What cause the Harlem Riot of 1935?

Hello my name is Oscar Bermejo. I'm currently a student at LaGuardia Community College.This semester I'm currently enrolled in ENN195:Violence in American Art and Culture.This week blog is about "What cause the 1935 Harlem Riot. The 1935 Harlem Riot first started off when a little boy got caught for a minor case of shoplifting. In the meanwhile someone saw what has taken place and started to spread a rumor about it the child was beaten to death. People gather around the place but because of the simple rumor that was spread and the hearse that had happen to be parked around the same place where the allege beating of the kid to death had taken place.I guess that was the breaking point where they had enough of the brutality against their community and decide to riot against the stores. They were also probably fed up with the amount of people that were unemployed in this specific area, the prices of goods they couldn't afford and when they committed this crime, they said that this was the finally straw against them. Also how the rumor was spread and the truth not being out could have prevented the riot but this could have been an outlet for all the time they were feeling oppressed.

Looking back

The blog assignment for this week is to look over any discussion or text that we have encounter during class and reflect on it.

I will be reflecting back on Caesar's Column by Ignatius Donnelly. Well I'm not really going to reflect on the book it self but the themes that we have discuss during the class when we were reading the book.One of the major theme that I really enjoy and keep thinking about is Social Darwinism. The fact what I like about the discuss ion is that it blew my mind about Social Darwinism on what I thought it was a fight against the bigger foe. What I use to think was that the lower class are only going to attack the upper class but what the reality was they also attack the lower class, which was attacking themselves. Usually when something broke out, such as a riot ,they would call in the police or the militia to suppress the riot. The police or militia isn't the upper class but working class themselves that trying to step over the lower class but which are people in the same class. The police force or militia are like any other working class person, they are on a job, trying to provide for their family, trying to do what ever it takes to keep their job, and to keep their family away from hunger or being homeless.This really makes me think about all the riots that have happened or will happen , that it just a clash between the working class or among themselves. Rarely you will see a rich person or a person of higher class that  would be on the streets rioting with other rich people to suppress the lower class that are going against them.This really grabs my attention because when the people went to riot for change, weren't they just hurting people that were in the same position as them? 

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Both comments have been published on the following two blogs on what I found interesting on whenever I agreed or disagreed with them.