Mrs. Ida B Wells & Lynching

Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Discrimination on the train - Ida was being forced off the train and responded by standing her ground and biting the man who made the attempt to remover her. When she got back to Memphis she filed a law suit and sued the railroad company.
Lynching of her 3 friends - In 1892 3 of Mrs. Wells friends were lynched because they had a small grocery store and it was competing with white business.The African-Americans responded by saying that they were outnumbered and without arms so the only thing to do is save money and leave.
Anti-Lynching Crusade in Chicago - Wells' helped develop many organizations in Chicago and worked for suffrage for women and marched for universal suffrage in 1913.
NAACP - Ida was the first woman to sign "the call" to form the NAACP in 1909.

Lynchings

1. Leo Frank was lynched on August 17, 1915 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was lynched for murder
2. Joseph Richardson was lynched on September 26, 1913 in Leitchfield, Kentucky. He was lynched for assaulting an 11-year-old white girl
3. Clyde Johnson was lynched on August 3, 1935 in Yreka, California. He was lynched for the murder of Oregon's chief of police.
4. Charles Mitchell was lynched on June 4, 1897 in Urbana, Ohio. He was lynched for robbery to rape.
5. Virgil Jones, Robert Jones (6), Thomas Jones (7), and Joseph Riley (8) were lynched on July 31, 1908 in Russelville, Kentucky. They were lynched for disturbing the peace, discontentment with their employers, and whites feared they were planning assassinations.

The Objectification of Black Women's Bodies

Harriet Tubman Sex Tape Response
Jamilah Lemieux' - She believes that people are not sensitive to history and that the video was highly disrespectful. She thinks that historical black figures should not be portrayed in such a way.
Russel Simmons - He agreed to take down the video and apologize after the NAACP asked him to even though he still believed that his video was politically correct.
Jeff Johnson - He says that it is our fault that the generations don't respect history like they should.We should know more history and be teaching others.Not knowing historical context is a big part of this problem.
Sarah Bartman
Sarah was taken by Europeans and brought to Europe because of her body. They were obsessed and determined to prove that blacks were inferior and oversexed. She had an unusually large buttocks and genitals. They referred to her as a freak and her nickname according to them was "Hottentot Venus". After Sarah Bartman died they made a plaster cast of her body and preserved some of her body parts and put them on display.
Racist Cake
There was much controversy because the Swedish culture minister, Lena Adelsohn Lijeroth cut a cake of a naked African woman after being invited by the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. Many people were angered and wanted her to resign because of this. According to the article the cake was meant to illustrate degrading stereotypes of blacks throughout the years.
Comments - "Oh man I LOOOOOOVEEE the cake!" & "Why? Probably not racist but very ill-judged and offensive to people of all colours, nationalities, etc...."
2 Chainz & Minister of Culture of Sweden
The similarity between the video and the incident is stereotypes in my opinion. I believe that they are both bad but the 2 Chainz video does not get as much negative comments as the Ministers situation because 2 Chainz is black and she is white.