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.

Davis media blog

In the movie herald and kumar go to white castle they show hatred and prejudice to black people and the asians. In the one sence leading up to were it really turns bad is that the two of them are in the middle of nowhere and are waiting at a light so that they can cross the road and the light does not change for a few and so they decide to jay walk and right when they step onto the road a police car comes out of nowhere and starts to question them and the cop is white. So when he is asking questions he is thinking what kind of person would name thier kid kumar and thinks that he is a indian pr something and makes fun of him and arrest him for resisting arrest and makes up other charges. This relates to Zinn and Takaki because they did not care about anything when they came to America like the native americans they just took them hostage or they killed them. Another part in the sence where he is in jail he meets a black person who was put in jail and while he is in there the cops are so mean and racist to them they came in there and while herald was in there kumar came to get him out and while they were in their the keys were still in the cell and kumar smelled something and went to check it out and then the cops came back and saw the keys in the cell and automatically assumed the black man was trying to escape and said to his other buddies lets get him so they went in their and started to beat him with knight sticks and punches. This relates to Zinn because the beat them and made them do hard labor as punishment for trying to escape and did many other things that were cruel to them when they caught them.

Davis media blog A Bronx Tale

A Bronx tale to me related a lot to Drawing the color line by Zinn because because thats what it talks about a color line really. In the movie they mention the blacks and have their own area in the city and the italians would have their own area and they were not to come over into the other area under any curcumstances. During the movie though they have there differences when once in the middle of the movie a couple of black kids are ridding their bikes through the white italian neighborhood and the couple of kids that the movie is stared upon throw things at them and go and beat them up and one kid named C goes and tries to stop them and protect one kid. This part is in relation to Zinn because they are starting to worry if the whites in the north are starting to get the impression that they are going to start to change and stop slavery movements in the south. Also in the movie near the end the couple of white italians go into the black neighborhood and have molitof cocktails and throw them into a conviniant store owned by a black person and this shows though that even though they did nothing wrong the prejuidice this also relates to Zinn because in that they did not have respect for the black people and did acts of vandilism and burnings to them and thats what they tried to do to them, but in the movie their plan back fired and they black people in the store threw the cocktails back and burned alive they white italians and the hatred continued.

davis, tony journal analysis post

I was thinking about writing on how slavery affected many different ethnic groups in north america from the africans to the irish and how they were slaves but somewhere treated differently through the course of their terms of slavery. Also and the native americans were not going to be enslaved by the settler. Also some of the events that took place during and while they were enslaved because of it.

Davis, Tony Take Home Quiz

The authors conclusion is that the country has given a lot of freedom to certain ethnic groups. Like giving them a whole month of appreciation. She says that why do this because we all should be equal we do not need to give certain groups freedom to speak out. For example the homosexuals their parades and such, and Sarah stated that you don’t see her going out and saying that see is a “straight white female”. Also she goes on to say that many of the things that happened in the past we need to remember, but not dwell on them. We need to move on as a country and as individuals because we are all equal no matter what ethnic backgrounds we come from.

One of the arguments that I thought would be best to describe this article is being sick and tired of hearing all of the same things everyday or every year. When it comes to February she kind of gets at that we do not need a whole month to celebrate a race because we do not do that for any other race and frankly some people can start to get tired of hearing it. Also about people complaining that they have been dealt a “bad hand in life because it is the individual who can make the change” to get out of that situation. Also when she said about the homosexuals and them parading around showing that they love the same sex and people do not want to see or hear about your own personal sexual preferences ad people are starting to get sick and tired of all of this.

davis, tony journal johnson 6

In this article the author is trying to tell us in the beginning as a white person that there is difficulty talking to a person of color or different race about privilege and other rights without getting defensive or offended. Even though we can be interrupting or cut them off when they are trying to speak because we are frightened. Also the author goes on to talk about how we as people are always grouping everything as one group or that you have to belong to a group, but as individuals we are one part of the group as he compared to a university the people are not a part of the university and the university is not part of the people they just make up the group of the university.

Also he goes on to say that the white straight males are the most domaniate group because that’s what God is and what God is to be considered as so that’s why they are the most dominate group of people. Also he said that men are sexist and that even though there are some that are not sexist that they do not get involved with the ones that are so there is no one who will try to put a stop to this problem. Also he gives a diagram as to how we make social systems and how we follow the systems with the easiest paths and such.

1.Why are women not sexist?
2. Why do we always classify people as groups?

At the beginning when he was talking about when whites talk to people as color we are always quick to respond and get in defensive it sort of is true because I see it in classrooms and other things especially when groups are brought together because everyone was brought up differently and has different values and beliefs. Also when he brought up that only men are sexist is was kind of hurting because a few bad ones classify the whole group a that’s why we can not classify everyone into groups because we are not all the same we may look alike but we are all different.

davis Takaki ch 3

Takaki in chapter 3 was talking about or trying to tell us that the English were going to Africa to take the Africans as slaves back to America so that they could get more work done in the fields and around the plantation.

Also Takaki talks about how that the English are degrating the Africans and making them work on thier property for life or make them become property to where they can sell them and or buy them like animals. Also they talked about slaves being white and before you never heard of their being white slaves they said that they were Irish and that the way they got them was the English soldiers would go to Ireland and kidnapp the people and send them to the ship to be sailed to America. The white slaves though were not thought of as bad as the black slaves because the whites slaves got their freedom a little quicker and also if a white slave and a black slave were caught running away they would each get their lashes and then the black slave would get extra punishment from their master.

1. How come when the blacks were freed by Jefferson they did not leave the country or move away from the South?
2. Why couldn't the Native Americans gain natural citizenship?

The reading was not that shocking and because we have heard growing up about slavery and everything that goes on with it so it was not shocking to me to hear most of the things said in this chapter and the thing that caught me was that their were white slaves i had no idea because you never are told or heard about the white slaves only the black slaves.

Zinn Ch 2 Davis, tony

The basic idea of this reading was to tell the reader how slavery came about and how slavery and racism are still strong in America and has been for such a long time.

The slavery in Americas started with and when Columbus came over to the Americas by capturing the indians and making them work for him. Then the story tells about a colony in North America and how they were struggling to make it and how they contemplated on taking the indians as salves like Columbus. Then in 1619 a million black slaves were brought from Africa to South America to be slaves and so this is what gave the people of Jamestown the idea to go to Africa to get slaves for their crops. They brought them back in by the shipfulls and sold and made profits off them. Also they were treated like property so if you were caught stealing them or they ran away they would be caught and brought back for their punishment.

1. Why would the Africans not fight when people came to their country and try to take control of them?
2. When they were on the farms or plantations why did they not rise up and fight their way out from their one or two masters?

My personal response to this is that this is terrible i mean in every country their are cases like this but now it has to stop because if we can not learn to live with each other now are we ever going to be able to live with each other and really there is no difference between anybody because we all have a ideas and good one just because someone is a different color then the majority doesnt mean you can inslave them and make them do all of your work. So we have to stop and learn from the passed so this will not happen again.