ANTHONY GOODMAN
The Powers That Be?9/13/2017
In this blog post, I will explore Margaret's choices when she works a job as a servant for a very racist woman named Ms. Cullinan. In the reading, we witness the experiences that Margaret has at her work where she is treated harshly for the color of her skin. The choice that Margaret made was probably not a right choice for her as an employee, but it was a great choice for her as a person with good morals and is not ready to be treated differently because of race or color. This is a bad choice as an employee because she will most likely be punished and the people who she works for might make it more difficult for her at her work environment because those cups and the casserole dish had a lot of value to the people in the house; these dishes were passed down through the generations of the family. Margaret's act of rebellion broke what Mrs. Cullinan considered priceless heirlooms. After that, Margaret angered the people she works for from her actions. On the other side of this topic where you can look at Margaret smashing the cups and dish as a good thing is that she has made a statement that she is not going to put up with the racism and mistreatment in the house and look at her smashing those plates as a huge moral victory for Margaret not just because she pissed her employer's off and had the satisfaction of looking at them cry but she also got them to call her by her real name and not Mary. After all this I side with the decision to break the dish because she showed the employers she's not just going to sit by and let them treat her as if she is less than a real person. A personal time in my life when I had either resist or not resist a challenge is when my wrestling coach told me I had to move down a weight class to to wrestle the future state champion at 220 pounds for that year; it seemed like I really didn't have a choice. I could make my coach angry and let up six points for the team or step up and go out there and get embarrassed by a future state champion. It was a very nervous time in my life it seemed like an hour of sitting there deciding if I should because I would most likely be embarrassed in front of a huge crowd of people by the future state champion, but I took the challenge, because if I didn't our team would forfeit at that weight and give up six team points. After an hour of waiting and warming up it was finally time and I cannot think of a time in my life where my heart was racing faster and I didn't have a million scenarios of what could happen in my head, after all this time of me messing with my own brain I went out and actually put up a fight, don't get me wrong he beat me pretty bad but I also messed with his head as a nobody who got a good amount of points on him and then almost pinned him in the last period, but he called an injury time out and there was lots of controversy that my coach was freaking out about on the side of the mat. In the end I lost but I earned a lot of respect that night from the wrestling community.
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Jacqueline
9/17/2017 12:08:22 am
That is a really good point about how as an employee she probably should have done it, but she def stood up for herself and what she deserved and believed in.
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Damian
9/19/2017 09:48:25 am
I had a simliar experience in wrestling but he wasn't as good as the kid you wrestled.
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