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Racism in America
Crooks Case.
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Poem by Langston Hughes:
I look at the worldby Langston Hughes
I look at the world
From awakening eyes in a black face
And this is what I see:
This fenced-off narrow space
Assigned to me.
I look then at the silly walls
Through dark eyes in a dark face
And this is what I know:
That all these walls oppression builds
Will have to go!
I look at my own body
With eyes no longer blind
And I see that my own hands can make
The world that's in my mind.
Then let us hurry, comrades,
The road to find.
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Another
I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed--
I, too, am America.
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Curleys Wife, p. 81Well you keep your place then, [negro]. I could get you
strung up on a tree so easy it aint even funny.
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Strange Fruit.Strange Fruit
Lewis Allen made famous by Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
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p. 82Crooks avoided the whole subject now. Maybe you
guys better go, he said. I aint sure I want you in here
no more. A colored man got to have some rights even if
he dont like em.
What rights is he talking about?
Do African-Americans now have their rights?
Is discrimination now over?
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What about other forms of
discrimination?
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Do we still have migrantworkers? Are they simply
another color?
Are we still discriminating
against certain races?
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Or how do we deal with our
disabled?
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Is it better to ignore them?
Do we have an obligation to
help them?
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We all most likely agree that racism is a
bad thing.
But is simply saying that racism is badenough?
Is it enough to just not commit racistcrimes?
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The world is a dangerous place.
Not because of the people who
are evil; but because of thepeople who dont do anything
about it.-Albert Einstein
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The sin of respectable people
reveals itself in flight fromresponsibility.
EberhardBethge
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Are those who fail to act as
guilty as those who commit
the crime?
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p.83
Well, jus forget it, said Crooks. I didn mean it. Jus
foolin. I wouldnt want to go no place like that.
Well,O
.K., if you feel like that. Good night.