Dhatri Gundlapally’s Reviews > We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide > Status Update

This is an add-on to my Feb 4 reading check:

Here are some more questions from my reading:
Why don't the blacks highlight their importance in the economy to show how people are reliant on their labor?
Why are presidents like James Madison calling for freedom for blacks when they are slave owners themselves?

This is an add-on to my Jan 31 reading check:

Adding on to that thought, the government was recognizing that the blacks had freedom and were practicing their rights, and it truly disturbed them that the newly freed were enjoying their lives. The white southerners complained that they needed an easy and cheap form of labor, and slavery was their answer once again, leading the blacks into a cycle of debt.

This is an add-on to my Jan 29 reading check:

I was shocked by the illustrations of the brutal reality experienced by the blacks because they were truly enduring so much pain. For the namesake, they had freedom, but in reality, they were trapped in a never-ending cycle of slavery. It also surprised me that even though the blacks spoke up and practiced their freedom of speech, they were oppressed far too much.

This is an add-on to my Jan 27 reading check:

The word 'buoyed' also shows how the African Americans continued to have hope even through all of the struggles they experienced, while the government still ruthlessly, even planting seeds of hate in the minds of white Americans against blacks, hated African Americans while practicing violent regimes.

This is an add-on to my Jan 23 reading check and I am writing from the perspective of me during Jan 23:

Also, all of the events are written by an African American author who has either experienced or has had family who experienced the struggles of racism generations before. So, the text could have a lot of ethos, and since it includes real events that occurred in history, it could also have many examples of logos.

Imagery: "...dragged Mary Turner to a tree, stripped her naked, tied her ankles together, and strung her upside down. They then poured gasoline on her and set her on fire" (Anderson 60-61). This example of imagery was very effective because it shows the brutal experiences of the black, especially the women, when they weren't completely free and segregation was still very prominent.

Pathos: "The backlash kept apace in the form of hate-filled rants, intimidation, and savage violence" (Anderson 43). This is pathos because it shows the emotion of anger and it depicts it in an informative but powerful way. The wording used such as savage and backlash tells the reader about the tensions and emotions experienced at the time of this event.

Why are the poorer, illiterate whites against the blacks who are running schools when they are providing education? Why did Andrew Jackson completely change his view on newly freedmen from falsely giving them freedom to saying that white people are the only people the government protects? What change happened there?

The thing that surprised me the most was the way the blacks were treated during the Civil War time and how the government had a very different view of how their policies helped. For example, blacks thought that the Black Codes were like slavery all over again, but the government thought of it as a way to prevent the newly freed from being a burden on society,