Rather than being a judge of his people, he was merely a citizen complaining about social injustices in his country. Paton’s condescending tone when speaking about the white people’s unfairness towards the blacks adds to his argumentative diction. For instance, Arthur writes, “We shift our ground again…and feel deep pity for a man who is condemned to the loneliness of being remarkable.” The words “deep pity” and “loneliness” contrast “remarkable”. When something is remarkable it is held in high esteem. The white people’s view of a black man was so low that even if he was more successful than one of them, he’d still be at the bottom of society.
The main concern and issue in TKAM is the concept of prejudice. In the text, prejudice is represented mainly through the racial inequality in the town of Maycomb . In the text, we see Atticus' belief in treating and respecting everyone as an individual contrasted with a number of other wold views. The aspect of racism is shown when the people of Maycomb accept the testimony of an obviously corrupt white man. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”.
In “My First Conk”, Malcolm X assured that black people were being brainwashed to believe that they actually were inferior to white people, thus they conked their hair; which was a hair straightener gel made from lye popular among African-American men from the 1920s to the 1960s. They were, essentially, giving up what they were fighting for as far as civil rights- the right to be who they were and also be accepted by society. Therefore, the conking of their hair was hypocrisy and a contradiction of morals and values. Blind conformity caused them to disregard their strongest beliefs which should be the most powerful driving forces in all lives. Especially in today's society, there is a dire over emphasis of the media.
His intention,was noble and honorable yet it was overlooked as a result of racial discrimination “I felt sorry for her... You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?" (Page 200 Tom Robinson, Mr. Gilmer). A black man feeling sorry for a white woman was found to be contemptible. As Mr. Gilmer implies how can a Negro feel empathy for a white woman who is much higher above his class in the social hierachy? Mr. Gilmer
That will make the white people to hate the black people without any reason and at the same time to make them feel proud as a white people. This kind of advertisement is ‘over the edge’ racist and nowadays,
Learning Oppression Peggy McIntosh (1988) in her article entitled “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondence Through Work in Women’s Studies” gives an account of the unearned privileges of the whites and the males in the United States. They have these privileges accorded to them by the society in which they live and wherein they are taught by the same society to be unconscious and unmindful of these privileges. However, this very unawareness or oblivion to the existence of unearned privileges is the very act that makes other people of different color feel oppressed. Peggy McIntosh enumerates with force deliberation the content of the invisible knapsack that includes 54 unearned male and white special provisions. In so doing, she points out how the very whiteness of a person serves as an invisible protection to each and every moment of his/her life.
By reading the principal’s speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much. Richard was willing to leave school without a diploma instead of this. White people alienated Richard from his environment because he did not accept the way of life that other black people did. Richard’s relatives never understood Richard and because of this he was alienated from his family and his own people. Shorty is the young black boy who gets beat by the white people and jokes about it.
They think that they system has it in for them and is biased to their ethnicity. That is just one end of the spectrum then we have the people who feel they are being treated no matter what the race. However the people who argue that the system is fair regardless make the comment that its sad to say but the minorities are the ones who are causing the most havoc. They do point out that a main reason for this is the socioeconomic status of a lot of minorities in the United States. They are having a hard time just getting by because they are living in poverty, unemployment, dysfunctional family life and no structure to their everyday life.
They are either weak and in need of protection or they are depraved criminals 3- What comment does the reviewer make about the depiction of African American? The reviewer says that in the scene where Walt confront the 2 African American people, they are quite predictably cast as thugs, harassing the perky Sue Lor whose hapless white boyfriends is useless at diffusing the tense situation or protecting her. This creates the idea that people of colour must rely on white heroes to provide guidance, stability and pathways to safety 4- What image of masculinity is constructed in the text? It is racialised in such a way that subordinate Hmong masculinity is continually juxtaposed against the hegemonic white
The beauty standards of white Western culture, the sexual abuse of Pecola by her father, and Pecola’s low economic status have multiplicative effects on Pecola and all aid in her progressive alienation from society as well as her fall towards insanity. Deborah King states that “the experience of black women is assumed to be synonymous with that of either black males or white females” (King 45). It is mistakenly granted that either there is no difference in being black and female than being generically black or generically female. The intensity of the physical and psychological impact of racism is very different from that of sexism. For example, the group experience of slavery and lynching for blacks, and genocide for Native Americans is not comparable to the physical abuse, social discrimination, and cultural denigration suffered by women.