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friendly when used by the black community and derogatory when used by non-black people.
Double standard
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N-word can be interpreted as either friendly or derogatory
Shows the complexity of the word
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Jim Crow period
The period in when black people had to endure laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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N-----” is a divisive word in society.
That even in todays age the word is still creating division and segregating just as it has been for over a hundred years, which is mind boggling to me
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And if we venture outside of the very tiny universe of safe behaviors and interactions, we also need to accept that there will be consequences.
That we need to be more open minded and accept that if we do something wrong to better ourselves in the future.
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We need a stronger, more considered sense of why some things are received differently in one place than they are in another.
We need to think before we open our mouths
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context is always likely to be more powerful and resonant than any speaker's intent.
That how someone perceived the word is going to be more significant than whether or not you meant well, which to me is really sad knowing that even if you meant well people will still paint you in a negative tone.
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and that we can't control which particular histories and power relationships we are invoking when we decide to use certain words.
That by using words like the N-word we do not know whether the other person is going to find it offensive, because we do not know what their experience of the word has been.
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Paltrow's music industry friends were more forgiving, but the larger Twitterverse, full of people who have different orientations to Paltrow, was predictably much less willing to extend her the benefit of the doubt.
This goes to show even if the word is used in a way that isn't supposed to be bad, it still results in a negative action, which is why I say we should stop using it all together.
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Black people shouldn't use it if they don't want anyone else to use it.
This relates to the double standard of the N-word
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But we treat it as if there should be clear, simple rules around its usage, so that we might point out transgressors (and avoid transgressing ourselves). There shouldn't be a double standard, the arguments go. Just one standard.
That in order to help move and build a society where racism is few and far in between, everybody m=needs to put in the effort especially people who popularize the word through music. Becasue a word that has such an ugly history should stop being used in the first place.
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You and her are very bright ... but y'all act like niggers ... seriously."
That even in today's society the word is still used in a derogatory manner.
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Because to be black is to walk through the world and watch people doing things that you cannot do.
I could see where he is coming from, but what I think is that people should just stop being ignorant and just listen to each other.
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he author explained that just because certain communities may choose to use a derogatory word ironically among themselves, that doesn’t give other people outside that community license to do so.
This goes with what I said about how, just becasue black people use a word that used to use to have a derogatory meaning, it doesn't mean other people should have the right to say it, with an example being the N-word, and that in our society it is perceived that if a person that isn't black says the N-Word is viewed as a racist.
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“My wife with her girlfriends will use the word ‘bitch,’” Coates continued. “I do not join in. I don’t do that ― and perhaps more importantly, I don’t have a desire to do it.”
The reason he does not join in is becasue the word is only supposed to be used by other females to call each other that, but if a man says it, it will be taken in a negative manner, kind of the same way if a white person says the N-word, they will be seen negatively by black people. Which is what this society has come to see as a norm.
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Words don’t have a meaning without context,
The reason I agree with this is becasue you can't just say a word to someone, and expect that person to take it at face value, becasue every word that we say has a reason to it, and if there isn't a reason that word loses it's value or in this case it's meaning/intension.
