Book Quote:
“And you know as well as I that you are not indebted to a principal beneath a white skin for your religious services but to a colored one” - Apess
Online Quote:
“Apess contrasts whites’ savage treatment of non-whites with their professed Christianity… This concept of equality of all people under God made Christianity very appealing to Indian converts and to slaves.” –Cengage Learning
Summary:
This essay first describes the conditions for the people, mainly the women and children of Indian tribes. The white mans' usage of women and “rum.” Part of the reason it was like this because they lacked knowledge and were defenseless (reminds me of Douglass). But white men like these were professed Christians and to be looked up to though they were not like God for God was not white skinned. He reads passages of the bible to prove these men to be false. Men such as these are hurtful non-Christians.
Opinion:
These white people saw themselves so close to God and being so close, they could mistreat others; even though Christ wasn’t white. Some slaves and natives were encouraged or forced to convert to Christianity, part of the way to clean their souls that are to be damned for not being white. They also needed to be constantly punished, beaten to pay for their sins, for being non-white. It was just another tool to make non-whites fear the white man for he could influence God to let them in if he wanted to because he was so committed to him. The white man is a servant of God, the color man is a servant of the white man. Apess cracks that invented story having been one to convert to Christianity by his master. Apess saw “Christianity as incompatible with any form of race
prejudice” as racism reeked in that time period.
“And you know as well as I that you are not indebted to a principal beneath a white skin for your religious services but to a colored one” - Apess
Online Quote:
“Apess contrasts whites’ savage treatment of non-whites with their professed Christianity… This concept of equality of all people under God made Christianity very appealing to Indian converts and to slaves.” –Cengage Learning
Summary:
This essay first describes the conditions for the people, mainly the women and children of Indian tribes. The white mans' usage of women and “rum.” Part of the reason it was like this because they lacked knowledge and were defenseless (reminds me of Douglass). But white men like these were professed Christians and to be looked up to though they were not like God for God was not white skinned. He reads passages of the bible to prove these men to be false. Men such as these are hurtful non-Christians.
Opinion:
These white people saw themselves so close to God and being so close, they could mistreat others; even though Christ wasn’t white. Some slaves and natives were encouraged or forced to convert to Christianity, part of the way to clean their souls that are to be damned for not being white. They also needed to be constantly punished, beaten to pay for their sins, for being non-white. It was just another tool to make non-whites fear the white man for he could influence God to let them in if he wanted to because he was so committed to him. The white man is a servant of God, the color man is a servant of the white man. Apess cracks that invented story having been one to convert to Christianity by his master. Apess saw “Christianity as incompatible with any form of race
prejudice” as racism reeked in that time period.
20 points. And still today? Famous Texas quote from a governor opposed to bilingual education: "If the English Language was good enough for Jesus to speak, it's good enough for me."
ReplyDeleteP.S. I know it sounds really silly, but it helps me so much if you put a name and heading at the top of each journal entry.
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