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The Struggle to Express Themselves



A Struggle to Express Themselves







There is one primordial reason why we do not doubt Europeans have

taken the lead in history, in all epochs before and after 1492, and it has

little to do with evidence. It is a basic belief which we inherit from

prior ages of thought and scarcely realize that we hold: it is an implicit

belief, not an explicit one, and it is so large a theory that it is woven

into all of our ideas about history, both within Europe and without. . .

(Blaut pg. 6-7).



African-American people have had to climb over many obstacles to get to

their position today. First, was the selling of their people into slavery.

Then, they endured slavery itself, being treated like an animal. After

slavery was abolished, Colored people still had to deal with racial

discrimination and hatred. If this sounds rough, black women had it worse.

African-American women had to deal with all the previously mentioned

things, but they......

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