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When used with a possessive adjective by a woman--”my nigger”--it became a term of endearment for her husband or boyfriend. But it could be more than just a term applied to a man.In their mouths it became the pure essence of manhood--a disembodied force that channeled their past history of struggleand present survival against the odds into a victorious statement of being: “Yeah, that old foreman found out quick enough--you don’t mess with a nigger.”In the plural, it became a description of some group within the community that had overstepped the bounds of decency as my family defined it.Parents who neglected their children, a drunken couple who fought in public, people who simply refused to look for work, those with excessively dirty mouths or unkempt households were all “trifling niggers.”This particular circle could forgive hard times, unemployment, the occasional bout of depression--they had gone through all of that themselves--but the unforgivable sin was a lack of self-respect.A woman could never be a “nigger” in the singular, with its connotations of confirming worth.The noun girlwas its closest equivalent in that sense, but only when used in direct address and regardless of the gender doing the addressing.Girlwas a token of respect for a woman. The one-syllable word was drawn out to sound like three in recognition of the extra ounce of wit, nerve, or daring that the woman had shown in the situation under discussion."G-i-r-l, stop.You mean you said that to his face?”But if the word was used in a third-person reference or shortened so that it almost snapped out of the mouth, it always involved some element of communal disapproval.And age became an important factor in these exchanges.It was only between individuals of the same generation, or from any older person to a younger (but never the other way around), that girl would be considered a compliment.I don’t agree with the argument that use of the word niggerat this social stratum of the black community was an internalization of racism.The dynamics were the exact opposite: the people in my grandmother’s living room took a word that whites used to signify worthlessness or degradation and rendered it impotent.Gathering there together, they transformed niggerto signify the varied andcomplex human beings they knew themselves to be.If the word was to disappear totally from the mouths of even the most liberal of white society, no one in that room was naive enough to believe it would disappear from white minds.Meeting the word head-on, they proved it had absolutely nothing to do with the way they were determined to live their lives.
The author hadn't acknowledge the word until it was used in a way that disrespected her or used in a negative manner, which to me shows how far in between it is to see the word being used in a negative manner now, becasue usually people use it in a positive connotation. Such as today's rappers.
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And since she knew that I had to grow up in America, she took me in her lap and explained.
That most black children will have to face the fact of having to deal with the word "nigger" especially if you live in America, where it is still used in large proportions.
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Gathering there together, they transformed niggerto signify the varied andcomplex human beings they knew themselves to be
How with time a word can be transformed from once being used in a negative tone, to be used in a positive light for the black community to form stronger bonds or to be used in ways that does not degrade the person, like how whites used it.
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It was only between individuals of the same generation, or from any older person to a younger (but never the other way around), that girl would be considered a compliment
This shows how the word was used in many generations, and changed ways in how it was used or perceive.
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The noun girlwas its closest equivalent in that sense, but only when used in direct address and regardless of the gender doing the addressing.Girlwas a token of respect for a woman.
As the word "Nigger" was used by black men to show their worth or respect, the same applied to females except it was through the use of the word "girl" as black women would never be seen as such.
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but the unforgivable sin was a lack of self-respect.
That black people who were viewed as lazy, and not working, would be looked down upon and therefore refer "Trifling niggers" which uses the word "nigger" to coincide with a negative tone or manner.
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When used with a possessive adjective by a woman--”my nigger”--it became a term of endearment for her husband or boyfriend.
How the word was used in a sense to comply love and not to depreciate the other person, like how white people would use the word throughout the Jim Crow South
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was always applied to a man who had distinguished himself in some situation that brought their approval for his strength, intelligence, or drive
Show's the word (Nigger) being used in a positive context.
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set within contexts and inflections
It was how the word was used in context and also how people initially used the word where it was in a positive or negative light
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rural South
Was still dealing with the ongoing effects of "Jim Crow", and black people still faced the threat of the KKK, where it was the norm to be racist towards black people.
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I remember the first time I heard the word nigger
This adds more context, becasue if she remembers the first time hearing the word "Niger" I can infer it was most like used in a negative light, if she vividly remembers it.
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it is the consensus that gives them true power.
That words themselves cannot express our tur feelings, it is through emotion and the way we deliver our words that gives them their meaning, therefore gives them power.
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Language is the subject.It is the written form with which I’ve managed to keep the wolf away from the door and, in diaries, to keep my sanity
That she used language to be able to stop arguments or fights, and also keep herself away from depression through the use of diaries.
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But over time, his ideas about race really expanded.
Overtime people began to realize he meant good, and not harm.
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Why should black people define themselves by what white people want?
This reflects how the person who wrote the controversial book was white, so why would black people want to sympathize with a book that wasn't even made by a black person?
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. If he hadn't created his archives at Yale, my own career would be very different than what it is today.
