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“This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die.” (49) -Nathaniel Hawthorne

“At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne’s forehead.” (49) - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world’s scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, and yet with reverence, too." -Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Thus, we seem to see that, as regarded Hester Prynne, the whole seven years of outlaw and ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour" -Nathaniel Hawthorne



"Law enforcement in the United States, thanks largely to the war on drugs; routinely targets people of color often living in ghetto areas for stops and searches. typically in a futel effort to find drugs." -Michelle Smith in The New Jim Crow media type="file" key="BLACK AND BLUE by Louis Armstrong 1929 BLUES!!.mp3" "I'm white inside, but that don't help my case Cause I can't hide what is on my face

I'm so forlorn. Life's just a thorn

My heart is torn. Why was I born?

What did I do to be so black and blue?" -Louis Armstrong ([|source]) >> THE LYNCHING >> **// by: Claude McKay (1890-1948) //** is spirit is smoke ascended to high heaven. His father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him to his bosom once again; The awful sin remained still unforgiven. All night a bright and solitary star (Perchance the one that ever guided him,Yet gave him up at last to Fate's wild whim) Hugh pitifully o'er the swinging char. Day dawned, and soon the mixed crowds came to view The ghastly body swaying in the sun: The women thronged to look, but never a one Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue; And little lads, lynchers that were to be, Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee. [|Source] Home Page Mullen- Punishment Reflection