My paragraph 2

A current Ku Klux Klan member David Duke once said, “White people don't need a law against rape, but if you fill this room up with your normal black bucks, you would, because niggers are basically primitive animals” (ADL) David Duke is a prime example of what people become when they feel superior to another race, which is called white supremacy. White supremacy encourages and one of the main causes to the group Ku Klux Klan. White supremacy bases on fear, nurture, and group acceptance. People who are racist create a feeling of superiority to other cultures or races because they are afraid. Jæger advocates “…above many people are afraid of people that are different from themselves, and in order to reassure themselves, many people imagine that they are superior to who they are afraid of, so that they don’t have to be afraid anymore” (Jæger, Mads). If the Ku Klux Klan does not understand or know others like the African American race, so they will create groups like the Ku Klux Klan to protect themselves from them. Although fear is one cause, many in the Ku Klux Klan were raised to be racists from birth. Jæger states that, “parents who have the idea that they are better because they are white, their children most often will believe the same” (Jæger). When people believe they are better than other races, commonly they have been taught this from a young age. Also, white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan often join because they group acceptance. Okun essentially states that when you cluster yourself with a certain group, you feel a part of something with your “own” people (Tema Okun). People want to be have approval from other people in order to feel fulfilled and happy. White supremacy spreads through fear, nurture, and group acceptance and from there people start groups like the Ku Klux Klan.


Okun, Tema . "White Supremacy Culture." 1999. Prison Activist. 24 Mar 2009 http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/cws/dr-culture.html

Jæger, Mads . "The opinions of a racist person ." Racism. 1998. Thinkquest. 24 Mar 2009 http://library.thinkquest.org/28172/ropinio2.htm

"On Blacks." David Duke Update. May 2000. ADL. 25 Mar 2009
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/duke_own_words/on_blacks.asp

my paragragh

A current Ku Klux Klan member David Duke once said, “"White people don't need a law against rape, but if you fill this room up with your normal black bucks, you would, because niggers are basically primitive animals” (ADL) David Duke is a prime example of what people become when they feel superior to another race, which is called white supremacy. White supremacy encourages and one of the main causes to the group Ku Klux Klan. White supremacy bases on fear, nurture, and group acceptance. But the Ku Klux Klan believes they are the better race because of fear (thinkquest.) They have a fear of another race, and might threaten their lack of resources for their own people. Also, they don't understand or do not know the African American people, as a result they feel vulnerable and different. So, because of fear the African Americans, the Ku Klux Klan feels the need to act out against them. Another reason why people created white supremacy is because some are grown that way. Parents who have the idea that they are better because they are white, their children most often will believe the same (thinkquest.) That is not always how it happens but most people pick up traits by the way and things they were taught, typically when young. A further explanation of why white supremacy has started is because people want to feel acceptance. When you cluster yourself with a certain group, you feel apart of something with your “own” people (Tema Okun.) The Ku Klux Klan fell closer having a same opponent. We are all humans in we like to group ourselves (emotionalcompetency.) A member the Ku Klux Klan feels they are wanted and follows the groups ideals which makes them feel even more as one to the group. People also have white supremacy to have a scapegoat and need someone to take the fall. “Some of the very common reasons for racism to arise are fear or the need for a ‘scapegoat’ “(thinkquest.) Scapegoats allow the group to rights and more superiority. People want more power and so if your group you belong to does something wrong, you can blame it on someone else to not lose power. All in all white supremacy is just one more way people create such groups like the KKK. The truth is we may have different believes but we are all human.

daivid duke qoutes for kkk paper

"[A] black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes."

­­ Duke editorial, "The Black Plague."
NAAWP News, Issue 32, 1985

"White people don't need a law against rape, but if you fill this room up with your normal black bucks, you would, because niggers are basically primitive animals.

"It's really the Jew Marxists who see the nigger as their instrument, as their bullets, by which to destroy our society."

­- The Sun (Wichita, KS), April 23, 1975

link: http://www.adl.org/special_reports/duke_own_words/on_blacks.asp

"On Blacks." David Duke Update. May 2000. ADL. 25 Mar 2009

links...for later

http://library.thinkquest.org/28172/ropinio2.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm

http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/cws/dr-culture.html

Research 1

Effects of kkk:
Bobby Frank Cherry, Ku Klux Klan member, he bombed a Baptist Church and murdered four black girls in the 1963. (Birmingham, Alabama)

The church itself had become a Symbol for effects between conflict between Civil Rights activists and police.

Five days before hand, schools were desegregated. The bomb was in responds to it.

