Post # 5 Revision of one paragraph of essay #1

The song “Only a Pawn in Their Game” by Bob Dylan is about how whites are part of a game, in this case a chess game, controlled by someone who is more powerful than them. In the game of chess, the pawn are in front protecting the king and the queen and from this point of view Dylan makes his point, that white people follow what they were taught to do throughout their lives. As the white people are being led by the higher white people, that is the government, and that in a way the higher people are hiding behind them. So white people of the lower status do the dirty work for the government without them really knowing. The question is what they are hiding from and it’s because of black people who are trying to get the rights that they deserve like anyone else but the higher white people don’t want to let that happen.

Post 3

Larry Neal argues that Western culture is different from the black culture and why should the Western culture be adopted by black people if they have their own. As in the Western culture art and aesthetics are separate while in a black community its one because it supports one another in describing something. Having these two words joined together it's like having a group that is fighting for something and make their argument stronger when having people on their side, not giving up. When there is a march some of the groups sing to make there point clear and powerful. Repeating something over and over to make others see what they are fighting for.

Post #4 Part 2

As I understood individual racism is when a person that does something against the other person who is different race because they hold that hatred against them. While institutionalized racism is when more powerful people keep people, that they hold the hatred against, in the same bad conditions. It's important because it depends on how much of the impact it would have on the group as institutionalized racism would have more impact on them rather than individual racism. But they are somehow interconnected together as the outside force gives us information and the individuals interpret it in their own way. So I think institutionalized racism is a bigger problem today as they still tell people the information that they want us to hear and maybe get rid of other information. For instance, with the news channels I read somewhere that some news stations don't report the information that people need to hear and maybe another channel like BBC news tells people more of what's going on in the US and in the world.

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).