The Fight Or Flight Response - 1656 Words

Every day there are people who struggle to survive and there are those who wish for nothing more than to die. It seems uncanny that someone would rather die than to live but under certain circumstance death would seem the best option. When there are wars in countries, incurable illnesses, financial or familial troubles people can’t seem to fix, or the insufferable bullying from peers, death to some is an escape, it is the only way out. But to so many others the many struggles humans face are just hurdles they must overcome to survive. What would lead a person to want to survive despite unfavorable circumstances, such as oppression, racism, a bad government? Maybe it is because they have hope for a better future or they find their purpose†¦show more content†¦There is more to it than just our natural instincts to survive. Big Boy’s Fight for Survival During the time of racial segregation in the United States, African Americans were perceived as a threat to the white mans power â€Å"one Southern State after another raised the cry against ‘negro domination’ and proclaimed there was an ‘unwritten law’ that justified any means to resist it† (Wells) this law had many people killed. As a prominent opponent of lynching in the United States, Ida B. Wells wrote a speech entitled â€Å"Lynch Law in America†. As an African American woman herself, Wells saw the true brutality her people faced because of the unwritten law. The lynchings caused by the unwritten law â€Å"represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an ‘unwritten law’ that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal. † (Wells). White people committing the killings saw their acts as justifiable because they were white and more powerful than Blacks. During the Jim Crow era when racial segregation was enforced in the South, there were numerous lynchings happening to Black men, women and children. African Americans have had a though life here in America between trying to survive during slavery and trying to survive as free people. Their struggles are no secret, the amount of heartache and