Propaganda is Amongst Us!

Propaganda has been a very common topic dealing with the United States within the past since this country has dealt with plenty of issues that influenced propaganda to take over. It's sad to say that plenty of people may have to encounter that action of propaganda when someone may have spread something about a certain group to ruin their image and what not. A big piece in history that has been apart of propaganda within the United States has been racism. Racism falls into the category of propaganda since the oppressor which in this case would be the white man would have negative thoughts about the minorities, the oppressed, or in this case the black people. They would do whatever they could to get the message out that black people weren't good for the communities and they have no business being on the same soil as these white folk. For example, within the book "Black Boy" they have a young black kid named Richard who was just trying to make some extra change by selling the papers to the neighborhood he was assigned to. He didn't know what he was selling until one day a man stopped him and asked him why was he selling that crap in the neighborhood? The reason the man wanted to know was because the papers Richard was selling was published by the notorious racial group called the KKK and was of course talking bad upon the black community saying how they all should be wiped out off the face of this earth. Things like this shows a great deal of propaganda which is sad to say still may exist amongst people today. We just as people have to be strong and stand up to these hateful rumors that may spread do to extreme ignorance in this world.

Needing Any Attention Lately?

Within the book "Black Boy" has a lot of controversies dealing with the main character Richard who is a little boy that is talking about him growing up. Richard is ordinarily is craving something all the time and it normally revolves around the hunger. Now he is hungry for the attention that he craves so much as a little boy and it shows when he began to commit those actions he did. When he lit the house on fire, I don't believe that was so much of a cry for attention, it was just for curiosity being a little kid. One day he was in the house bored and then he realized that fire amused him and when it would burn something to tiny little ashes. We all know that when a little gets curious they tend to look into it much more even though it was a horrible thought. He had to learn from trial and error, which he did. Even though it may have caused one big disaster, I don't believe that this one boy was crying for attention. He was just one very curious boy that doesn't mind sticking his nose into something that doesn't need to be investigated by a 4 year old.