Why Do People Kill African Americans?

Have you ever heard of the incident which occurred at Rosewood, Florida? If you haven’t I really think you should. It’s a case everyone should know about. A white woman by the name Fannie Taylor cheated on her husband. The man who Fannie cheated on her husband with beat her after they got done having sex. She didn’t want her husband to find out about her cheating, so she lied to everyone in town. She said “that a black man raped and robbed her’. An old lady by the name of Sarah Carrier was the house maid of the Taylor household was there the time Mrs. Taylor cheated on her husband. She heard Mrs. Taylor lied about being raped by a black man, but she couldn’t speak up at the time. The white men in town found out about her being raped, and they went crazy. They went around killing every black person that got in their way. Some of the time they didn’t have to get in their way if they didn’t tell them what they wanted to hear. Then person that really beat her got away, nobody tripped off him. They was going around thinking it was this man by the name of Mr. Mann who the white people thought name was Jessie Hunter was the man who raped and robbed Fannie Taylor.

     This film surprised me. I never knew that that happened to children in those days. Slavery wasn't just the Negroes and Indians. It made me think how lucky I am to live in the day in age that I do, even though there are still children treated like this. I just was lucky and grew up in a good

“ Some of these early productions have racial themes which reorganize the world in such a way that black heritage is rewarded over white paternity; they are schematic renunciations of the prevailing order of things in white American society where, historically, the discovery of black blood meant sudden reversal of fortune, social exclusion, or banishment.” (Gaines, P.3) Within the movie the amount of mistruths about African Americans was sad. Within the movie you notice that the blacks were always or seem to be yelling, acting uncivilized and doing

Another victim of white on black rape was Betty Jean Owens, she was kidnapped from a school dance and taken into the woods and was gang raped by four white different men. Betty was so hurt from this rape she was sent to the hospital. When the students from the school she attended in Tallahassee, Florida had heard about the rape they were enraged, “Early the next day more than a thousand students gathered in the university’s grassy quadrangle with signs, hymns, and prayers aimed at the national news media, which sent stories of the attack across the country” (McGuire 136). These students were no longer going to sit back and watch the women they love and care about get raped and treated as though they aren’t human. They were letting the world

He tells the story of a young African girl in order to make the audience feel sympathy. He writes, "She can no longer attend the all-Negro school in her neighborhood because her mother died only recently after a car crash. Neighbors say if the ambulance hadn't come so late to take her to the all Negro hospital the mother might still be alive." This story is told so the audience will understand the blatant disregard for African American lives. It is told to make people realize that a change needs to be made and

When President Abraham Lincoln addressed the nation in his Gettysburg address he expressed the bloodshed from the civil war would bring about a “new birth of freedom” for the American people and nation. During the 19th century and in the aftermath of the civil war, white southerners engaged in a ruthless and never ending cycle of violence against African Americans. The white southerners engaged in violence over whether or not, after slavery African Americans would get full benefits of citizenships. The terror that was inflicted by whites onto African Americans resulted in 4,743 of African Americans being tortured, and lynched between the years of 1882-1968. Lynching has become the most disturbing and lawless act in American history. Many scholars and leaders have debated over the reasoning of such violent acts such as lynching during this time period.

Next, he tells of how all the Southerners just want to control the African Americans

Abraham Lincoln running for president in 1860 was not appreciated by the southern states, that supported slavery. The "Black Lives Matter" movement is an extremely important thing in the world today. in the first ingural address Abraham Lincoln wanted to make slavery illegal but in order to get the votes from the Southern States, he could not propose that he wants to terminate slavery. In my opinion, the police brutality towards African Americans connects to Abraham Lincolns inagural Address, becuase altough slavery has been trying to be stopped for over 200 years, discrimination stillexists today. Ifeel it is wrong to brutalize African American citizens because of their color and stereotypes slavery has come to an end. but the discrimination

One aspect I found in the movie that was inspiring is the way each character used their voice to express their beliefs. This movie made me realize that your voice is your most powerful tool. In the movie, a group of negroes went to different schools to debate on a variety of topics. In many aspects, the debates gave the negro’s a voice and enabled them to share their thoughts and beliefs about racial discrimination. Especially in times of racial discrimination, negroes were looked at as defenseless and inferior. For example, in The Great Debaters one black man was lynched by a mob of white people. During the final debate, James Farmer Jr. was able to use his memory of the man being lynched to support his argument. Not only did opening up

There was lots of miscarriage of justice that occurred in this movie that caught me by surprise and disappointment me. If this was a woman from Harlem or another poor city, this would not have been such a big case. In the movie, they talk about the woman being raped and thrown off the balcony and no one had any issue with that. It was not even public headlines in most newspapers, not fair how some stories get more popularity over others.

The movie “Sankofa” was a very interesting film. I learned many important things that happened to African American people back in the days. Some part of the film shook me because of how the way they were treated. As the movie continued, I realized that white men treated Africans like they were not human. They named all Africans as the term “Negroes”. They chained Africans, beat them, and raped them. The part where this pregnant lady got caught and got sent back was the most horrifying scene. My heart was throbbing when the man took the first whip. Tears were tumbling down my cheeks when listening to the man count in terror while whipping the pregnant woman. Another scene that I find frighten and emotional is when the Africans got their hands and feet chained, then got dragged

I could not really wrap my head around the brutality of the events both the murders and the events that followed, or the way the nation handled the events. This movie provided an in-depth look at how the FBI investigation of the case was handled and how the suspects felt no remorse which made my blood boil. The men who killed James, Michael and Andrew did not even acknowledge that they had done anything wrong. They acted like they had done America a favor when in reality they are an ugly part of American history and they case affected us in a way that we are still trying to recover from today. Focusing on this time period helped me understand that the southerners were, in fact, people of their time who were accustomed to the policy of segregation.

As the film unwraps In Canton, Mississippi, 10 year old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks names James Louis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. The confronting opening scene captures the audience’s attention through abrupt sound effects and upfront camera angles from young Tonya Hailey’s point of view. Rape is a violation of human rights which is a huge value applied to all humans across the world especially African Americans and Southern whites. The value of human rights is evident throughout this scene through Schumacher’s use of strong film techniques. As Tonya is inhumanly raped the camera angle shown to the audience is low lying looking up towards the vicious men raping young, innocent Tonya. By demonstrating this

Hi Stephanie! I agree with what you said regarding slaves being a huge part in building this country. In the film they talk about the only other thing that was more valuable than an African American slave was actually land itself. Besides land, slaves were the most profitable because they paid very little for them and would work them until they could no longer stand it. It was really difficult to imagine how cruel these slave holders were, in the film they also talked about some owners having to borow slaves from family or friends because of how badly shaped their slaves were after repeated beatings. People are outraged by certain behaviors that happen now, but when we think of how disgusting people would act against other human beings in the

In the light of, the director makes good points through the whole movie about what they went through. I like this movie because it gives me more information of the people who were involved or who were there during that time. Like, Ann Lee Coper (Oprah Winfrey), Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo), and the rest of the people who help fight for African Americans to be able to vote. The movie also shows the difficult and the happy time they went through. Even the problems with their family. No matter what’s going on, they were still focus and full invested in having freedom. What I learned from this movie was that they did not let all the obstacles of what they went through mess up their main goal because of that I am able to take those lesson for my