Ethics and the end of Jim Crow in Texas
Jim Crow had to make some real ethical decisions. He made an ethical decision in terms of the end of Jim Crow, in terms of apartheid in Texas and the rest of the country to the lasting detriment of his political party. He took an ethical stand when he knew that it meant the end of his political domination, his political party’s domination maybe in the country, certainly in the South.
He was a Democrat and the Democratic Party was the party of apartheid in this country, was the party of apartheid in the South of Jim Crow. It was the White Democratic party. He was elected as a White Democrat and he became a proponent of Civil Rights and the end of de jure discrimination by law. When he did, it he said that this will undermine the Democratic party’s dominance in the South for generations.
The Ethical Arguments for Slavery
– Some people are slaves as part of the natural order of the universe, or as part of God’s plan, and it is wrong to interfere with this by abolishing slavery.
– The Curse of Ham refers to the curse that Ham’s father Noah place upon Ham’s son Canaan, after Ham “saw his father’s nakedness. (Genesis 9:20-27.)
– John H Reagan says that all past civilizations practiced slavery so it is justified. In 1913, he is still arguing that all past civilizations practiced slavery.
Q) What kind of ethics is this religious argument?
Deontological
The Ethical Arguments for Slavery
– African were believed to be savage and inferior in an animal like state in America.
– They were better-off and happier in a system where their lives were run by civilized others.
– And they benefited by their exposure to civilization.
– They are not capable of civilization on their own.
White people believe that black people are savage and uncivilized and animal-like and that we are actually better off when we got dragged out of ‘Darkest Africa’.
How can you leave them uncivilized on their own when you really need to enslave them in order to be able to enjoy of the fruits of civilization? This is a Utilitarian. The end justifies the means. White dominants believe this kind of ethical notion.
The Ethical Arguments for Slavery
– The economy of the South was dependent on slave labor. Abolishing it would be disastrous to the economy of the region and hence detrimental to the nation and everyone in it including the enslaved. This is true! So, the economy of the south before the Civil War was based on slavery. When the slavery was removed, the biggest amount of capital investment in the Antebellum South was in the slave population.
– Slavery was generally accepted by the majority in Southern society- if ethics is a matter of public opinion (Cultural Ethical Relativism) then slavery was ethical.
– What kinds of ethics are involved in each justification for slavery?
– What is the ethical basis that you are using to make an argument against all these ethical arguments that these people are making?
Student’s Answer> By colonialism and imperialism when we would uproot these people and move them here, we couldn’t let them live their authentic being selves.
The culture of South, Southern heritage
We’d back in the deepest darkest Africa. We wouldn’t be Christianized.
Bowie High school – the school named after a slavery trader
David Crottcket
Stephen F. Austin
Q) Why did Texas want to be independent from Mexico? Because of slavery. They can have slavery when they are in part of America.
There are a bunch of ethical dilemmas.
*Nueces Massacre Please look it up on Google!
Why removing the statues that are related to the slavery is an illegal?
Because ethically and by state government, deontologically, the legislature is about to pass a law which would say that it’s illegal to take down the Confederate Statues that we have on this campus. These are ethical Dilemmas!
Q) Do members of a society have to have a common set of ethics in order for that society to function? One reason that a society can function without a common set of ethics is this same issue of domination. So, if there are people and groups in power who share an ethics they can pretty much impose the ethical situation upon those who are not in power!
-Q) Ethics are social. Each individual has morals but they only functions to regulate societies if most people not only have them but share them. This is not what professor believe because there is a power problem. This assumes some kind of democratic situation. In a democratic society, we all need to share the same ethics if we are going to be able to have society operate in an ethical way. However, when power and domination come into play, it doesn’t really matter whether everybody shares those ethics as long as the folks who are in power in one way or another, have those ethics. Ethics is not about good or evil. In most societies, what gets described or what gets claimed or what gets labeled as evil or good has everything to do with who is holding the power to be able to do it.
He believes that ethics are social.
Q) What is the principle ethical values of this society? How democratic societies deal with the issues of multiple ethical principles? By law.
In Complex Situations
– However, there are major differences between people in their interpretation of when and how particular ethical principles should be applied.
– And what priority to give to which ethical principles in particular situations.
– In democratic societies this is resolved by democratically creating laws which create enforce collective ethical principles
The law is Deontology. In democratic societies, we should act ethically, no matter how flawed it is, to obey the law. Why do we follow the law? Because the law is the expression of the ethical consensus of the society, but because we are afraid of coercion.
Which form of ethics should reign?
– Utilitarianism
– Deontology
– Virtue ethics
– A combination?
Professor hopes that this course is that by providing kind of history and a contemporary assessment of anti-blackness and how that coincides with other forms of domination, gender, sexual-based class-based and all that we have got a little more material to think through what our ethical perspectives should be.
Dilemma Recap- The case of Shanesha Taylor
Charged with child abuse after police said she left 2 of her children (aged 6 months and 2 years) in an SUV during a job interview in Arizona.
She was out of the car for 38 minutes.
Negligent mom or overwhelmed single mother? What is the ethical dilemma that she faced? My View> Virtue-based standpoint because I sympathize her. She as a black single mother is struggling to make money. Because of the economic disposition that black people already face getting jobs, because of the amount of things she has to go through such as taking care of her children. There are the race and gender problem. Gender and race are play a role in this case. There is a conflict in ethical standards. She is ethically wrong because she put her children in the car she is doing ethically right in terms of ~ (we have to discuss it in the paper)
You should include these in your paper!
1. your own personal ethics
2. societal ethics
3. Talk about both and how and what happened relating to both.
4. why and how and what society’s ethics were and how that happened.
5. Label them such as Deontology, Utilitarianism, Hedonistic Utilitarianism, deontology in relationship to the law and the state or deontology in relationship to religion etc.
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