Matthew has successfully fooled people into believing that he is a white man who supports white racial purity. Whilst trying to find a job a job Matthew comes across the Knights of Nordica, a society whose sole purpose is to fight for white purity. In order to get a job with the he uses eloquent speech and impresses the Imperial Grand Wizard of Knights of Nordica. To Matthew’s pleasant surprise, the Grand Wizard is so impressed that he offers his daughter’s hand, who turns out to be Helen! Matthew ignores all the discrimination he has faced and pretends to believe in something that he absolutely doesn’t.
There is a moral to the story. People shouldn’t be judge on where they came from or where their ancestors came from. Everyone should be treated equally, because we are all the same inside. The white man is not more or less important than a black man, and vice
There was more de jure change then there was de facto change. President Truman helped change the lives of black people within the US. Truman was president from 1945 to 1953, just after the war so got involved in civil rights because he was moved the the racial attacks that veterans were still receiving. Truman established the “To secure these rights” report in 1947 which highlighted that their equal rights were not equal at all and segregation was a huge problem. Knowing this, Truman tried to do as much as he could to help such as desegregating the armed forces, the acts of fair employment in the civil service and the fair deal programme which included building houses in urban areas.
Pap’s rant is a peak into the kind of life Pap has had. It gives an inside look to the beliefs and values that were prevalent during this time. Pap ironically focuses on the faults of the government when most of his problems are because of his own faults. Irony is a very noted theme in his rant. He speaks about a black man in the quote, ”here’s a government that calls itself a government, and yet’s got to set stock still for six months before it can take hold of a prowling, thieving, infernl, white-shirted nigger,” (page 35).
When Frederick Douglass addressed the audience with his speech, it was very emotional and straight from his heart. As we all know, he was a freed slave and mainly considered his “slavery” as not being able to read and write, until his white master’s wife taught him to do so. With Douglass becoming a freed man and moved up North to pursue the life he dreamed to live, all he wanted was for the rest of the African American slave population to be free as well. Douglass believed that everybody had the right to succeed in society; he never understood how our country was founded on freedom but not everybody was free. Throughout Frederick’s speech, he repeatedly would ask the crowd uncomfortable questions and somewhat “guilt-trap” the people, example being “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.
The narrator feels America will embrace all differences from everyone. “I, Too” is mutual in tone. In the beginning of the story he was frustrated with how whites were treated but by the end his attitude was proud. Proud of himself and that one day people will respect him a different way. Another reason the pieces of literature are different from one another is that they are all told from various parts of view.
Several times in the book he questions if he should be truthful and turn Jim in as the law expects. Often Huck thinks “…why me? I couldn’t get that out of my conscience. Who is to blame for Jim achieving freedom?” (pg.66 ch.14) He tries to convince himself Jim is just as equal as he and any other white person is and that he isn’t in the wrong “I tried to make out to myself that I warn’t to blame.” (pg.66 ch.14) Throughout the book Huck discovers that Jim is a person. He now realizes that Jim, even though he is of color, still feels and loves the same as any white person, and should have equal treatment just as Huck does.
“In the new racism, as in the old, somebody always has to be the nigger.” In “black like them” Malcolm Gladwell starts by introducing us to his cousin Rosie and her husband noel. Both West Indians that want better for their lives, live with ambition to have a better life, something that is compared to “American blacks” who live a different lifestyle. Both West Indians and American blacks have dark complexions but are judge differently, even amongst themselves, “In fact, when she told one of her girlfriends, a black American, about this idea, her friend said that she was crazy–that Garden City was no place for a black person. But that is just the point. Rosie and Noel are from Jamaica.
While the statement is true and affirmative action has in fact opened many doors to African Americans it has also set many up for failure and has begun a path of separation again. People of colored skin have been singled out by rules and guidelines of companies for decades and yet the government still wants to call it fair. Is it really fair though? Is it fair to give a job to someone just because of the color of their skin? We are now separating people based off our assumptions of what someone can do and what someone cannot do.
“While it may have contributed to a certain relaxation of racial attitudes among young whites, perhaps its greatest impact was to reinforce race pride among blacks.” (Richard Wormser) This gave blacks a reassurance that it is okay to be proud of your color and that one day things would be different between the two race. “W.E.B. Du Bois encouraged talented artists to leave the South.” This was pushing the blacks to move up north to better one self. He offered new opportunities for publishing in the paper in which their voices could be heard. Even though these are just a few prime examples of the influence that African American had on the country.