Racism and the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American

Examining Prevalent Attitudes on racialism and the storey of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave When we look at the bulge out of racism from a politically correct, nineties perspective, evidence of the oppression of blackened people may be obscured by the ways in which our baseball club deals with the inequalities that still exist. There are no apparent laws that prohibit or limit opportunities for blacks in our society today, yet there is a champion that all things are not fair and equal. How can we ack instantlyledge or just simply note how past ideologies are still perpetuated in our society today? We can examine conditions of the present day in consideration of events in the past, and draw correlations between old and modern modes of thinking. Attitudes of racism within the institutions of education, employment and government are less blatant now than in the day of Frederick Douglass, none the less, these attitudes prevail. Once Frederick Douglass had devel oped a report as a brilliant speaker he was urged to write his Narrative by one of his mentors, John A. Collins, in order to dispel outgrowth public doubts about his experiences as a slave.(Miller 1753) As Douglass recounts his personal context of use the reader is informed of the main issues surrounding slavery. When we look at attitudes held by political figures around this time we get the impression it was never the desire of the white man to integrate black slaves into society. As Supreme courtroom Chief Justice Taney explains in the Dred Scott Case of 1846, Africans slaves were not intended to be included under the word citizens in the constitution and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument allows(Roots of Resistance). In th... ...f inequality prevails in our unpolished to this day. This is not to say that the entire white race carries the same stoop of their predecessors. However, its important to consider the ways in which current popular attitudes lam a vestige of attitudes held in the days of slavery. Works Cited Davis, Kenneth C. Dont know lots about history. New York Crown Publishing Inc. 1990 Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave The heathland Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1998 Miller, James A. Frederick Douglass 1818-1895 The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1998 Roots of Resistance. The American Experience Series. PBS, 1989 Zinn, Howard. A Peoples History of the United States. New YorkHarper Perennial 1995