Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Reading Response 3
Wow. The Twilight readings were truly hard to believe. I knew very little about the Rodney King incident and I certainly had never heard about it from the perspective of individuals who were there. Not only were these excerpts incredible at illustrating different perspectives from that time but they also were very powerful and moving to read. Hearing all these individual's stories made me feel upset and frustrated. Like one of the women talks about, the way that the media struck fear into the white people of that area was unbelievable. People who normally would have trusted each other and lived peacefully together were now suddenly torn apart by rash, untrue stereotypes and generalizations. And the craziest part about this was that nothing had changed for black people or white people. They were all the same people. All anyone wanted at that time was for there to be justice for black people, Mexican people, Korean people. Everyone wanted to just be treated fairly. This happened in my lifetime. I think that is what upsets me the most. This happened 2 hours from where I grew up. How is it that a society as technologically advanced as ours is in so many ways morally and ethically stunted?
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i agree with you that the expert is very moving. i feel like someone is telling their stories right in front of my eyes, it's nothing like reading those stories from the newpaper or hearing them from the news.
ReplyDeletei my opinion, the reason that the media can spread the fear for black people among white people is that they don't know much about each other, it's easy to believe in whatever the media tells you about a group of pepole when you know nothing about them.
I think your very last question hurts the hardest. We, as a society, have made so many advances not only technological, but moral too. For the first time ever, we have a black president. In 1992, that may have been unthinkable. It feels good to know that we have improved, but it sucks to understand that we have so far to go. Our society isn't perfect, but at least it functions right?
ReplyDeleteSame here. I didn't know anything about what happened. Reading the first hand accounts on what happended and what different people went through was pretty depressing. It was as if L.A was in it's own little world of chaos. Hopefully that'll never happen to another city in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you danielle. i felt like I heard this story couple of times in highschool and what not but it was so different approach reading it in exceprts and from different perspective and i thought that was powerful. and with your last statement, i agree. we think or we hope that many things have changed but in reality, people still have discriminating and what not within their hearts
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