Kumalo, a village priest, sets off to find his family and is devastated at what they have done with their lives. ... This scene contributes to the novel as a whole because of the lack of resentment and hatred between Kumalo and Jarvis, Arthur Jarvis's father. ...
These instructions show what's honest is true. ... These lines are seen as the speaker's expression of his anger or resentment towards the instructor, white people in general, or the upper hand that they seem to hold in American culture. ... According to the speaker, this is what it means to be American. This positive take on American race relations stresses much of what the speaker says. ... The issue of blacks and whites in America does not have to be one that is approached with anger and resentment. ...
Whites did what they could to push blacks as much out of their community as possible and blacks tended to avoid areas where their presence could create conflict. ... Although there was a division in the group mentalities, it wasn't the eruption of violent groups nor was it the disturbance of peaceful protesters that made the Ferguson riots what they became. ... While a small handful of angry groups took a path of violence, other groups in the community sought to peacefully protest their outrage over what they considered to be social injustice. ... The riot in Chicago grew out of anger and...
He explains this by pointing out that African Americans don't have the privilege of defining themselves by what they perceive themselves to be, which is most likely American. African Americans have long been thought of and reveled by what the white people of America thought of them, which is most likely African, savage, and foreign. ... What many black people think makes them who they are, is actually programmed into their minds by society. ... "But whether the line between just resistance and angry retaliation is hard or easy, we must draw it carefully, not in wild resentment, but in ...
With this resentment rapidly growing, we begin to see an emergence of the white supremacist movement that devoured the post-reconstruction South. The formation of the Freedman's Bureau, which established protective settlements and privileges for former slaves, further aggravating white resentment. ... Delemere's servant, Sandy Campbell, with the crime and sentenced him to be lynched to death for what he had done. ...
Throughout the first half of the film Glory, there is a significant amount of racial resentment geared towards the black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts regiment. ... Contrary to these developments, white characters in the film Django Unchained continue to express racial resentment towards Django despite the fact that he proves his intellectual capacity. ... This racist southerner asks Django what is name is, and Django responds accordingly. ...
There will always be some sort of resentment in the hearts of some African-Americans. ... Even though there are still some KKK organizations some white people are just racist against them because of what they were taught by their parents. ... What goes on in the school is not as bad as what has been on the news lately. ... Then I notice her staring at the people on the other side and when I turn to look to see what it was I noticed that she was sitting next to African Americans. ...
Abraham Lincoln always gave the people what they desired and wanted to hear even if it meant pushing away his own views. ... This quotation clearly shows Lincoln's deep hatred of slavery and that he was intelligent enough to hide this resentment to show the American people he was not bias toward a particular view. ... The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 is what gave him the exposure needed to Negrophobes and antislavery men. ... Though many times this meant contradicting himself about what he believed and what the people wanted to hear him say, he pulled through. ...
To them, the beating was not due to the officer's resentment for a black man, but because they were simply disciplining an offender of the law. ... The American people do not see the bombing of Iraq and Yugoslavia as a hate crime, because we are told what we want to believe, that we are good and they are evil, and there would be no wrong in flexing our superior muscle. ... It is ultimately in a person's perception, which concludes what is and what is not a hate crime....
During these "sermons", the congregation was encouraged to shout and respond to what was being said in a give-and-take fashion that was unique to the slave gatherings and was a product of old African worship rituals.6 The messages of these preachers could sometime hardly be considered Christian in that at times no foundation of Christian thought was implemented in their teachings. ... The children grinned, laughed, showed their white teeth, and evinced very plainly that none of them knew what that wonderful prayer meant, nor that they had a father in heavan.16 Though there were many prominen...
"Get from them what we can get from them, but don't trust them all the way. ... Mark my word, they"ll let him down one day." (33) Eventually Jonathon's resentment toward Martin's reliance on a few powerful white men would help him as well as the fellow members of his group to make the decision to vote Martin out of power. ... I say, what is Black Power but what we already doing and what we been trying to do all these years?" ...
It gives a visualization of what it meant then and what it means today to be black in America. ... He realized that this act of violence has allowed him to act out his anger and resentment and gives him an identity. ... He has never encountered what it means to be something. ...
These new generations began to have feelings of resentment for the North, although they had not themselves experienced Reconstruction, and began to secretly undermine it. These defiant natures began to show themselves when the governments of many states enacted what were termed the Jim Crow laws in the 1880's. ... (Smith, Part I, Ch. 3) The case caused the South to bring down upon itself the attention of the entire world, in which the south was told that what it was doing was wrong, and it needed to change. ... Many southern whites do feel guilty for what has happened, but see no o...
