Media #7

http://www.blacksandjews.com/Top15Crimes.html
This article is about how blacks get blamed for things that they have not done or had no control over. It mainly talks about the top fifteen cases that blacks or a single black person has been wrongly accused or blamed, when in fact they were innocent and actually committed by whites. The article explains how ever since the white race has begun they have blamed the Black Man for their wrong doings or bad acts. The Boston Tea Party was used as an example where in fact white people disguised themselves as Indians which is not considered a black person, but the idea of pinning the white man’s actions on another race so we do not look bad.
This article can be related to Johnson piece that talks about blaming the victim. In Johnson’s writing he explains or writes the ways the white race blames blacks by saying “if they were only smarter or worked harder they would be ok” (110). To go back to what I was talking about earlier with the top fifteen some examples would be Scottsboro Boys in 1931, JFK’s Assassination, Central park jogger, and the Charles Stuart case. In the Scottsboro Boy’s case a women accused nine black boys of raping her and they were given a life sentence. She then confessed that they were not the rapist but her confession did not change their sentence. The fifteen cases are not the only ones in our history there are plenty more that have been both documented and undocumented. I guess you can say it is easy to blame the “black man” for a crime because in the public eye it is not unusual. People now days may not expect it but do not see it as a shock when a black man or a colored man is charged with a crime. The white race tries so hard to look as the superior and not ever doing anything wrong, that they will go to the extent of putting other people’s lives in jeopardy to cover their own. It is almost kind of said that our world has come to the point where we just care about the “me” and not the “we.” Our world or maybe just our nation is so self oriented that we will go to any extent to get ahead of the game or to stay out of trouble so that we can keep moving forward.
I felt this article to be very interesting and easy to relate to. I have seen this happen plenty of times on the news and also I have recently learned about this kind of behavior in sociology. We learned that people would do some violent acts for money and just blame a black person so that it would cover them up and it wouldn’t look like that big of a shock to the public eye. I have always felt that if you are going to commit a crime or deviant act that you should be prepared for the consequences and not try to let someone else who may be innocent take your punishment.