When it comes to cuisine, the media shows that African Americans only eat soul food. For some reason, the media really focuses on blacks eating fried chicken and drinking Kool-Aid. ... For example, the media will show black people to eat fried chicken and drink Kool-Aid like they don't have an appetite for anything else. ... Now, even though soul food is very tasty, I would much rather be eating lobster and steak. ... Also, most of the stereotype are not a 100% accurate or might even be over-exaggerated like the "black people only eat fried chicken" term. ...

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They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong... Nobody"ll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then... (8-14) The speaker believes that a day will come when he will be able to "eat in the kitchen." Eating in the kitchen symbolizes a time when he will be equal to white people in his rights and privileges. ... Once he is strong, the white people can no longer ask him to eat in kitchen. ...

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They refused to let the White people hold them down and stop them from doing what they loved to do. ... Even then, only a few ball players could eat because the establishment was not prepared to serve so many people at one. Those players who were not able to eat at the restaurant would go to a non-segregated grocery store and purchase cold cuts, cheese and crackers and hope that would be able to last all day (Fields, 21). ... Jackie Robinson was never allowed to stay at the same hotels or eat in the same restaurants as his teammates (Elderkin, 10) It is Troy's capacity for gra...

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Women who focus on unrealistic body image tend to have lower self esteem and are more ikely to fall prey to eating disorders. ... I don't think our society has an issue wih obessity as tey have with eating disorders than why is that there arent any advertisements on eating and gaining weight? ... We know that our society even though consists of many coloured people, still poses for mainly white people. ... Even though when you go to most parts of Toronto you will see mostly colored people around more tan white people. ... All these people looked rich to me. ...

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There were many people who helped shape him into the great writer he turned out to be. ... This was because he learned that not all white people are bad. ... Langston has been quoted by saying, "So I learned early not to hate all white people" (Rummel 22.) ... They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong." ... Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then." ...

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She wasn't able to eat properly at school, and with this job she could give money to her siblings and also have milk and pane bread for lunch. ... I just let them eat. ... "I'll starve before I eat any more of it," I thought" (Moody, page 35). Anne first encounter of disgust that embodied her image of the white people. ... Here her experience with the white people deeply impacted. ...

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Yet at least the objective is the same, the two items are both fruit, and both items are available for the person to eat. Now, if the merchant also had, perhaps, celery and carrots, or pork and beef – basically any items that are suitable for someone to throw together and eventually eat. ... " He tells America that he sings, too, and that he is "the darker brother" whom they send away when others come "But I laugh And eat well And grow strong" and he strongly believes in "Tomorrow" nobody will make him leave, "Nobody'll dare They'll see h...

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This statement did not always hold quite as true, as most people would like to believe. ... They hardly ever received breaks, and their only rewards for there work was terrible living conditions, and awful ash cakes to eat. ... There was only one vacant seat next to me, and people passed it with a disdainful look. ... It was compared to "waged slavery" because the women were working for a place to eat and sleep, both of which were supplied by the employer. ... The nineteenth century was a time of oppression, that caused a lot of hardships for many people. ...

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Slavery has appeared almost universally throughout history among peoples of every level of material culture. ... Slaves are people too and Tom's view is one of the closest to correct in this novel. ... Once again, the whites ignorance and narrow-minded views force them to believe slaves are property and not people. ... Covey's plantation- the long hours, the lack of breaks or time to eat a meal, the hardship of harvest when he explains: " By the first approach of day we were off to the fields with our hoes and ploughing teams. ... Covey gave us enough to eat, but scarce time to...

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Coming of Age in Mississippi How would you like it if you were walking down the street and people, white people, started throwing rocks at your head? ... People were murdered, bruised, battered, and maimed. ... A People and a Nation, A History of the United States, vol 2. ... Once Moody and her family had to eat nothing but beans and bread for weeks upon weeks. Even when Anne Moody was a young girl, probably no older than eight years of age, she was working for rich white families, making only 4 dollars a week, just in order for her family to eat. ...

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Through her experiences in the working world Anne learns that not all white people have the same view of blacks. ... Claiborne, she is treated respectfully and is even invited to eat dinner with the family one evening. When Anne's mother discovers that she was asked to eat with the Claibornes, she becomes angry and says that Ms. ... From this information she gained, Anne decides, "I was 15 years old when I began to hate people. ... It is said that no two people in the world are the same and that is due to the fact that each person experiences the same things, nor are they surrounded by...

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"Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. ... Hughes word choice in his list of similarities is meant to go from simple human nature/needs to more opinionated interests, showing that through our deepest roots we are like. everyone must eat, sleep, drink, and can feel love. then knocks down the racial stereotype that blacks lack work ethic, can't read, (thinking they are not smart enough) and have awareness of how life is meant to be. finishing with interests that usually come with ones culture; Bessie and bop usually being interests of an african american (1) fitting into w...

