Blog post #4: Manning Marable

Throughout American history, blacks were discriminated against because of the color of their skin. Blacks were subsistent to their white masters. whites would physically abuse their African American slaves by castrating, lyncing, raping and stripping black men of their manhood. white males performes these punishments because they felt intimidated by African Americans. They could not fathom the idea that African Americans were smater or more physically stronger so they prohibited blacks from reading and writing . Knowledge is power and whites stripped blacks from these basic rights because they feared that if blacks were given the chance to get an education blacks would rebel aginst them.