In history, there have been times where Imperialism has taken place by the white man. Mitu Sengupta’s article “Race Relations Light Years from Earth“ he writes about how he agrees with the statement that he agrees with the “White Messiah” accusation. Sengupta writes, “Is until I begin to think of just how many Hollywood films have shown various peoples of color (minorities, colonial subjects, the Third World poor) struggle against various social ills (poverty, authoritarianism, imperialism) only to be swiftly arrogated by white men (and, from time to time, white women).”(413) Movies that he talks about are misunderstood about the theme they are trying to get across. The films that mostly have the “white messiah” fable are the ones where the white man, learns about the different culture and spiritual guidance of the way the tribe lived. The most common one of all that everyone knows is Disney’s Pocahontas.
He realized that over there in the motherland how real Muslims were, and soon came to the realization that Elijah Muhammad wasn’t correct in his morals and teachings of the Islam nation. When he returned he began speaking out on the TRUE Muslim ways and what they really believe. He realized that in fact the white man wasn’t the devil and that he was just brainwashed up until this point. Elijah Muhammad excommunicated Malcolm X from the nation of Islam. Malcolm started his own nation called the Muslim Mosque Inc. Malcolm X was a great man because he stood up for what he believed as well as black people in general.
He puts the icing on the cake when proving that he is a racist person because he makes miss Phoenix feel as if she’s worth nothing when he so rudely holds the gun in her face and simply asks her, “‘Doesn’t this gun scare you?’”. Normally when you raise a gun to someone’s face, they’re going to reply with a yes but instead of replying scared, Miss Phoenix replies with a, “‘No sir, I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done.’”
King’s would face his greatest adversary, the FBI and their tactics use to bring down the civil rights movement. King’s criticisms incensed the FBI’s director, J. Edgar Hoover, who initiated a vicious campaign to discredit King.13 Dr. King, attacked the FBI for sympathizing with the southern segregationists, fraternizing with the local police, and failing to apprehend Klan bombers and murderers.14 Appalled by the rise of the civil rights movement, Hoover singled out King, its primary symbol to stop.15 Although the FBI made malicious attempts to discredit Dr. King, they could not stop all his achievements relating to the nonviolence
The Quran says a lot about treatment of false belief. Muslims point to two core verses when discussing the matter. The first verse Cook labels as ‘the sword verse.’ “Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the polytheists wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate (Q9:5)” (34). This verse basically suggests that Muslims should kill polytheists unless they convert.
As King Jr. inspires his audience on how the whites should be shameful because they have broken many promises and King is hoping to elicit action from his audience because they will come to understand that things will not change without action In conclusion, the thesis to Martin Luther King Jr. I Have A Dream is, he was dreaming of a world in which racial relations would be marked with equality for all, in every sense and in every place King Jr. uses all three rhetorical modes as well Ethos, Logos and Pathos. This speech is very powerful in emotion giving the sense of sadness, fear, hopefulness, shame, disappointment etc…. King uses (logos) in convincing his audience and giving them hope to having freedom and putting an end to discrimination. When reading the speech King uses a strong appeal (ethos) in convincing his audience that “now is the time” no more waiting and take action on what has become.
All are white. The one man of honor in this phantasmagoria is 'Nigger Jim' as Twain called him to emphasize the irony of a society in which the only true gentleman was held beneath contempt.”-Russell Baker of the New York Times, 1982. This quote emphasizes the greatness of this book as an anti-racist and anti-slavery book. Anyone that thinks that Huck Finn or Twain are racist needs only to read this quote and their beliefs will immediately change because they will realize the context in which Twain was writing, and the point he was trying to emphasize; slavery and racism are horrible. They will only be able to do this if they think for themselves and challenge themselves to be open to new ideas.
In the poem, the movie on the big screen is showing the classic Hollywood story of white settlers bravely fighting against the savage Native Americans. To me this presents one of the biggest contradictions in American history: white settlers want to create an American identity all their own when the Native Americans were there first and already had their own complex identity formed. Erdrich calls John Wayne’s “disease” the fact that he wants to take over everything he sees, which to me is a reference to white people taking over other races in America and wanting everything for themselves. Also, the fact that there were Native Americans watching the movie and laughing about it says something about the Native American losing his own identity and culture in modern
By utilizing demeaning language, such as racial epithets, in an effort to draw support and substantiate beliefs, a writer alienates his audience and draws attention to whom or what his biases are against. In “Learning to Read”, Malcolm X uses several provocative phrases when describing Caucasians. He categorizes them as a whole, calling them “the collective white man” (215), and goes on to accuse them of being “piratical opportunists and employing Faustian machinations” (215). Malcolm X regards white people as one homogeneous group without variation or exception. He refuses to acknowledge the individual because his schema does not allow for it.
Amongst the teachings of Osama Bin Laden, former Al Qaeda leader, towards his followers is that the removal of Western influence in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Palestinian Territories is crucial for the survival of Islamic faith, and that the destruction of these “infidels” is the only means of maintaining the strength and existence of Islam. Al Qaeda believes that they are doing the world a service. Bin Laden went on record in an interview to CNN in March 1997 saying “...in our religion it is our duty to make jihad so that God’s word is the one exalted to the heights and so that we drive the Americans away from all Muslim countries ... [therefore] we declared jihad against the US government, because the US government is unjust, criminal, and tyrannical...” (washingtontimes.com). In the 1980’s the Soviet Union offered troops to Afghanistan to aid in the construction of infrastructure. As it turns out this was just a cover for a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.