Analysis Of Mob Rule, By Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett chronicles the gruesome attack on the civil rights of a people who have suffered far too much at the hands of a corrupt system in her work Mob Rule in New Orleans. In these retelling of the events that occurred on July 24th, 1900, it is evident that justice, in the hands of a racist and oppressive force, can never truly be justice. The most appalling realization that any reader of this work may come to is that one-hundred and eighteen years later, in our current American climate, the crimes committed against black Americans and other people of color still occur, and even more horrifying is the politicized, often racist media response and coverage that follows these events. As I moved through this text, I was continually disturbed by the experiences that three malicious bluecoats caused for countless African American members of their community, and how at the end of the day the perpetrators of murder and crime got off scot-free. Through this analysis, it is my goal to connect the past with the present to understand the racism that still affects our systems of government and police forces. It is clear from her first …show more content…
Wells-Barnett still have implicating effects on the world we live in today. The subtle and obvert racism in today’s media coverage of police brutality, and the mere normalcy of these brutal attacks on our neighbors of color, reflects poorly on the history relative to the progress of our nation’s sentiment for a group of people who continue to be oppressed. It is difficult to describe the gut-wrenching feeling that I felt when reading this text on the mere basis that human beings were treated this way in the past; it cuts even deeper when you realize that black Americans today still have similar fears to those of post-Civil War African Americans. Moving forward as a nation, I hope we continue to prosecute the offenders of