That if it weren't for Vechten ambition's and boldness she would not be where she is.
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It's shocking that he didn't realize how unmoored some people would become. W.E.B. Du Bois said the title was "an affront to the hospitality of black folk." That response really unnerved him, and I think he came to regret the title late in life.
I see it as his intentions were pure but his execution on how he delivered it were off, which in turn backfired in critics.
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He said he was using the word ironically. But it was an exercise of arrogance on Van Vechten's part, a kind of willful cultural ignorance.
The one thing that he was trying to convey to show how a white man wants to not be ignorant considering blacks lives, was in hand now being considered the thing he was not meaning to be.
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different experience legally and culturally and socially to be black in the 1920s than it is to be black in the 21st century.
In the 1920's the Jim Crow era was rising to action and balcks had to deal with heavy racsism and not much expressional freedom, unless you were living in Harlem, while in the 21'st century we see how blacks are represented in movies with leading roles, and one of the biggest and one of the most popular genre of music is rap, which is where many black people express their lives through this music.
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a white man writing a novel that was supposedly sympathetic to black people, but with this title.
This was unseen at the time, as most white folk were ignorant of such things and just believed the stereotypes about the black community, but having a white man write about blacks lives showed that there are still people who care and want to know the truth.
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She's less interested in Van Vechten's 50-year marriage and his three long-term gay affairs than with his fraught and friendly relations with such African-American luminaries as W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and Zora Neale Hurston.
She is less interested in writing about the rumors or drama parts about his life, more so she is going to write about his involvement in the Harlem renaissance and what he did to contribute it, I guess we can see this as a way she is not trying to judge a man by what he's done in the past but more so his contributions.
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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White."
The phrase gives of the sensation that Bernard's book is going to include both the good stuff and the bad things about him.
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That would be a hard sell today, let alone in the 1940s, but Bernard was touched that he made the effort.
Even though, Vechten did some some that was in a financially stand point not that smart, but she admired his ambition and effort in still doing so.
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For more that two decades, author Emily Bernard has been fascinated by Carl Van Vechten
This shows me, that Bernard is well informed on this topic, and that what she discusses, there has been a lot of time and thought put into it.
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pragmatic
a dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
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With petty cares to slightly understandWhat awful brain compels His awful hand
I see this, on how the religion of Christianity can sometimes constrain people in ways where it might make people think god does not care for people, with bad things happening and how the church treats gay people.
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catechism
a summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers
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Inscrutable His ways are, and immune
His ways of how he does things such as accommodating to society might seem impossible to understand without seeing through his eyes
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To struggle up a never-ending stair.
The struggles of balancing his own sexuality with his faith in religion?
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Make plain the reason tortured TantalusIs baited by the fickle fruit, declareIf merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus
Tantalus is a figure from Greek mythology who was the rich but wicked king of Sipylus. For attempting to serve his own son at a feast with the gods, he was punished by Zeus to forever go thirsty and hungry in Hades despite being stood in a pool of water and almost within reach of a fruit tree
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Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die
Why have someone go through the world with multiple views if he is going to pass on anyways?
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mole
A mole can refer to someone who infiltrates and gains acceptance within the person opposing them.
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And did He stoop to quibble could tell why
Did god become the question in figure?
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I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind
He does not doubt that god is good, he instead refers to him as well meaning and that he has faith in him in doing so.
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The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs
I think of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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If white people are pleased we are glad.
It does not matter whether or not white people are pleased with a black person expressing themselves. Its the act of them doing it that counts
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Let the blare of Negro jazz bands and the bellowing voice of Bessie Smith singing the Blues penetrate the closed ears of the colored near intellectuals until they listen and perhaps understand.
let the waves of black people express themselves until, the black folk who want to be white and understand these other black people and that they should embrace who they are
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he must choose.
That one should never be afraid to express themselves in any manner.
