... by ignoring it and by hiding the color of their skin. Moreover, Dunbar has the scrupulous way to express the pain using afflicting words in each paragraphs of his poem: "human guile,"" "tears and sighs- and "tortured souls."" These words truly express the ache against colored ... their race as a nature race and not tinted in another dirty color. Black people are not from colored nature because their skin is dyed in black, in a "diabolic black,"" whereas the white race is considered to be the "angelic- color, where angels represent the white, colorless and purity. "Diabolic- ... and "an...

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... Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Dubois, and even Frantz Fanon spoke and wrote eloquently and passionately against racial oppression, calling America and Europe to accountability for their democratic and humanitarian ideals by appealing to, in Abraham Lincoln's paraphrased words, "the better angels of men's natures."" In the face of white intransigence, King spoke of the moral arc of the universe being long, but ultimately bending ... bring about liberation for the oppressed. Even King, though he never repudiated nonviolence, began to question the effectiveness of such tactics in the face of A...

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