Jasmine Huerta

Jasmines blog "A Mixed Race" was very interesting and very true. Jasmine claims is Tannenbaum, no matter how racist he is approves "black" and "white" people having children. It is the only way the "Negros" ever belong in a white mans society. This book was written around the time of the civil war so that is to be expected from Tannenbaum. But Now I wonder in our generation will these stereotypes, not just in the black community but for every race, ever go away. Will there be a day where all people won't look at each other by skin color or by race. Just look at each other as people. what do you think?
I also agree that Tannenbaum was very descriptive on how he feels about the mixing of "Whites" and "Blacks". It felt like as our teacher would say that he was a bit of a "creep" while writing this. He fantasizes about a Black women who owns her own slaves. It's a bit "raunchy" which was how i described it in my blog.
However Jasmine also claims "When black women had this choice, it was a downfall either way whether working in the fields and possibly getting raped or live in a house with a white man just satisfy his every sexual desire and serve him in anything else" (Huerta 2nd Paragraph) is a interesting. For some women they had no choice but to be the mistress or it was hard labor. This is what Tannenbaum approves? Now matter how they have children wether its love or rape the ends justify the means.
"A Mixed Race"is a good blog but can use a bit more evidence. You definitely got a good claim should use this claim in your first essay but use more of the book to support. "The Biological transmutation from one race toward another, the new type of beauty, the new race was being evolved every" (tannenbaum 121) is a great quote to use for this claim. all of page 121 and on is great evidence for your claim

The end of the book has been interesting. We see the author believes slavery is an idea that will never fade until we can look a "Black" judge and only look at him as a judge. when skin color does not matter on how you look at a person. Until that day the affect of slavery will linger. Then he goes a bit "raunchy" at the end. He claims the only way a black person can belong in a white mans society is if the parents is both black and white. So he approves them having sex wether it's from rape or love cause the ends justify the means. It's a very weird way on how he brings up this subject. I am not going to lie it was a bit uncomfortable. This book showed me so many different perspectives on slavery. Even though he is still rascist.

Im not going to lie, this is no regular english class. It's not just research paper after research paper. I have now a whole new perspective on the slave trade in general due to our class discussions. I first saw it as people paying for other human beings as if they were property. It's safe to say that what we all learned in j.h.s and in high school. In our history books it shows most if not all slaves were being put in horrible working conditions and how they needed to be freed

Now we know thats not the whole story. Turns out everything i taught was not wrong but not the whole picture which is what the author is trying top teach us. The slave trade legitimate business which is the back bone on what build the new world. I realize now in our history books they tell us the europeans created the new world. I realize it was the slaves themselves who did all the work and got no credit for it. 

Something which was also pointed out in our discussions is how even tho slavery was abolished after the civil war, the idea that if you were a "negro" you were born by nature to be a slave never left the "white mans" mind. African Americans were not given the opportunity to prove to  be more than slaves. They are people who can also grow to be something more. 

These are very interesting topics. looking forward for more

In this passage one significant idea is the belief that a “Negro” and an American are two different things. He calls it having double-consciousness. He explains it clearly when he said “an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” Another example is when he said the “negro” has so much to offer the world and Africa to make it seem as if Africa is not part of our world. But he also wants to believe that there is a way to combine both conscious without having to disgrace both cultures.

“Negros” are the seventh son. Could it be another son of god? They have a message that needs to be heard but he also wonders how can one person accomplish this without being isolated or worse being put to death. You can see the fear when he said “He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face”