Sam Hose Story

Civil rights activist H. Rap Brown once said that America was shaped around violence. The reason being is because America was and still involved with a lot of drama dealing with other countries and in its very own states. For example, when the United States wanted to take over the Philippines because it was more of the backdoor to China for trading, but they abused the Filipinos with different forms of violence and even used a torture method called the "Water Cure." Another example is a more familiar white supremacist group called the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan used a lot of violence towards African Americans because they felt as if they didn’t belong in the United States, so they would purposely beat blacks or lynch them. The Sam Hose story would

They have been shot in cold blood, sprayed with water hoses, beaten, dragged and even worse lynched without any remorse. For example, the story of Sam Hose, introduced in the story “ Inherently Unequal.” Lawrence Goldstone said Sam Hose was violently torture before they proceeded to kill him. He had his left ear chopped off, fingers as well, they even chopped his genitals off, his face was skinned, and afterwards they threw the match in the pyre, which led to the burning death of Sam Hose (Goldstone, 5). As you can see Hose was beaten and tortured before his death and setting him on fire was the icing on the cake. It got to the point where they took Hose’s body parts and used them as souvenirs and trophies for people. Another example of African Americans being mistreated was the case of the then 16 year old African American female, Claudette Colvin. Author Danielle McGuire introduced Colvin in the story “ At the Dark End of the Street” when Colvin refused to give up her on the segregated bus. McGuire said that Colvin was then called a “ whore” by the officers and later manhandled by the both by getting jerked and then dragged off the bus. While she was in the police car she was terrified because she thought they were going to rape her or maybe even kill her because they could ( McGuire, 86). With this being said you can tell African Americans was scared to even be