Writing Log 4A

Letter from Birmingham Jail: 

My first hotspot found in the story Letter from Birmingham Jail was “We further strongly urge our own Negro community to withdraw support from these demonstrations, and to unite locally in working peacefully for a better Birmingham” found on page 69. This disturbed me in many different ways. Basically they are wanting the Negro community to relax and put aside their differences and opinions to keep Birmingham a peaceful community. They are not wanting to listen to the negro community.

The second hotspot that I found in the story was “I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exists for the purpose of establishing justice, and that when they fail to do this they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” This statement caught my attention because it is so true. Justice should be equal among every member in the community no matter their ethnicity. 

Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide: 

My first hot spot is found on pages 109-110. Right when I started reading about what Smith was going to discuss in this story, it made me already disagree without her explaining what it was going to be about. “As I will discuss in this chapter, women of color do not just face qualitatively more issues when they suffer violence, but their experience is qualitatively different from that of white women” 

The second hot spot that I found was on page 118. The author is giving us statistics on how sexual violence as a tool of racism that continues against women of color. She tells us that the trafficking of women consist of mostly women of color. I never thought about the women who are involved with trafficking other then the thought of it being absurd it actually happens. Smith tells us that there is between 45,000 to 50,000 people form the U.S are trafficked each year. This absolutely has me stunned that there are this many people who are getting taken advantaged of.