In 22 May 2002 Bobby Frank Cherry was sentenced to life under murder.


link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2002/sep/08/features.magazine137

Lindsey, Emma . "Southern discomfort." The Guardian. 8 September 2002, 22 Mar 2009.

overcoming odds

This is a true story of someone defying the chances. Ten a.m. on February second two-thousand-and-eight, a hold up in a store killed many, allowing one survivor. A man pretending to be a delivery man walked into the store, and shortly after to pull out a gun and demanded money from the cashier. But he refused and took four women to the back room and tired them with duct tape. One of the victims called nine-one-one, following after to get shot. Subsequently six women were shot when police arrived. The man did all this for a couple hundred bucks he stole. There was only one survivor who was shot but was not died, playing dead so he would not shoot at her again. She was able to describe the shooter in detail, yet there are no suspects to be found. This woman has truly overcome the odds. People like these will live no matter what life will throw at them. This story reminds me of another like it. Caron Butler was once living in jail and looked like he would not have a bright future. But he found his way out when his talent of basket ball made Caron big. Hopefully this story will inspire others to know that when things are bad there is a chance to survival.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/16/grace.coldcase.lane.bryant/index.html#cnnSTCText

Mikkilineni , Rupa . "Witness survived store shooting by playing dead." March 17, 2009. CNN. 22 Mar 2009

love

Dating and love has changed over the years. We now have different ideas of love, expectations, and how and where to find it. Thanks to technology, more and more people are finding love, not like we used to. One in four people say that they have found a relationship through the internet, via facebook, myspace, match.com, ect. And through the ages that number is expected to only get higher. It is certainly easier to browse through your possibilities, without people ever knowing it, and you can see a lot more about them then you would face-to-face. It’s much softer to be rejected through the internet than in real life. You can have a whole relationship with someone without ever meeting them. But is it such a good thing? This article reminds me of another one where a guy had pretended he was someone he was not. People can lie very easily online, and the possibilities of stalkers too. It is a good thing for some because you can meet a lot of people, especially if you’re shy. The internets open up connections and social relationships with a click of a button. It also can keep long distant relationships intact and easier to keep together. Someday you might find your love on the internet too.

http://www.metro.co.uk/metrosexual/article.html?Facebook_and_MySpace_are_most_popular_place_to_find_love&in_article_id=558642&in_page_id=8

"Facebook and MySpace are 'most popular place to find love'." Thursday, February 26, 2009. Metro. 21 Mar 2009

map!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

war

For the war blog I did the conflict in Gaza. From this war, 1,200 or more Palestinians died and 13 Israelis died from this conflict. I personally think that Israel is being a bit of a bully, but both sides have thrown bombs and it is wrong. I wish they could share but that seems like a stretch. To many religions Jerusalem is a holy important place, which has created much fighting over throughout the times. After world war two, Untied Nations gave the Jews a homeland in Jerusalem, the problem was that people were already occupied there. But all politics aside, innocent people living in the Gaza Strip are living in fear, wondering if this is the day there homes will get blown up. These are real hard working people and I don’t see how putting three thousands people homeless who had no intention of doing anything to Israel solves the problem. One man (Mr Atamna) interviewed by BBC news (Palestinian) has just lost his home and is living in a metal shack next to his ruined house along with pregnant wife and seven children. Mr Atamna says he wants the future to be better, but does not see it happening. Safety and comfort is a luxury they live without. They said they have worked so hard for the house and car they once had, is now in ruins. This reminds me of a book I read about a young women living in Iraq. She was going to school working hard for a degree while occasionally hearing bombs dropping. There is nothing good in war, but I guess it is just a way of live it seems. Maybe one day we can be responsible and sensible.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7926780.stm

Sharp, Heather . "Homeless in Gaza ". BBC News . 6 March 2009

colonization

Colonization started in Africa around the seventeenth century by the Dutch and English. They made many colonies and exploited Africa from its resources (diamonds, gold, and various kinds of metals.) Worse yet, in the 1960’s to gain control of Africa they created ``Grand Apartheid,'' which is a form of racial separation for white privilege. Even tough Africa is dominated by black population, the colonizers made it impossible for them to have freedom of any kind. Humans were placed into three groups: white, black and mixed decent. Black Africans could not have certain jobs, and couldn’t go to certain areas. Black Africans had been granted less doctors, teachers, and income. While the states were marching for peace against racial separation, Africa’s separation had just begun. Even though there were four million white South Africans, there were nineteen million black Africans who had less than fifteen percent of there own land. All though it was there land, they were the ones without power. Thankfully in the 1990’s (far too late) there was no more Grand Apartheid. In the book Things Fall Apart Okonkwo had no idea what was coming for him. White people were there but they did not do this much damage, but both in the book and the Grand Apartheid had no right doing so.

