Sai's Blog Vol. 2

Today, Detroit, despite its large Black population, is a city that still is segregated in an economic sense, with many of the areas in a worse of financial situation being home to many of the Black population. This is further present in the Metro Detroit area, with many cities having many people of African American descent contrasted with cities that have minuscule representation of African Americans.   Historically, the white supremacism had a large presence in Detroit, many being part of a movement known as the Black Legion. The organization split off from the Ku Klux Klan from the 1920s and reached its peak during the 30’s, where it was reported that it had up to 100,000 members in its ranks. It attacked African Americans, Catholics and organized labor movements, many notable ones being union leader George Marchuk and African American Silas Coleman, whose murder was committed alongside Jessie Owens setting four world records. The legion grew its numbers by performi...

I previously ended my blog last week with a question: why is Gatsby yearning for love with Daisy? Originally, I gave some vague personal thoughts on the answers to the question with limited knowledge of the book.    After reading the entire book, I can say and further expand on the original concept of last week’s blog, as Gatsby is a representation of the upper middle class who chooses to try to ascend into the upper classes. Gatsby sees Daisy as an opportunity to advance his status by marrying into the rich, often at the expense of the poor, which led to his early demise. By being in love with Daisy, he seemingly excuses the death of Myrtle Wilson by stating “I tried to make her stop, but she couldn’t, so I pulled on the emergency brake.” The actions of this led to him being attacked by the poor for siding with the rich, the poor being personified by Mr. Wilson.   We also see further connections to how the West Egg and new money is seen as shady and illegit...

The modernist movement is a defining feature of the Great Gatsby, as throughout the novel we see many references to old money being compared to new money and its effects in the plot of the novel such as the aristocratic old guard rooted in the East Egg compared to the new and attractive West Egg. This idea of old and new money being in which how the rich acquired such money: by inheriting parental wealth or by becoming rich by your own means. This is shown in the setting of the story, the East Egg being home to Tom and Daisy people who inherited their wealth from birth, while Gatsby lives on the West Egg, as while he supposedly inherited a lot of money from his parents and ancestors, he had to reclaim his money in buying the mansion after the war.   It is suggested in the story that new money is not achieved by inheritance, but accumulation of money, often in sketchy manners. Mr. Wolfsheim became wealthy by “fixing the World Series” while Gatsby said that he “was in th...

America as a state was made for the white people in order to serve the American idea of owning and making a profit off land, a practice that existed since its inception and has been going on until this very day. The American ideal is however a detriment to the black people who happen to live on this land, and such, has made me join the Seven Days in order to break the cycle of oppression against the black people of America. The black man has always been attacked by the whites, so much so that it is vital to the identities of such to demean us and lynch us.    I did not join the seven days to terrorize black people, or to give suffering to my fellow kin, I joined to make a point, that point being that we are going to take back our rights by showing an example of what they do to us, only then will they learn. My father died in an accident when I was four, and yet his very life was compensated for 40 dollars, such is the mark of the American dream, where the lives of such...