The school year is half way over, and it feels great to finally start winter break! Unfortunately, my final group discussion on Warriors Don’t Cry was a very poor one with very little covered, probably because it was still early in the morning and it was only a couple hours until we started or break. Only a few questions and bam we went off topic.
However, my group and I did manage to at least get some stuff covered. We answered some of the questions I brought up like “do you think that melba did the right thing to go to Central High where she was poorly and racially treated?”. I thought of some reasonable answers for that question. I think she did the right thing in going to Central High even though there was such dirty mistreatment thrown at her. I believe that if she did not go to Central High, the segregationists would have been the winners of that battle. But by continuing her attendance and Central High, Melba was like pointing her middle finger up say you can not stop me, making her a true warrior.
Another topic we spoke about was the usage of the term “nigger”, particularly in today’s society. Gina mentioned that if a black person called another black person a “nigger”, he/she would not really care and take it as a typical joke. However, if a white person called a black person a “nigger”, the reactions most likely would be totally different. We discussed why it is this way, but one of the only answers we were able to think of was culture and society. We concluded that this depends on the society and era you are in. during the times when this story took place, many white people would fearlessly call a black person a “nigger” and in many cases that was what their race was called, to insult or not. Marther Luther king junior for example would usually call African Americans “negro” and he was not trying to be insulting. Today in our society calling someone a “nigger” would be considered strong foul language.
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