Grant's task is two times as difficult because Grant is not sure he knows what a man is himself. ... Grant progress is slow at first because Jefferson refuses to emerge from his shell of anger and resentment. ... (Gaines 249) Since Grant did not know what a man really was while he teaches Jefferson, he himself begins to learn a few things. ...
Although both of them would collide when it came to their ideologies, and suggestions on what the African American communities should do to overcome the tyranny of oppression that came about from the racial resentment in America and an unjust system; they both aimed for the same ambitions: Racial integration, equality, and building a sustainable, and accepting society were future generations of African Americans can live in peace without discrimination and contribute to society, where they can fully function and operate as equals to those of light skin, both financially and socially. ... King...
This was met with anger, hostility and resentment by the dominant culture of caucasions. ... The friendship between two players Gerry (white) and Julius (black) on the defense team began to develop because both realized that Coach Boone was trying to make a winning team and it did not matter what color a player was but that the best player for the position would play. ...
Yet, the resentment of African American ideology overall is not keeping American modernism as pure as some conservative white Americans may believe. ... One side is holding on to their roots and not succumbing to what white America deems fit. ... If African Americans don't try to strive toward higher things than what white America has deemed fit, then they are doomed for a brighter future. ... Du Bois, for critiquing the flaws in the American system and showing African Americans that they are better than what is portrayed. An African American's unique ideology is what has propelled A...
Before Baldwin ever knew what racism was, his father was in the trenches fighting the war for equal rights for himself and his family. ... But apparently his best wasn't enough to stop the resentment that his children had toward him. ... He saw what would become of him if he continued down the path he was headed; he would die on the inside just like his father. ... This upset him but not as much as what was to come. ... That is what Baldwin considered to be a creative outlet and the reader would have to agree with that. ...
He couldn't believe what he is seeing, especially when he once walked up to a ticket counter in a train station. ... His refusal to extend even this courtesy to passengers who had paid as much as any white for their tickets was so conspicuous it made me aware of the stirrings of resentment among the Negroes behind me"(129). ... He proves that what white people say and think about the black people is wrong because white people don't argue about the cultural and ethnic differences, because that's not what they care about. ... And that's what they argue about all the time. ......
In my life and many others lives it has created resentment, displeasure, and anger. ... Hocus Pocus depicts that people cannot differentiate between what is posed to be true and what is actually true. ... He was killing people to garner attention for the war yet people did not truly understand what was really going on. ... They couldn't look past the skin color because that was what everyone was fixated on. ...
In the past 30 years, this action has actually begun to do the exact opposite of what it was set up to do. ... These students are bitter and betrayed when they fail at what they did not deserve and are suspended from the university. ... These lower standards for blacks have resulted in a tragedy of racial resentment in schools of higher learning (Zelnick 197). ... What started out as a way to guarantee fairness in hiring and payment of income in our governmental offices has now spread throughout America. ... What this kind of actions leads to, is continued decline in the minority perf...
The more I thought afterwards about what he said, the more uneasy it made me... ... Malcolm's resentment was increased as he suffered through these hardships, and he was haunted by this early nightmare for most of his life. ... You tell me what kind of country this is. ... Full time hustlers never can relax to appraise what they are doing and where they are bound. ... And what we have foremost in common is that enemy-the white man. ...
Other chapters were more random and the examples went back and forth in time which caused me to re-read the introduction to refresh my memory on what the chapter set to prove. ... Ignatiev then used Thomas Branagan as an example of what living in America could do to one's thoughts. ... This showed how much the Irish had learned in their time in America, they were able to speak out against what they saw was wrong and would end up damaging their credibility as one of the whites. There was growing resentment amongst the Irish as shown by the growing proliferation of riots started by the ...
Since that law came into existence, many changes have taken place to provide a broader scope of protection for what the government calls protected class members. ... What started out as a way to create increased fairness in employment has influenced the way of life of every American far beyond employment. ... Since that law came into existence, many changes have taken place to provide a broader scope of protection to what the government calls the "protected class." ... This was the beginning of what is called "Affirmative Action." ... This is placing stronger emphasis on what is defined a...
Devon was an extraordinary drummer, he had a talent to listen to music and play exactly what he had heard without reading the music. ... "Man you can't take me off the line, I"m the best drummer you got, man can't no class teach me how to do me... doing me is what got me down here in the first place." ... Troy not once gave Cory any kind of encouragement which is why Cory had such resentment towards him even after Troy died. ...
