During the 1960s black playwright, LeRoi Jones, founded the Black Arts Movement to inspire art that was by, for, and about black people. ... Clay is an African-American the representative of the assimilation faced by many of the black middle class through White's like Lula. ... Lula "I lie a lot it helps me to control the world" "(Dutchman the Slave p.9). ... So they come up with a big lie: racism, that blacks are not as good as whites, that blacks are screwed up, that blacks are born bad. ... This flaw mainly refers to the white man's tyranny against black. ...

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First, I would like to give a brief summary of what went on in the chapter to outline how I will analyze the chapter. ... This fact was appalling to me. ... That stuck out to me because that quote, coming from a white servant, I can't imagine how much worse it must have been for a black slave. ... The last topic that I would like to analyze was the part where Takaki recounts the part that Thomas Jefferson played in slavery in America. ... This chapter almost made me completely hate Jefferson because it goes on to say that Jefferson had all these children with one of his black slaves, Sall...

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In my town we have people of all races and there are no problems it is normal to me, but five minutes from where I live is Chapmanville. It is about the same size and it is the same in every aspect except one, there are no black people who live there. ... One of my friends told me about a black family that moved into the town once. ... It just seems like it's understood that this town is like that and it is okay. ... I mean if a black person pulls in to pump gas in Chapmanville people really stop and give them a second glance like "what do they think their doing stopping here". ...

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Lighter-skinned blacks in this story act superior to darker-skinned blacks. ... This can indicate that the river is like the minds of many blacks in this story. ... Thornhill and it made me really think. The book influenced me greatly because although I am a strong person already, it made me even stronger. Seeing how Jane overcame many obstacles and had long lasting endurance throughout the story made me feel more confident in my abilities. ...

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Bob Marley once said, "I'm a man of God and me come to do God's work." ... Bob Marley made an attempt to make blacks recognized. ... These regiments where formed by black men commanded to fight (pro white interests). ... Movies like "Menace II Society" show how the black community in America is still struggling to survive within a society that oppresses them. ... "Until the philosophy which holds one race Superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war, me say war." ...

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Zoe, the octoroon, serves as a means for the author to explore themes of racial prejudice without an excessively black protagonist; she is "black, but not too black". ... " (Furnas, Goodbye Uncle Tom) This is evident as M'Closky eyes Zoe in Act I, " 'Dam that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth.'... Like Stephen, Pete shows an internalized racism towards other black characters especially the children threating to " 'kill some on 'em sure", and dehumanizing them by calling them " 'darki...

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I found myself listening to the arguments of the black and white abolitionists, as well as the slaves, and for every point they made I was usually able to think of some sort of counter argument. This really scared me. ... The concept that the black slaves in the south actually had more personal freedoms than the white working class in the north really made me think. ... This makes me feel like the labor that occurred in the north was just slavery with a different name. ...

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This shows how Miss Watson views and treats black people, and is a perfect example of how society was. ... Like the widow, Miss Watson, a devout Christian, sees nothing wrong with owning slaves. ... One of the first things we learn about Huck's father and his views on black people is when Pap rants on about the mixed-race man who was allowed to vote in the state of Ohio and says: "It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote, myself, if I warn't too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that nigger vote, I...

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Fletcher showed great discomfort with the fact that a black man shook his hand, because Fletcher being an aristocrat planter felt superior to the former slave. ... Fletcher meets his accomplice on a ride home from a party; his name was Harpin John, a famous black barbequer, and harmonica player. ... This book shows how the UGGR recruits its prospects, and they give their faith to complete strangers, like Fletcher. The thing that surprised me is that Fletcher left everything, his home his family just to save Harpin John's life. This shows to me what kind of self-sacrifice a conductor was w...

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Dana, the modern black women, is summoned to save and work for Rufus, a white son of a plantation owner, out of his misery. ... Slaves are considered property because they were black and labeled as subhuman. To enforce the status of blacks being property, white owners would use inhumane violence as a form of punishment. 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 sna...

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Even though Lincoln knew slavery was wrong and the blacks should be free he still wanted to send them back to Africa or unoccupied lands, again does that sound like someone who deserves the name "The Great Emancipator". Because to me I thought if he truly wanted and respected the ending of slavery he would keep the black slaves apart of the Union where they were free to do what they wanted "in a nation where men were created equal" . To me it seems as if Lincoln was uncomfortable with the idea of having blacks live in the United States and wanted them out. ... As quoted b...

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"At the age of 12, I was already reading books and was already thinking of what was going to happen to me, being a slave for life" – says Douglass. ... All his writings can be characterized by an elegant style, using very many rhetorical effects from sermons, making the readers feel like they are the judges presiding over the black lives. ... Booker is the founder of the first American black collage. ... He worked all his life for the assertion of black education. ... It was a league founded in order to bolster black-American business. ...

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On her way to town, Phoenix says while climbing up the tiresome hill that runs through the path, "Seem like there is chains about my feet, time I get this far."" ... She also notes, "Something always take a hold of me on this hill "pleads I should stay."" ... As she travels further on her journey, a black dog knocks her into a ditch. ... - This subtle display of disrespect is one of many the white hunter shows the black Phoenix. ... The world that Welty depicts in "A Worn Path- is a world where the black man is not considered an equal. ...

