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Killing Rage

I think that Hooks intended her primary audience to be anyone who had looked away or been naïve about racism. However, even though I don't think I was really intended for a specific race, I also think that white people are more naïve about racism and it probably would be more informative for them. Many people look the other way when there is an injustice done, as the white man did on the plane when K was forced to move from her seat in first class.

There are not really any passages that I could find really imply who she wanted her audience to be. It was more of an informative paper. However, she does try to explain why there she thinks there is so much black on black violence. Hooks states that black people are scared to express their rage against white people because of the consequences. They have no where to put all this anger and they take it out on one another.

I thought things had gotten a lot better since the ‘50s but I guess they haven't. It is horrible that those......


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