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InjusticeUSMilitaryVsJohnBrown 15 - 18 Mar 2012 - Main.SkylarPolansky
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| | Due to the lack of understanding regarding John Brown's actions, I ask the question:
If the government sanctioned it, would that make it right? | | | -- MichelleLuo - 12 Mar 2012 | |
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> | Regarding your point about the "inferior" kids from day 1 being cruel to the "inferior" kids on day 2, despite knowing what it felt like to be tortured particularly interesting in light of Professor Moglen's point at the end of class last month about how remarkable it is that there were almost no retaliatory killings by black people after slavery was abolished. After years of cruelty, murder, and mistreatment, freed slaves did not lash out once given the opportunity to be free. This might be because unlike the children in the video who were given the opportunity to be in power, freed slaves were not given any sort of powerful roles in society, but were merely given the opportunity to be free. It could be that the children in the video only experienced cruelty in the short term, as opposed to slaves who experienced cruelty over many years; maybe after experiencing injustice and discrimination over such a long period it takes away the lust for vengeance. Or maybe (as a combo of my above two hypotheses) when discrimination is in place for such a long period time, when people are liberated from it they don't feel power or equality, but merely relief at not being discriminated against anymore. Even more reason to act/go to the streets sooner rather than later, before discrimination becomes institutionalized and wipes away the ability of those discriminated against to feel not just free, but powerful.
-- SkylarPolansky - 18 Mar 2012 | | | I heard about the blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment, but the video really put it into perspective. This is basically the "subconscious" losing of your identity and replacing it with the ideals of the corporation/organization that you have become part of that Arnold discusses in The Folklore of Capitalism. The experiment hits me hard because that has been my life experience.
My mother told me that my late grandmother had scraps of food given to her to eat by the white family that she worked for as a domestic. The family thought it was proper for her to eat them. As a child, I couldn't figure out why so many African Americans were deemed as "criminals" or "savages" that only could participate in athletics or something else artistic (e.g. rap). Going through school, people were surprised I was so focused on academics. What they didn't know is that I didn't give in to the propaganda. I remember reading how "scientists" did skull studies and concluded that blacks were the least intelligent race. Watching the Jane Elliott experiment when the commentator reported that kids who were deemed as superior "always did better on their tests," made me think about how people attempt to condition society to think that African Americans are not qualified and unintelligent. |
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