Time and Distance Overcome

There is one essay in this book that still stands out to me which is "Time and Distance Overcome." I love how Eula uses telephone poles as a mark of freedom and an advance in Technology when it first came out but it actually was more of a death sentence for black people. Something as innocent as a telephone pole could be used for such horrific deaths amongst the black people. I for one was totally shocked when I started reading this because I did not think it would be talking about lynching and hangings during the time of the hatred for those whose skin was a different color. I was horrified when I found out the truth and now every time I look at pole I think of that because it was such a big achievement for us for technology but was used in the wrong way. These black men were hung on these telephone poles for every one to see and some were even beaten, burned, and tortured on these poles for looking at a white person the wrong way or talking to a white female. The white folk who did this wanted to make a statement but it was not a statement that needed to be stated. They were proud for what they have done by hanging these black men on these telephone poles and it was meant to have power and control in their eyes. A way of punishing them and hung up for the whole to see to frighten those who weren't hanging. They would leave them to hang like flags according to Eula as if they were proud of what they had done. Still today, I think about the horror and what those people had to go through and it still makes me sick. Eula's entire book full of these essays, has opened my eyes to more of these things that I may not have known but I do now.

Bethel Test For My Favorite Movie

One of my favorite movies of all time would be Star Wars! When it comes to this movie though, it is mainly all males that are in it. I know for a fact that this movie would not pass the Bethel Test. First of all, there is only one woman character who happens to be a princess. She honestly is just there for the ride and uses the males in the movie for protection and of course she falls for one of them as well. So there is honestly only one woman character so it would fail just from the first question. With there only being one female in the movie, obviously there is no other female for the one female to talk to during the movie. Also, majority of the movie was based on a male figure so majority of the talk was about males as well. I don't think they intentionally made it this way but that's how it seems. A lot of people would say that Star Wars attracts boys and men more than women and that is somewhat true because of the vast amount of males with main roles and what the actual movie's are about.