AGENDA:
Morning Reflection:
http://www.thewrap.com/mudbound-tiff-2017-video/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/lynchings-sadism-white-men-why-america-must-atone
1. Read over Jamie and Ronsel meeting --pages 204-212---Compare and contrast Film treatment with
VENN DIAGRAM
We know very early in the book that something terrible is going to
befall Ronsel. How does this sense of inevitability affect the story?
Jamie makes Ronsel responsible for his own fate, saying "Maybe that's
cowardly of me, making Ronsel's the trigger finger." Is it just
cowardice, or is there some truth to what Jamie says? Where would you
place the turning point for Ronsel? Who else is complicit in what
happens to him, and why?
2. Work on historical short story
Hmwk:
BOA DINE AND RHYME FRIDAY
Finish first draft of story for Friday. Finish novel for Tuesday/TEST
Throughout the video, I was thinking about the challenges I would have to face once I leave high school. I know now that there are even more challenges and that i have to learn how to navigate through life and fight through those challenges. Of course, I do realize that I'll go through even more struggles with me being an African-American and a woman. Some may say I'm a minority twice over. What really opened my eyes was when the speaker mentioned how people are just so used to African-Americans being treated so poorly. It really caused me to think about what my future may be like or what could possibly happen.
ReplyDeleteThe video was about the history of lynching and how it has affected african americans in 2018. The man walks around the memorial and acts as a sort of narrator for the video. A woman shares her story of a family member who was lynched. I felt uncomfortable watching the images of violence and lynching.
ReplyDeleteThe speakers are right in the fact that their history should be an example of what should not be repeated again. It's awful to hide the history, pretend like it never happened, and move on. It's better to face the problem head first and make sure the unexcuseable behavior stays forbidden. The memorial looks well thought out, and is a very solemn, quiet place. The area deserves as much respect as possible, for the victims and the people who are carrying on their legacies. The history of prejudice and racism in the United States is a past that will stick to the country whether people want to forget that or not.
ReplyDeleteThis video made me angry. I cannot believe some people are treated differently just because their skin is a different color. It makes me angry to think people were killed, abused, enslaved, and more just because of the color of their skin. It's the dumbest thing ever in my opinion. Some people are disgusting and I personally have no respect for anyone who agrees with treating people out of their race like this.
ReplyDeleteDespite lynchings not occurring in today's society, it still leaves this lingering feeling of hurt. To know that people were lynched in brutal ways, sometimes even advertised like a movie coming out at the cinema is sickening. Personally, I think the museum sheds light on the amount of lynchings, the ridiculous reasons, the prejudice and racism, and the heart wrenching victims. It makes visitors knowledgeable on African American history, and helps them correlate that history to the prejudice and racism that still exists today. I believe, one day I would like to visit that museum to really feel for myself the weight that hangs in the air at the sight of the memorials one after the other. This video was depressing, yet enlightening at the same time, I definitely comprehended and absorbed it.
ReplyDeleteIt makes you realize that their lives where taken just because they looked different. They were terrorizing people for self pleasure which they didn't benefit from it, it was all hatred and it makes me upset. seeing how many lives where taken for no exact reason is evil and you don't think about it because it doesn't come up in everyday conversations. They fought to keep their children and themselves alive for as long as they could worrying that if they even look at someone wrong they could be hung.
ReplyDeleteI'm so used to hearing about how my people were treated back then but every time I hear it I always feel the same way. Even though I wasn't there it still has an effect on me. Its very sad just knowing what people went through. History repeats itself. In 2018 there is still no equality and this world is still separated. Our people died for nothing and till this day our people still die for nothing and justice is never served. That's the type of world we live in today.
ReplyDeleteThe video is about the lynching of African Americans and the horrible effects that its had on the community even years later. I think that seeing a woman speak specifically about how lynching has affected her family and how it continues to affect her family, gives the topic a more personable feeling. I agree with the overall message of the video. The general public today needs to confront the horrible things that happened in the past in order to prevent it from happening again in the future.
ReplyDeleteThe video could've been a blank screen and the words alone would've still struck as deep. The terror and pain that was conveyed was something all too real. Without an excessive use of graphic images or a dramatic retelling the video held it's own. In the beginning, of the video I felt as if I wouldn't enjoy the video. By the end, I was left feeling angry. Angry at a country that allowed this happened. Angry that I had to teach myself this last year because it's not in the school curriculum.
ReplyDeleteThis video made me think of one I saw when I was in elementary school. In fifth grade I was in Mr. Cox's class and he was like no other teacher I had before. For starters he didn't believe that we shouldn't be treated like we were stupid, or incapable of understanding any subject. Part of that was he wanted us to learn the history a black and Spanish Americans. So one day we watched a video about the lynching of Emmett Till. It showed his body, told the story about why they lynched. It showed his other, the pain she went through. Her brave decision to give her son an open casket and let everyone to see what they did to him. I understood then that many lynching happened in America. However this is whole new level of what they went through. Also I signed up take his class again the next year.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I saw of the morning reflection, I can reflect the idea that people's tolerance, acceptance, and even encouragement of the brutalities that African Americans faced is the cause of today's discrimination within the black community as the stereotypes of blacks being violent, being dumb, being less than, etc. derived from this mistreatment and brutality formed against this race of people years ago. From the lynching. to the beating, to the discrimination, all of these factors within black history affect black people today because there are still white people with two confederate flags on their car that would follow you home, simply because of this idea of racism formulated by the white man in the past. This all is reflected in that museum displaying the several lynching's that occurred, the struggles black people faced, and those people being the ancestors of a black people that have come about today forces them to hold the weight of the brutality their past ancestors held, because of one race's unjustifiable feeling of superiority. It honestly pisses me off that people could blatantly murder, discriminate, and abuse another people all because of their ideas of what they are and what they can do, it disgusts me even that people could be so foul.
ReplyDeletesometimes i really don't know how to feel about these types of things. of course it gets me upset and i feel bad for what the people had to go through back in the 50s when my granddad was a boy. just the feeling of how they felt makes feeling in my soul want to fight every snow toned person in the world but what would that prove. i want to fight for the rights but whose going to listen? its so much things i personally want to do to stand up for those who cant stand up for there self. the main part of the video when the bricks hung from the walls with names of the people who got hung and it just made me feel like i need to push harder and make a legacy for myself make everyone who stood up for them self when there back was against the walls. i want to make them proud. also when i watched this it made me think of how an outside pov would have felt watching this video. someone who has friends who parents parents went through the things we did made me think. how would they feel if they were in our shoes.
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ReplyDeleteI liked the message behind the video. I really liked the idea of the museum and the art/sculptures/quotes it displayed. I hope the museum get a lot of attention and people from all over, of all different races, come to view it. The memorial itself was very interesting, not only visually, but the meaning behind it was shocking. It made me wonder what type of things African Americans have to deal with on a daily basis, even in 2018, and how that experience changes based on location.
ReplyDeleteThe video was interesting and made me want to go see this museum for myself. It is a great piece of historical art that was made to move people. I think the most powerful, and the piece that is really meant to move people were the hanging pieces. Seeing how many counties across the US supported and enforced treating African Americans like animals is sad. It most likely had a greater effect on people due to the fact that they were big pieces in a somewhat small space.
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