Wednesday, October 19, 2011

   Joseph Buonocore

       Mary Reynolds, from a reading of "A Red Record" had been a victim of White supremacist game. The events that Mary Reynolds had explained in her response had involved a higher level of abuse towards her for reasons unknown.  The purpose and function of these unusual abuses towards not only her but several other slaves were not entirely purposes or functions other than the self-indulgences that increasingly grew in the south during that era. In Mary Reynolds response, the owner was aware that no one was around and had committed rape to her. It was a given that he had sent out the other slave so that he wouldn’t come back for a while, in which he would use the time to reveal what he really wanted to do. It was as if he revealed his true nature.
 Another event in A Red Record that had consisted of unusual punishment and violence towards African Americans, which caught my attention was located on p.98. African American Roselius Julian had killed a white judge Victor Estipino .The lynching of those who were related but not involved in what had happened was a big deal to the “mob”. But the purpose and function that I had noticed here was that it could only go to show that white supremacists were only looking for reasons to kill or torture African Americans. Even though this Case had only consisted of one person with a motive and no one else, those who were apart of his “tree” were still killed. To me, it’s as if “We can’t find the killer, but we’ll kill his family or relatives” which in any sense does not make any. African Americans who were not even related had still been lynched on charge of Affiliation. White supremacists in this sense were only trying to find a reason to kill African American out of hate, there is no argument in that.
 The roles, purposes and effects of violence against African Americans before and after the civil war were not at all different as the same treatment to those of their skin color remained the same. Racism had greatly applied to those who believed African Americans weren’t human and had always, since the start of it, needed reason to get rid of them or make them suffer for labor, which wasn’t right at all. To sum it up, the civil war before slavery was work, beat and kill. After the civil war we can read that it had still had effect towards African Americans in “The Red Record”. Lynching is brought up 85% of the time during the reading and most of them are because the white supremacy brought up after the war. White supremacy had organized crime towards any African American if they were so much as mentioned for doing the smallest thing.

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