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So I am ashamed for the black poet who says, "I want to be a poet, not a Negro poet,"
At first I agreed with this phrase, but now after reading and seeing Hughes view I can see how I misinterpreted it and why in saying this it is in fact damaging to the black community.
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"Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro--and beautiful"?
It is never good to want to see yourself as a another person, and to accept who you are and embrace it with pride, I also see this as the purpose(lesson) of this essay that Langston Hughes wrote.
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that all negroes are as smug and as near white in soul as she wants to be. But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art
In order to remove stereotypes is for black people as artist to show that black people aren't any different from any other person.
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But jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America;
I see this as , how Hughes recognizes Jazz as a permanent stay in the life of Negros and how they go about showing their individuality.
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You aren't black.
I see this as a way in how some people want to change the meaning of what and who a black person is by stereotyping them and confine black people in a way that has to fit a certain description, which is a problem we still deal with in our own society, and just for black people but we see it in other races also.
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Do you think Negroes should always write about Negroes?
I feel like anyone should have the right to right and expresses themselves in whatever manner they want, and not be judged for their expressions.
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And within the next decade I expect to see the work of a growing school of colored artists who paint and model the beauty of dark faces and create with new technique the expressions of their own soul-world.
Even in today's present society we still have issues on how blacks are perceived on film, but it has improved drastically over the years.
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"Be stereotyped, don't go too far, don't shatter our illusions about you, don't amuse us too seriously. We will pay you," say the whites.
This literally might as well act as an example of how a white person my convince a black to join a minstrel show.
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or a clown (How amusing!).
This reminds me of minstrel shows, in where they would have black people portray black face and white people deem it as more authentic, when in reality it is not, it is far from the truth.
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A colored man writing poetry! How odd
This comes across to me as how society still has deep roots of racial stereotypes that blacks can't be coherent or be able to express themselves in such manner in the eyes of white society.
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no encouragement for his work from either white or colored people
Nor whites or colored people accepted this medium of black artist expressing themselves alike.
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The drab melodies in white folks' hymnbooks
This shows me how how some black folk, disregard their own culture and instead use white culture as a means of accommodating to society norms.
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But let us look again at the mountain.
There is still the barrier of American standardization and racial discrimination acting as walls to the black folk that want to be themselves.
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Negro artist can give his racial individuality, his heritage of rhythm and warmth, and his incongruous humor that so often, as in the Blues, becomes ironic laughter mixed with tears
A negro artist can still live life by expressing themselves and having the freedoms through the use of Jazz, and the blues, but cries in irony meaning yes they can express themselves but are still held down by society and American standardization.
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still hold their own individuality in the face of American standardizations.
This reminds me of the period in the 1970's with the hippie movement( counterculture movement), where a huge sum of people rejected the more mainstream American lifestyle.
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These common people are not afraid of spirituals, as for a long time their more intellectual brethren were, and jazz is their child
They are not afraid of being who they are and hiding themselves from their stuck up counterparts, Jazz to them was more then music it was a way of how blacks can recover their true identity and be able to express who they were.
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do not particularly care whether they are like white folks or anybody else. Their joy runs, bang! into ecstasy. Their religion soars to a shout.
These black folk, do not care whether they are like other people, they instead are proud to be who they are and cherish it, as their culturally express themselves, which I see in connection with their religion soars as them just expressing who they are.
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And they themselves draw a color line
It's hard for me to see the fact that during a time, where segregation was apparent, that black people were inherently separating themselves and segregating themselves among white people becasue they were ashamed of who they were.
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A very high mountain indeed for the would-be racial artist to climb in order to discover himself and his people
It's going to be a long road before blacks can one day be able to express themselves freely, instead of hiding behind the shadows and wearing a mask to hide their true self.
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He is taught rather not to see it, or if he does, to be ashamed of it when it is not according to Caucasian patterns.
Show's how deeply rooted this sense of superiority was built upon blacks to believe that whites were superior to them in all ways.
