The Johnston Center for Integrative Studies

This is a response mainly to Emmett, although I hope we also get to discuss this in class.

I personally believe that Po' Sandy isn't racist at all.

Aside from the fact that the white people don't believe the story that Julius told, which still can be debated because His wife didn't want the kitchen built out of that wood, this seemed like Irony in satire.

Chestnutt is mocking the rediculousness that it takes to be able to stay with your family if you were a slave, and even when you went to such great lengths, it still ended badly. That's the Irony.

The satire or I guess even more irony is the end of the poem when Julius says that if the ghost of Sandy comes during the church service, that It would do him some good. Now that I think of this, it might be more of a patiche on just general feelings about ghosts, (most people wouldn't want to be in a haunted building but they do).

Also I thought it was hilarious that they named the church Sandy Run Colored Baptist Church. They definitely had a reverence for Sandy as well as maybe even poking fun at him, saying he Should have run instead of stuck around and got killed, essentially, by his love.

Overall, I enjoyed this!

Rick Daily