Ethics

I try to live a life where I treat people as the way I would like to be treated. This is just one of many of my ethics or values that I have learned through the years. I really think that giving back is also something I live by and believe strongly. I think that you should be thankful for what you have but also give back to those who do not have as much. I believe in treating my teachers and peers with respect and not being rude to them. They help me in many ways and I should not disregard that. I also have ethics in how I treat my parents and family. I look up to them and respect them as much as I can. I believe that you should be kind to others and have just an understanding and acceptance of others. I try to live up to all of these as much I as can but I in no way am perfect. I think that my teachers and friends have had a great influence on what my ethics are. I have been very fortunate to go to two private schools where their sole purpose is to each us about diversity and being kind to others. They have such great morals both those schools. I have learned from my peers and friends the kind of ethics I would like. I have seen the bad ones and know that I never in my life could understand or want to act the way some do. I do have great friends who think sort of in the same way I do and it is nice. My parents have influenced me too and taught me how to respect and what I should be doing. Many people play a large impact in how I live up to things.

Booker T. Washington

Frederick Douglass believed that the blacks should not go north because then it is just ignoring the problem in the south. He felt that it would be better off to stay in the south and actually try to change things and make your self more respected than it is running away and going to the north. The North had a lot to offer but it wasn’t incredible but he strongly felt the true way to get rid of slavery and to work on the problem was not to run away from it. Booker T. Washington touched on some of the ideas Frederick Douglass made. He never spoke negatively about the north or even talked about the north but he felt that it was much better to keep the blacks in the south and form better relationships between the whites and blacks. He used the term, “Cast down your bucket where you are.” He was saying that the blacks and whites should cast down their buckets and learn more about each other and give more respect and help to each other. He thinks that this is what should happen to help rid of slavery and that the start really needs to be forming better relationships. It would be much better to work in the south and form the bonds than just run away. He was telling the whites to look and see how hard working and how well the blacks were doing for them and for the blacks to show more trust and to open the doors to the whites. Both groups needed to put down their buckets and form relationships right where they were at so that slavery could be fixed.

The Lovers of the Poor

Loathe Largesse means despising charity work. It literally means that the people do not like doing charity work or getting involved in minority stuff. They say hey, there are those people over there lets just leave them alone and let them work it out. They are over there and we are over here. Unless the work is easy for the ladies then they do not want to do it because it is too much for them to handle. The ladies want to just leave it alone and go about their days. The people in the area would rather be left in their group than except charity either. It is like we talked about yesterday and how if you see a minority group over there then they are over there and you might acknowledge them then go about on your own. People just stay to themselves and leave each other alone. The people who do charity don’t exactly like it and as long as it is easy then they will do it. The people want to just have something easy to do and if they go into to do charity and see that it is just really bad off then they just leave because they cannot handle it. They say that they do charity but do not even really like it or want to do it. The people say oh those poor ones over there but usually just go on with their day.