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.