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Monday, March 19, 2012
Diary Entry 1: March 8,
2010
I
was walking down the road, and I seen a group of white men, I started getting
scared, I knew from rumors that they weren’t a very good group. All a sudden they yelled “you stupid
N-Word.” I felt like I could cry. I didn’t understand why they would pick on
me. I’ve never seen them in my
life. I was maybe three blocks from
home, I tried walking faster and faster.
I felt this big pain in my back, It went all the way down my spine. I looked back and they were right behind me
waiting to throw another rock. They
yelled “stop walking n-word.” I felt as
if someone had punched me in my stomach.
I thought about running, but I knew if I did so, they would just chase
me. So I stopped, then one of the boys grabbed my arms and put them behind my
back, I started crying. Then they told
me if I didn’t stop they would hit me, I couldn’t bare to stop. So they started hitting, it got harder and
harder. They let me go and I ran
home. I felt like I couldn’t go out in
public by myself anymore. I didn’t
understand why. But I knew it was only
because I was black! I cried all night
trying to bare the pain of racism.
Diary Entry 2: March 9,
2010
I woke up still in pain from the night before. “I never thought that would happen to me” I
said. I don’t know if I should tell my
mother. I called my friend Matt and
asked him to walk to school with me today.
I was scared to walk alone now.
My only choice was to walk with him, or walk alone. I had been hoping he would walk with me. But when I called he had already left for
school. Now, I was scared. “What would I do?” I asked myself. I figured if I took the main streets to
school, I would make it without any problems.
Well I was wrong. They were
waiting two streets down. I didn’t know
If I should turn around, or just keep walking and stand up for myself. I just didn’t want beat up anymore. I thought
about it, and kept walking. They yelled
at me a couple times. I was four blocks
from school, I thought to myself. I said “Brandon keep walking, don’t let them
bother you.” All they did was yell at me
and call me names. I realized that they
were done with me. I thought about it
and knew they were going to move on to the next black kid. I knew the pain, the
hurt. I wouldn’t want anyone to go
through that, like I did.
Friday, March 16, 2012
How did Hitler and the Nazi Party
take power. Schools History. Retrieved March 7, 2012. from
http://
www.schoolshistory.org.uk/hitlergainspower.htm#.T1gSQDEgf64
Seven ways to control Germany. Retrieved
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Learning Site. Retrieved March 16, 2012. from http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kkk_and_racial_problems.htm
Racism
and sexism are very big and important issues in our society today. Discriminating against others based on skin
color or gender can be seen throughout the history of the world. The leaders of groups relating to these
topics are usually mean and cruel.
Although there are many similarities in the way that these leaders act
and how they treat others, there are also many differences. This is true today
as well as in the past. The most famous
leader of racism and sexismwas Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust. He authorized the murdering of millions of Jews,
women, men and children during World War II. The most current group for racism
and sexism is the Ku Klux Klan. It is a
violent group that fights for white supremacy.
These leaders and group are very similar in their views and ways, but
also different in their extremeness.
The leaders of
racism and sexism are alike in some ways, but different in others. Hitler was an extreme racist and sexist who
seized power in Germany after World War I.
He believed in a perfect world with white supremacy. In 1935, he helped pass the Nuremberg Laws,
which took away German citizenship from the Jews and banned them from marrying
non-Jews. Jews were removed from
schools, excluded from the military and banned from their professions. Hitler lead a movement that put a big
importance on someone’s family tree-making it a matter of life and death.
However, his family tree was messed up and brought him a lifetime of
embarrassment. A racist and sexist group
that acts out violently against blacks is the Ku Klux Klan. The leader of the Ku Klux Klan is called the Imperial
Wizard. They organize the meetings of the group and lead them. The KKK would burn churches of the blacks and
murder or rape them. They would rarely get caught because the head officials in
the towns were also members of the group.
There are many similarities between these two groups. They are similar in the way that they target
one major group and act out violently against them. Also, they both believe in
the fact of white supremacy over other races and that is their reasons for
acting out. There are also many
differences between these two. They are
different because they target different groups of people. The ways that they
punish the people are different also.
Hitler murdered millions of helpless Jews while the Ku Klux Klan scared
the blacks into fearing them and then killed them.
Through Hitler’s
reign the group that was targeted the most was Jews. They were blamed for Germany’s loss in World
War I and the economic hardships the country was going through. Jews were also thought of as a less superior
race that was keeping the Germans from being rulers of the world. They went as far as to compare the Jews to a
plague carrying rats.
