Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by BEBE CAMPBELL

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Mississippi is represented by a rich leading class and poor blacks and whites. Each of them has their specific representatives, which interact and develop new peculiarities of the community. This interaction I perceived as a functioning of the body systems in the organism. They all serve the goal of homeostasis, trying to cooperate in the way it is convenient for all of them to gain the main profit and provide the others with the required level of support. Observing the attitudes of the three named above social groups to each other I noticed a tension which was in the majority of cases combined with hatred. For instance, the poor whites like Lily and Floyd Cox were never satisfied with what they had, having no ability to improve the state of things. They realized to some extend that they depend on the black population but could not place themselves on the same level with the later. It resulted in their financial, social and emotional vulnerability, entailing the ...

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it may cease to exist. Exploitation leads to exhaustion and contradicts the very notion of homeostasis. The inadequate body systems or structures should be addressed in order to ensure balance in organism. The same happened to the population of Hopewell Mississippi. The death of Armstrong Todd was a trigger or a first visible and appalling signal that this social structure and system does not function. Firstly, because his death was just a way to prove own dignity of Floyd Cox Junior to his father Floyd Cox. Secondly, because it was a racial discrimination followed by atrocious violence. Poor whites could not show their powers with other methods than to assault black people. Their ...

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