Mixed race

   Deni Rincon argues that  accepting and learning from other cultures would make racism a thing of the past. As a boy that came to america adapting to another culture isnt the worst thing in the world, you might even actually enjoy it if you are open to new things. She writes "you don’t necessarily  have to be biologically  a mixture of races to feel that you are multi-cultural you just simply have had to be exposed in one way or another to different races" (Rincon, mixed race). I strongly agree with this, because at one time i was also looked down upon just because I wasn't  born in the US and didn't know that much about it at that time. but as I met and mingled with people I too learned the culture of other races. American, Dominicans, black Americans and even Asians that grew up here. But also they came to understand my culture I think of my self as multi-culture just because living in queens where people are alot more diverse, I mean just go to 74th and roosevelt Queens you would see Asians, black Americans, and the spanish people all in one neighborhood.

     Tannenbaum argues that if Latin American environment were to favor freedom, the British and American were hostile. emancipation may have legally freed the negro. but it failed morally to free the white man, and by that failure it denied to the negro the moral status requisite for effective legal freedom, And I agree because the book gave key points that showed there disagreement to the idea of giving freedom to slaves. in fact the slave trade was very much accepted by everybody at that time, it was legal it was believed that it was the right thing to do even for religion. on the other hand slavery in colonial Brazil was very diffrent from America. Slavery in Brazil was more of a temporary state, slaves would at that time buy their freedom. but in America it was not allowed the colored man would be born or forced into slavery and was only seen as property and not a human being. Tannenbaum's argument is valid, slavery in colonial Brazil was practiced more humanly rather than the Americans.

i found my classmates tweets interesting because, in many ways i thought of the same things when i was reading the book.

Property or Person?

     Tannenbaum illustrates that black people in colonial Brazil were treated differently rather than in the U.S. and some who were fortunate enough that they were actually successful even running for office.  Freyre says in some places he points out "gentlemen of dark color achieved the dignity of president of the cabinet under the emperor." now in Colonial brazil this was a normal thing. but in the U.S. this is preposterous to happen at that time. it really is amazing how the "Negro" would be raised to that position, i would have never thought that black people were treated way differently. In the U.S. they were treated horribly also they werent "People" they were considered as property. if i was a young black man at that time i would really hope that i would land in  Colonial Brazil rather in the U.S. 

     I would hope to god that my slave masters were from Colonial Brazil, rather than from the U.S. it would be a great difference. because even though i was brought to the country a slave, i as a person at that time would have a chance on raising up in the cast system of humanity rather than being a slave for the rest of my life. if i was in the U.S. at that time period there would be absolutely no hope for me as a person to achieve anything in life, because i am treated as property. and even though i would be a free man, it would still be hard for me to be a person, because of the racial tensions between whites and the colored.