My reaction to this chapter is one that is mildly surprised. I found it interesting that “escape was easier than rebellion,” (Zinn 46). Apparently, the air was heavily charged with rumor of rebellion and revolt (something I think would work well for an espionage novel). I thought it was interesting how the white workers really put their heart and soul into getting a better life. This chapter made me start to see another side of the multifaceted history of the United States, one that wasn’t focused on equality for African Americans or women, but one that was focused on equality among common men.
Although these two are the most prominent, they are not the most important. The most important is the sociological concept primary socialization, but is not displayed until later. First Racism is introduced in the opening scenes through the use of derogatory terms. The main character, Derek Vineyard, begins to refer to African Americans and other minorities as parasites and problems in the United States. In this same scene he also shows views of white supremacy because he states that minorities come to America only to exploit it as opposed to establishing themselves as “model citizens”.
He was known as the “Black Menace” and was born in Galveston, Texas. Johnson was America’s first black Heavyweight champion. People often saw his job not only as a boxer but pissing off white people. He was very well-rounded boxer that loved fast cars, fancy suits, and white women. After the fight against Tommy Burns that gave him his title as the heavyweight champion, he became a hero to the blacks suffering under slavery.
Knight was given the nickname, “The General” by Dick Vitale because the he was highly educated in military history. Indiana reached the Final Four in 1973, losing to UCLA. In 1976, the Hoosiers were undefeated at 32-0 and won championship, beating Michigan 86-68 in the title game. Knight’s Hoosiers also won championships in 1981. When Indiana won the 1979 NIT championships, Knight led the U.S. national team to a gold metal in the Olympic Games as coach of the Michael Jordan team.
According to the author’s interpretation, Colin Powell acknowledged and wrote about the positive changes in American history, whereas Malcolm X focused solely on racism in American history. Colin Powell mentioned in his autobiography that black GIs had more freedom in Germany during WWII than they did in the country they were serving. Colin Powell mentioned and acknowledged that America does have her faults, but he was thankful that at least America is progressing towards a more peaceful future and that was what encouraged him to love his country and all of its flaws. Malcolm X on the other hand didn’t feel like America was progressing fast enough towards a peaceful future where all American citizens are treated equally. He believed in revolution and violence to try to stop racism.
Whites are like girls.” Furthermore, Malcolm points out it is not the reason that Africans are black, so they are better at sports than Whites, but it is because of the genetic variability inside the bodies of African population, it helps them to become elite athletes in the world like Michael Jordan, Tiger Wood, Wayne Gretzky, or Cal Ripken. To the second reason of the differences between black and white athlete, Malcolm gives out the cause of it is based on the stereotype that blinds the natural ability in white people. Back to the research on boys and girls about math, psychologist finds out an interesting thing that ”the smarter girls are, the more likely they are to fall into this trap,” which is created by their stereotype that because they are not intelligent enough, it’s hardly for them to solve the problems of the more difficult tasks like algebra or advanced calculus. And with the same stereotype inside white people that “ Blacks achieve
The speech I Had A Dream established his reputation as one of the greatest speakers in the history of America. With this speech, Martin Luther King Junior recieved the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. If Martin Luther King Junior kept his thoughts to himself, the world may still be in racial crisis. Imagine our world being a black and white silent movie. I mean sure it would be amusing to use funny motions.
A Political Black Market The Romney campaign’s recent interest in the black community is a racial Ponzi scheme “If you want a president who will make things better in the African American community, you are looking at him.” If asked which candidate said this quote, we would all assume that Obama undoubtedly did. With a previous 94% of the black vote while making history as our nation’s first African American president in the 2008 election, it would make perfect sense. But you would be wrong. This was actually the presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney last before being booed loudly at the NAACP national convention in Houston. It surprised me that he would actually put himself in such a predicament.
A scholar, an author and a profound sociologist; Dr. Jennifer Peirce is tackling to find answers of how social stigma between race has created a still extreme disapproval and discomfort amongst elite working professionals in a time of the late 1980s when many institutional programs have sought to end affirmative action, but were still federally mandated at this particular corporation and other programs. In a contemporary America the political correctness to coincide the terminology of ending racism is to have colorblindness, as a sociologist Dr. Peirce looks to now answer the color blind ideology; which is to give fair representation to all those working, but is done so only based on the federal mandate and not personal ideology. Dr. Peirce utilized several different
“In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.” This quote is taken from the man who is primarily responsible for the revival of the Olympics, Baron Pierre De Coubertin. At the age of 29 as a French educator, Pierre de Coubertin had a desire to promote better international understanding through love of athletics. 114 years later, his desire being accomplished, is now taking place in Vancouver, Canada— better known as 2010 Olympic Games. Everywhere you are right now, you either hear or see something about the Olympics or Olympic related. Our country is well represented with many talented Americans playing for us at the Olympic Games going on right now.