The Black Exodus Into Time
We are living in a time of modernization. The impact of modernization has had a tremendous affect on the black community of America. Through this modernization, we have created a struggle among the search for black identity. For years, we (Blacks) have been struggling to empower the black community by incorporating our race into the powers that be or the white community. In our time of struggle, hopelessness has taken over the mindset of many Black-Americans. We still have a deep sense of alienation, despair, and uncertainty among our culture. The idea of black identity can be looked at through many different aspects, but there is only two critical ways of really looking at it in my mind. Those two categories are that of nationalist and assimilationist, black-identified or white-identified respectively (Hooks, 4). Looking at this idea of black identity, we can pose a basis of how all people of the middle-class black community can collect together to further involve ourselves in the white man's society as a group collectively to achieve a higher level of respect and understanding. To begin this new social-revolutionary period, the help of the black-middle class people is needed. The whi
Francis was so well-respected that white men thought of him as a gentleman. Here, it is clearly evident that it is up to the black intellectuals of the middle-class sects to further our kind into receiving social equality. Telemaque as an intelligent and beautiful boy of fourteen years of age caught the attention of the white captain. Having established themselves partially in the society of the dominant people, one would figure the blacks of today have a clear-cut path to the ultimate achievement. The books we read about, talked about the beginning of this social-revolution: the slavery and the effort to escape it, the renaissance and the assertion of blacks into the middle-class. It is up to the people of the black culture to politically and intellectually promote the idea of a sincere and long-lasting equality among all people of today's society. " This period in time proved important for the Black community because it was the beginning of a change in the social structure of America. Africa is Black America's source of learning on how to adjust and fit into the world of today. The people of Africa have tried conforming to the white man's society but to no avail. Our ancestors brought over from Africa are also a source Black -Americans can learn from. Even these aristocrats of color did not warrant respect to those of a lesser fortune; the idea that all blacks nation-wide were equal was thought of as foolish. The elite before us have put the wheels into motion. Being educated in the white man's land, Obi began identifying himself with the white culture. He would be able to fight the white man for land they had seized from his tribe upon their arrival in Africa.
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