Mark was one of the lucky ones who was naturally gifted and was able to afford schooling. ... By giving his first hand account of growing up in South Africa I am now able to see how the whites kept control over the blacks for such a long time. ...
DuBois stated that, "The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, ¾a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. ... Where on the other hand the house negro is under constant watch by the master and like Malcolm X wanted to resist and separate from him. ... This goes hand in hand with Malcolm X's movement because Malcolm wanted blacks to take a stand towards whites. ...
The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. When America was discovered in 1492, Eur...
