EmmanuelFZ101
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Final Blog Post
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Thursday Blog Comment
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Global Politics: Guns, Germs & Steel
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Lab Exercise: Blog Comments & They Say/I Say
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Blog Assignment Two: Archives Visit
At the archives, I and my fellow students were handed a document titled “Remarks by Mayor Robert F. Wagner” which was then a televised speech on CBS regarding the 1964 Harlem Riots. While Mayor Wagner was away attending a world conference in Geneva, Switzerland, addressing unemployment and poverty issues, he constantly stayed in touch with City Hall, which relayed the troubling news. Returning to New York sooner than expected, Mayor Wagner prepared a tour and personally inspected areas of Harlem ravaged by the riots. After describing what was considered an aftermath of battle, he also noted districts of Harlem and its residents’ who did not partake in the riots. This was sufficient enough to convince Mayor Wagner that the majority of the Harlem residents did not engage in violent and disorderly behavior. He further exclaims that police officers should maintain law and order while stating illicit conduct and disobedience towards police authority will not be tolerate.
Not only do I find this new speech from Mayor Wagner’s take on the 1964 Harlem riots helpful in gaining an expanded knowledge of this historical event. I am quite pleased he didn’t take a stance like The Times articles. Wagner’s stance seemed neutral. He didn’t openly criticize the Harlem residents as foul, impoverished thinking people. At the same time he didn’t ignore the actuality of police brutality while fervently reminding them how their initial duty of maintaining law and order should be carried out.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Blogging The Lab Assignment
It’s quite clear that the false promises imposed by
figurehead white politicians and supposed community leaders are necessary and
an irremovable cog of the white supremacy machine. Malcolm X’s speeches on the
police state and its provocation to worldwide revolution go hand to hand. The
poor, powerless struggle of the people of Harlem are concurrent to the
struggles of Latin America, Asia, and various other regions of the world where
the common enemy is the “international western power structure.”
Malcolm X’s description of a police state explains the cause,
effect, and dual emotional resentment between the police and the residents
occupying the area. I believe the most underlining point of Malcolm’s
particular speech is his analytical perspective on the statistics of Harlem,
gathered through certain media outlets, and pervaded to the white public as a
persuasive technique. A technique intended to sway the white public opinion.
The same technique that impacts repressed communities thus creating the tension
aborning police brutality and the Harlem residents’ justification for
resistance.