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Rituals of Blood

             "Rituals of Blood", is one the most disturbing yet open writings on ethnicity and religion that I have ever read. This would make it a masterpiece in my eyes. "Rituals of Blood", is only for those who are willing to humble themselves and accept what they read as knowledgeable information that they can truly learn from. This book will earnestly explain that this nation's history has been an exercise in dishonesty, upon all of its citizens. .
             It teaches the true reason why the colonies were established and not the so often belief of freedom of religion. America has come a long way due to the law and the education of it's citizens but does not teach the reason why such hate and violence has been in its pass. This book shows that not only does religion repress the innate hate the man has, but can also conjure and cause violent and greedy behavior. .
             Orlando Patterson does an incredible job of explaining to the reader the connection of present racism to the ongoing legacy of slavery. Patterson gives specific examples of how the present has been affected by the past. He does this through outlining several areas of contention in the black community: explosive male-female relations, the destructive media images of African American males, and the horrible legacy of lynching and its parallel of religious sacrifice.
             These Euro-Americans of the past were not only content with enslaving African Americans and denying them marriage prospects, but also proceeded to hack off their ears, fingers and reproductive organs in the process of roasting them alive at joyfully attended lynching. Patterson explains how this meant that African American males were in no position to supply a proper male role model to their children. This also caused a type of dissension between African American women and the men and in turn there was an uprising hatred built toward their own mothers and even wives.


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