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Just as people of New York City thought it was going to be over it really  shifted towards the beginning of a health crisis. Governor Cuomo along other states  have put in place an executive order “New York State on PAUSE” in efforts to minimize the increase of people being infected with the novel virus COVID-19 which as of now we have been the epicenter of the entire nation with the most infected. As of now there are more than 25,000 cases according to worldmeter.info and the numbers are going to increase theirs no doubt. Andrew Cuomo also announced that in the next few weeks we can have approximately  70-80% of the  population infected with the novel virus. The Stay Home movement has been a global pandemic because their are people who aren’t abiding to state laws. While other countries like China who have reported not having anymore new cases of people being infected. Could it be because their government are serious about this issue and because people are abiding to their rules or could it also be because they are taking drastic measures to actually combat this virus.

While on the other hand Trump wants the United States to go “back to normal” before Easter although this may be impossible he still urges that he wants US companies and families to go back to work. This is a big thing and perhaps people are ignorant for not listening or because they think they are young they might not get infected. But it’s not like at all people ages of 20-60 are in hospitals right now and theirs no going back.

The governor has also urged people to stay 6 feet away from each other I hope people take these drastic measures seriously because if not the nation perhaps might have to go in national quarantine like Italy is doing. We wouldn’t want that so please guys if you have any parents or elderly people you know let them know to stay inside. This is the time that we must work together and help one another for the greater good. We must fight this by listening to what our local officials are saying because they know what’s best for their people as well as what’s best for us. That is all for today I wanted to give you guys the latest updates on what’s going on right now.I hope you guys are safe and hopefully we can go back to normality.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg

This person is a PhD in nursing, I believe, retired in north of England.

He posts a video daily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6t7vVTxaic

“Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for suffrage. Despite violent opposition, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, and their efforts culminated in President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” (Wikipedia)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/coronavirus-young-people.html?algo=top_conversion&fellback=false&imp_id=625462567&imp_id=465074382&action=click&module=Most%20Popular&pgtype=Homepage

Reflection #3

In the article “The 1619 Project” by Nikole Hannah Jones talks about African American people how they are being mistreated, never had the freedom they want including having equality. It was definitely important to learn about slavery and the history of the U.S. In the article, she talks about how African Americans deserve equality because of how they transformed the United States most attracted spots. In the years being they never got the credit that a white man would have gotten for making such attractive spots. Hannah basically is trying to tell us that African Americans should get the respect they needed and how they should be treated equally. 100 years ago, African Americans were facing the problem or segregation and slavery that was still going on. Even in today’s society racism is still going on but not so much slavery exactly.  For example, people today still use some termnology from slavery to speak to other people in an aggressive way or just to speak generally. Some people may take it in offense and some people may not but everywhere you turn to racism is still going on and you may not even know it.  In addition, now African Americans are getting the respect they want/needed based on what they do or did. Slowly, as the years go by African Americans are slowly on the rise of trying to become equally forever. However, as Hannah Jones heard some of her family’s stories she tells us the treatment African Americans go through every day. In her perspective she believes that African American built the way for America meaning that they created a true meaning to equality and freedom during the time of slavery even though the white men took control of it all.

In the story “American Slavery” and “The Relentless Unforeseen” by Sean Wilentz it talks mainly about how slavery was unavoidable meaning it couldve been prevented because of the Moral Revolution in the 1740s. On the other hand we have Hannah Jones “1619 Project”whose main point is to talk about the negative view of how Americans have for many centuries have hurt the African American population for a long time. During the moral Revolution people were  managing to have full power over society. That was the beginning of slavery. On the other hand we have Wilentz who thought in effort explained how slavery ended in a arupted situation between the abolitionist and anti abolitionist. 

 Fredrick Douglass and John Brown who have been the example of showing how people are being treated especially the African American community. While, Jones perecpation of slavery is overall negative and acts as if American is the enenmy in her article it explains the pain and torture that African Americans face and examples of people like Harriet Tubman took the courage to go against slavery. Some of the successful things that Harriet Tubman did along others who were against slavery was the underground railroad which was a passageway for freedom.  But, what people forget that people ran for their lives because they would escape from their masters and seek freedom in the north

Hannah Jones makes a good perception of how America is not justibale as it is to protect all alienable rights of citizens especially in times like slavery where under the constition they were seen as less and bought for merchandise. Jones also included that their were people who were up against slavery becuase they thought that it was unfair and just morally wrong for people to be sold on a daily basis.Throughout the 1700s it took America to finally realize the amount of corruption that was just laid on everyones daily lives. The nation that is based on freedom, and taking that freedom and not giving to everyone on this land which in fact was seen racially wrong but once again people were ignorant. The abolishment of slavery was a success for the future of this country but was an establishment for the growth of a newborn country. 

