I also believe Spike Lee throws in a little side notes on how Americans need to be aware of the things that are going around in the world at this time One thing I have noticed in Spike Lee films, he opens a lot of his scenes with a character shouting out the words "Wake up". ... Also people called Mookie a lazy person, but to me Mookie was pretty smart. ...
Langston Hughes is considered by many readers to be the most significant black poet of the twentieth century. He is described as the adored author of poems steeped in the richness of African American culture; poems that display Hughes affection for black Americans across all divisions of region, cl...
Extremely smart, Baracka graduated two years early from Newark's Barrringer High school. ... These works where "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note", a collection poems and "The Baptism" and "The Toilet", two early plays. In the PreFace to Twenty Volume Suicide Note" Amieri showed his sense of despair, alienation, and self - depreciation. ...
One thing to consider when talking about the evils of slavery is the fact that many politicians and genuinely smart people opposed abolition in the beginning. ... While it can easily be argued that the southern motives against slavery were solely based on embedded racism, it is important to note that most Americans felt the exact same way about the issue. ...
Du Bois, demanded the same as the original members of the Niagara Movement founded in 1905: -Freedom of speech and criticism -An unfettered and unsubsidized press -Manhood suffrage [note, no "womanhood"] -The abolition of all caste distinctions based simply on race and color -The recognition of the principle of human brotherhood as a practical present creed -The recognition of the highest and best training as the monopoly of no class or race -A belief in the dignity of labor Thurgood and his brother were brought up so that they would not have to deal with...
