White trash

Americans would be considered “white trash” talkin to “those People” it was a harsh time in 1896 for the african americans .Today africans americans attend school all over the country the civil rights in my environment isn't bad in my perspective everyone is the same and everyone should be treated equal . Some issues I see in campus are whites , hispanic , and blacks disrespect each other whether it's their color or their religion or by the way you dress. People at my school have fought over…

just 10 years old. The story evolves on the wrongful accusation of Tom Robinson, a black man raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. It depicts the serious issues of injustice, prejudices and racial inequality. It showed how the whites harassed the blacks as well as the family of the lawyer, Mr. Atticus Finch, who is defending Tom Robinson. “Your fathers no better than the ****** and trash he works for!,” page 110, as said by Mrs. Dubose towards Jem and Scout Finch. Real-life intolerence…

Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her parents were slaves, but they became free six months after Wells birth. Wells married Ferdinand Barnett and had four children with him. Ida Wells played a big role in journalism as a whole, but also African American journalism. She was very passionate about equal rights and African American rights. Wells became very vocal about these rights in May of 1884 after asked to move to the car for African Americans even though she…

improvement in an extremely long amount of time. If it took decade just to speak to government, they amount of time just to change it would be exponential. The classes in the Lee’s novel are similar. The black people were classified in a lower class than whites. The African American in the novel never seem to fix their condition either. This progression just shows how difficult it is to react in that modern society and in the past. The government is not only stubborn towards the lowers caste,…

slavery, many whites were poor. In the south who ever was considered to be a poor white was treated like trash almost as bad as the slaves. About 70% of white people during slavery were middle class people. Bringing up how some white people were treated in the during the time of slavery make me ease up on the hatred that I had for whites then. I was told that during slavery times all whites were horrible people. Now that I know that not only 20% owned slaves, but whites treated other whites…

This novel is set during the Great Depression. Not many people have money to go out and buy what they formerly could, which hinders most individual’s spirits. So, not only are the African American people dealing with ignorant white men, they are trying to deal with ignorant white men who are unhappy to begin with. This seems an impossible task, and as the trial proves, it is. By reading the novel, everyone can clearly see that Robinson did not rape Mayella Ewell. Mr. Ewell was the one who had…

Tom, a black man, is accused of raping and beating Mayella, a white woman, but the accusation is made by her abusive drunk father, Bob Ewell. This novel exhibits morality as a theme. Not only is the novel an outstanding classic, but it portrays how one should go through life standing strong in ethics and morals. As the trial goes on, we, as readers, learn from the multiple context clues and statements that Bob…

Jim Crow? According to a National Geographic article, there was this white man named Thomas Dartmouth Rice who made up the name. He was really into theater and he did this bit where he painted his face black. He would do a song and dance that he claimed was inspired by a slave he saw. The act was called “Jump, Jim Crow”. Jim Crow laws would soon be known to demean African American people by setting them at a lower status than white people were held. These blacks would have to endure a lot of…

in turn they establish bonds with other women over shared problems. The white socialites have built social barriers between themselves and the African Americans domestic workers based upon their beliefs that blacks are lower class and diseased. In general, the domestic workers are disrespected and treated like trash. The African Americans domestic workers struggle to conquer the cultural issues imposed on them by their white employers as they work as maids cooking, cleaning and raising their…

In his essay, The Hip Hop Nation. Whose is it? In the End, Black Men Must Lead, Toure defines the complexity and selectivity that associated with the hip hop nation. I like his writing style, in the begging of his essay when he said that no map maker would respect this nation because it has no fixed boundaries, no physical land, no single chief, and no exact date of origin. Rather, hip hop nation is a state of mind. And he credits Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley, Huey Newton, and James Brown as being…