THE ETHICS OF A LIVING JIM CROW! 

       Well hey there bloggers! I haven't blogged since last week! My nose has been stuck in the book The Looming Tower. It's a difficult, but amazing read! Anyways, I'm not here to discuss that book. I am here to write all of my thoughts down about our latest article -- The Ethics of a Living Jim Crow. Jeez. This article made me so incredibly angry, I actually had to put the article down to cool off. There were so many things on my mind, and let me tell you, if I wrote it all down I could probably just write a full paper. Oh how I hate racism. And sexism. And all of those ideas that people have against those who are just trying to live their life. We really are the same inside, deep down at the core! 
        For those of you who don't know what the Jim Crow laws are, which you should everyone learns about them, these laws are basically a set of laws that made blacks equal but separated from whites. So, they should have been treated the same, but just with separated facilities and a special treatment. This is absolutely ridiculous. Do you want to know who came up with these laws? Some high end white guys who have never met a black person in their life, but since Lincoln expressed his ideas on the ending of slavery (which did eventually take place), they had to come up with a way to keep blacks away from whites. This would have never worked. The things that these black guys got were the leftovers. Old books. Crappy bathrooms. Standing on the bus when there is no room. They were treated like they were a "lesser" kind of species, which in fact, they weren't. Let me actually get on about talking about this article, because I could go off on how idiotic white people were in the past for decades.
        I started reading this article, which is broken into eight chunks, and after the first chunk I was fascinated. Incredibly pissed, but fascinated. This black man looking back into his past, reliving all of the things that happened to him that were unfair, or things that happened during the Jim Crow law period. The first thing that happened to him was he was hit in the head with a broken milk bottle by some white kid. He cried and waited for his mom coming home from the "white folks kitchen" (Ridiculous. Why can't they just share? The world may never know.) When she arrived home, she didn't console him. She didn't feel bad for him. She was mad. She hit him. Why? Why did black people just take it? Why didn't they stand up for what was right? I mean eventually they did, but this could have happened sooner than it did. This is an injustice and all of these black folks just take it. Ugh that makes me so mad! They should have stood up. Way way way way way sooner than they did. Something I found intriguing about this is that these black people were actually scared to walk through the white people's turf. Which just surprised me a bit considering that now days, NOT BEING STEREOTYPICAL HERE, but people are afraid to walk through the ghetto? And when that word comes to mind don't black people as well? But they do have good reason to be afraid when walking through the white "area", they are targets. And they would stick out like a sore thumb.
       The second Jim Crow incident happened when he was just a teenager. He started a job and asked some guys who were assigned to train him and teach him what to do to actually show him what to do, because they weren't. Then they hit him. Because that makes total sense... GOSH! This is where I had to cool down. Why is it that when we get mad, we result to violence. Right? It seriously makes total sense! NOT!
       Then he witnessed some white guys beating up a black girl. And then he had to agree with him that what they did what right. WHEN IT FREAKING WASN'T! Ugh. Alright guys. This is seriously pissing me off and I am getting frustrated again about stupid, racist, white people. Overall though it was an interesting article, and you should really read it if you wanna get fired up. Alright deuces bloggers.
       Read you later bloggers!


 

TALK OF THE TOWN!

Today I got the chance to catch up on the essays, and to my surprise this essay was interesting! It may be because I am interested in the Psychology of those involved with the 9/11 attacks, or it may be because
I am an American and I care about what is going on in my country. But whatever it was, this essay was really intriguing!

When I read the first article by John Updike, I realized that everything he said I agreed with! I don't remember the 9/11 attacks personally, I was in Kindergarten, but I do know that all of my teachers were in mourning. There was one specific idea that John Updike wrote about in this essay, and that was that we were "summoned to witness," this idea couldn't be more spot on. No one in there right mind would choose to watch thousands of people be killed by a terrorist attack. It's just sick.

He also talked about how media was involved in this event. He said that the media and government, two things that go hand in hand, tried to convince the rest of all Americans that this could be fixed. That we could somehow bring back the lives of those lost. And sadly that is true of the media and the government, they either make things worse than they are or they try to make them seem like they are better. Nothing is ever just news anymore!

There was one part in his essay where he was talking about how a Florida neighbor of one of the suspects remembers him saying that he didn't like the United States: "He said it was too lax. He said, 'I can go anywhere I want to, and they can't stop me.'" To me that seems just a bit off. I would take the hint and possibly say something to the authorities, especially if they had a weird feeling around this guy.

Then I got the chance to read the next article by Susan Sontag, and I also agreed with everything she said! In her beginning paragraph, she said that this was an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower. Sadly, it seems like America does boast about how "fantastic" we are, when in all reality, we aren't that spectacular.

She also said something about how if anything came from this there must, be a historical awareness that goes on. The famous philosopher George Santayana once said, " Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." And I couldn't agree more with this quote, we can only learn from our mistakes.

I really enjoyed this article and I can't wait to finish up this next essay!

Read you later bloggers!

WELCOME! 

Hello my fellow AP Comp bloggers! Welcome to my site! This blog post was originally due on Friday, June 28th. Sadly, I got all of the information a bit late, so my goal is to catch up! Anyways, this first post is an introductory blog.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy!

This upcoming school year is my final school year at McFarland High. I am really looking forward to this class! After high school I am planning on attending UW Eau Claire and gaining my major in Psychology and my minor in Marine Biology, then moving to somewhere along the coast (not sure what coast) to train, preform rescue and research on marine mammals! While in high school I enjoy being on the varsity swim team and on state with my fellow thespians! This last June, I went to Badger Girls State where I learned a lot about our state government! I loved the experience, and if any of you juniors have the chance to attend Badger Girls State -- DO IT!

Oh! I also love birds...a lot.

Alright. Enough about me! I am pumped to start this blog and I cant wait to read all of the fascinating things that all of you AP Comp bloggers have to say!

Read you later bloggers!