I do see the connections between "Under Arpaio" and "Lies My Teacher Told Me."
"We begin to get a handle on this question by noting that the teaching of history, more than any other discipline, is dominated by textbooks. And students are right: the books are boring. The stories that history textbooks tell are predictable; every problem has already been solved or is about to be solved. Textbooks exclude conflict or real suspense. They leave out anything that might reflect badly upon our national character. When they try for drama, they achieve only melodrama, because readers know that everything will turn out fine in the end... No wonder students lose interest." (Loewen 2/??)
it's human to retaliate and hurt, it's our primal instinct, to attack like in Sherman's Game; and contrarily it's 'heroic' to "rise above the dungeon of darkness" (King 206?) as King puts it when he asserts the magnitude of "the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood."
From Jamie Wilson's article about Sherman, I have come to connect about the deeper issues of Arpaio, as in his personhood, how he grew up and what his class/background has indeed shaped him to see doing his duty the way he's chosen to do. what mindsets does/has Arpaio have/had.
and borrowing Jamie Wilson's "why Richard Sherman scares us" connecting Sherman "shattered the comfortable illusions(that what he saw before was an illusion...that the shadows which he formerly saw was truer than the objects which are now shown to him, 304) of his audience." The Latinos are a scapegoat for the ordinary American life's boredom, which the Ugly Tourist built on.
(maybe the ordinary Americans' comfort-seats, the taught-believed-place, being challenged by the immigrants, linked to Cave.
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/seahawks/2014/01/30/seahawks-why-richard-sherman-scares-us/
"that black males must know their place, and more tellingly, that their place is somewhere different than that of whites. It's been etched into our cultural fabric that to act as anything but a loud, yet harmless buffoon or an immensely powerful, yet humble servant is overstepping. It's uppity. It is, to use Knapp's word, petrifying." (http://deadspin.com/richard-sherman-and-the-plight-of-the-conquering-negro-1505060117)
I am thinking to link the American idea of a rightful place for a non-white to act, such as Sherman and the brown that's being hunted in Arpaio's case.
What was the family dynamic that he had as a child, relating to "A Plaque of Tics?" Was his father a hard working man, was he influential in the communities? What prompted Arpaio joined the US Army when he was 18? What was happening in USA at that time?
I also saw the connection with Battle Royal in Invisible Man.
The Observers of violence, the Whites
The Victims and The Executors of Violence, the Blacks
In MLK Jr's Letter, the complacency among certain Blacks, the White Moderates, the White Church...
The stumbling block of another man's "stride towards freedom" (King210) being the ignorant US Media? and this Media connecting to the Advertisers in Kid Kustomers.
The connection between people that have strong ties in Gladwell's "Small Change" suggests to me where the silver lining of small triumphs of the movement for the Arpaio being deposed and MCSO being monitored..
also, where have we read of these, or have we not?
Depersonalized?
Individuality being taken away?
and now I can only imagine what connections there are from the text of Allegory of the Cave!!!
off to read some Socrates now :D
now here are some reflective glimpses when reading the Cave:
chained since childhood(303)
chained by_______?
forced into the presence of the sun(304)
what forced it?
It's a process..
like the movement in Arpaio, and King's
"Last of all he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another; and he will contemplate him as he is."(305)
??
why is there not this text in our reading?
It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning
and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those
prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether
they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even
with the prospect of death.
They shall give of their help to one another wherever each
class is able to help the community.
