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ehidna [41]
3 years ago
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from “A Talk to Teachers” by James Baldwin What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors

. It’s astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn’t stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. That’s all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That’s how the country was settled. Not by Gary Cooper. Yet we have a whole race of people, a whole republic, who believe the myths to the point where even today they select political representatives, as far as I can tell, by how closely they resemble Gary Cooper. Now this is dangerously infantile, and it shows in every level of national life. When I was living in Europe, for example, one of the worst revelations to me was the way Americans walked around Europe buying this and buying that and insulting everybody—not even out of malice, just because they didn’t know any better. Well, that is the way they have always treated me. They weren’t cruel; they just didn’t know you were alive. They didn’t know you had any feelings. What I am trying to suggest here is that in the doing of all this for 100 years or more, it is the American white man who has long since lost his grip on reality. In some peculiar way, having created this myth about Negroes, and the myth about his own history, he created myths about the world so that, for example, he was astounded that some people could prefer Castro, astounded that there are people in the world who don’t go into hiding when they hear the word “Communism,” astounded that Communism is one of the realities of the twentieth century which we will not overcome by pretending that it does not exist. The political level in this country now, on the part of people who should know better, is abysmal. The Bible says somewhere that where there is no vision the people perish. I don’t think anyone can doubt that in this country today we are menaced—intolerably menaced—by a lack of vision. It is inconceivable that a sovereign people should continue, as we do so abjectly, to say, “I can’t do anything about it. It’s the government.” The government is the creation of the people. It is responsible to the people. And the people are responsible for it. No American has the right to allow the present government to say, when Negro children are being bombed and hosed and shot and beaten all over the Deep South, that there is nothing we can do about it. There must have been a day in this country’s life when the bombing of the children in Sunday School would have created a public uproar and endangered the life of a Governor Wallace. It happened here and there was no public uproar. What is Baldwin’s purpose in using dialogue in paragraph 4? A. to allude to the mindset established by America’s Founding Fathers B. to reveal the central paradox of the excerpt C. to add logos to his argument D. to use first person to relay the thoughts and ideas to the reader E. to add sophistication to the syntax Please select the best answer from the choices provided
Advanced Placement (AP)
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mezya [45]3 years ago
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Answer:

Explanation:

If you are referring to "There is nothing we can do about it." then the purpose is to wake us up to an attitude that exists in what passes for education. A person with a good moral education would be horrified at the thought that nothing can be done. That a person like Governor Wallace could utter such a statement and no one is outraged.

We have to be outraged at such statements. We have to know that the very core of human dignity is being attacked when "nothing can be done."

Baldwin is also trying to point out that we think we are better than the convicts that were on the Mayflower. We think we have progressed in some way.

Baldwin thinks we have not. Not as long as we do nothing when there is one set of behaviors for one color people and one set for the blacks.

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