Now racism was at its best back in this time, and I am not saying that is a good thing, but how could a person take a helpless little child and stick him in a harmful environment. This is a toddler we are talking about. As wrong as it is to be racist, how can one paint a image of a toddler getting killed. Is having your skin color different that big of a deal? Honestly, there is a fine line between being racist and having no morals, and the people at this time fell under both of these categories.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Video
On Wednesday we watched a video in class about racial stereotypes back in the early 1900's. One of the stereotypes was the pickaninny. The pickaninny is a stereotype of an African American child! Not a teenager, a baby child. People depicted these children as scared or dumb or standing next to a dangerous item (we saw a few children standing next to a hungry alligator).
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I think you're absolutely right Connor, racism was terrible back then, but I don't think it was at its worst. I think racism is at its worst now because everybody hates everybody. It's not just whites hating on blacks because now it's whites hating on black and the other way around because now blacks have more rights. When one race which doesn't have as much rights as another ends up getting more rights, then the real racism starts to show even more.
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