Bebe, we have got to be prepared." ... Even if some things were not true about whites, African Americans still believed that whites were always trying to compete with them, and also thought they were superior over African Americans. ... I do not think that African Americans should change their natural looks, to be something they are not. ... Respecting herself, and singling herself out shows how different she is, and she can be different and not care about what people say. ... We have good hair."...

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The atrocities committed during the colonization times makes us realize how much we have changed and how civilized we are today. ... We still think that other people have less value because of the color of their skin or their nationality. ... Even though our society has changed the way of life, our way of thoughts and feelings is pretty much the same. ... Let our history show us that we can change, and that there is hope for a better world. ... If the cause of what we think is our nature, then we will have to be reborn into new and intelligent human beings. ...

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Sociology also talks about how environments can influence people's ideas and actions. ... Even though no one can actually be prepared for something with such magnitude, I thought people stressed diversity and tolerance. ... Think about that. ... I mean, we aren't even allocated a spot on an application under "ethnicity/national origin." ... How can one group stand up and ask the rest of the population to follow them because they are right? ...

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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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Nothing can describe the withering honor of this. ... Plenty of people here, white and colored would knock you in the head if they thought you had money on you... That shows how Negroes always are forced to look like they are poor, even if they are not. ... He tried to show us how rude, selfish discriminatory people can be. ... In the meantime Griffin asks, "What did we fear? ...

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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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A simple walk to the store changed her life forever. ... This is how any father would think. ... We are normally judged by what we see and not by what we hold inside us. ... Even Mr. ... But how can killing someone else make you a hero. ...

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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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Analyze how William Faulkner presents a complex interweaving of racial and sexual relationship in post-bellum America? ... The notion of "white man's burden" smoothly worked while the slavery was institutionalized, but still worked after the abolishment of slavery because the laws must have changed though but the situation never changed, it could not remove the racial prejudices from the minds of Whites. ... This is what whites think of the equation between the two,that they think because a white woman can never be attracted to a black man, therefore the accusation of the rape must ha...

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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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"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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We see this main focus through the plays read this semester. ... Charlie even asks Purlie to be a Deacon of the church. ... If that's why you come up here, you can just forget about it." ... Those words were not encouraging to Cory, they only made him think that his father did not care about him. Troy not once gave Cory any kind of encouragement which is why Cory had such resentment towards him even after Troy died. ...

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And then conclude with what I think. ... I know this because he tells the children that he hates "the hell white people give coloured folks, without even stopping to think that they"re people, too." ... I know this because he says "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win" This means that there is no chance that he is going to win the case because of the way Maycomb thinks about black people, but he is still going to try his hardest to win. ... A character that changes their mind because of Atticus is Mr Cunningham. .....

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I think that it reflects how overwhelmingly oppressive racism was that even black people referred to themselves with a derogatory, hateful word. ... It's not a comforting thought, even if it was seventy-years ago. ... How can it be that in 2003 we still have a racially biased judicial system? How can it be that black men in their 20s have an 8.6% chance of being incarcerated when Hispanics (and then there's that word again!) ... Large, sweeping changes are necessary. ...

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He argued that no matter how hard people tried to enforce it, separate could not be equal. ... Even some black people believed this myth. ... Now in 2003, the attitudes of people in the U.S. as a whole have changed. ... They can now attend the same colleges and have better chances at getting good jobs. ... If we could all learn to think like this and appreciate each other's differences instead of hating them then we would all be a lot better off. ...

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Giving him a scrap of paper won't change him. ... They were thought to be ignorant and like animals. ... "Under the Constitution the Negro is a citizen and of course we know and accept that but he can never expect to receive the same educational and social privileges with the white man he doesn't expect them. The best education we can give him is to use his hands because that's how he must earn his living. ... Some Negroes didn't think it was fair for them to fight in the war. ...

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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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She goes on to describe how angry she is by saying "Hey baby, who the fuck do you think i am? ... I think that this song is also targeting women who have been cheated on speci fically. ... In her song "Formation" she talks about how women have the power. ... Before watching the visual album I thought i was going to have no connection to it at all. ... " Then i realized the album was reaching out to many more people than I thought. ...

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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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