Reflection+on+Hate

The images of African Americans being attacked by fire hoeses operated by white policemen during civil rights marches. Simply shoes white intolerance and hate for the African American people. As Americans we are taught to hate anyone who is different than we are. If we find no reason to ligitmantly hate them, we make one up. We hate, because we recongize that in order to be superior we must put others down to raise ourselves up. The quotes taken from Alexis de Tocqueville predict that African Americans and Whites will never be on equal footing. He also states that in America once an idea gets engrained in Americans heads, it simply becomes a part of who they are and there lives and even if it is wrong, Americans lack the will to change this and simply press on with life under their old ideals. This relates to the idea of the seperate but equal decsion made by the supreme court after the Plessy v. Fergouson case. The idea that blacks and whites should be segagated became a part of who we were as Americans. Caucasian Americans especailly in the south lives under laws in which caused African Americans much hardship and pain. Americans had been taught that African Americans were inferior to them and therefore caucasian Americans continued to treat African Americans cruelly, attacking them, hanging them, and inflicting misery on them. This hate steamed from principals and ideals created in the dark past of our nations history and even though many rexongize that this treatment was cruel and unjust they were so use to the way things were, that they silenced their voices.

Although de Tocquevile believed that Americans were able unwilling to change, he did recongize that it was possible and that if could be done in a hard and timely manner. But change was possible in the United States. Currently, many Americans judge others on the content of their chracter rather than on the color of their skin. The images shown depict the advances that we have made regarding issues of race. We were able to instigate change. The video at the end of the exihibit, shows that we are continously looking for ways to change and improve the lives of the suffering and those who are in need of revolution to improve their lives.