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html

Dugard, John. "The History of Apartheid in South Africa". stanford. March 22, 2009

Global issue

Globally, over Twenty-six-thousand and five-hundred children died around the world just today. That means that every three seconds a child dies, eighteen every minute, and ten million each year. This does not include children who couldn’t have been saved. So these deaths were preventable. The Twenty-six-thousand and five-hundred children that die everyday die from poverty, hunger, and curable diseases or illness. In America, this would not be OK, but if it is a poor country, that is? Do we just expect that and say ‘oh well’? We know what is happening, but we care more about celebrity gossip and such. The media fails to recognize this tragedy, when is the last time you have seen a headline on provable death of children; not many. Even though we are going though hard times ourselves, we are a powerful country. And as a powerful country, I think it is our duty to help other developing countries. But again and again we hand a broken promise. Also, it’s not even including the adults that are dying, but the children who are dying needlessly. We need to do something and turn away no longer.

http://www.globalissues.org/article/715/today-over-26500-children-died-around-the-world#Whyisthistragedynotintheheadlines

Anup Shah, Today, over 26,500 children died around the world, GlobalIssues.org, Last updated: Thursday, January 31, 2008

holidays

Happy national grammar day!!! This holiday (march 4) is pretty self explanatory; it is a day to use the proper mechanics when talking or writing. If you don’t know how, I suggest carrying around a dictionary or something. This day kind of annoys me. But many say it is language is important to one’s society or culture. So some argue that it is important to have our language intact and not loss it’s original state. We also use more and more slang words everyday as generations go on. I predict that in the future we will be speaking in texting words or acronyms. If we do not use good grammar the English language would be lost. A language is an important unifier of a nation. Each nation has its own identity and language is a big part of it. People feel a sense of ownership to their own nation when there is there own unique language to it. I think it is OK in a lot of places, and I respect that but I think America should not have an official language. Even though English is the dominating talk in the US, we should not credit it to be, or announce it is. The US’s idea is that it is based on many cultures coming together and not having a favorite culture. Sense culture is so apart of language; this is why US should not officialize a national language. Anyways this is one holiday I wanted to share with you. Use your proper grammar!


http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/feb/26/news/chi-0226languagefeb26



Bierma, Nathan. "Don’t get carried away on National Grammar Day". Chicago Tribune. February 26, 2008 .

culture food

We all have odd foods in every country. One in particular that just came out, Indian corporations are trying to sell gau jal. Translates into cow water, but it’s nearly all made from cow… pee. The marketer’s promise is that it will nor taste or smell like urine. In India, cows are sacred so they cannot hurt the cow and some believe that the urine drink has special healing powers. The cow urine drink is believed to cleanse the body. Marketers say that this drink promotes Hindu-ness. People have been drinking this concoction for years. First this drink was introduced to people of low caste system for rituals and to cure cancer. Now they are thinking to export the gau jal. The gau jal people say they are competing against drinks like cola. I guess every culture has its weird foods. Foods are tired in with culture very strongly. This reminds me of other culture differences in food. Like here, it is very popular to eat a peanut butter and jelly, while Austrians think it’s gross. The Indians have gau jal but we have eggnog and sunny D. We also came up with the Idea for chocolate covered cockroaches so we are just as bad. I should not judge because it may turn out it tastes really great.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5707554.ece
Kralj, Sasa . "India to launch cow urine as soft drink". Times Online. February 11, 2009 .

Bollywood

In many ways, Bollywood and Hollywood have many similarities between each but some cases can be very different. Bollywood culture is primarily Hindu culture and Hollywood’s culture is more American. But when The Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and American actor Richard Gere made a culture clash, problems between the two arose. In Hollywood’s culture public displays of affection is very ok or even encouraged. When Hollywood stars like Gere, show public displays of affection its fine and people love it. But in Bollywood culture, when actresses like Shilpa Shetty publicly kiss or something when the whole world can see, this is not accepted. In India, many people suffer from HIV so they held an Aids awareness rally. The two actors showed up at the event to talk about safe sex. Gere said “no condom no sex” and then kissed Shetty on the cheek. The crowd and the country did not approve. To make matters worse, the two were an unmarried couple AND Gere was a foreigner. People did not like he was not from their country. This is very not OK in their culture. In following protests began. Protesters burned movie posters of Shetty. The incident is one of few culture clashes. What is OK for one culture is not in another. Gere should have respected their culture, but I’m sure he did not know. In my opinion, I think that he was just making a joke that got way too out of hand.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-448932/Kisses-Richard-Gere-plunge-Shilpa-Shetty-India-row.html.

"Kisses from Richard Gere plunge Shilpa Shetty into India row". Mail Online. 18 April 2007 .