In accordance with George Bernard Shaw, “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.” Shaw’s Quotation demonstrates what the worst possible thing a human can do to anything or anyone, such as inhumane treatment of a person, just because of the color of their skin. This can be seen in the Novel Kindred, Octavia Butler, reveals how some of the characters such as Tom Weylin, Rufus, and Margeret, using their power, and ego, to abuse & affect someone else, by using Violence, a heavy use of discrimination towards african american slaves, in the antebellum south which brought upon a lot of trauma, thus leading to PTSD. In the Novel Kindred, Octavia Butler, uses the Weylin Family as an example to demonstrate the inhumane treatments of …show more content…
There are many instances and occurrences when Violence, is either spoken about, or used against one another, in harmful ways. This is shown again and again in the story to show awarness of the big idea of ''How Violence is Used by People in Power''. The text states “I closed my eyes again remembering the way I had been hurt remembering the pain” (Butler 10). This quote exemplifies how Dana had felt after a beating/whipping, having an effect on Dana mentally, and physically. It shows the true brutality of the treatment of slaves, and how it tremendously affected them, with reoccuring trauma, and PTSD. The Tone of Butler’s writing in this section of text, shows that there is a deeper meaning, and understanding to what Dana is talking about, and how so many factors of her life have been affected because of one singular event. Slavery, and Acts of terrorism towards people of color did not end even after the end