Out of that cruel ingenuity, the use of slaves now sparks the image of a race that is acceptable for the decades to come. ... In the century prior, Oxford English Dictionary deemed that the color "black" was a representation of having dark, deadly purposes along with being stained with dirt, yet the color "white" was associated with beauty in Elizabethan poetry (Zinn 31). ...
Europeans were cognizant of this fact but yet deemed the Africans as subordinate thus enslaving them and strangling their heritage. ... Nonetheless, names were altered over the years into a form acceptable to both the slave as a reminder of his roots and to his master, as something he could pronounce e.g., 'Ebo Jane' or 'Mandigo Jack'8. ...
They cannot justify their actions, because their reasons will never matter to the "white child" who has been murdered - merely because of his color - in retaliation by Mau Mau fighters or to the "savages," who - in as racist an attitude as was taken by Nazis against Jews - are deemed worthless, or expendable. ...
