Responding And Reflecting - New Historical #7 B.H

After finishing the book Beloved and reading through all the historical context, the other historical piece that stuck out to me was the article that was published about how Sethe was running away from white males, got into a wooden shed, and proceeded to kill her children. Paul D didn't believe that story at all since the picture that was included in the article didn't look like Sethe. This made me to believe that not all articles that were about slaves were true and that it was intend to give African slaves a "bad image," to not be trusted. Whenever Paul D sees an article and it has a picture of a slave, it usually meant something daunting. The publishers of every newspapers at that time wouldn't dare to put a story of an African slave that gives them a good image. Additionally, the audience who weren't African slaves did believed what the article said and believed they were all the "same", but what I realized to this day is that history is "repeating" itself on this subject. People will believe whatever the news says, whether it is bizarre or not. The thing is that whenever a person commits the unthinkable, people will believe that the person and his or her race are all the same. For example, police brutality is a very big issue as of today. A handful of cops were reported of using excessive force to an individual, resulting in killing of them. Now that people were aware of the force the cops used, it led to the conclusion that every cop was the same, that they treated a certain race way differently than another race, that they all use excessive force to do their job even if it meant killing the suspect. People need to realize that not all cops will do the same, there are a great amount of cops out there that do good service to their citizens. Connecting this to newspapers in the 1800s about slaves,  even though the news puts a bad image of a certain race or a group of people, it doesn't always mean that all of them are the same. To this day people still think that if one person did this, the person's race or group of people he or she is with will do the same, but not all of us are alike, there is human kindness everywhere.