Monday, October 17, 2011

Joy wouldn't feel so good if it wasn't for pain

In the book, A Red Record, by Ida B. Wells, she describes many ways that African Americans were neglected...however they were a sort of "pleasure". We can look into page 77 in A Red Record, Wells describes the idea of sadism, anarchy however both connect to constitutional equality. White men felt a sort of pleasure in both watching African American's getting hurt and sometimes killed and inflicting pain on them. White men did feel joy nor pleasure if they had not experienced an African American experiencing pain. At the time when lynching was taking place, a significant amount of African Americans were killed by the use a rope. The government neglected the voice of African Americans, it was as if the government did not exist when African Americans were being killed. We can look into page 78 to see examples of anarchy. Both sadism and anarchy are linked to constitutional equality, we can look into page 77. Constitution says we are legal in rights and should be protected regardless of race color social rank or sex.

No comments:

Post a Comment