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Trump need this

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-Donald-trump-has-said-about-latinos_55e483a1e4b0c818f618904b. This is the link to things said by Donald Trump. To Kill a mocking bird and Donald Trump related, because they both state races things. Trump is being racist toward the Latinos. Calling them criminals, and rapists, Trump just does not like them. Trump needs to stop assuming that their all bad and stop complaining. These are some things said by trump himself about Latinos, and even Mexicans. He said Mexicans and other immigrants are killers, just like the Latinos, he said that the Mexican government sends theirs criminals over to the U.S, because they don't wanna pay for them. he even took a jab at Jeb Bush over his Mexican-born wife. Trump is out of control he needs to take a break the calm down.

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The trial of  Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was charged guilty for committing I crime he couldn't even do if he wanted to. This is just wrong for Mayella to convected Tom just to protected herself, and  her father. Mayella tried to kiss Tom, and now, because of her Tom was found guilty. Plus Tom Robinson's left arm was much shorter than his right, it just hung to his side. With his disability theirs was no way Tom could have committed the crime. The white judge, probley didn't like blacks,because the evidence was their and it was just ignored like it wasn't. The jury should have did their job, and pledged Tom Robinson  not-guilty.

Blog #5: News Today

     Lately in the news, one main topic discussed is the amount of adolescent black males being killed. This is very similar to the whole big idea of TKAM(To kill a mockingbird). When the book was written, it was around the time period of the Jim Crow laws. As we know, times were not all that great, especially to be a black male.

     Like I have mentioned previously, times have changed, not the actions. This translates out to: Overtime, the way things operate and pan out don't really change, the true change is the fact that time is moving. Evidence from the text and the news are brought together to prove how these things are related.

     In the book Tom Robinson was accused with raping Mayella Ewells. Ask yourself this question: Based off of evidence provided and the timing period, do you truly believe Tom was "wrong" or "guilty"?

     The text states on page 315 "They shot him. He was running. It was during their exercise period. They said he just broke into a blind raving charge at the fence and started climbing over it." It then goes on further to say "Seventeen bullet holes in him."

     In my opinion, seventeen shots is unnecessary and overkill. Consider the circumstances: He was trying to escape. They gave no warning, he was straight up shot. If something like this were to happen and someone tried to escape, I would see it reasonable to try and "intimidate" them by shooting, but seventeen bullets? That is really depressing and in my perspective flat out uncalled for.
   
     If they guards were making an attempt to get Tom down, or fix the problem, a warning should've been served. Also remembering, Tom Robinson is a BLACK male.

   This really ties together with all the killings and deaths of young black men. The hashtag "black lives matter" has gone viral and is really showing that actions from the past, effect actions for the future. Trayvon Martin Shooting shows the quick facts about what happens. By looking at this recent event and referring back to TKAM, the similarities should be quite obvious.

     In conclusion, we live in a revise and repeat society. Thing happen, some thing are "changed" and in turn, the actions are once done again. The image to the left is showing the water cycle. Like society, it seems to be a complete cycle that is repeating.

~Lezi M. Truesdale

Input on the Jim Crow Laws

  I believe that     the Jim Crow Laws are important to my motif because those laws have wrong in them, and the theirs something a little right that i notice about it . An example will be that one of the law says that it is "forbidden for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.” This was one of the laws in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1930. This law is just plan wrong, its not the right thing to do everybody should be equal no matter what.  When i was reading the laws I said to myself theirs nothing right about these laws, their all just evil and racist. But I thought to myself if you really think about it l(like i did myself) you can conclude that makers of Jim Crow Laws could have put (''Negro can not go to school at all, or Negro can not go to school at all, every thought about that). You might be thinking so what, all these laws are horrible, they should have never been made, that is very true i agree with that 100%, but i also think that during that time it could have been a lot worse.

Free Write

The death penalty is a highly controversial point in the practice of law. Many people oppose it, while others also support it with the same fervor. People question the act of taking away a life. It's seemingly unjust.

As I've mentioned in my previous blog, I do support the death penalty. I find it highly appropriate in some cases. If the evidence is clear, or if the person confesses, the death penalty should be enforced. Of course, this is only judged by the severity of the crime. I'd even go as far as to say it's a just act. People oppose it because they believe it's wrong to take a way a life, or because the person convicted can't defend themselves. 

I suppose they don't factor in that the person with the axe in their head has had their life taken away by the convict and couldn't defend themselves.

It's an "eye for an eye'", right? It only seems fair that if a person took a life, theirs should be taken away too. This takes into account the defense of mental illness, or other factors into account too, which may be excused depending on the circumstance.

In "To Kill a Mockingbird", Tom Robinson is convicted of the death penalty. I don't believe his crime, if it really happened, should have been a conviction of the death penalty. However, if it was a murder and the evidence was 100% percent proven, he should have been convicted. Murder is, in my belief, a sound reason to be put to death.

Funny how people don't like the death penalty, but are perfectly fine with Boo Radly killing Bob Ewell.

Post 5 - Trump and Taylor

¨I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: ´Guilty...guilty...guilty...guilty...´¨ (Lee 214) 

This is a good example of someone who lost because they have no choice. Tom could never win against a white man just because he was black. Today, this reminds me of how some other people don't have power over a white man. Donald Trump says that if he wins the election, he's going to send the Syrian refugees back. 

Tiny face Donald Trump looks pretty close to the real thing.

He thinks it's unsafe for Muslims to be coming into America "because they could be from ISIS". This is racial discrimination. Trump is assuming just because they are Muslim that they will be terrorists. It's terrible what ISIS did not only because of how many people died, but it also gave a bad rap to Muslims.

Donald Trump also says that he'd want to keep a database of all the Syrians in America, almost like during the Holocaust when Hitler made the Jews wear the star of David.

Just like Tom and the Syrians, these people have no defense against someone in power. 

I think what happened in both situations was wrong: Trump shouldn't be talking about sending them back because he's not even president, and Judge Taylor should've looked at the evidence, cause the evidence doesn't lie.

-M&M

Blog Post #5 News Today

 Tom Robinson was sentenced to death by an all white jury after he was tried for assaulting a white woman. There were no witnesses except Mayella, who lied.  He maintained his innocence and his disabled arm proved he could not have committed the crime. Yet, he was convicted anyway.

In a news story reported last year, Glen Ford, a black man in Louisiana was freed after 30 years on death row.   An all white jury convicted Glen Ford of the murder of a white jewelry shop owner even though there were no witnesses to the crime.  He was suspected because he knew the shop owner and occasionally did yard work for him.  This case is very similar to TKAM. Both accusers where white, the accused person knew the accuser and both were convicted by all white juries.  Glen Ford was on death row longer than any other person in Louisiana.   This case was wrong because, just like in TKAM, there was a lying witness and an all white jury.  Just like Tom Robinson, he should have been found not guilty and should have had a real jury of his peers that included black people.

Duke University published a report in 2012 "Study:  All-White Jury Pools Convict Black Defendants Sixteen Percent More Often Than Whites" that said "in cases with no blacks in the jury pool, blacks were convicted 81 percent of the time and whites were convicted 66 percent of the time." TKAM was written in the 1960s, Ford was convicted in the 1980s and this report is from 2012, it seems like we still have a long way to go on race relations and how we view the justice system.  Maybe morality means something different when you sit in a jury box.

                                     All White Juries Convict Blacks 16 Percent More Often Than Whites