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"Don't be like niggers"
Shows the growing sense of the word "nigger" which is used in a way by black people themselves to degrade their own community and themselves. Which seems really beat up to me.
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"Look how well a white man does things." And so the word white comes to be unconsciously a symbol of all virtues. It holds for the children beauty, morality, and money. The whisper of "I want to be white" runs silently through their minds.
This represents how even during this time, white people were still perceived to be superior, that even though the black man was freed, he still looked upon the whites to be a better person, when in reality, no color can be a symbol of all virtues it is inside the person that determines whether they are good or bad.
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"I want to be a poet--not a Negro poet,"
This poet didn't want to be differed from the rest of the poets in the world, he just wanted to be a poet and nothing else. Because he didn't want to have to be separated from the other intellectuals that were poets becasue of the color of his skin.
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"I want to write like a white poet"; meaning subconsciously, "I would like to be a white poet"; meaning behind that, "I would like to be white."
The reason this young poet felt this way is because of how blacks were look down upon, and when you just want to have a medium to express yourself , you really do not want to deal with opposition becasue of the color of your skin, so that is why Hughes wanted to be a white poet.
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But this is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America--this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
The barrier that binds writers and poets alike, is the barrier of one trying to not be themselves and wanting to be like others. Becasue of this it causes you to suppress yourself by limiting your creative freedom, especially when being an American does not mean being white, it is being unique and having the freedom to express yourself and be able to be proud of who you are and living in America.
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Practical man,
By reiterating that Booker T. is a "Practical Man" Hughes is trying to make the point that Booker T. is " realistic and sensible". Thus, he paints Booker T Washington with a more generous brush and sees him as not a sellout, but rather a clever man planning ahead.
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Practical man, He said, Train your head, Your heart, and your hand. Your fate is here And not afar, So let down your bucket Where you are.
By emphasizing this line at the begging i end shows us that Hughes wants us to recognize the fact that Washington views aren't all that bad.
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The tallest tower Can tumble down If it be not rooted In solid ground.
That if you're not rooted by settling down, and instead focused on movements such as the civil rights than you can come tumbling down becasue of the white south resistance.
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A joker was lucky To be alive. But Booker T. Was nobody's fool: You may carve a dream With an humble tool
Washington saw having a dream with aspirations and goals set high as a fools game, while he stay humbled and worked regular jobs on himself which in turn made him last longer throughout the era of segregation and violence in the south.
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Compromise in his talk— For a man must crawl Before he can walk
Washington wanted the black community to instead hold their voices and remain silent, for if they let enough time pass, they will one day receive their rights to stand up for themselves.
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With book-learning there And the workman's tool.
Here is where I think is the first time where I see Booker T. create some middle ground with his own beliefs.
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For smartness alone's Surely not meet— If you haven't at the same time Got something to eat
Booker believes that by just being books smart and not being able to put your knowledge to use becasue of the oppression at the time, what use is it, when it would benefit the black community more, in having it's people put their lives first in bettering their living conditions than chasing dreams.
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To help yourself And your fellow man, Train your head, Your heart, and your hand.
We get to see how Hughes agrees with Booker in the sense that by accepting your fate will not only help you as a person, but overall lead to the black community success in the long run.
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Your fate is here
You can't fight nature, nor can you fight change, just accept that world for how it is and maybe it'll be better in the long run.
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Let down your bucket
The fact that Hughes uses this line which is directly from what Booker T. said, shows us how he respects him and even included one of Booker's T. lines.
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And learn from the land.
This makes me refer back to how the native Americans respected the land and valued land as it was.
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Was a practical man.
Here I can make the assumption that Langston Hughes sees Booker T. in a good light, and by referring him as a practical man we see that he is trying to get us as the reader to sympathize or connect with Booker T.
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Booker T.
By having his name be the first thing said and seen by the audience, it shows us how the Author wanted to catch our attention and that this is all going to be about Booker T.
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Its technique is a matter for educational experts, but its object is for the vision of seers.
