Demetrius Sims

9-6-13



The Willie Lynch letter can be compared to today's world because of the same characteristics that are broadcast today. For instant, there is a lot of black on black crime. Blacks are just taking out one another every single day for no reason. Also, there has been a lot of comparison between dark African Americans and light-skin African Americans. I had no idea that this was going on bad then. I thought if you were any other color besides white, you were consider a black. It's crazy to think that this dark vs. light competition is even a competition. All blacks should stand together instead of competing against one another. In my opinion, blacks are still are getting treated poorly by whites. they still don't give us blacks the respect we deserve, just like back in the Willie Lynch days.

Part of me feels like the letter is fiction. The reason being is that the language used in the letter is like the modern day language we use today. The people back then would not know or use the words that were in this letter. I think someone modified the letter so the modern day people could understand it.
Prison changed Rubin Carter's relationship with his family tremendously. His wife and kid use to come and visit him every chance they could. But it got to the point to where he told his family not to come to the prison anymore. He did not want his family to see him like that anymore. He didn't want to see or be around anyone in prison, so he isolated himself in a hole under the prison. Rubin says that his relationship with his family today is non-existed....“I’ve had no relationship with them since. I don’t have a son. I don’t have a daughter. That’s all an illusion,” he said. “I had no relationship with them while I was in prison so to think that I could enter their lives and be a father to them now is an illusion. These young people are grown up. They have their own families.”