Most recent public comments by Trevor Yancy https://nowcomment.com/users/133668 https://nowcomment.com/documents/347720?scroll_to=3072613 https://nowcomment.com/documents/347720?scroll_to=3072613 He should've felt some guilt because he drove his wife to her final limit. Fri, 26 May 2023 20:45:46 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/347720?scroll_to=3072611 https://nowcomment.com/documents/347720?scroll_to=3072611 A Black person because this is what the mob did to blacks. Fri, 26 May 2023 20:44:45 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/347720?scroll_to=3072610 https://nowcomment.com/documents/347720?scroll_to=3072610 That's a devastating ending. Fri, 26 May 2023 20:43:07 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/347720?scroll_to=3072609 https://nowcomment.com/documents/347720?scroll_to=3072609 Mob Madness is mostly about a woman named Lizzie whose husband Jim was a part of a white mob that killed and lynched Black people.The mob killed a black man after dragging him into the woods.They killed the man and cut off his fingers and toes to try to send a message to Black people.Most of the white people approved of the situation and said that it would teach all Blacks a lesson.At the end of the story,Lizzie snapped and killed some of her own family members.The theme or lesson of the story is that racism hurts everybody. Fri, 26 May 2023 20:39:27 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/347721?scroll_to=3071575 https://nowcomment.com/documents/347721?scroll_to=3071575 Wed, 24 May 2023 10:18:14 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346612?scroll_to=3068161 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346612?scroll_to=3068161 The important sentences in this text are: "If Black people don't fit into a certain box they can be judged" "People are pretentious and they will judge you based on how you dress, how you speak, which schools you went to, where you live,and so on." "Some people try extra hard not to fit into stereotypes and to get approval from white people." These sentences are important because they point to the fact that racism is alive and well in the US. Black people are often judged based on stereotypes and pre-conceived notions of what a Black person "is supposed" to look, sound, or act like. As a result, many Black people try to conform to the stereotypes to avoid judgment and to fit in with White people. The background information needed to understand this text more deeply includes an understanding of the history of racism and oppression against Black people in the US, as well as an understanding of how systemic racism places certain limits on Black people and how it has created a need for Black people to conform and prove themselves in order to avoid judgement. I invite you to take the time to re-read the text and to add any additional observations you have made. How does the text speak to how the need to “fit in with white people” ends up being a form of double oppression? What language does the author use to describe how Black people are judged or struggle? How does the text reveal the damaging effect of stereotypes? Tue, 16 May 2023 21:20:46 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346612?scroll_to=3068154 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346612?scroll_to=3068154 I agree with this because City should've understood where Coach Stroud was coming from in the watermelon situation.Grandma had to let City know that Coach Stroud was just looking out. Tue, 16 May 2023 21:10:30 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346613?scroll_to=3068149 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346613?scroll_to=3068149 I agree with this because people tend to feel more comfortable if you aren't perceived as a threat.It also will help the other person feel comfortable to know that they don't have a target on their back. Tue, 16 May 2023 21:08:04 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346611?scroll_to=3068146 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346611?scroll_to=3068146 I think that City was being over dramatic about getting baptized. "Whether it was because I was going to die during the baptism or because I was going to be some wack holy dude I never imagined being,I didn't know how I could live another day as myself after that baptism."(page 115) City was so stressed out about getting baptized that he made a will to get away his stuff in case he died.This was kind of funny and Kiese Laymon doing more with the satire.It also shows that him and Lavander Peeler were becoming close friends since he left his wave brush with him.The baptism thing was also important to his family genealogy and history because it was important for him to show everybody that he lived by the Lord.Baptism is a serious thing to most people who do it,but Kiese Laymon adds humor to the situation when he shows City being dramatic. Tue, 16 May 2023 21:03:55 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346611?scroll_to=3063774 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346611?scroll_to=3063774 Genealogy and ancestry is an important theme in "Long Division pages 50-10 for many reasons.For example,we know that City is very close to his mom,grandmom,and his Uncle Relle.His grandfather passed away,but it seems like City's grandmom wants him to know something about his grandfather even though he has passed away.When City gets to grandma's house in Melahatehie,Mississippi,she starts telling City stories about his grandad.City said that "the stories alway started different,but every one of them except the one that ended with him disappearing in Marathon Lake,ended with grandad acting like a demon and destroying something before Grandma intervened." City's grandma told him a story about his grandad beating up somebody for calling him crazy in which the book states "Tom Henry commenced to beat the clothes off Cherry and Shank" (page 55) and grandma was laughing.I think she tells the stories in order to entertain City and keep his grandad's memory alive.This shows how genealogy and ancestry is an important theme in the book. Fri, 05 May 2023 18:41:13 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346611?scroll_to=3063769 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346611?scroll_to=3063769 Race and Inequality plays an important theme in "Long Division" pages 50-10 for many reasons.An example of this is when City gets sent to grandma's house for snapping out at the competition. City goes to Melahatehi,Mississippi and he has a few racial situations