In 1894, if she would have taken a more militant stance it would have been easy for whites to dismiss her logic as bias due to her "black disposition". The idea of taking a less offensive stance in order to convince another party of your logic is an age old method of persuasion that Wells is able to yield masterfully in "A Red Record". ... Wells understood the idea that it is much easier to show people inconsistencies in another culture than it is to show them problems within their own. ... "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of soci...

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Douglass, in the "Heroic Slave", displays keen logic and planning throughout the story. ... It is easy to see this "chain" of repeats and revisions to Douglass's works in such authors as Chestnutt, Washington, Ellison, and Wright. ... He finally sights the actual question, "What is the black voice?", and he professes that this is a question that is "only beginning to be adequately addressed by scholars". In analyzing "Heroic Slave" this question may begin to be answered. ...

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The refusal of most affirmative action supporters to acknowledge this unavoidable logical truth " their naive or cynical embrace of Justice Lewis Powell's wiggy notion in Bakke that quotas are bad but race-as-a-factor is OK (because they do it that way at Harvard) " leaves supporters quite rightly scared of what the court might do when it reconsiders the question from scratch. ... To get an understanding we must ask the question "What is affirmative action?" ... Nevertheless, excluding Hispanics, or Asians, from affirmative action will not be easy. ... But these processes ar...

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(John Tateishi pg. xiv) There were no grounds for evicting the Japanese Americans so west coast politicians and pressure groups turned to racial attacks that questioned the loyalty of the entire Japanese community. ... As incredible as the argument was it served as logic for the relocation of the Japanese people. ...

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