Reaccuring Themes of Hypocracy (thur)

As I'm reading all of these articles and I'm thinking about all of the topics we are looking at I can't help but be hit by how hypocritical some of these subjects are. For example in the "Lift Every Voice" article when they open up talking about the "rape" of these two women and how little evidence there was, then two years later one of the women Ruby Bates said she lied about what happened. This is very hypocritical to me now and to women of the past like Ida B Wells. back then a white woman could claim rape with little to no evidence and it was taken as fact while a black woman could be raped and have all the evidence in the world and no one would do anything about it. Now we come to 2019 and women are just starting to be believed when they say someone raped them it seemed before the, "me two-movement", you couldn't get anyone sentenced. It just seems really crazy that hypocrisy leads to a slaughter of African American me in the early 1900s and hypocrisy lead to people like R. Kelly and Harvey Weinstein to be able to blatantly abuse women. One thing that surprised me in the reading, "Defying Dixie", and the hand the communist party had in certain civil rights activities. Mainly this surprised be because America is super anti-communist AKA the red scare. even know people either bring up Russia, N. Korea, and China as these kinds of dangerous dictatorial and oligomeric forces. I can see how this could happen though because looking at the dates (1919-1950) it was a little before an at the early stages of the big push back against communism. One interesting thing about both of the article renditions on the same trial and how politicized it was for both the NAACP and the Communist party.

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