HUMAN 1C Chapter Notes - Chapter Lecture 1 Readings: Structural Inequality, Scientific Racism, Circular Reasoning

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In this excerpt, coates is speaking to his son, sharing his views on what it means to be. Black in america in both modern and historic terms. The privileges of being black are not always self evident. Whether you fought or ran, you did it together, because that part was in our control. This wisdom is not unique to us but grows out of the background we came from. You cannot view slavery as an indefinable mass, but as individuals who had as much individualism as you. For this woman, enslavement is not a parable, it is a never-ending night, which most of our history has been. We were enslaved in this country for longer than we were free. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned fuel for the american machine.

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