10-11-2013, 05:57 PM
This line puzzles me:
"White man inferior, strong and free, black man subjacent, lesser, minority."
It seems that if a black man is subjacent to an inferior white man, that would also make him inferior.
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"Why can’t white and black man follow the hands of fate?"
Fate could just as easily be that they self-annihilate.
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"That my fellow Negros just so happen to be blacks."
Using the time context from which this is said, "Negro" and "black" would be a synonym.
So to me such lines as:
"Now I am not asking for much I am just stating the facts,
That my fellow Negros just so happen to be blacks."
seem more about making it rhyme than making any sense.
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You are trying to speak as, or for, Martin Luther King, yet there is nothing here that speaks to his style, or his perceptive intellect. It is sometimes instructive to speak for, or as a historical figure, usually it is better to select a person who is not a cultural icon.
Dale
"White man inferior, strong and free, black man subjacent, lesser, minority."
It seems that if a black man is subjacent to an inferior white man, that would also make him inferior.
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"Why can’t white and black man follow the hands of fate?"
Fate could just as easily be that they self-annihilate.
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"That my fellow Negros just so happen to be blacks."
Using the time context from which this is said, "Negro" and "black" would be a synonym.
So to me such lines as:
"Now I am not asking for much I am just stating the facts,
That my fellow Negros just so happen to be blacks."
seem more about making it rhyme than making any sense.
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You are trying to speak as, or for, Martin Luther King, yet there is nothing here that speaks to his style, or his perceptive intellect. It is sometimes instructive to speak for, or as a historical figure, usually it is better to select a person who is not a cultural icon.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.