FRIDAY ASSIGNMENT 4/12/2013
As
our class Friday blog assignment ,we discussed the assigned readings of ``The
Sport of the Gods`` and The Lynching of Jube Benson``. Both these texts are
based on the daily lives of African Americans, who were being accused of crimes
and get punished. The story ``Lynching of Jube Benson``, where the doctor telling his firend that how
he encounter with a person`Jube` who had been lynched and become accused for
murder. Jube is the main character of this story and he was an honest servant
who was working in white family. One day, the white family daughter Annie, was
found murdered and possibly got raped before murdered but before dying she was
screaming loudly with one word which was
``that black...``,and without finishing the sentence she died but before anyone
knew the real murderer as it was slavery era, so everyone started pointing at
Jube and unfortunately Jube got caught but he was pleading that he is not the
murderer and he was ordered to be hanged till death. when they hanged him
before cut the rope, jube`s brother came in that they had found the real rapist
but unluckily it was late already because someone already cut the rope and he
was dead. later on they found that it was a white guy who raped her in the
shape of negro. Tom Skimmer was the real rapist and white guy who covered
himself in mud to show his personality as Negro. while in the other story``The
Sport of the Gods``is revolving around the same situation as in previous
mentioned story. where a colored man was working in white family and after a
while, one of white man`s brother lost large amount of money and colored man got accused for stealing it and he ended up in
prison.
