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.

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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.

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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.

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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.