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It was time for the African American people to express their culture. ... People could not support themselves; the majority of the black people were out of their jobs. ... I think that this poem is showing how these people are everywhere, and that in America during those times people acted as if they were subordinate. ... Even though, he is black, and is sent to "eat in the kitchen," he feels that he is as much a part of America as anyone else, because he considered himself as part of the American brotherhood. He also pointed that one-day he will not be made to hide and eat in the kitchen. ...

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While hiding in a closet and eating toothpaste, he mistakenly eavesdrops on the dietician having a romantic interlude with another staff member of the orphanage. ... Some to eat every day for a week. ... Likewise, Black people avoid Joanna because she is White. ...

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People from England who migrated to America used many different methods to enslave black people and passed them down through the children. ... It was the rain of terror that kept black people in fear of their lives for so long. The invention of the gun back in the fifth-teenth century was the main reason that these people were able to go to another continent and enslave so many people. These people from Africa were mistreated very badly right from the start both mentally and physically. They were packed very tightly on ships for months at a time chained to each other with no place to go to th...

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There is yelling, screaming, people playing chess, and my celly babbling on and on about how people are after him and that he is going to hell. ... Of course I was always tough with people weaker than myself. ... After all the excitement was over it was time to go in and eat. ... I sit down to eat and not five minutes later this hulking figure is standing over me with my celly asking me if I am messing with his friend. ... White people stick with white people, blacks stay with blacks, and Mexicans stay with Mexicans. ...

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They did not believe that white people and black people would get along well together. ... In many cases they refused to hire black people, let them eat in the same restaurants, or equally fund their children education. ... Some people believe that black people are stronger at sports by nature. ... I have seen many sporting events in which black people have lost to white people. ... For the most part, black people now have the same opportunities as white people. ...

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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. ... The image is exaggerated to show the blatant unjustness of society's representation of black neighborhoods and, indirectly, of black people in relationship to whites. ... Thus a vitality is shown in him and his people which is not present in the hearts of the other students, simply because they are white and not in need of it. ... He starts by ownin...

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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. ... The image is exaggerated to show the blatant unjustness of society's representation of black neighborhoods and, indirectly, of black people in relationship to whites. ... Thus a vitality is shown in him and his people which is not present in the hearts of the other students, simply because they are white and not in need of it. ... He starts by ownin...

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We use profiles of people to describe them. ... It focuses on how corrupt and distorted mass media's image of black people is. ... The show, The Mantan Millennium Minstrel Show, focuses on two unlucky black males who live in an Alabama watermelon patch, Mantan and Sleepandeat (Sleep-and-Eat). ... It shows how the American public wants to see black people as entertainers. Black and White shows the stereotype of how all black rappers are looked at as gangsters and bad people by society, but it also shows how white people are starting to look at it being cool to be black. ...

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for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people's......The witnesses for the state.....have presented themselves to you gentleman, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen will go along with them on the assumption - the evil assumption - that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral human beings, and that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our woman, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber? ... Finch's desire to share his principles and knowledge is simp...

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"Singing songs like "The Man I Love" and "Porgy" is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck," she wrote in her autobiography. ... Langston entered Columbia University and began living in Harlem, at that time an elegant section on the northern end of Manhattan Island that African American people were making their own. ... Hughes continued writing through the 190s and the 1940s, speaking for the poor and homeless black people who suffered during the Great Depression. ... Black people loved reading his works and hearing him read his poems at public p...

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It took the blaxpliotation films of the early nineteen seventies to change the stereotypical depiction of Black people in American Cinema, as it took The Farm Story, performed by a small troop of Canadian actors, to create a Canadian theatre industry. To be more specific, it took the release of Melvin Van Peebles, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, in 1971, to change the tradition view of Black people in American film. ... (Boggle, 4) Although having no positive effect on the status of Black people in America socially, the tom character opened the door for Black actors in cinema. ...

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Living in an area like that can have a serious impact on the way people think. ... As i have gotten older, i have learned to immerse myself with other people. ... There are many reasons why some people should not be dating interracially. ... Another reason why people shouldn't date interracially is because a lot of the times, people do it for rebellion against their parents. ... African Americans and Latinos are more likely to be stopped and have their car searched, (that face surprised me, since that is something i have experienced, just from eating a salad in my car at night). ...

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People of color were the majority that were treated unfairly. ... She does not eat at the same table with the Finch family although she has been a part of it since Jem was two. ... The black people in this era were not allowed to vote. ... Many middle to upper class people discriminated heavily against blacks but also against people of their own race. ... People still tend to do this today. ...

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