Please Write a Reflection to the Articles, 'The Duluth Lynchings' and 'A Town Called Rosewood'...
What can we learn from articles like these?
Why is it important to learn about examples like these?
What can you do as an individual to ensure that nothing like this happens again?
Why is it important to learn about examples like these?
What can you do as an individual to ensure that nothing like this happens again?
14 comments:
I was very stunned and angry at what people would do to eachother. Some of those men and women were totally innocent, but still got killed. To help intolorence stay down you can just respect others for who they are and not for what they look like.
I thought it was cruel and mean to kill innocent people. I thought that the people in the mopbs should have gotten arrested for all of the deaths they caused. It was unfair to the people who got killed because of something they can't help.
I think that from these terriable events, we can learn to respect eachother. It is so horriable what those people did to the minorities. I think that we can make sure that this doesn't happen again by teaching kids when they are young that we are all equal, and by exposing kids to a larger variety of races, religions, and cultures so that when they are an adult they realize that everyone deserves the same amount of dignity and respect.
What my reaction was how badly treated some people are for no reason. This made me feel almost ashamed to be an American knowing that people like me did terrible things. What we can learn is that not everyone is treated the same and that we can change that. It is important for us to learn about things like these because we can see how much the world has changed, and how badly people that were "different" were treated. What we can do as an individual is to fight against discrimination and stand up for others!
I think it was weird how people would do that when they wernt even sure if that was the right person. they just picked those guys and hung them for no reason. they're people too they shouldn't be treated like that.
I think to make it stop it could just be like a chain, because if everyone else stops they'll stop too.
I always knew that the lynching and killing had happened in the southern states, but it shocked me to know that those awful events also happened in Minnesota. It makes me angry that, first of all, there were hate crimes like that at all, and second of all that very few people tried to stop it. I think that we can learn a lot from these stories and take these instances as a warning not to judge other people by the color of their skin or the language they speak, but by how they treat other people and what kind of person they are.
I was surprised to hear that such horrendous hate crimes happened here in Minnesota. I always considered Minnesota to be a rather "tolerant" state and not a place with severe racism.
I always knew that the South was rather racist and intolerant of other cultures, but I would never have known that something like this would happen on such a large scale. It seems as if these crimes against humanity were overlooked until America as a whole became more tolerant and respectful to other peoples.
To help combat intolerance and insure that these things never happen again, instead of people seeing that someone of a certain color is to blame, see them as a singular person, or lots of people. Overlooking the color of one's skin and instead not taking the physical things in consideration.
When I saw what the lynchings looked like, I was stunned at the fact that people could do such a thing. The blacks weren't even the right person but the lynchers still lynched them any way because they wanted someone to blame. We can learn about what happened in history from these articals. It also seemes to happen that history repeats itself. It is important to learn from examples like these so you don't do them yourself. As an individual you can make friends with blacks and work with a group of people to help stop hate crimes and gang fights.
I think it was a horrible thing that the people from the articles did to other people just because they were different. From these articles, we can learn what not to do in the future, and what mistakes not to make. It is important to learn from these examples to try to understand every person and be friends with different types of people so more hate crimes don't occur. As an individual, I can respect everyone as a human and not judge people on how they look or act.
I think that we can learn how bad the past was, and how to fix it in the future. It's important for kids to learn in school about lynchings like these because it makes them realize how horrible racism can be to a certain extent.
I was really surprised to find out that these terrible things occurred here in Minnesota! I never would have though that it would have been this bad. As individuals we could stop rasicm any time we see it, and in school, they could talk more about different kinds of tragedies like these.
I was sad that people would do such things and hurt minorities just because they don't understand them and if they took the time and the energy to learn about different minorities their ignorance wouldn't turn into something worse. If people took the time to understand each other they could make the world a much better place.
I couldn't believe how they were treated. I can't see myself or anyone I know (well) doing the kinds of things that were done to those poor people. I had never even heard of lynching before. It's not right to kill or even hurt someone because of what they look like or what they believe. How would those people like it if they were killed by Germany (i chose a random place) because they were americans and didn't speak, act, or look like the germans. (again it was random)I don't think they would like it at all.
What I think that we and our country can learn from all of the hate crimes in general is that no one should feel like they aren't respected or liked! Everyone can fix these bad feelings people have about themselves by treating people by the "Golden Rule." Treat others the way you want to be treated! If we all do that, then no one should feel bad about themselves in any way! It is important to learn from these events because it shows just how intolerant America was at that time! We can see what happened and then we can fix it in the future!
I think that it was bad that the mobs got so crazy that they didn't wait for the real facts they just wanted the African Americans killed because they were suspected of breaking the law.
We can learn from this because it shows that not everybody is guilty and anybody can turn into a killer because of what other people are saying and doing.
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