Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! My name is Oscar Bermejo and I'm currently a student who is currently enrolled at LaGuardia Community College. This semester one of the class I currently enrolled in is Violence in American Art and Culture or better known at the college as ENN195, who is currently being taught by the professor Dr. Justin Rogers-Cooper this semester. In this class the themes we will be looking into are violence that happen through American History and the changes that took place when these sorts of act of violence occurred during history.

       For this week reading we had to complete "The Railroad Riot of 1877" which talked about the rioters that were targeting the railroad company all around the country such as in place in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania which could of been caused of the unfair wages and the terrible working conditions that the workers had been through.A possible reason of why the strikes turned into big sparks of riots across the country could be the fail negotiation with the railroad company and the unions.In this reading and in the class discussion we realize that  the author Headley kept contradicting himself varies of times through the reading and the other reading of "Flour riot of 1877".In the previous reading he said that violence is justified when the people were suffering and the government wasn't there to help while the majority suffered. While in this reading , the people were suffering because the pay was to low, lot of people lost their jobs, without their jobs they couldn't feed their family, and the companies were just getting rid of people just to fill the spot with other person that was desperate to work to take care of their starving family for low wage.But when they went on a riot, their actions weren't justified because they were committing a big crime against them but the railroad company was also committing a crime but it wasn't as big as the one the rioter were committing.The rioter crimes were put on the spotlight while the companies crimes committed were treated as lesser crime or not even view as a crime. Do you think that economic status of a person played a role when viewing the crimes were being committed or was their even crimes committed by the companies? Should of the rioters have waited until the railroad company's and the workers came to an agreement or was the rioting justifiable because they believed if they didn't act there wouldn't be any changes?