Essay 2 Draft 2 Originating in sub-Saharan east Africa, homo-sapiens began migrating in all directions during the time now known as pre-history, forever changing the faces of man. As Eugenie C. Scott put it in her article, Evolution and the Origin of Races, “Anthropologists see races as temporary, changing phenomena, products of genetic processes and natural selection.”(2) Depending on settlement, humans slowly adapted to their environments, resulting in different skin, hair, and eye color. As different societies interacted, a hierarchy of civilizations evolved based on the developments of independent societies, usually placing white people at the top. Specifically in the United States, this hierarchy led to a segregation and dehumanization
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Orval Faubus saw Elizabeth Eckford as the enemy. He stripped her, a young girl he had never met, of human identity and left her bare, showing the only thing visible to him, her dark skin. Faubus and every participant involved in humiliating Elizabeth, screaming at her, throwing words like knives and cutting her apart, took away the person and instead saw the group. To those Little Rock citizens Elizabeth was merely a proxy for the race as a whole, and through her they hoped to convey their message, forgetting that she was just a person like them. Hazel Bryan and Elizabeth Eckford were both young female students interested in boys and activities, but on that day they couldn't have been more different. Hazel woke up that morning, was driven to school and screamed words she didn't understand. Elizabeth woke up that morning, rode the bus to school and was mocked, humiliated, and forced to put on a mask to hide her …show more content…
As Beverly Daniel Tatum put in her essay, “Why Are All the Blacks Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”, her son David, tall for his age, has to worry when he hits puberty. “Do the women hold their purses a little tighter, maybe even cross the street to avoid him? Does he hear the sound of the automatic door locks on cars as he passes by?” (376) When the media or Hollywood choose to showcase only the bad actions of a certain group, the results mean the public from then on will associate the people of that group with those actions. Priests as child molesters, white school shooters as mentally deranged, and in this case, black people as thugs. Now some people don't trust the church, gun laws remain the same, and for Tatum’s son Daniel, naive whites have an automatic mistrust of black males. Just like what happened to Elizabeth Eckford, whites see past the person, intentionally or not, and instead see the
Orval Faubus saw Elizabeth Eckford as the enemy. He stripped her, a young girl he had never met, of human identity and left her bare, showing the only thing visible to him, her dark skin. Faubus and every participant involved in humiliating Elizabeth, screaming at her, throwing words like knives and cutting her apart, took away the person and instead saw the group. To those Little Rock citizens Elizabeth was merely a proxy for the race as a whole, and through her they hoped to convey their message, forgetting that she was just a person like them. Hazel Bryan and Elizabeth Eckford were both young female students interested in boys and activities, but on that day they couldn't have been more different. Hazel woke up that morning, was driven to school and screamed words she didn't understand. Elizabeth woke up that morning, rode the bus to school and was mocked, humiliated, and forced to put on a mask to hide her …show more content…
As Beverly Daniel Tatum put in her essay, “Why Are All the Blacks Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”, her son David, tall for his age, has to worry when he hits puberty. “Do the women hold their purses a little tighter, maybe even cross the street to avoid him? Does he hear the sound of the automatic door locks on cars as he passes by?” (376) When the media or Hollywood choose to showcase only the bad actions of a certain group, the results mean the public from then on will associate the people of that group with those actions. Priests as child molesters, white school shooters as mentally deranged, and in this case, black people as thugs. Now some people don't trust the church, gun laws remain the same, and for Tatum’s son Daniel, naive whites have an automatic mistrust of black males. Just like what happened to Elizabeth Eckford, whites see past the person, intentionally or not, and instead see the