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The use of satire baffles me when it comes to the movie's concept. ... In reality, the KKK would have gotten to whatever black person they wanted and brutally killed them. The laughter one white person had during this movie probably accounts for one tear a black person cried after it. ... He does not have the right to tell a story about slavery and what it was like especially since he humored certain parts. ... Some might argue that black people should praise the movie for making a black person, a slave, prevail, and end up being the hero for once. ...

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The overseer beat the slave in one of his gangs (and for quite a good reason) because he tripped while working on draining the marshlands for the sugar canes (I like to grow sugar more than cotton because cotton ruins the soil quicker than anything I've ever grown) and completely made a mess of everything. ... I wish we could use the immigrants instead of blacks, but they don't come down here often. ... I had better win, why would they ever set a black fugitive free. ... Cecilia's friend's daughter, Amelia, was recently found in bed with a black slave. ... Cecilia just ca...

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This happiness is to have the public believe that the slaves were happy doing their jobs and did not mind being a slave but actually like it. ... He was watching a play and in the third act a actor in black face came out and portrayed a mammy singing a song. One of the songs that the black face actor was singing that had the Aunt Jemima name in it went like this : My old missus promise me, Old Aunt Jemima, oh! ... When she died she set me free, Old Aunt Jemima, oh! ... The northerners in return liked the product so much because it was easy to prepare and...

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This states on pg 65 when Charles was asking for more people to take initiative to stand up for the blacks and no one decided to join because they thought Charles was wrong "In order to end this we would want more people to volunteer in the community but no one wants to help me." Despite of no one helping the blacks Charles still decides to carry on his work. ... I think no one deserves to be treated like blacks have been through and the only way is we all work together. ... This novel is a perfect example of how blacks were treated in the early days. ... We are all racist in some way or ano...

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My master sounded like a real rich man. ... No one complain it besides me, but I want people treat me like a free man and I want to go wherever I want to go. ... Then, he took me to the chief's house. ... This was so strange, but when I was a child I dreamed that one day I became a black Indian. ... David Ramsay, a South Carolina historian, asserted that between 1775 and 1783 his state lost at least 25000 blacks. ...

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(Gould 1858: 35) Its not that Lincoln thought blacks where evil or should be treated like animals. ... In fact the people who lived in America first were treated like slaves and savages. ... The hard liners were treated there slaves like animals and had no remorse. ... They to thought blacks were inferior, but they didn't think that people of color were animals. ... In the words of Martin Luther King "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the twentieth century, I will be happy" (King 1968: 280) during his last sermon. ...

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Secondly, he exposes real events he witnessed and encountered as a slave like the horrible conditions in which slaves were transported aboard big ships across the ocean. ... In a way, Equiano believed that free blacks had it just as bad. ... Equiano wrote "hitherto I had thought only slavery dreadful, but the state of a free negro appeared to me now equally so at least.... Being a free black man or woman meant living in a common ground between freedom and slavery. ... The more blacks who came into the new world, the limited the rights of free and enslaved blacks became being that they wer...

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I also believe that there were in fact black people who were hardened by their own sins as well. ... In Fredrick Douglass" narrative Douglass gives a very vivid description of the effects of slavery on both blacks and whites. In my opinion the views he delivered in his narrative regarding the effects of the whites and blacks were quite balanced and fair. ... Douglass acknowledged God's sovereignty in slavery and held tightly to the fact that although his physical body may have been beaten, "slavery would not always be able to hold him within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours o...

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Blacks joined abolition only on sufferance. ... Blacks deserved just as much freedom as whites. ... He once said, "I regard him as thoroughly base and selfish....He reveals himself more and more to me as destitute of every principle of honor, ungrateful to the last degree....He is not worthy of respect, confidence, or countenance." ... Soon, two black regiments were formed. ... It may sound depressing, but Douglass, and many others like him, did build the foundation for later equality movements by Martin Luther King. ...

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" In the introduction the author guides us through her history of Sierra Leone and how she never really heard the story of the Amistad revolt, as she would have liked too. ... Iyunolu Osagie also discusses the nonstop responsibility of Sierra Leoneans in the educational development of Africans after emancipation and in the development of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. ... As I did online research to go deeper into the story I found movies that have been filmed about this specific slave ship revolt which helped me a little more in understanding the trials that the Amistad r...

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First of all I would like to make clear that avoiding the facts of what America was like then will not just simply make them disappear. ... I remember my parents telling me stories of their friends having black slaves and how it was so common just to use the word "nigger " all the time and not think twice about it. ... He has to overcome many obstacles, physically and also mentally on what to do about his black slave friend, Jim. ... It is not like High School out there, we have all been there and seen how it really is. ... A serious point in this book is how black slaves were depicted as igno...

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(Amistad), that immediately disturbed me and made me think twice about that movie. The first criticism I would like to make about the movie is the seemingly insignificant role of the Africans in the movie. Yes they are the ones the whole movie and the trial in the movie are about but it doesn't look fair to me that all Africans but one, Cinque, don't even play an important role in the fight between the different parties over them. ... But the single fact that disturbs me the most in that scene is how Cinque and his friend Yamba suddenly seem to believe deeply in Christianit...

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