Oppression of the Pen and the PALs
Thursday, November 16, 2006
MANY HAVE BEEN HOUNDING ME ABout my comical US History essay.They say i beat around the bush and in the end never touch on the theme which is Black freedwomen,which i indeed did not really.haa My essay is about Oppresion of Black Freedwomen after they were given their freedom. I shall let u guys get a glimpse of parts of the essay:(Words highlighted in purple meant that its the weird parts that my frn felt was inappropriate for the essay that i was writing..die la, i always write weird stuff especially the analogy part)"The new beginning for these freed women were to embark on the journey in search for their long lost family members. The separated husband that was at another far away plantation, the sparsely separated children (???haa..inappropriate terms used?)sold to all parts of South.What I feel may not be a direct response to this particular reading but is an important cosmic view brought upon by this event. Such was a tragedy that a family had to be split up all over the place and grow up without the proper knowledge of a full family warmth and love. A "natural" or normal family that was supposed to grow up and old together was voided due to a particular group of selfish people or society that superimposed their inhumane ideas upon another group of human beings. Indeed a man made tragedy that no one human should have the right to encroach on another person’s way of life, to tear families apart just so they can get slaves. Who gives one human the right to dehumanize another human being? It is not the will of God or wealth that makes one group of specific humans at a higher God-like hierarchy. There was never a natural human caste system, human are born in all different shapes, sizes and even ‘color’ but the distinction lies there and then. There is only man made hierarchy or caste system in which people thinks one ethnicity is better than the other, male is superior to female, western countries are superior than eastern countries. All these are simply man made measurements, which results in discrimination of a particular group. In this case it was the discrimination of black people who were made slaves, their life entirely controlled by the white people. Black women were further oppressed, as they are female as well as colored. An analogy that I came up with for freedom of that time to black women was like an ice cream offered to one on a hot day, you yearn to eat it but had no means to. It depicts a deep yearning for ice cream (freedom) but had no means to eat it correctly, one can only sees the ice cream melt in your hand, and not being able to enjoy it. Freedom when obtained is useless unless the black women had the appropriate means to survive in the rat race."Tada...Weird and long winded without an actual aim right? I sux at essay writing especially one with a theme..i run away with my own thoughts halfway after writing the title i guess. ;P
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