Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Ch 3 response

Throughout our national United States history, many different extraordinary events, people, places, and things have occurred over these many years of time. They have all made both good and bad impacts that have caused important changes to our history. One of the most major and longest things that had a great impact on all cultures was a hardship and true evil labeled with the name discrimination. The majority of the people who were receiving the negative side of the impact at hand were black-colored people. The famous black-colored person who felt strongly enough against the issue of discrimination was a man named Mr. Booker T. Washington. W.E.B Du Bois made a point of not only mentioning Mr. Booker T. Washington but also telling a short story of his life story. With the implementation of stating what Mr. Booker T. Washington believed in, what he wanted to do about his issue, and how he planned on developing a solution to his annoying predicament, he only was providing more proof to amplify the audience’s reasoning for wanting to believe what W.E.B Du Bois wanted them to find as true.
During the period of time that Mr. Booker T. Washington was living in, discrimination was not an unknown factor in every single society that existed. The type of discrimination that Mr. Booker T. Washington had to endure on a daily basis, throughout luckily only a portion of his life, was the discrimination that white-colored people had towards their darker constituents. These darker constituents can specifically be labeled as the black-colored people. This discrimination did not simply just appear out of nowhere. It had slowly and gradually developed into what it is seen as today through the many years that have come since the beginning of slavery. When slavery had first came to be, it began to put all white-colored people, who owned slaves, under the impression that the reason for black-colored people being slaves was because of their darker skin color. These white-colored people found themselves to be of better quality of human beings because they believed to be an overall better type of human being. After slavery was completely banished throughout the United States of America, a larger amount of discrimination against blacks had quickly and constantly began its development. Even though the Northern states of the United States of America were considered as free states, even before the end of slavery had occurred, they still held a very large quantity of discriminations towards all black-colored people. In order for Mr. Booker T. Washington to have completed his dream and goal of showing the Northerners that black-colored people were not as bad as a large majority of the Northerners made them out to be, he had to gain the Northerners respect. Mr. Booker T. Washington soon then began working on getting himself an education. With this education, Mr. Booker T. Washington would be able to show all those discriminating Northerners just how sophisticated, proper, educated, and well-brought up that black-colored people could be. Since Mr. Booker T. Washington had successfully fulfilled all these basic requirements and more to there fullest potential, he was able to utilize all of his qualities and characteristics to gain him and his people the respect that they most rightfully had earned and definitely had come to deserve.
With the implementation of stating what Mr. Booker T. Washington believed in, what he wanted to do about his issue, and how he planned on developing a solution to his annoying predicament, he only was providing more proof to amplify the audience’s reasoning for wanting to believe what W.E.B Du Bois wanted them to find as true. Even though discrimination is meant to make oneself lower how they feel about their quality of life, Washington only allowed it to be the reason why he should continue to fight for its destruction.

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