to deal with.First,City runs into a coach he knows named Coach Stroud. Coach Stroud gets mad at City for asking him for some watermelon.He tells City that some things he just shouldn't do and that "you don't see how they love seeing us do things like fighting and acting a fool on TV and dancing and eating watermelons." (page 69) City does not see where Coach Stroud is coming from and so he brought it up to Grandma.Grandma basically told City that Coach Stroud was just trying to protect him and that Coach Stroud wants him to "keep his guard up." (page 77) This basically shows the theme that as a Black man you have to carry yourself a certain way in order to survive. City also gets into a confrontation where gets beat up by a group of white boys.This is how race and inequality plays a part in Long Division. Fri, 05 May 2023 18:29:18 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346610?scroll_to=3057593 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346610?scroll_to=3057593 Grandma is acting like my grandpop. He don't want nobody touching his firestick just like she don't want City messing up her tv. Tue, 16 May 2023 21:24:17 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346610?scroll_to=3057578 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346610?scroll_to=3057578 That was funny and a good use of imagery because I can picture him looking like that after he got a beating. Wed, 26 Apr 2023 09:49:41 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346610?scroll_to=3057577 https://nowcomment.com/documents/346610?scroll_to=3057577 Even though Grandma had to beat City to teach him a lesson after she snapped on live tv,she still shows him care/concern to balance out the tough love. Mon, 24 Apr 2023 22:11:05 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051202 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051202 City-a boy who attends Fannie Lou Hamer Magnet school in Jackson,Mississippi. LaVander Peele-another kid at school that City does not get along with. They both are in competition with each other to see who is smartest and who will when the “can you use that word in a sentence” contest.They also compete with other smart kids in the school like Toni Whitaker,Octavia Whittington,and Jimmy Wallace.City thinks that LaVander tries too hard to be proper/nerd and thinks he is the top reader in school.City makes it clear that he is not “white,homeless,or homosexual.” He says he is not at the top of his class,but he is known as the “best boy writer in the history of his school.”City reminds me of the real life author Kiese Laymon. https://www.youthvoices.live/character-description-for-city/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:44:21 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051195 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051195 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:35:19 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051193 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051193 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:46:50 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051187 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051187 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:31:44 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051146 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051146 Examples of Satire(Page 34,35,36) These examples of Satire from Chapter 4 basically show how City snapped out at the competition because he felt like the Black kids were being given offensive words to use in a sentence like niggardly. When he used the word wrong in the sentence he got eliminated and so he snapped out on live tv before leaving the competition.One quote is "No.Um,I truly hate LaBander Veeler sometimes more than some of y'all hate President Obama and I wonder if LaBander Veeler should behave like the exceptional African-American boy he was groomed to be in public by his UPS-working father,or the,um,weird,brilliant, niggardly joker he really is when we're the only ones watching." Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:37:00 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051137 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051137 In this chapter City and LaVender are about to face each other in the sentence competition. Satire (page 23,24),Satire (page 25) These examples of satire show the beef between City and LaVender when they are getting ready to compete against each other at the competition.It also shows how the white people just assumed that they were not actually people from Jackson because the white lady thought they came because of Hurricane Katrina.At the end of chapter 3,it is time for the competition. Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:29:39 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051134 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051134 Chapter 2 is mostly showing City's relationship with Principal Reeve's and how he can't get away with nothing because his mom is a teacher.There are examples of Satire on pages 14 and 16.These are examples of satire because they are funny and they refer to stuff such as Kanye West and the student non-violent. coordinating Committee.At the end of the chapter,City gets a book from the principal called Long Division.One quote was "I invented calling Principal Reeves Ms. Kanye... teaching us how we were practically farting on the chests of the teenagers on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee." Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:24:47 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051131 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3051131 The examples are page (6) in which the author makes fun of Principal Reeves doing extra stuff to make the Mexican kids feel accepted.Also,their satire on page 7 where he makes humor out of how people view black kids in a white American state such as Mississippi. Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:17:30 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3041501 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3041501 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:59:05 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3041473 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3041473 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:34:26 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3040932 https://nowcomment.com/documents/343951?scroll_to=3040932 Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:19:35 -0400