Race+in+America-

 Racism Within America: Gone? Or Still Upon us?

__Incident__

Once riding in Old Baltimore Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poker out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger." I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember.

-Countee Cullen



"The (white) child displayed in her slightest gestures a consciousness of superiority which formed a strange contrast with her infantine weakness; as if she recieved the attentions of her companions with a sort of condescension." -Alexis de Tocqueville  

They took me out To some lonesome place. They said, "Do you believe In the great white race?"

I said, "Mister, To tell you the truth, I'd believe in anything If you'd just turn me loose."

The white man said, "Boy, Can it be You're a-standin' there A-sassin' me?"

They hit me in the head And knocked me down. And then they kicked me On the ground.

A klansman said, "Nigger, Look me in the face-- And tell me you believe in The great white race."

-Langston Hughes 

"As slavery recedes...the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."

"The moderns, then, after they have abolished slavery, have three prejudices to contend against, which are less easy to attack and far less easy to conquer than the mere fact of servitude: the prejudice of the master, the prejudice of the race, and the prejudice of color."

-Alexis de Tocqueville

_ "White kids; his mother did not like him to play with niggers. She had explained to him the difference between colored people and niggers. They were easily identifiable. Colored people were neat and quiet; niggers were dirty and loud."

**//"Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike." //**

"It was their contempt for their own blackness that gave the first insult its teeth. They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds - cooled - and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path."  -Toni Morrison's //The Bluest Eye//    The legacy of racism lives on in our generation...

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...but then again, does the election of America's first African American President signify change?

<span style="text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 18.2px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(8, 8, 64);">"There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America."

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

-Barack Obama

<span style="color: rgb(26, 20, 20); font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -John Steinbeck //The Grapes of Wrath

^^^^A TIME OF CHANGE IS UPON US!//

<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 380%; text-align: center; display: block;"> "I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race'-the human race-and that we are all members of it."

-Margaret Atwood

Reflection on Race in America-

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