Anyone is susceptible
According to John Henrik Clarke, “ To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed”. People accept what they think is supposed to happen to them. As a result, if someone treats them badly and they are manipulated into thinking that, they will not know they deserve better. For instance, white people had to dehumanize African Americans in order to make slavery work. In this harrowing book, Dear God, have you ever gone hungry, Bau has escaped death in many forms. In the end, Bau finds a renewed sense of hope and love. Due to ignorance and experiencing the holocaust, Joseph Bau goes through mental trauma as a result of subhuman characterizations. Ultimately, suffering…show more content… The Jew’s were considered “subhuman creatures without any civil rights”(Bau 22). Adolf Hitler used them as a scapegoat to Germany’s problems. After World War I, Germany had lost much land and power, so Hitler convinced the Germans that if the Jews were exterminated it would restore Germany to the former glory. They began to feel as though Jews were inferior to them and was the sole cause of their problems. Adolf Hitler believed in an Aryan race, which is described by the Nazis as a member of the master race, who was non-Jewish and had Nordic features. This Relates to the poem, One Girl of Many by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In this poem she writes: “Men cannot live/Without what these disgraceful creatures give./Black shame. Dishonor. Misery & Sin.And men find needed health & life therein. Charlotte Gilman sets out…show more content… In Rwanda after President Habyarimana was assassinated, Hutus were encouraged to uprise against the Tutsi. About 800,000 Tutsi were killed during this conflict. In order to hide the mass genocide, they were covered with banana leaves so they would not be seen by incoming planes filled with journalists. The Rwandan Genocide was unjustified, cruel, and undeserved. The Jews were also initiated in that process. According to my anchor text, they were “marked with a red circle, to make it easier for the sniper’s to aim”( Bau 107). The Jews were everyday targets of oppression and injustice; that will forever be imprinted into their souls, “For six million Jews, those years of total madness became their terminal years; for the small number who lived through it, who managed by some miracle to smuggle their souls through the various “actions” and selections, this devastating period of life left scars they have carried and will carry for the rest of their lives. No amount of German reparations and subsidized holidays at health resorts can make them forget”(Bau 109).
Merritt Mauzey created a masterpiece that portrays the oppression african americans faced. In the image a whip is seen, whips are widely considered as symbols of oppression and the person’s capacity for violence. The cotton plants are an allusion to slavery and the widespread injustice that characterized the period of slavery. It looks as if due