Black Psychology Reflection
1. The participants of these crimes passed down racist attitudes, beliefs, and practices to their children. They taught their children the same ideas they believed in, which were white supremacy, racism, hate, and unjust violence against their fellow human beings. I believe they taught their children these beliefs because in more than one of the postcards I viewed I saw children gathered around the corpses of the lynched. They participants passed down the attitude that they were superior to blacks. To show their superiority they would hang innocent men, women, and children. The participants also taught their children to treat black people as less than human beings. Their attitude towards blacks was that they could do and say anything to them because they were less than human beings; they were "animals."2. I do believe that what was being taught in the ivory halls of education supported such behaviors. During the times of these lynchings most of the country was segregated and most of the whites believed in committing crimes of hate, racism, and in the idea of separate but not equal. Since hate was being practiced in this country it's only logical that hate was part of the education being taught. I went
5. The attitudes, beliefs, and practices passed down to their children by the victims probably included hate, fear, and discrimination. The victims learned to fear and hate white people because of the way they treated them. The victims taught their children to stick together with their own kind and to stay away and have nothing to do with white people. The victims would also teach them to obey the whites so the children wouldn't end up physically hurt themselves. Another belief passed along was that all white people were the same, hateful, and dangerous. During those times they had just reasons to believe that all white people were out to get them because, most of them were. The victims also passed down the practice of discrimination. No matter who the white person was, they would dislike them because blacks believed that all whites were the same. Parents taught their children to fear whites because they had the power to do whatever they wanted, including murder because; they had the law on their side. 3. European historiography does support such behaviors. Europeans writing of history tells about the lynching, hate, and blunt racism that went on but doesn't explain how wrong it was and doesn't express much remorse for the victims. The history books don't come right and literally say that they support the behavior of the oppressor but do so in
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