For years experts have argued over the topic of how evils we have committed in the past affect us currently. ... While some may argue that slavery no longer affects African-Americans, we still see small amounts of animosity even today. ... The fact that slavery was allowed to exist is just an evil we can never take away. ... " (Douglas as cited in Higgs, 2009) This shows that even the smartest southerners were raised with the fundamental thought that blacks and whites were unequal. ... The fact that humans can conceive and allow a system as evil as slavery is hard to completely understand...

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According to this historical context, we can know that the national pride of blacks grew in this era. ... As we can see, even though the importance of whites' intervention was never mentioned, it stilled had a significant role in the Harlem Renaissance. ... As we can see white patronages, white publicities and white interests in the Harlem Renaissance led New Yorkers from downtown up to Harlem to attend Jazz clubs that blacks themselves could not attend. ... So we can see white patronages had a significant role in the Harlem renaissance. ... As we can see, Whites wrote two novels to promo...

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When I think about today's society and how African Americans are treated in the justice system I think about how huge of an impact the slave trade had. ... In New York minorities are often the ones stopped and questioned for no reason other than the thought that they looked "suspicious". ... When we are creating our own Greek life and organizational societies of people to consist of one sole ethnicity because we wish to identify with others alike and we feel as if we are the greater group then we are contributing in neo-racism and are failing to leave the racist ideologies of ou...

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As Angelou recounts her graduation experience in 1940 from an individual perspective and a crowd's reaction, she provides an in depth look into discrimination, self-evolution, and how perseverance can be one's most valuable trait. ... Furthermore, Angelou provides a simile to describe the change in feeling: "Like a river diminishing to a stream and then to a trickle" (27). ... " Next, when Donleavy expresses his racist thoughts, it makes Angelou contemplate her self-worth. ... She thinks, " It was awful to be a Negro and have no control over my life" (29)...

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But how much has African American life changed since then? ... Like overt racism, it can occur individually, institutionally, and culturally. ... When describing his high-school experience, Malcolm writes, "it has historically been the case with white people, in their regard for black people, that even though we might be with them, we weren't considered of them. Even though they appeared to have opened the door, it was still closed. ... Malcolm's thoughts in his autobiography can be applied to our current society. ...

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How a complete neophyte can address such issues with any hope of coherence seems beyond the realm of possibility. But, as Twain came to understand, it may be best to simply let the thoughts go where they will, trusting both the conscious and unconscious, to see where one may end up. ... To step outside the established norms, was to invite ostracism as can be seen in the condemnation of Puddn'head Wilson by the townspeople in Dawson's Landing, or even the isolation of the Boss in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. ... Even his tragedy Pudd'nhead Wilson is twist...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate