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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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