to take over the country and make them work for them as slaves and telling them that when they capture them they are still free, but they have to do work. Sort of like in Takaki when the english went to Ireland and started to capture them to take them to America as slaves and even in the movie they touch on it a little bit and also near the end and their big battle the english have taken the Irish troops to be the first infantry against the scotish, but the scotish have an a couple Irishmen already on their side and so before the battle they meet the Irish and the Irishmen that were suppossed to be fighting for the english turn on them and start fighting for the scotish and their freedom. Like in Takaki what happened to Ireland and they had rebllious men and did not want to be taken prisoner under English rule so they fought and lost but they made into the slaves of England and this was before the great migration to America by the english it was another stop before everyone started to come to America to become prosperus and when they went to America they took the Irish as slaves to work for them and also they used the Irish to help build the railroads and other things, but they were not kept as slaves as long in America as the Africans.

Davis media blog

In the movie Mississippi burning Gene Hatcher is a investigater for the CSI and is going to Mississippi for a consperisy that happened where a black person from the north was driving through Mississippi and then all of a sudden dissapearred and when he was investigating no person in the state was cooperating with him while they were asking questions about the inciedent. All the white people would be saying the same story or tell him to forget about it and go back home because he is never going to solve the case down here. Also in the movie when he goes to the black villiages and homes after he left or if word got out that he would be going to visit to question about anything the kkk would go to the villages and start to burn down the villages and run the black people out of the town or get them so scared that they would not talk because they feared for their life because if they did talk they made treats that tehy would kill them and also they burned crosses in front of Genes charactors hotel and stuff where he was stay as a notion to get out of town. This relates to Zinns drawing the color line because it has them treatening the black people and also it kind of relates to Johnson when he said it is not what we dont know that we are afraid of but what we know we are afraid of because they were afraid of change and that if anyone found out that he was killed by the kkk this would spark something unbarable to the south and they would have to change and adopt the way of standards of accepting people, for who they are not what they look like and what race they are. also it shows that the influence in the south of the richer had their way and showed that the south is controlling and racist because of the privillaged few that made laws and regulations.