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Middle Class Blacks' Burden - Paper

Middle Class Blacks' Burden

Today in America there are many who assume that racism does not exist as
it did in the forties, fifties, and sixties. Racism today is not as dangerous
as it once was, but that does not mean that it does not hurt people just as much.
There are many who think we have solved our racial problems and that African
Americans live freely. However, there are many African Americans who work
extremely hard to benefit society and all some people still see is their skin
color. Malcolm X once said, "If you're born in America with a black skin, you'
re born in a prison." From reading Lenita McClain's "The Middle Class Black's
Burden" and Shelby Steele's "On Being Black and Middle Class" the ...

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these African Americans produce a high quality
satisfaction. The people that doubt the work of an African American can
obviously be seeing only the skin color. Lenita McClain states, "I am burdened
daily with showing whites that blacks are people." Shelby Steele asks, "After
all, since when had white Americans taken note of anything but color when it
came it blacks?" Our nation, which is supposed to preserve equal rights to
everyone, is weakened when certain Americans feel they are judged on a day to
day basis by their skin color. Some might argue that blacks and whites are
equal, but it is obvious through these essays that this is not so.
If being stereotyped by some white people is not enough, many middle
class blacks are ridiculed by many lower class blacks. It seems that some
financially unstable African Americans consider middle and upper class African
Americans to be ignorant of black culture. Discussing this issue, McClain says
that some lower class blacks think, ...

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Added: 10/24/2004 03:21:31 AM
Category: Social Issues
Type: Premium Paper
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