Fear of a Black Planet

people are discriminated primarily because of the color of their skin or their gender. Discrimination of one’s skin color is racial discrimination, which leads them to ask one question. How do we define racism? Ahmed Shawki, an author who wrote on black liberation and socialism writes, “But racism is not simply the result of the dominance of the ruling class ideology in the government, media, and schools. There is a material basis for racism built into capitalist competition” (Orelus, xi). Many…

The solution to most problems that society is facing day-to-day is not black and white. A gray area is always present which can be perplexing to grasp our thoughts around. Similarly, the question concerning the idea of religion conflicting with science is not a black or white answer but rather a gray area one. Religious faith and scientific understanding, as the two are used to explain both natural and supernatural phenomena on one’s own accord, are not in conflict with each other because it…

Hands clenched tight, clammy with sweat, eyes glued on the screen in disbelief as I begin to watch the red haired curly headed twin be eaten by a masked man in the uncanny visceral horror movie Dark Ride directed by Craig Singer set in New Jersey. This movie is about five friends, Cathy, Steve, Bill, Jim, Elizabeth and Jen, who while on a road trip take a slight detour to check out the infamous Dark Ride. A ride that has been closed for fourteen years became the blood dripping playground for the…

Left and right cleared; now all that's left is too. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh crap. The same black shadow emerges from the entry point, probably on guard duty, I ponder. I sneakily walk past the figure in its own shadow and enter the foundation. There I see what seems to be my colleagues but also.not. I start to hear chortles coming from their direction…

For his own selfishness, pride and fear of what others will think of him, he lets Justine die ,and the final example being his intolerance and hate towards the creature that was just acting as any human would if put into that circumstance. Monstrosity is defined as something that is not…

With Wright becoming more involved in his writing, he began to formulate ideas of bridging the chasm between whites and blacks. This idea was promoted in the Communist party, and as a result, Wright was drawn to Communist ideals. Wallach states, “He was inspired by certain elements of their message and dared believe in the possibility of interracial cooperation, even though his years in the Jim Crow South had shown him little evidence that such a thing could be possible” (52). With this…

population, is more inclined to believe in extraterrestrial life. However, something that is more debatable, is the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. While there has been evidence that may imply small, microorganisms present on distant planets, there has been little evidence that…

emotionless. The words from the book make it clear that men are simply devices used to impregnate women, and likewise women are nothing more than devices for producing children. It is as though they, too, have become cold, heartless machines. Forster fears that if technology’s involvement in human lives grows to be too overbearing, it will ruin the intimacy of some of the most important social relationships, such as that of parents and their…

There are many interesting things about the book breakfast of champions, a distinctive way of author writing style that defies fictional conventions, social commentaries and the exploration of relations between the fictional and the determinate. But these ideas are held by a very weak history, making everything less than its parts separately. The story unfolds around a science fiction writer called Kilgore Trout, and a car salesman named Dwayne Hoover. Away from where we are given to understand…

It became a lens through which the entire world could see the deplorable, conditions that blacks suffered under Southern segregation. However, it also became the lens through which the segregationist had to examine themselves. According to “the Americans” by, Jordan Winthrop, by the time of the civil rights movement, television had become part…