Racism Blog #2
I found an article about racism where the angry racist is a white person. In the article, Racist Calls United South Harrison, the white person is really mad about there being a black mayor in his town. Charles Tyson, the first ever black mayor in South Harrison, got a lot of nasty phone calls from other racists, probably because they don’t think people of another race should have much power in their society. I think this quotation sums it um, “Jones’ experience with a man who chased him down before holding him at gunpoint on the side of the road out of disgust that ‘a black man could be driving a BMW’”. A BMW is a nice car, and clearly the man who held the mayor at gunpoint didn’t want him to be wealthy and successful/have power and influence. I think it’s pretty sad that some people can’t accept it that today everybody should be treated equally and have the right to be successful and have good jobs. I can’t think of many ways that this relates to Huck Finn other than people not wanting african americans to do well and be equal to themm.
