According to Martin Luther King in Chaos or Community? When the constitution was written the Negro was not even have of the white man even though the Negro fought for the country independent. King talked about how the black community was left behind as he stated, “The rate of infant immortality among African-American is double that of the whites “(King 7). Black people were suffering from the infant mortality even though the black man was dying in Vietnam. The government control by the white people should been ashamed that they were letting down these black people who was fighting for this country since it birth and still not counted as an equal person to his partner or opponent (White).   

            However lot of this struggle by the color people has changed. Now a black man is equal to a white man, and the infant mortality among African American is low. But the white people still have more college graduate than the black people. The most interesting changes among the color and white people occur this year (2012). On May 17 in a New York Times article Sabrina Tavernise report that “the people of color or the minority such as Black, Asian and Hispanics reached 50.4 percent, representing a majority for the first time in the country history. Now the white majority that will be soon minority is getting old and will need some to care for them. Therefore the big question that still remains is that “Will older Americans balk at paying to educate a young generation that looks less like them selves?” (Tavernise). The white Americans have an erratic history of educating the minority. And now the minority becoming the majority, it will be better for the white people to spend money on educating them, which will benefit them, as they are getting old.

            All these should been needless if the white majority listened to Martin Luther King in 1967. King was crying for equal education, justice and fairness between white and black community. Now there’re still little time left before is too late, it will be on the white majority to educate the color minority.   

these idea are futher describe in the documentary BPTM.black people were suferring from vilance and unjustice as one soldier argues that "after i came back from vietnam i found that nothing change.he still have to fight for his right here at home too". #BPMT

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             Jared Diamond argument at his “Guns, Germs and Steel” documentary, I definitely agree with him when he said geography is the root cause of inequality. Diamond imply that “the New Guinean didn’t advance on technology because they spend to much time in energy feeding them selves.” He’s absolutely right, if they spend too much time on finding food to eat and other countries such as western countries have been already bless with geography and they have food with great calories to eat. They will definitely advance more. They already have something to eat; from there they have time to spend on other different aspect such as technology which western countries did. For example if you look at some Asian and African countries right now, who are still suffering from starvation, therefor, these countries will not advance on technology because they don’t have nothing to eat all they can be focus about is how to get food. If they were able to get food to feed them selves by now, they would be worried about inventing or focusing on other stuff such technology, science or developing their nations to catch up with western countries.

            In our global society today the “Economy or justice” is a big issue about inequality. Rich nations such as China and the United States are not really helping poor nations. These rich nations have the opportunity to stop or to help poor nation around the word. However, instead of helping them, they just explore these poor nations. For example the United State and its European allies when to war to remove Gadhafi from his country Libya claiming that they went there to help the Libyan people to get freedom, but In reality they went to Libya to explore they oil. Lets look at Somalia that country has been in war for more than a decade, people are getting killed every day but the United States and Europe never plan or are planning on going there to help the people of Somalia to get freedom. This is a country that needs help from criminal, not Libya, a country that was working normal without a war. Therefore the world should realize about this kind of inequality. This is an issue we can fix as human being and it’s in our interest to fix this difference we have and stop inequality around the world.          

In the paragraph of the Martin Luther King’s book, “Where Do We Go From Here.” King were explaining to us that violence will not solve the injustice and the inequality that’s faced Negro in this country. He was saying the marches or the peaceful protest was the best way to approach the white people to gain justice and fairness in the nation. Yes he was right. Violence never should problem easily, it only makes it worse even though sometime at the end it will benefit. For example if someone have done you wrong and you are planning on doing them something wrong back; you will never get to the point of solving the problem or differences you both having. You will get hurt or he will get hurt which will not benefit both of you. Therefore the King’s way was a very good idea of him using the marches to solve the injustice and the inequality black people were getting from white people in this country.  

In the paragraph of the Stockely Carmichael’s book “Stokely Speaks.” He was emphasizing that white people where talking about nonviolence when they know themselves that they were the violent people themselves not the negro they were accusing of being violent. He went even further to give us some example such us president Johnson was bombing Vietnam but nobody were talking about nonviolence, however, anytime a black man is trying to defend himself they start talking about violence. Black people were not doing violence they were getting violated by white people and the police. Yet the police were not doing their job of protecting the citizen of this nation, they were doing racism between white and black. And therefore, if black people thought securing they community by themselves were the best way for them to get secure, they should. i will not call that violent, its the government thats violent since they are the one that failed to protect all the citizen such as the minority (black people).              

Archives Visit

Today my classmates and I, had the opportunity to visit the archive here at LaGuardia College. Tara and the archive’s staff at the school welcomed us; she was very kind to us and was able to explain to us what an archive is for which she said is a place where they collect and maintain primary sources.  We talked about Mayor Wagner, and she presented us a very important speech made by Mayor Wagner in 1964 in the aftermath of the Harlem riot.

             First of all, we were taught that before you try to examine a text, always try to see if the context of the text is reliable. We both went through to the speech and found the main point of the speech. In the speech we learned that Mayor Wagner had to cut his trip from Europe, for a world conference because of the chaos or violence that happened in Harlem on July 1964. When he got back, his acting mayor Paul Screvane briefed him about the violence. But since he knew that he couldn’t just judge the violence by words, he decided to take a tour in Harlem and inspect the violence by himself. However, when he started to tour Harlem he couldn’t find as much evidence as he thought he would get. But that did not stop him from arguing, “law and order was Negros best friend”, which I believe that comment should been told to the police department who was attacking black people in Harlem not to the people who were trying to express themselves.

             On the other hand he said the police are under legal mandate and obligation to protect, with all the force that is necessary and justify. The police where not justify here; they were killing innocent people and beating them up because of they race. Mayor Wagner’s comment meant that he gave the police more power to brutalize the people of Harlem, which was not the best idea for the community in Harlem.

             

In the chapter on the" Working chain of the Gaing ",Mosley mention that, black poeple have experianced the chains from day one in the new world , and for that  black American history should be American history . Black people where shunted aside , denied access , and allowed to suffer with no real democratic recourse . Mosley quote that after World War II ended , black poor people suffered more because there were few avenues for us to rise above the level of manual labor .

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