Aesthetic response to Only Justice Can Stop a Curse Thinking back to the article I just read, I can only think of the extreme despair that the two authors. make them feel what they felt: that suicide might be better than living in a “white man’s world.” If these powerful documents weren't enough to make people realize just how bad off African Americans were (and still are to some extent), then I don't know what could be more compelling. I can't help but think of the atrocities that the woman in the first writing invoked to spite the whites and which caused her so much suffering. Although seemingly extreme, I clearly remember an example in history where tactics such as these denunciations and curses actually worked. In Egypt, Moses did the same thing to free his people (the Jewish slaves) from slavery so that they could find their own land in which to dwell freely. The curses, although wishing pain and suffering on their perpetrators, were reminiscent of the ten plagues that Moses invoked on the Egyptians, the last of the ten being the death of the youngest son of all families. It was then that the Jewish people received permission to leave Egypt in search of a new life. These documents remind me a lot of that because, like the Jews, these blacks are looking for their freedom in a white world where it does not exist. They feel like their last resort and the one that will ultimately result in these denunciations and prayers to God. The second document alludes to a statement I remember from the movie Matrix. The author states that the purpose of Pentecost is not only to dominate the land, but also the planet and the universe. In the film, one of the men stated that the human race (and in this case, the white race) is like viruses, they multiply and then consume all the natural resources in an area until it It's time to move on to something else again. and multiply, then the cycle of destruction continues.