In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... Donnell starts the essay with an immediate fishhook, "I"m cool like this:" (367) in order to firstly grab the reader's attention and secondly to make the initial point about just how cool he is. ... "I maintain like an ice cube in the remote part of the freezer," is another powerful image, expressing to the reader not just that he is cool, but also that in some way being cool is being separate from others, "remo...

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The main character Calegero lived in a time where African-Americans and Italians, like himself despised each other. ... Just like in previous times, interracial relationships weren't excepted. ... Have you ever liked someone that who not your race? Were you afraid to tell the person you like, your friends, or even your family members because you were afraid that they would judge you? ... You can't help ...

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The word was spoken to you to hurt you. So I would like to never hear the word again." ... Like, Bunny Plaskett who remembers the pain of life in the United States before the civil rights. ... The Civil Rights Era in America was about Black people who struggling in all levels not to be called or treated like "niggas." ... No matter how you think of yourself, whether you are African-American, White, Hispanic, Asian or whatever national origin you identify with, you should never call anyone a "nigga." ...

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You go as far as back in the 1820 up 1940s were blacks were exploited in so many ways. ... There were many jobs for a slave like working on the plantation fields. ... I think that we need to change the environment setting of urban areas the house needs to be rebuilding because the way it is build is like living in corned housing where you can only socialize t he people you know and the outside world looks beyond on them. ... As you see this is what I"m talking about like the quotes that I took from Marable say it is all that black people don't have the advantages as White people so who do...

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In Kindred, Dana disobeys Tom Weylin, Rufus father, when he clearly warned her not to read anymore and suddenly one day Dana gets discovered, Weylin says, "Didn't I tell you I didn't want you reading' 'I treated you good' said Weylin 'he snatched the book from me and threw me on the floor' 'I never saw where the whip came from; never even saw the first blow coming. But it came like a hot iron across my back, burning into me through my light shirt, searing my skin" (106,107). ... When Dana refuses, Rufus builds up tension by telling her, &qu...

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By singling out the fact that only minorities are the ones that are at a disadvantage you are racially profiling them. ... Instead of treating minorities like equals, it treats them like they are better than other members of the population and puts white males in a disadvantage like the minorities once were. ... After you graduate from college, you will be putting in your application for a job that you went to college for. Even though you might be the most qualified for the job you still might not obtain the position. ... That no matter what minority that you are from you still deserve som...

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Washington high school, doing good enough to skip 2 grades and graduate at 15 and finished college, top of his class at 19, getting a Bachelor of Divinity following it up with becoming a minister just like his father, preaching tolerance and the Christian belief of loving your neighbor. ... Martin, like his father and Christian teachings, preached tolerance and denounced violence as a means to achieve something. ... King would argue that black people cannot conform themselves with a system where they are treated unfairly, and that they would only be working with the system; he also argued that...

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Instead of allowing her to decide he patronizes her and plays on her emotions by continually saying "I don't want you to do it if you don't want to" and then follows with " it is perfectly simple (procedure)". ... All she desires is his love and acceptance, in fact she comes out and says "And if I do it you"ll be happy and you"ll love me?" ... This seems like an unusual stance to take but Banks wanted to make it clear that his point was not about women or men but about the races of these two people, and he did want you to sympathize with the minority who was the man. "Black Man ...

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How could judgements like this not make you want to disappear? ... Author bell hooks had one explained that there is safety in the pretense of invisibility (hooks, 2000. p. 340), if you are invisible to the naked eye and can disappear then there is no reason to be scared. You are not being watched, judged or stereotyped when you are invisible, and this is a feeling that Birdie wish she felt a lot of the time, proving throughout the book that her ability to disappear is a beneficial factor. Although when Birdie disappears into Caucasia when relocating to New Hampshire as Jesse Goldman, she disa...

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"You have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim when you see hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity," (King, p 1305). ... King would be part of the Hungarian freedom fighters to aid the Jew because he believed that people should not be discriminated against, just like how he was in a protest to fight for freedom and rights for his people. ... Every person is always excited by items and places being advertised and would like to try them out, but things ar...

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Whites tend to take a very serious, authoritarian tone with the aboriginals and in defence the aboriginals are cheeky and humorous, When Seargent says "Your trouble Milly, is you got three healthy men bludging off you, too lazy to work" Milly replies with "where they gonna get work?" At first this form of speech seems like a simple humorous statement but when reflected on, it's obvious to see the frightening truth behind the question. These Aboriginals can't get work, and if they do they are not paid enough to survive if paid at all "Look last week my Joe cut a hundred posts .and you...

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Chestny is adamant that "you remain who you are" eluding to her grandfather's plantation and two-hundred slaves and she laments that the desegregation of the blacks has put "the bottom rail on the top." ... "His eyes were narrowed and through the indignation he had generated, he saw his mother across the aisle, purple-faced, shrunken to the dwarf-like proportions of her moral nature, sitting like a mummy beneath the ridiculous banner of her hat." ... He takes refuge in dreaming of his grandfather's magnificent old plantation house because "all the neighborhoods they had lived in ha...

