Living in an area like that can have a serious impact on the way people think. ... A way to start changing the way people think about others is immersing themselves with other cultures. ... I have so many friends and even relatives of different races and cultures, and it really does change your whole perspective on racism. ... If we didn't think of color or race when we see a person, we would not have all these problems with dating. ... It is a change that is soon to come, but we cant hide from it, as much as our society is changing today. ...

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"Anything you can think of that you want to change right now, the only way you can do it is with a ballot or a bullet. ... Have you been giving it thought?" ... You need to think about something you can be. ... Elijah Muhammad spoke of how the Black man was the Original Man, who had been kidnapped from his homeland and stripped of his language, his culture, his family structure, his family name, until the Black man in America did not even realize who he was. ... His greatest changes in beliefs were his thoughts about black and white relationships. ...

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Media plays a big role on how the public thinks, especially in the era we live in. ... How about we switch the young man's race to Asian, the meme wouldn't be so funny. ... I feel that even though we live in a society that is much divided, we are all just ignorant. ... If a child is born in an environment that is more open to discussion, rather than in an environment that is more restricted and controlling, that will definitely change how that child views the world. ... Stereotypes also are creating a false idea of how they interact with other individuals I can say for over 90% of th...

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In order to understand the concepts of Black motherhood we must examine how this idea differs from both men and women of color, to that of the dominant class. ... We will also try to see where Collins idea's fit in our current state, and what we may do to change conflicts or issues dealing with race. The main theme in the paper will be to identify with Collins on how black mothers can attain empowerment. ... They will even feel that they should not participate because they have been taught to think they are inadequate or ineffective child rearers." ... Collins says that the stand...

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With the idea of race being so prominent in his upbringing, we would tend to think that the notion of race is one that must be looked at from all angles in order to make sense of his life. ... It becomes something that no one thinks about. ... In our everyday lives we are all influenced by other people on how we see race, racial issues, and on how we identify with our own race and heritage. ... How race is viewed in the family can determine how much emphasis is placed on race and whether race plays a prominent role or a minor role. Friends can also influence how we feel about our own identitie...

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"The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by McKay in which many different poetic apects emerge as we read the poem. ... Towards the middle of the poem, the narrator describes the dancer as "swaying", implying that she can change with things around her if she wants to be sucessful. ... Another example of how words can portray a message is how the author describes the characters. ... Thankfully, times have changed, and in today's society there are many more opportunities for African American women to make a living.I cannot even imagine how hard of a struggle it was for African Ame...

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"The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by McKay in which many different poetic apects emerge as we read the poem. ... Towards the middle of the poem, the narrator describes the dancer as 3 "swaying", implying that she can change with things around her if she wants to be sucessful. ... Another example of how words can portray a message is how the author describes the characters. ... Thankfully, times have changed, and in today's society there are many more opportunities for African American women to make a living.I cannot even imagine how hard of a struggle it was for African ...

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Yet even though I think of myself as an American and consider America my country, my country doesn't think of me as one of its own.... It has been so difficult to approve gay marriages I can only imagine how difficult it can be for gay partners to be able to apply for petition to receive a visa. ... (Ehrenreich 253) Everyone wishes to be successful but many times what we think will lead us to success leads us to failure. ... I feel as though the first thought that comes to mind when someone speaks about the American dream is education. ... Once again we see how our American dream can b...

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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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I think not. ... How could anything be expected to be great or positive without positive attention? ... Mentioning how fun drugs supposedly are in songs is unnecessary. ... The mindset of people especially African American, Hispanics and other minorities must change. ... Until we as minorities begin to think and believe that there is some much more to life and ourselves then what we have been told, the revolution of the hip-hop culture back to its origin will not occur. ...

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(pp. 116, 117) In this paper we are going to examine the lives of three religiously motivated individuals: the rev. ... His life started changing when he was in prison, by joining the Nation of Islam (pp.121). ... Today many think of Malcolm X as the black, racial of violence against whites. ... Seek peace, and never be the aggressor-but if someone attacks you, we do not teach you turn the other cheek.... From the beginning of his pilgrimage to the Middle East, Malcolm X was repeatedly amazed about how he was treated-and how he was received by white people. ...

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The control given to the government was still in question at both the Federal and State level; As well as how to rebuild the nation and handle the growth and change. ... I don't think so. ... In my opinion there was never an effort to stay neutral; the government just wanted the public to think so. ... It changed our society as a whole, our government changed and so did the economy. ... The government thought they had control but the businessmen really did. ...

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"Think you I am not fiend and savage too?... Meaning we are the same, we are humans, we hate, bleed and get angry all the same. ... It can mean "too" as an anger filled frustration, trying to prove a point that we can be just as violent and hatful as you, in such context. ... Instead we can see that he didn't get to witness that with the way In Bondage was written. ... McKay gave us insight on how some people viewed these times. ...

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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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He uses this reference because he knows that the Clergymen will understand this reference and hopefully spark the thought that this is morally wrong. ... Additionally, King describes life as a black person in the South to demonstrate why change can no longer "wait." The activities of MLK were referred to as "unwise and untimely" and in response King replies by saying "We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights" he also compares the progression of equality to that of a "horse and buggy", so to paint a mental picture...

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Extremist are violent, pushy, and demanding people who see their views the only way to think. ... How then, can we allow ourselves to believe that as a country we must fight over issues of skin color and rights. ... I understand that we must fight when we are threatened by an invading force looming over us in hopes to change our way of life. ... They saw the African American community as an invading force against the country they had created, or so they thought. ... No, we all did. ...

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From an early age, demonstrated by the death of Chicken Little, we learn that Sula is not like other little girls (Morrison 61). ... Thus we have a character that does not follow the expected path of other young women in similar life circumstances. ... They can be represented as two binaries that are in opposition to each other. ... Nel laments the loss of her friend, startled to learn that "all that time, [she] thought [she] was missing Jude" - the implication being that she misses Sula instead (Morrison 174). ... Even Nel's neighbors are changing, as "[n]obody colored lived much up in t...

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When you think of African-Americans today what's the first thing that comes to mind? ... Men fell all around me How I got out of that fight alive I cannot tell but I am here. ... " On the contrary, in the same document, the women wrote to the mayor of the city stating, "We have agreed and are willing to pay $25 or $50 for licenses as protection, so we can control the washing for the city. We can afford to pay these licenses, and will do it before we will be defeated, and then we will have full control of the city's washing at our own prices as the cities have control of ou...

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Although he is a black man both by birth and birthright, his complexion is light enough, therefore he can be seen as a white man. ... As a young child he was unable to comprehend how he could be black when he looked white. Everything changed for him once he found out that be was black. ... "It is difficult for a white man to learn what a colored man really thinks."... We also see the narrator's struggle with his identity as he meets a white woman he hopes to take for his wife. ...

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From this the child can form a bridge between the two cultures. ... Some bi-racial adolescents commented on how the area they are growing up in is rough. They reported how some people have been beaten up. ... Some of the young people said that they did not even listen to their father because they disagreed with his views. ... Here in the U.S. we are seeing more and more interracial marriages every day. ...

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They did what they can to give themselves and other blacks the pride to be a Negro. ... Before the slave trade and while in the new world blacks always had culture even if they didn't express it. ... Morrison writes "we are subjects of our own narratives, witnesses to and participants in our own experience" (Morrison, 251). ... No one can explain and write about the oppression that was put on blacks than the blacks themselves. ... In early American writings there is more meaning or significance than one would think. ...

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