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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Of course, it may be far easier to change our political opinion than our religion, but certain aspects of our identity can be changed easily. ... Since the Europeans landed, they (and we) have found it easy to criticize and insult how individuals from other cultures dance, sing, eat, dress and so on. ... If we were to constantly question all of our cultural aspects, it would question our society's stability. ... While this individual is using evidence, personal experience and reason to come to his conclusion, his logic is faulty. ...

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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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