Monday, October 31, 2011

Blog #4: Cluster Reflection

Learning that we are all apart of the same accustoms and that we should treat each other with the same amount of respect that we deserve and should have towards everyone has become a great alternative for a lesson in the classes so far. If there is one thing i have learned is that there should be no judgemental thought towards anyone as we are all the same and that our characteristics define us for who we are or where we grew up. Human rights has taught me many things but in overall i have seen the ugly side of society and it is unfortunate that the potential world we live in could do so much better, if we just stopped for a minute and think "why am i doing this". Greed, slavery, dehumanization of those less fortunate and uneducated, and law in politics all lead to money. Money is the gap that seperates us from "reality and theory". In my own view, its an abolished and corrupt world full of criticism and contradictions trying to hold itself in an illusionary environment which prevents us from being who we truly are and pursuing what we love the most. Human rights has in great depth shown me that we need to make theory come alive. There is too much going on that we do not know about including the underground trafficking of slaves. Human rights has impacted me incredibly with no overexaggeration. The views i had on things back then and today are completey different thanks to a class full of people with different backrounds and expiriences. i could not be the same after leaving. My reflection on this class is to pursue in doing what IS right and try not only change myself but to show others the ethics and that we all deserve the same respect and rights that we are born with. We have NO differences whatsoever internally, emotionally and mentally.

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.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Passage Interpreting -

Reading from Kathy Violetta's Tweet : p.66-"The result is a growing disregard of human life".

an understanding from this quote is that slavery was a promoting further thinking that we are starting to depreciate human life and that life has no value as long as we keep on degrading those who dont deserve to be degarded becuase of their skin color. A keyword to me that comes to my head is depreciative ignorance. The majority that believed in acting cruel towards those who are different from white skin choose not to open their eyes and see that we are all the same and that different color skinned people have the same sensations we are born with.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The Language of Human Rights

           The language of human rights to me is the explanation of what our natural endowments are, as beings/species of the same nature. The corrupt thought that the different colors human beings are brought upon birth are not at all in any way what they are thought to be, which to most people is class. The judgement we all make in each other is only caused by the very corrupt and political analysis the greedy use to make a profit from. Slavery is the first thing we think of when the topic "Human Rights" is brought upon. It was huge in the early years of our ancestors and was again nearly Half a century ago during WWII. Human rights define that we are all equal and not in any amount different. Human rights have become a contradictory piece of literary art that the "Founding Fathers" of the American nation have ,so to say, fought for. Human rights..what are human rights? we may know the definition, we may know the sense, the knowledge, the background, the lining, the structure and the format. But it is still held to question as does it even exist? Human rights only exist to those who to wish it to exist. Other than the majority, human rights are abused, Stripped, demeaned, and restricted by the higher authority. So human rights exist on two perspectives: in the believers and the non-believers. Society today still hasn't changed them or enforced them because of how complex those 2 words put together are. Human rights are vowed or sworn to be given to those who are all born under the "universal father" or the "universal mother" (which whom I'd like to refer to as mother nature) yet they arent. Human rights is a big term that can only go so deep into. That to me is the explanation of human rights.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Blog Assignment Two: Explaining Contradiction By Joseph Buonocore

      Contradictions are statements that assert claims that cannot really be true. We could also think of contradictions as statements or arguments that seem inconsistent. For example, the Declaration of Independence said "all men are created equal," but the Constitution only gave voting priveleges to white men. We could then say that the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence contradict one another. Contradiction is a form of saying one thing and doing another. We could also think of contradiction as a form of conflict. When one thing disagrees with another thing, they contradict. 
      A contradiction portrayed by Equiano in his travels was the contradiction of him mentioning his hunger problems on page 9.  "We were then unbound, but were unable to take any food; and being quite overpowered by fatigue and grief". To me as a reader its as if it seems he was starved up until  [Quote]: " They offered us some victuals; but we refused it" that I questioned as to why he would not take the offered food. Looking from different points its understandable that his emotions may have gotten in the way of him eating as for some reason i felt a little bit of pride in his literature. The contradiction here to me just means that his emotions have made his fatigue and grief worse and should not have said anything to make it seem as if he wasn't offered any food. To me this is a good example of contradiction