An eye opener from an article about the black holocaust Essay

Reading Journal Week 2 Alt. filthy HolocaustWhen Dr. Lewis mentioned this alternative reading to do, and warned us that it is very depressing, and basic eithery told us to only read if we desire as oft, I kind of took that as a challenge. Being competitive in nature, I always approximate to step above what people think I can handle. This condition of the black holocaust, I will admit made me sort of ruefulness that. I found tears coming out. There were many propagation I shook my head just thinking, talk about the inclemency of humanity Those slaves skin may be black scarce the souls of those sinlessness men were much darker.One amour I found short atrocious was the belief that black men had no soul. They would rape there men and women, and while that was morally unacceptable to act towards their fellow exsanguinous men, it was completely acceptable to rape a black individual because they had no soul anyway. If you raped a blanched woman, you could see the despair in there soul yet when you rape a black woman, all you see is a screaming black woman. To add to that, the fellow unclouded crew of the ship blamed the Africans for the lustful behavior due to their bleakness which they forced them to do. They claimed that they have rarely if at all, seen a naked white woman so they blamed the Africans because they saw plenty of them.Another thing that was absolutely sad and devastating was how they forced the blacks to rest. They had a choice to either lay down with less space above them than a person in a coffin or sit on the high ends which had splinters and blood everywhere. It kind of reminded me of Jesus who supposedly died on the torment and while he was hung there was a nail at his feet he could stand on to relieve the pressure from his arms, but in charge had to gravely hurt his feet. For these kinds of actions, I couldnt blame those Africans for trying to suffer ship and let the sharks eat them because what they were dealing with seemed like a helping worse than death. I wouldve attempted the same thing.I understand at this time, morals were different and it was acceptable to treat black skins the way they did, but with my way of thinking now, this was just painful to read. I wouldve had a much easier time reading the other stories but at the same time, I am glad I read this because it really hits me now how disadvantageously we treated our slaves in our early days. I read something close to this at one time called The Narrative of Frederick Douglass. I will definitely add this excerpt to my leaning of readings that have influenced my feelings on the cruelty of racism and slavery.