Statements such as these, add fuel to a roaring fire of resentment towards Asian Americans. ... But what you don't know is that the Japanese have to endure higher education, and work many more hours. ... His argument mainly states interesting facts that contradict what we read in the newspapers or hear on the evening news. ...
There will always be some sort of resentment in the hearts of some African-Americans. ... Even though there are still some KKK organizations some white people are just racist against them because of what they were taught by their parents. ... What goes on in the school is not as bad as what has been on the news lately. ... Then I notice her staring at the people on the other side and when I turn to look to see what it was I noticed that she was sitting next to African Americans. ...
It gives a visualization of what it meant then and what it means today to be black in America. ... He realized that this act of violence has allowed him to act out his anger and resentment and gives him an identity. ... He has never encountered what it means to be something. ...
These new generations began to have feelings of resentment for the North, although they had not themselves experienced Reconstruction, and began to secretly undermine it. These defiant natures began to show themselves when the governments of many states enacted what were termed the Jim Crow laws in the 1880's. ... (Smith, Part I, Ch. 3) The case caused the South to bring down upon itself the attention of the entire world, in which the south was told that what it was doing was wrong, and it needed to change. ... Many southern whites do feel guilty for what has happened, but see no o...
Grant's task is two times as difficult because Grant is not sure he knows what a man is himself. ... Grant progress is slow at first because Jefferson refuses to emerge from his shell of anger and resentment. ... (Gaines 249) Since Grant did not know what a man really was while he teaches Jefferson, he himself begins to learn a few things. ...
Yet, the resentment of African American ideology overall is not keeping American modernism as pure as some conservative white Americans may believe. ... One side is holding on to their roots and not succumbing to what white America deems fit. ... If African Americans don't try to strive toward higher things than what white America has deemed fit, then they are doomed for a brighter future. ... Du Bois, for critiquing the flaws in the American system and showing African Americans that they are better than what is portrayed. An African American's unique ideology is what has propelled A...
Before Baldwin ever knew what racism was, his father was in the trenches fighting the war for equal rights for himself and his family. ... But apparently his best wasn't enough to stop the resentment that his children had toward him. ... He saw what would become of him if he continued down the path he was headed; he would die on the inside just like his father. ... This upset him but not as much as what was to come. ... That is what Baldwin considered to be a creative outlet and the reader would have to agree with that. ...
He couldn't believe what he is seeing, especially when he once walked up to a ticket counter in a train station. ... His refusal to extend even this courtesy to passengers who had paid as much as any white for their tickets was so conspicuous it made me aware of the stirrings of resentment among the Negroes behind me"(129). ... He proves that what white people say and think about the black people is wrong because white people don't argue about the cultural and ethnic differences, because that's not what they care about. ... And that's what they argue about all the time. ......
The more I thought afterwards about what he said, the more uneasy it made me... ... Malcolm's resentment was increased as he suffered through these hardships, and he was haunted by this early nightmare for most of his life. ... You tell me what kind of country this is. ... Full time hustlers never can relax to appraise what they are doing and where they are bound. ... And what we have foremost in common is that enemy-the white man. ...
In order to understand that reification may be the cause of horrible atrocities towards mankind, we must first know exactly what reification is. ... The book also mentions that prejudice may come from the idea that it might promote self interest because people support what brings them pleasure and what does not. ... This gives us a brief understanding of what reification is and why it is the cause of many forms of hatred. ... In an example used in class, a man who lost his job to an Asian man feels resentment towards the entire Asian world. ...
With this review I would like to show what I have learned and gained from this excersise and show how much Marshall had to do with the changes in procedures of criminal law, civil rights, and politics in general. ... Though William was a man of great character and class, he did not let his resentment of his Pullman car porter or steward job destroy him or humiliate him. ... In highschool he would get in trouble so much they didn't quite know what to do with him. ... That year the Crawford case, a black man charged with murdering two white women, was what got Marshall fired up about law...
A December 8, 1997, edition of Sports Illustrated magazine, which I have in my bookshelf, was entitled "What Ever Happened to the White Athlete" in which it came to the conclusion that African-American athletes were dominating the sports industry because they had wider hips and other various physical differences. ... This sociological ascension has created a sense of resentment and indirect hate from certain groups who feel threatened by the success of minorities in general (for e...