Wilentz’s statement is very symbolic he says, “Because the ideals that propelled the American Revolution shared crucial origins with the ideals that propelled antislavery, it can be tempting to treat slavery as a terrible appendage to American history, an important but also doomed institution at the nation’s founding”. This is an opposition of Hannah Jones’s view of slavery showing how cruel it was to do this to “people”. But in the end both authors can’t relate to what people like Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass went throught becuse it wasn’t their time they tell stories from what they’ve heard but it still gives us an idea of how slavery was seen and how it was abolished whether it was for the best or the worst.In the end Wilentz understands the histroy of slavery while Hannah has a more biased or personal connection to this issue.

 

Research as inquiry is your inquiry.  What do you want to know about the readings, Hannah-Jones, and Wilentz?

One main thing is the difference between the two positions:  Hannah-Jones says the U.S. was based on, founded on, racial inequality.  Wilentz says that the abolition of slavery was not guaranteed, that it took a lot of conflict, effort, and circumstance that could not be predicted, yet it slavery was abolished.

You can start with a review of each article.  Break down each article to 3-4 sections and summarize the main point of each.

What questions do you have that come from your reading of the two articles?  Start a research group with another person or persons in the group, if you’d like.  Do an open source web search on your questions.

I for instance wanted to know more about Frederick Douglass, and I found the text where he described his meeting with President Lincoln in order to discuss the recruiting of the African-American brigades in the Union army in the civil war.  From there, I found about the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the Wikipedia article, and the film, Glory, form 1989.

This does connect back to Hannah-Jones; Douglass, who escaped enslavement himself, advocated and fought politically for abolition of slavery and racial equality.

But Douglass’ work to recruit African Americans into the war against the confederates also shows how unpredicted events made this necessary, and that it didn’t just happen on its own.  This is an example of “relentless unforeseen.”  In history, as in life, we improvise to achieve our goals.  We don’t know what is going to happen in the future as a result of our actions.  Yet we must push for our goals.

Lincoln was trying to win the war and preserve the country.  Many people thought African-Americans would not be able to be effective fighting men against the confederates; many had escaped from enslavement in the south.  But the war was not going well, and morale in the north was weakening, and Lincoln had a shortage of new “white” volunteers to join the U.S. army.  Frederick Douglass was a emphatic voice for abolition of slavery and for African Americans to join the U.S. armed forces and fight the confederates.

This was the context of the 1863 war-time Emancipation Proclamation–see the wikipedia article.  This created havoc in the south.  At the same time, the African-American brigades went into action and defeated confederate forces.

Imagine the effect on the public.  The idea of equality was advanced by these actions and events–that no one could have predicted earlier.

This article was published today on the Washington Post website.  An excellent introduction on how viruses work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/23/coronavirus-isnt-alive-thats-why-its-so-hard-kill/

Feel free to comment using best practices for online writing.  What is a virus?

In the book called “American Slavery-and-‘the Relentless Unforeseen'” by Sean Wilentz it talks about how slavery was inevitable because of the moral Revolution that happened in the late 1740s and early 1750s.  During the moral Revolution they were really concerned that their society should be able to have full power. That was the beginning of slavery. Ever since then not only African Americans but also Hispanics became were treated really poorly and were abused by white Americans. He also talks about how there were many people who were against slavery and  for slavery, it caused a huge fight. The main difference between Hannah Jones story and Wilentz is that Hannah Jones wrote about what African Americans went through when they were mistreated and how they deserve equality like everyone else. Wilentz wrote about what led to slavery and talks about the history of it. What i think Sean Wilentz meant by ” Relentless Unforeseen ” was that people before never thought they would become slaves for people who think they are powerful. They never thought they would receive this hate and abuse. I think Hannah Jones agree with this because African Americans deserved better, they were never supposed to be treated like that. They deserved the same equality like everyone else. When we look back at those tragic events it makes me upset because of the way they were discriminated just because of the color of their skin. Those people who experienced it were scared that they would get lynched, beaten up on the streets, etc. They would be very upset because they didn’t get to have the freedom they wanted, if they did something wrong by accident or just look at a white women they would get killed or beaten up.

Go to:  https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/483752794

Also please note, I have changed the “Assignments” page to agree with the restatement of the Research as Inquiry project #2.