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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 reader
concludes that middle class blacks are judged unfairly by whites and other
blacks through an examination of: 1)white people thinking blacks cannot do an
adequate job, 2)lower class blacks who criticize middle and upper class blacks,
and 3)victimization.
Racism today......

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