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It was black history month. My friend told me about this movie that was really good called Mississippi Burning. “Brace yourself because it’s really sad.” I told him ok and after school I went home did my homework and looked the movie up on the internet and they didn’t have it. Then I went to on demand and found it. I sat there and watched the movie and it made me so mad and angry. It was so sad the way they beat and killed those people for no reason. Being that the movie was also based on a true story angered me even more. After I saw that movie I started to not like white folks. It wasn’t just the movie that made me feel this way; it was all the racism I received by white folks thru my life. I felt like why I should talk to them or even like them after what they done to my kind of people for so many years and also because of their attitude towards me personally.

Mississippi Burning is about three civil rights workers that are hilled killed. An investigation is launched to find the civil rights workers. Two FBI agents (Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) are put on the case. They encounter the hatred and violence that is in Mississippi with the investigation which included the burning crosses, lynching, and the KKK. Mississippi Burning is a very powerful movie. For a while I didn’t like white people because I felt why I should like a person who treated blacks like so brutal. I was just filled with anger and hate. Then one day I thought to myself, “Why don’t you like white people?” I told myself that I was basically acting the same way they were acting towards black folks and I was basically acting like them. That was wrong. Everybody should be treated the same no matter what race they are or what color of skin they have.

I still occasionally watch the movie but it doesn’t change the way I think of people anymore. I still have that straight open minded mind. Overall the movie really taught me how racist white people were and how some still are. In the movie they killed black folks for no reason but because of the color of their skin. I can’t really pinpoint on any other changes that came with the movie but I know that I felt like a different person. I looked at the world and the people in different. Even I do I still have racist actions put upon me I just say those are ignorant white people that are stupid and need to know theres no difference between blacks and whites. I could do the same thing you could do. If none of you ever seen the movie then you really should take time out and go watch it because it shows in detail how blacks and other whites who supported the blacks where beat and killed for no reason.

blog post one

In the class writing rhetoric 1 we are to work out the book called Rereading America. Looking at the cover of the book and the title, the notion I receive from the book is
that we are reading America this way and we should be reading America this way.
On the cover of the book there’s a black and white flag and a colorful flag. I think
this means that America isn’t black and white it’s actually a colorful and
historic place. I think the editor chose this artistic piece to get people to
understand that the world is a much bigger place and has other beliefs and cultural
than just you and I.

Looking at the table of contents I get a feeling that this book is focused on equality, myths, women and men, and the way the majority of people think or should I say the norm of the way most people think. Looking at the table of contents and the authors, I haven’t heard
of none of them but Thomas Jefferson; but I really want to read the book. It doesn’t
sound like one of those lame, uninterested books. I would
love to read this book. There’s a section called True Women
and Real Men: Myths of Gender. I would have to say this section would talk
about men are treated better than woman; or what their role suppose to be in
the world.

I would like to read the piece of Created Equal: The Myth of the Melting Pot. I’m drawn to this because I have been through many racist things in my life and I want to know more about the race and why people are racist. The latest racist thing I have been thru would have to be
with my girlfriend and her family. My girl is Mexican and her family doesn’t like
black people. So they would say racist things to my girlfriend about me. I would
ask myself what I did to deserve this from them. They didn’t even know or
seen me at the time. My girlfriend told me that her grandmother told her that
because I was black that I was going to beat her, make her sell drugs, and rape
her; and she should date a Mexican or white guy. I just want to know why she
would say that about a person she don’t know and I think if not this section
this book would give me the answer.

I think that everybody has been through a racist situation in their life time and I know people and my classmates would want to know why they are being treated that way. I think it’s more than just the color of your skin or the color of your eyes. If that is the case then
something is wrong with those people brains. I think discussing this we or I know
I could get closure if somebody has an answer for my question or questions. Why do
Most Mexicans hate black people?