Monday, March 12, 2012


In this article “Workin’ on The Chain Gang”, by Walter Mosley. He mentions that "we have defeated the democracy process, and now we are living in an economy system that perverts our labor" (Mosley 3). Therefore is not good for us to have a Living in an economics system as we live right now is not helping the people but instead helping the rich corporations and rich people based on a sub-culture of poverty and crime, a system that any other creature would see as barbaric. Some people even argue that if you work hard, “you will get to live a better life.” They might think that will live in a better life, but in reality you not you are just being used as slave.
He claims that “after a hundred years since the practice of slavery has been outlawed in the west” (Mosley 4). However, we are still witnessing slavery round us, but in a very different manner. The new generation of slavery is that big corporations or rich companies are using us to get them richer while not given us the values that we deserve as human being. We work too hard and so many hours with a low wage payment while big companies or corporations such the banks, A.I.G and B.P are getting richer. But its time free to ourselves from this kind of economics system we live, and follow the real democracy we always dreamed of.  
Therefore Mosley said, “we hope the change of the century and millennium, will allow us to forgive and forget the brutal past” (Mosley 4). We have been thru and witness too much in the past century such as slavery, which white people claim that it ended in 1865. But as black people were still suffering, they believed that it didn’t end at that particular time. We hope we will forget about the economic system that has been ruing our lives for long time    

2 comments:

  1. I felt that there were alot of strong ponits that you made in this summary. Factors such as as how we celebrate the process that will impede H.I.V, while that plague takes its toll in Africa was crucial. you chose the right ideas to incorporate with the summary.

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  2. My name is Wendy Yanez and I am in Prof.Justin Rogers English 220 class and I am a practicing peer tutor.I really don't understand what your main topic is and I think this blog is too long. I also believe that you mostly wrote what Mosley said in the text. I don't understand when you write your own words and when you quote Mosley. Plagiarism is a serious issue in college and your blog sounds like you just took the words from the book and wrote it word for word. In a blog you put down what your own ideas are and what you believe is right. When you want to quote an author you use the line you want to use and you put quotation marks when your done. Then you put the name of the author and what page you got it from. When you don't understand what the question is asking you ask the professor and he will help you understand the question. Thank you for your time

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