The Chicago Project

Friday March 14th 2008....The chicago Project took a trip Cincinnati to learn more about poverty....

The whole class came to school..we left the school about 8:00 am in the morning..and we started take our journey to the Big City called Cincinnati....when we got there we had speaker named Mr.Thomas he was the city member....who came from a life of poverty.....

some of the other speakers were:

Mr. Whitehead, Ms.Turnner, And Ms.Leah at the homeless shelter...

the pictures i am looking at is a black man trying to get out of a pit that is entitled racical inequality.....the next pit is Economic inequality......

then the man is trying to get out the pit then hs comes to a stop and right in front of him is another pit which he has to try and get out of.....five facts on this topic is....

1)The Watts Riot ( a 21 year-old black man was leaving a friends house and going home for the night, the man had been drinking(vodka and orange juices)when he got into his car and was going down the road he started swerving in a 35 zone and at 50 mph) he had a rough life before hand. that was the one thing that started the riot in los angeles.

Name Calling!!!!

it was the day after my 18th birthday....i got my hair done..my friend ethan took me to get it did..what they did to my hair was they dyed it black and blonde..then i asked if they could put braids....so i came to school the next day...and mid afternoon i got called a WIGGER....which i think is a white person acting like a black....

the person who called me that befriended me, now i am not friends with that person...how that ties in with the class is when we were working with the emmett till case...when all the men called him all those names... 

1/15/07       You have been in The Chicago Project now for three months.  In that time we have covered significant events and forces that have effected the lives of African Americans today as a people group.

In words, describe the African American experience in America.  Explain your response.

 So i have learned alot since i have been in this class after school.

 African Americans have been through a lot, since the beginning of time they had their own country...then they came to the America's to be free....But when they came over here they didn't expect what was coming for them in the future....in the 18th century....and down the road.