Headley:1837 Riots (Chap4)

When the subject of morality came up and wether the people who were involved in the 1837 riots had morals, I personally don't think that they did. Nor the rich, the government , the store owners or the poor. The hunger and poverty become so bad in the time that all morals where drown out the window as everyone was looking out for themselves and there family, while also trying to survive. If there where any morals still there then they wouldn't have bartended the store for flour, but I don't think that it is there fault that the poor lost all sense of morality. The situation that they where put in made them lose there morality. If the store clerks wouldn't have storaged flour and bring up the prices then the poor wouldn't have been forced to go into the store and take the flour. The store clerks where thinking about themselves and not others. - I'm Jeelyan Martinez from ENN 195 at lagcc I wrote this in regards to the theme of the class which is violence in America, this week we are discussing the riot of 1837.