Harlem Riots of 1943

Hello Everyone. This is Marcela, I am currently taking ENN 195 class with Prof. Rogers-Copper at LaGuardia Community College. In class we staring to talk about the Harlem riots. Today’s blog is to talk about the Harlem riots of 1943. According to many articles the Harlem riots of 1943 was due to a race issue. A wounded African American solider Robert Bandy wanted to know why an African American women was being arrested for disorderly conduct. When he approach the officer and alleged victim he was shot by a white police officer, before this the solider and officer throw a couple punches, because the solider believe the women was being arrested on unfair grounds. All the commotion between the officer and solider lead to a crowd gathering around them and someone miss understood what was going on. They believe that the officer shot and killed Bandy, and a riot erupted which was held for two days. Many people were left injured and some die, there was a lot of property damage. All this lead to New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia go to the scene to restore order. 

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Hello Everyone, my name is Marcela Romero. I am currently taking Prof. Rogers-Copper class,Violence in American Art and Culture. In class we are going to start talking about the Harlem riots of 1935. last week Prof. Rogers-Copper ask us to check some websites to have an idea of what are the Harlem riots and we also visited the Archive room at LaGuardia Community College to see artifact and primary sources of the Harlem Riots. I was checking one of the websites he posted and one of them was in Wikipedia. it gave a brief discussion about the Harlem riots. It says that the riots started on March 19,1935 at 2:30 pm in the Kress Five and Ten Store. An employee there caught a black Puerto Rican 16- year old kid stealing a candy bar, his captor threaten the kid whose name is Lino that he was going to take him to the basement and beat the hell out of him. Such comment made the kid bit the employers hand in an attempted to ran away , but the manger intervene and call the police. while they waited for the police to arrive a woman was yelling that they've beaten the child up and ambulance came and treated the employees wounds, this had confirm the woman story and that the kid was beaten to death. This woman was arrested for disorderly conduct and the Kress Five and Ten store was closed early. Later in the early evening a group called Young Liberators started a demonstration [like a strike] outside the store, drawing thousands of people and they started a distribution  of papers with the headline "Child Brutally Beaten" and another one said a 12 year old got beaten to death for taking a piece of candy. Chaos erupted an at some point some one throw a rock at the store window, glass shattering and a riot has began.
This incident reminded me of what going on today. For example what's happening in Ferguson, Missouri. with the guy Mike Brown, who allegedly had an argument with a police officer Darren Wilson and things heated up and a shooting happen where Brown was shot and died there. After the the incident was broadcast through news, newspapers and social media, riots started  striking all over Ferguson and the united states.
Another incident was what happen to Trevon Martin who was shot by a neighborhood watcher, Zimmerman who claimed the teen was beating him up and believe he was armed, He called the police and the police told him not to follow him that help was on its way, Zimmerman refuse and shot Martin, Killing him.
My point is that it seem many things that happen in the past are staring to happen in the present. Its like history is repeating it self. riots always happen in Florida[ were this incident took place] and also nation wide. Riots are something people do to protest for what going on, the injustice that happening to them and riots help specially with social media now, it shows the world know what going on.

A Potential Theme in Cesar's Column

Hello Everyone, my name is Marcela Romero. I am a student at LaGuardia Community College taking Prof.Copper, Violence in America Art and Culture English class. In class we been  discussing the book Caesar's Column and the major themes in this book. a theme that caught my attention a lot is religion, purity  and women. i feel that this is important because religion plays a big role on how we manage things and what are our morals. Women are always at the bottom of the chain. They are seen as parasites. Many believe that women can't archive anything. Society view of a women is to,be a perfect wife, have children and take care of her children and husband. Religion plays a big role because they the ones who came up with this idea that women should be the "perfect wife" and that they should stay pure till marriage. Religion and purity go along because the ideology that women should stay pure till marriage and a women who isn't pure till marriage are view as sinners. The view of women have change a lot but we still have that ideology that women should stay pure till marriage and that they have to be the perfect house wife.  Women are seen as shameful and are a distraction for men. with that being said women should have a role in society, many people still believe that. We see this in today's society because women are paid lower wages then men. when it comes to politics when were once denied the right to vote and they are seen as minorities. Society believes women can't become better politicians than men, because women are too sensitive. I believe society still has that religion ideology therefore they underestimate women.