Friday, September 17, 2010

Weekly Article Topic:

"Discuss the relationships between the treatment of African-Americans during Reconstruction with the treatment of the same peoples during the United States Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s"


African-Americans during the Reconstruction of the Union and the Confederate states were finally free by the Lincoln's 13th Amendment which abolished slavery and During the Civil Rights Movement they were hunted down by the clan and lynched mercilessly. Back during the Reconstruction it seemed like they were giving a bit more, I guess- Respect. Yes, they were slaves but they weren't severely killed and mutilated. 


Lincoln's very own words "I am not now, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social or political equality of the white and black races. I am not now nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor of intermarriages with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and the blackraces which will forever forbid the two races living together on social or political equality. There must be a position of superior and inferior, and I am in favor of assigning the superior position to the white man." Shows how how he was neither Pro-Slavery or for Anti-Slavery also followed by another quote "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." Back then everything was against them but they still had their amount of what was "freedom" now into the later days of the civil rights movement everything went haywire from the revealment of the Ku Klux Klan(KKK) to the assasination of John F. Kennedy.




The Klan was a white-supremacist group who despised anybody who wasn't white, they lynched black sharecroppers and anyone who really stood in their way, no african-americans were saved they were all day after day worrying about their lives, one bad look and that was enough to kill one another. The African-Americans were mostly all in debt, used for war, or slaughters and sold by the pieces in harsh mutilated . Most of the world still doesn't understand how brutal things were in these times, and most of things I can't even explain in this weekly article since most of it is NSFW, so i'll end my weekly article here. 

Find a historical image that is appropriate for the academic nature of your blog. Post your image and discuss why you chose the photo and what the viewer should take away from the photo.

This image is from the civil war with the medics and ambulances of what seems the Union picking up soldiers that are still able to fight while leaving the ones that can't go on or dead. I picked this image on the sole reason we are discussing the civil war in class at this time.

During Reconstruction there was great debate over whether the South should be granted amnesty. What are your thoughts? Defend your argument.

My thoughts are simply that amnesty should have happened sooner, if we think of what african americans have accomplished for us now just imaging what could have happened if they were able to think freely. Who knows we could have gotten an entire new way of life if that was possible.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Why was Abraham Lincoln's concern more focused on preserving the Union, rather than slavery?

I think Abraham Lincoln's concern was for the southern agriculture, The north needs it because without it they would end up without any resources to make clothes, to feed families and such.

Why do you think that stereotypes are so widely known by so many in our society?

Everybody knows stereotypes; Asians are good at math, Puerto Ricans are Loud people etc, etc.
But the main reason that it is so widely known is because about 98% of the time it would be true.
Stereotypes also go by gender differences like: Men are pigs, and Women are only good for the kitchen.
Not every stereotype is true though. But they do have some sort of way that it is true. I basically think that people know them since they are mostly found true.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Does history matter? Explain

Does history matter? Well of course it does, it provides great intel in what we shouldn't do and what we should do, but at the same time history can't be trusted. If it's writen by the winners we only get their part of the story and not of the losers. History does a great deal for us down to war stratagies and geographic location of things. In my opinion I think history matters alot more then what other people think.

5.Should we change the way we teach younger students about the history of the United States? Explain.

I honestly think that the way we teachers teach younger students is wrong. Take me for example, I didn't know that my teachers lied to me about pilgrims until this year. The are censoring things that kids should know at a younger age, I think it would definitely make kids understand more and not have to be as confused as I was a few days ago.