5. And once in a while such sentiments are expressed in sermons and among church congregations.
6. As a result, white Americans are very much worried about their futures, feeling that their American dream is coming to an end,feeling hopeless and helpless. So they have a hostile attitude towards those whom they consider their competitors.
8. The anger of the blacks and the resentment of the whites are not groundless. Both groups have legitimate concerns. Yet their anger is directed toward the wrong targets, thus hampering the solution of the issues causing such anger. Neither side has come to see the problem. So a racial deadlock exists.
11. We can jump on some remarks made by some Hillary supporters against me and use this to show that Hillary also tries to appeal to whites to defeat me in the Democratic campaign/ primary. We can also guess that white people will all go to vote for John McCain in the general election no matter what his policies would be, they would support him only because he is whitly because they are of the same race.
4. But views colored by race do come up at informal conversations in the barbershop or the beauty shop where people meet, or over dinner among family dinners. But black anger does get expressed on informal occasions such as in the barbershop, in the beauty shop or over dinner among family members.
Unit 10
A More Perfect Union Key to Exercises
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1. In order to understand the complexities of race we need to know the history and development of racial relations, the sufferings and injustices the blacks were subjected to.
10. For the whites, they should admit that what troubles the blacks are not simply imagined, they do exist/ they are real and must be dealt with.
They should see clearly that the wrong once done to the blacks in the past is a fact and subtle discrimination still exists today and should be solved properly.
7. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators became famous through exposing so-called incidents of racism which were in fact not true. They said that reasonable discussions of unfair treatment of minorities were catering to excessive sensibility to minority causes or were racism against the whites.
2. The influence of what happened in the previous times has not disappeared. Such influences can still be seen.
3. Out of those who worked or struggled very hard to climb the social ladder, many did not succeed. They were defeated in life’s struggle, as a result of racial discrimination.
9. The black community should face and handle bravely the legacy of racial injustice of the past while at the same time should not feel wronged all the time.