Post #2: essay #1 pre-writing

I chose "Only a Pawn in Their Game" by Bob Dylan. My reaction to this song was that he had an interesting idea of looking at the situation as if its an army of people that are trained against others. I chose these lyrics because it's one of the songs that compares people to something else, which made it stand out for me. I would want to try and find out where white people started to absorb this hate( was it from their parents?school?) for black people and also learn more about Medgar Ever's life. The second source that I will use is "The Case Stated" by Ida B. Wells-Barnett in this essays it states that white people were killing black people and over certain period there were three excuses, one after another, for killing black people. Also the hatred and fear arose from the white people but some white women came from the North to teach black people how to wrote, read, and also taught religion. The song talks about a white man shooting Medgar Ever's and the hatred that white people had at that time, that has been taught by other white people. These two pieces of work are talking about violence against black people and the dislike of black people. I think it backs up one another as these works are focused on two concepts.

Response to post blog 1

The expressions that mean most to me are music and art because listening to music calms me in some way if I am stressed or just feeling tired but I also like to listen to music for fun. As with art I like to look at paintings/pictures that puzzle me when trying to figure out what's going on in that piece of art and what might be the message behind it. It might also be that art interests me because I like to draw. I have never been a participant at any kind of protests or social movements. My view of the world might have changed to some extent by watching documentary movies. To learn about the art and it's many branches and also how art is used to convey different messages (good and bad).