Blog Entry #6: Tom Kearney, cop and George Malley (a.k.a Henry Lorenz), blue-collar worker

Tom Kearney shows his hatred towards how some people are racist and wishes that everyone could live together in unison. He thinks that it is really too bad how colored people aren't treated fairly and are more likely to get arrested than white people. Something that I found interesting from reading his story was that how times of changed rapidly, like Catholics can marry Protestants and long ago, Catholics only married Catholics and Protestants only married Protestants, etc. Something else interesting was how he didn't look forward to retiring in two years, "Not particularly...I myself haven't done everything a man should do" (271, AR). I find it really sad that because his dad was a fireman, and he wasn't getting apid anything at one point because of the Great Depression, they didn't have food and went on hungry marches. It makes me really sad because his dad worked long hours and didn't get paid much and didn't get paid ay all at one point. Tom as a policeman worked from, "six thirty in the morning and wasn't released until five in the evening without any breaks and no lunch breaks" (262, AR). He also said back in his time there was tons of integration between blacks and whites, like in school and the streets, etc. He didn't really like it, but knew that he ahd to deal with it because it was a way of life back then. His father sent him to a public school and not a Catholic school he's going to have to get used to the inegration later in life, so he might as well get used to it now (early in his life).

Chester Kolar was a technician at an electronics plant and then started a program over a foreign language radio station. He was then celebrated in his community for doing it. He heard over the radio, "...so many people were killed" (273). He wanted to know what happened and why so amny people were getting killed in the war because he felt really bad. He was just happy that he ahd a radio, so he could know what was going on in the war because he didn't use to have that resource (having a radio). He was just having trouble providing for his family because he was a poor man trying to get "...his eight hours of work done to keep his family going, pay his rent, and buy his food..." (273, AR). The American dream for most people is to make ends meet which was really hard back then because of the Great Depression, which made the economy extremely bad and lowered jobs and employment. Everyone wants to make ends meet at least, try to make a lot of money, get a job, have a family, and bring food and water home for the family, have shelter to live under. The American dream is to also not have racial segregation, but back then it was almost impossible for that to happen because there was a lot of racial tension and segregation between blacks and whites. It was just a way of life back then, which was really sad because it was very unconstitutional and morally wrong.