The group that is targeted the most by the Ku Klux Klan is blacks. They became a target right after the Civil
War because of the new rights they had just obtained. The KKK thought that the blacks were going to
ruin the white’s power and their supremacy. They would frighten the blacks into
being terrified of them and to fear for their lives. These groups are alike in
the way that they were targeted by outside groups and were killed for being
different. They are also similar because
they were targeted to make the world better for whites. These groups are different because of the
different groups that targeted them and how badly they were treated. Although both groups were hurt, they are
still around today.
The leaders of
these groups obtained their power in different ways. Hitler took control of Germany after World
War I because he felt that they were cheated out of a win in the war. The Ku Klux Klan leader started the group
because of his beliefs and people just started following him and acting with
him. The way these leaders took power is
different. Hitler took his forcefully,
while the leader of the KKK took his more peacefully and just started the
group. The way these leaders obtained
power is also similar. They both took
the initiative to lead a group and be in charge of what goes on. Also they both were scared of what would
happen if they did not change something.
Although these leaders took their power in a different way, they were
also similar.
The ways that
these leaders maintained their power were pretty similar. Both scared the rest of the people into
fearing them and that’s how they were able to keep their power. They both were very extreme and threatened
the lives of others. They are also
different in how many people they had to keep fearing them and how much power
they had. Hitler reigned over an entire
country and kept them under his power.
The KKK mostly just threatened the southern blacks and kept their power
over them. Even though these leaders
maintain their power in different ways, they were also similar.
Racism and sexism
are things in our society that should be gotten rid of. Even though they are not as obviously shown
as in the past, they are still big factors.
They have many similarities in the ways they have been used throughout
history, but they also have many differences in them. Racism and sexism have been around for a long
time but there is still time for change.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Buffalo high school team uses racial chant. (2011, December 11). Mike.
Retrieved March 1, 2012.
Caron, C. (2011,
December 12). N word chant gets girls
basketball team suspended. ABC News.
Retrieved March 1, 2012. from http://abcnews.go.com/US/word-chants-girls-basketball-team-
Daily Mail Reporter.
(2011, December 11). One, two,
three, n****r!: Girls high school basketball team
suspended over racist chant. Mail Online. Retrieved March 1, 2012. From http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072585/Kenmore-East-high-school-girls-basketball-team-suspended-racist-chant.html
High School Basketball Team Suspended for
Racial Comments
Racism was a big
issue in the past and it is still a very big issue we face today. Racism primarily deals with the
discrimination of people based on their race.
It has been exposed in the past through the Civil War and the
Holocaust. African Americans were
treated poorly during those times because of their race and Jews were
persecuted because of their religion.
Teenager Tyra
Batts from Buffalo high school stands alone on her high school basketball team
as the other players make racial comments. She is the only African-American on the team
so she is outnumbered when asking them to stop. The team’s pre-game ritual included yelling
the N-word on the count of three. Although Tyra voiced her concerns about using
that word, her teammates replied saying that it was just a word and not a
label, and that they weren’t being racist. The superintendent of the school district says,
“That no coaches, administrators or other adults were aware of the tradition
the team was doing.” No one knew what
was going on and that the team was making racial comments. That was until Tyra was suspended from school
for getting into a fight with one of her teammates over the matter. She was fed up with how she was being treated
and she threw a teammate into a locker and chocked her. Tyra said, “I took my frustration out on her
at school second period and I got suspended for five days. It was a buildup of anger and frustration at
being singled out of the whole team.”
The superintendent said, “The minute an adult knew, we started our search
and investigation.” After looking into the situation it was found that the
girls would do the chant after the coaches and all other adults had left the
locker room and they were alone. Before
one of their games Tyra argued with her teammates but no one took her side;
they said it was a tradition and they do it every year. Tyra also said that there were jokes and
comments made at practice that the coach heard but she didn’t know about the
pre-game chant. During practices Tyra
would endure several racially charged insults.
They would make comments about picking cotton and shackles. A senior on the varsity basketball team last
year said that the team’s pre-game ritual wasn’t supposed to be racist. The superintendent said that after looking
into the matter that the members of the team had broken the school’s code of
conduct and the extracurricular athletic code. They received a one-game
suspension and a two-day suspension from school. They are also required to
attend cultural sensitivity training. After
the dispute was settled Tyra’s dad said, “This was not something that just
developed this year. This is something
that has been going on for quite some time.” Tyra’s family respected the
District because of their quick response to the situation, but would have been
happier with harsher consequences for the basketball team. Even after all of this Tyra still returned to
the basketball floor with her teammates and continues to play.
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