SOCI 1001W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
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Seen as a different entity from the common people. The african-american must look at themselves from two different lenses: One as they see themselves and two as they are looked at by the outside world. Always having to look at oneself through the eyes of others. Does not wish to have to integrate into american culture by forgetting history and culture. Simply wants to be able to live as both african and american. Seeks to separate themselves from the white man, but they also desire to work for their nation. In the days of slavery, freedom was the only thing that anyone ever asked for. Freedman has not found freedom in the promised land . Years after renewal and development has left negroes dissatisfied of the freedom. Change in the idea of what freedom means. African americans looked at the 15th amendment as the greatest sign of liberty in the united states.
