When the discussion of prominent African Americans who have made major changes in society are being discussed. An array of names can be brought up, from Frederick Douglass to Maya Angelou. These individuals along with many others have devoted their lives to social justice within the American society, which was built much on the backs African Americans. One of the most prominent African Americans whose research and books have shape many young minds of today and years past was William Edward Burghadt Dubois better known as W.E.B. Dubois.
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It is almost unheard of for any African Americans experience to feel as if they are staying true to themselves, without assuming at a point in their thought …show more content…
I had been well prepared in how to deal with race like issues by my parents although to me I truly had no idea what it really meant. Attending a predominantly white primary school where I was one of about 10 African Americans within the school and the only one in my entire grade at the time the veil was quickly established for me in one of my first rides on a school bus where in a young white boy called me a “Nigger”. I was all too prepared for this as my mother had explained to me the definition of the word. So as young parrot of my mother's teachings I confidently without out true knowledge or understanding repeated the words which she had taught me. With the confidence of a thousand men I looked at my fellow student who by his conversation I didn't understand that he had a problem and replied “Do you know what a nigger is? It is not defined by the color my skin but It is as an ignorant person and I am not ignorant so you must be talking about yourself.” I then turned back around in my seat and continued the ride to school. By the age of 4 which I was at the time I had already known that I was black what this incident taught me was the second of the two inevitable events. Just
Above is some bull shit to get me started!!!!!!!!!
It is almost unheard of for any African Americans experience to feel as if they are staying true to themselves, without assuming at a point in their thought …show more content…
I had been well prepared in how to deal with race like issues by my parents although to me I truly had no idea what it really meant. Attending a predominantly white primary school where I was one of about 10 African Americans within the school and the only one in my entire grade at the time the veil was quickly established for me in one of my first rides on a school bus where in a young white boy called me a “Nigger”. I was all too prepared for this as my mother had explained to me the definition of the word. So as young parrot of my mother's teachings I confidently without out true knowledge or understanding repeated the words which she had taught me. With the confidence of a thousand men I looked at my fellow student who by his conversation I didn't understand that he had a problem and replied “Do you know what a nigger is? It is not defined by the color my skin but It is as an ignorant person and I am not ignorant so you must be talking about yourself.” I then turned back around in my seat and continued the ride to school. By the age of 4 which I was at the time I had already known that I was black what this incident taught me was the second of the two inevitable events. Just