I died twice.

Expedition Diary

Ebooks are the devil

Here's the book.  Just take it, I don't want it.  Writing in character when my narrator is a racist jerk makes me feel like a terrible person.  The ebook website makes me hate everything.  It took forever to load and did obnoxious things.  It rearranged all of my text boxes on me a few times.  I found page on where 17 was supposed to be.  It it terrible and I hate it.  I could go on and on, but I won't because I have a hunch that Mr/ Boyle is actually its creator since it sounds like him:

No, but really, that site was nearly the death of me and I hate it.

now take the book and never let it see the light of day again once it has been graded.  the worst part about ebooks is that you cant burn them.  I'd like to burn this book. take it and leave me alone.

  

note:  Mr. Boyle, if you read this, just know that I'm not emailing it to you until the morning because i'm tired and angry and my computer is dying and I just want to go to sleep.

day 1 post

yesterday in class we talked about the civil rights acts of 1964

Today in class we talked about the Black Panther Party.  We read their demands and thought about whether or not they were reasonable.  Most of them were not.  Some even sounded rather communist.  One thing that they wanted was free healthcare for blacks and oppressed people.  I think that this is unreasonable because if even wealthy and middle class blacks get free healthcare (as opposed to just poor people who actually need it) then wealthy and middle class people of other races should get free healthcare as well.  Mr. Boyle tried to argue this by saying that the black panthers feel that they have been treated unfairly and whites haven't faced hardships so it is reasonable (Or at least I think he was trying to say it was reasonable.  He didn't get to finish because class ended, but from what he was saying that's what it seemed like).  Yes, that makes it understandable that the Black Panther Party would make these demands, but it doesn't make it reasonable to give all black people in the united states free healthcare regardless of wealth and lifestyle if other races don't get the same thing.  Yeah, yeah, I know that blacks have been oppressed in the past and weren't given everything whites were.  If they weren't treated fairly then, why should whites be treated fairly now, right? Wrong.  If we're going to move past discrimination we need to stop keeping score.  Saying "They treated us unfairly then, so now it's our turn to treat them unfairly" doesn't get us anywhere.

Day 5 Post

Yesterday we did not have class because it was a snow day.


Today in class, we listened to a speech by Malcolm X and a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. We then talked about which one was more realistic and/or ideal. We also talked briefly about whether or not our country has reached the point that Martin Luther King spoke about ("... a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.") and whether or not the country is better than it was when he made that speech. I think that we have not yet reached that point, but we have certainly come a long way from where we were back then. As much as we want to say that we treat everyone fairly regardless of race, we can't. We still have a ways to go. Are we where we should be? No. Have we made progress? Certainly.

Day 3 Post

Yesterday in class, we were split into groups.  Each group had a different document and we were to answer questions about these documents.  My group had a document where Malcolm X talked in an interview about his plans for the future of blacks.  His ideas are pretty terrible and racist.  At one point he wished that Allah would kill whites for him.  He also preaches black supremacy even though he was all offended by white supremacy.  He also thinks that violence is necessary and justified because white people had been violent towards blacks in the past.  He was an interesting guy to say the least.

Today in class we split into different groups to give other people the information we gathered from the documents we read.  Well, we only did that for part of class.  The rest of class was spent talking about an upcoming project and being talked to by Mr. Boyle about various things like learning skills, life, etc.  He has some good ideas, that man.

Desktop Documentary: James Meredith

Citations:

Info:


"Address by Meredith Climaxes Turbulent Mississippi March." The Telegraph [Nashua]
27 June 1966: 7. News.google.com. Google. Web.
<http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19660627&id=XawrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S_0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6926,6215071>.

 "James Meredith." MWP: (1933). N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2013.

 "Luther King Takes up Meredith's March." The Glasgow Herald 08 June 1966: 9. News.google.com. Google. Web. <http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yX9AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zKMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1470,1275409&dq=martin+luther+king+meredith+march&hl=en>.

 "On This Day in History: James Meredith Barred from Ole Miss." UPI. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2013.

 "Tag Archive for 'James Meredith'" Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2013.

 "U.S. Marshals Service, History, The U.S. Marshals and the Integration of the University of Mississippi: ." U.S. Marshals Service, History, The U.S. Marshals and the Integration of the University of Mississippi: . N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2013.

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Day 5 Post

Yesterday in class, THERE WAS NO CLASS. snow day.

Today in class, we talked about segregation and whether or not it is still around today.  We talked about a case in a school in 2007 where a group of kids beat another child until he was unconscious. some other kids had previously hung nooses from a tree.  The ones who beat the kid were black, and the ones who hung the nooses were white.  The black boys were severely punished, the white boys were not.  That's not segregation.  Yeah, it's racism, but not segregation. also, people were getting all worked up about how the black kids were being punished more harshly than the white kids.  Apparently that's racist even though the black kids beat another child unconscious and then continued to beat him after he passed out. It was a group against an individual and they could have killed him.  That is not just a schoolyard fight like people made it out to be.  Yes, hanging nooses from a tree is terrible and those children should be punished harshly, but them not being punished as harshly as the people who nearly killed someone is not really racism.  It's not always about race, people.  The noose thing was definitely racist though.

day 3 post

Yesterday in class, I was not there because I was at the blood drive and it too way longer than I had expected. No, really, it did. I thought I would just miss part of f period, but ended up missing f, g, lunch, and half of e. My sources say that they watched a video in class about a boy who was brutally beaten. I believe them, I have good sources.



 Today in class, we read five different documents about as bus boycott. This was the boycott that occurred after the well-known Rosa Parks incident where Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person even though it was the law that she had to sit in the back of the bus and give up her seat when it was required. After each document we read, we found reasons for why the boycott was successful/unsuccessful. We then wrote the conclusion that we drew from each document (which was pretty much exactly what we had just written, only in paragraph form rather than bullet form).

No.

Yesterday in class, we talked about the Scottsboro Boys Trial. In this case, nine black boys were accused of raping two white women. We wrote journal entries from people involved in the case. My group wrote the journal entries of Ruby, who was one of the women who may or may not have been raped. Hint: she wasn't. Her and the other woman, Victoria, were dirty, dirty liars. In our journal entries, which I read to the class, we threw Victoria under the bus. Well, we only threw her under the bus in the first two entries. Then we just sideswiped her with the bus. Today in class, we read some things and worked on a map about segregation. Then we talked about some trials and stuff. To be completely honest with you, I don't actually remember too much about class today.