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Economic racism is the idea that the color of your skin can help you or hurt you when trying to gain wealth. ... Thomas uses disease as a metaphor to describe racism because racism is like a disease it is spreading quickly among a lot of people and some people cannot be cured from it. ... Would you want to be judged because of the color of your skin?...

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One of the strongest arguments that had been used to disprove of all these statement had been that "You can't ask whites as a class to bear the responsibly for statistical disparities, unless you can prove the whites were purposely excluding blacks ) (p287) Basically we can imply that the 14th amendment and other laws that stated "separate but equal" had been the laws on the books, but laws in action or rather the lack of laws in action had been totally absent from social reality of black people. ... "The reality of inequality experienced by black Americans became just another neutral f...

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He once recounted how a young Negro poet came to him claiming that the hoped he could write like a poet and not just as a Negro poet. ... Or could it even be due to the fact that his mother always reprimanded them saying, "don't be like nigger" whenever they misbehaved? ... People need to learn to understand that these African Americans do react and feel just like any other person. They are moved by beauty, discover things and love just like anybody else. ... He uses a lot of rhetoric to show that there is a different definition of the fourth of July to both the African American...

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You are in Slavery. ... To reach Freedom, you must follow this rigid plan, for only in that way will you overcome the obstacles put in front of you, and by overcoming those obstacles, you engage in a process of becoming continually freer. ... So, where Washington tells us a straightforward Horatio-Alger-like story, DuBois becomes more psychoanalytical and chooses to investigate at more length (and with more artistic and personal freedom in his writing) what it means to be black, what it means to be white, what it means to be free, et al, rather than adopting one stance very early on and ha...

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"You men enlisted in this regiment, on the understanding that you would be paid the regular army wage, of $13 a month. This morning I have been notified, that since you are a colored regiment, you will be paid $10 a month." ... "White men dying for you, time has come and hidey up and fight like men. Men dying by the thousands, dying for you, fool!" ... "We"ll be ready sir, when do you want us?" ...

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On Racist America, racial prejudice was defined as "antipathy toward a racial other based on a faulty generalization, such prejudice can be directed toward a group as a whole, or toward an individual as a member of that group. " (Feagin, pg. 102) Also, Jendian talked about how the farther you are away from the problem the easier it is to moralize your stand on the issue, such as a white person having no sympathy for a black person because they have no idea what it must feel like to be discriminated and hated on for your skin color. ... Also, I don't agree how people often say that blacks ...

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However the game of basketball can be cruel and can keep you down on your knees if you let it. ... Civil rights leaders like Booker T. ... "It was hard for you to fight against her with the talent she had, she had the will to always win." "If you made her mad, you had a tiger on your hands," noted her nephew Lewis Hill. ...

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Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... The blood of her murdered ones cries to heaven for vengeance against Thee You may kill, tyrannize, and oppress as much as you choose,...

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AgFund Response I read the AgFunds story the week after you mentioned it in class and then reread parts of it today. ... The article you authored, Ag Funds, troubled me on several levels. ... A process so ingrained into the business climate would have to be forced into a different behavior to achieve the quick results that a program like affirmative action has received. ...

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Cosby (the character which the series is centered around), like always, scorn the boy and ruin her chances with him. ... Moreover, you can just identify with the characters, even if they are another race because they present common and relatable moments families of all race experience. ... It seems strange Denise would respond like that because she has great role models that do in fact promote good conversation. ... Sure, some white audiences might accept the Huxtables as people who are "just like us.... However, behind this liberal-minded attitude, there is an implicit rejection by the m...

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.* Howard has to deal with the objective world on a daily basis, because like she stated: no matter how light you are to the rest of your family, you're the darkest person there and they say you're black. Then you go out with a bunch of Black people and you're the lightest there and they say," Yeah, my best friend's White." ... Howard, at her wit's end retorted, "You know, Nellie, you're a racist pig!" ...

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" As evidence in short stories like, "The Little Virgin". ... In Hughes poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", he is unmistakably mindful of the foul play and persecution in his general public. " My spirit has developed profound like the streams. ... As I stated before for most African Americans Langston's work was a form of empowerment and endurance with poems like, "The Ballad of the Landlord". ... Moreover, the African American knows he is strolling a scarce difference in belligerence with the white proprietor, and he intentionally crosses that line when he says,...

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Like African Americans, these natives search for identity and live with double-consciousness throughout their lives. ... Much like these other indigenous people, African American's culture was stripped away from them as they were stripped away from their home lands. ... The slaves who rebelled against this were beaten over and over again until they began accepting and at least pretending like they agreed. ... The importance of this is to understand that when reading a novel such as "A Raisin in the Sun" or "The Souls of Black Folks", you cannot immediately assume that ...

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