Sisters Of Providence Analysis

The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are a group of loving and caring ladies who try to take care of their community when in need. They have been involved in several outreach programs within their community. A few of the community involvements they have been involved with are helping people who live in poverty, have put together a food pantries and have set up an Anti-Racism group. The sisters furthermore, set out the missions put in place by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin.
The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods has been involved with anti-racism for countless years. Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, was concerned with the group of slaves in Louisiana in 1843 (A Bit of History). “In 1868, African Americans were banned from schools in Jeffersonville, Ind. Sisters of Providence provided classes for them after Liturgy on Sundays” (A Bit of History). For the first time in 1937, African Americans were accepted into St. John Academy. During the Civil Rights movement, the sisters helped educate African Americans and provided health …show more content…
Crazy white kid beats up black kid!!” (Averett, Matthew). The video showed no reasoning behind the fight, but you can hear people laughing in the background. It was not so much the video that bothered me, as the comments below the video. A few of them were, “No fair, black boy didn’t have his homies”, “Niggas don’t fight good when no one is there to back them up” and “The white kid wasn’t “crazy.” He was fed up”; the comments go on for pages (Averett, Matthew). The reason I have listed this video as a resource is because it shows how ridiculous people are and can be. How do we know the “crazy white boy” is fed up, when we do not even know the circumstances behind the fight? It is videos like this, that make both black and white people look bad. This is why issues like this are constantly in the