That educating men is for educators such as professors, but for the goal of creating exceptional men, we need people who see beyond the present and sees the future.
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with never a fear lest the child and man mistake the means of living for the object of
That do not mistake the value of living from developing the goal of being successful in life.
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exceptional men.
When I think of exceptional men, I think of famous black civil rights activist such as, MLK, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X.
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This girl is working her hands off to get out of this country so that she can get some sort of training
That some unfortunate few have to work really hard to achieve their dreams so that they can get the education they need. An example being refugees coming from the middle east or Mexico into the U.S to get the education or opportunity they want.
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but when God makes a sculptor He does not always make the pushing sort of person who beats his way through doors thrust in his face.
That people don't just make their careers by not putting in the work.
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There is in New York tonight a black woman molding clay by herself in a little bare room, because there is not a single school of sculpture in New York where she is welcome.
Even though, African Americans were free and have gained a lot throughout the years but they sill faced the problems of segregation and unfair advantages. Especially in the south where this was a prominent problem.
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We are remembering that the romance of the world did not die and lie forgotten in the Middle Ages
That all of the wrongs and horrible things in the world that has happened did not leave or was forgotten , they are still there you just need to find it yourself.
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Who shall right this well-nigh universal failing?
We as people are the ones who create the rights in our world, and determine what is right and wrong.
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. It is that sort of a world we want to create for ourselves and for all America.
That everyone wants a utopia, but what we live in is still far from that, especially with all of the problems that are still relevant in America.
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And seeing our country thus, are we satisfied with its present goals and ideals?
Here he directly ask a question to the audience, which engages the audience to engage with DuBois by making them question their own reality's and what they perceive as satisfied.
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blood-filled paths.
This refers to the long enduring history of slavery, and discrimination/racism that blacks had to deal with throughout history prior to 1926
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I do not doubt but there are some in this audience who are a little disturbed at the subject of this meeting,
This has been a common occurrence throughout history, where if something is perceived to be a bad or negative thing people tend to neglect it or ignore it, and Dubois is trying to shine light to the situation.
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partisanship
Means to be prejudice in favor of a particular cause or bias.
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It is the art of the people that needs to be cultivated, not the art of the coteries.
This relates to how many African American should focus on being who they are and embracing their race with pride instead of living a double conscious and living a life on what white people see you as.
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Beauty, however, is its best priest and psalms will be more effective than sermons.
That being able to cultivate the art of expressing your ideas to the people is more effective than simply feeding into propaganda or tying to mislead people into ways that truly wont help the black community in the long run.
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Art cannot completely accomplish this, but I believe it can lead the way.
That artist alone cannot solely confront the majority of white people alone, but with a shared idea among African Americans they can stand up and express themselves
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a convinced minority must confront a condescending majority.
The convinced minority being the African Americans confronting the condescending majority being the discriminatory whites.
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Art or Propaganda. Which? Is this more the generation of the prophet or that of the poet; shall our intellectual and cultural leadership preach and exhort or sing?
This is talking about whether a person should express their feelings or exhort them by keeping quiet, that's how I interpreted that. Like the conflictions between Dubois voice being heard while Booker T was trying to accommodate.
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My chief objection to propaganda,
I disagree with propaganda as it usually pertains to the audience by misleading a group of people
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This is talking about whether a person should express their feelings or exhort them by keeping quiet, that's how I interpreted that. Like the conflictions between Dubois voice being heard while Booker T was trying to accommodate.
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Raquel’s youthful perspective most often wins over Augustus whose once-immutable opinions are made malleable after learning more about the current condition of Black people in Dakota.
Just like in irl, Raquel just like Dubois wins over people when faced with the truth concerning the problems of always abiding and assimilating in society.
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Icon provides a take on the generations-old debate that incorporates a popular medium the blends prose with sequential art.
It incorporates the debates between Booker and Dubois but to a more modern audience to interpret
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Raquel’s final words are enough to change Augustus’s mind, and he agrees to their becoming Icon and Rocket.
This shows the shift in ideas as Dubois Ideas became the center part for a lot of other black activist that came after him, such as MLK and Malcolm X
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underground railroad during slavery, fights for the Union in the Civil War, graduates from Fisk University during Reconstruction, lives in Harlem during the Renaissance, becomes an expatriate in France in the 1930s, and fights with the Allies is WWII.
This in context helps young black kids understand the history with African involvement in America
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. Unlike Superman, whose similar origin puts him in the present-day Kansas farm of two loving white parents, the Milestone alien crash lands on a southern plantation in 1839.
Contrast both characters as Superman landed in a happy time without any conflict in Kansas, while In Milestone, Icon lands in a southern planation where the brutal reality of slavery is taking place and mistreatment of blacks is the norm.
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music, politics, and energy of its time and indefatigably dedicated to authentic depictions of Blackness.
Show that young black people can relate to characters with their culture and be able to see themselves with what they might not always get with other super heroes.
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increasing authentic representation of people of color
At the time many of the times most famous pronounced super heroes were all white. With Captain America, Superman, and Batman to name a few.
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It limits the complexity and the roundedness of the characters.
That solely writing a character to depict blacks also does no justice to the character as it makes the character bland, so therefore why he creates characters with complexity and with the character being black, it helps the black community in the long run as it does not show stereotypes nor have a white washing effect.
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monolithic depiction of Black people and Black culture
Monolithic meaning not open to new ideas and remaining with the same old stereotypes and depictions of blacks in the past.
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characters of color, queer characters, and women characters within American comics needed to be addressed.
All of these things being prevalent as there was still issues with women rights, gays being shamed , and blacks still being discriminated and stereotyped.
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Cam Newton and Colin Kaepernick
Here I see Cam Newton abiding by the NFL therefore assimilating to the white audience, while I see Colin Kaepernick using his freedom of speech to voice his opinions on black lives
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
MLK taking the civil approach with civil protest, and Malcom X taking the violent riot approach of demanding rights now
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confines of society.
What I don't get is that if he came from a child hood where he was a slave and saw the impossible happen being the freedom of slaves, why not continue the ambitions of the slaves but instead continue to fight for their right stop be actually equal instead of being free, but confined by white society.
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lack race should be to obtain marketable skills within the current confines of society.
I can see why Booker T says this because after all he was a slave, when coming from an upbringing like that, all anybody would want is to just live life like how society already is instead of giving in for hope for change that might never come.
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higher education
Ironic how Booker T was the first one to set up a school for high education, which eventually led to Dubois getting his education and being Booker T biggest opponents.
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founded for the higher education of African Americans.
He wants blacks to accommodate yet founded a school for high education for African Americans, that clearly goes against what many whites think of about black people. In my opinion contradicts his own statement.
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After emancipation
The order that gave freedom to slaves in 10 states during the civil war.
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provided them rather than seek access and opportunity through protest and civil unrest:
This is where I would disagree with him, as not seeking for opportunity in itself is already bad advice as given an opportunity one should take it.
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A proponent of vocational education for Blacks, Washington contended that the rights and privileges of true citizenship for Black people could only be gained through gradual struggle and the development of marketable skills.
This proves how Booker T Washington was living a double consciences, by living his life out but also pertaining to his white counterparts.
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over-century-old discourse
pre civil war and post civil war
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The debate over the best sociopolitical direction for African Americans not only crosses over to different generations but also crosses over to different forms of media.
This pertains with the many different activist with all differing views from one another
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civil disobedience
With Civil disobedience I think of Martin Luther King
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reactive aggression
Malcolm X
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isolation
This being Dubois
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assimilation
This being Booker T. Washington idea
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in doing so often found many of their solutions standing in stark contrast to the ideas of their fellow Black intellectuals and activists.
The disputes between ideologies, such as Dubois and Booker T, with Dubois arguing for having his rights and equality now VS Booker wanting to accommodate.
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