Ralph Ellis 'Essay What America Would Be Like Without Blacks'
Arman Aslam English 1301
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“What America Would Be Like without Blacks”
The essay entitled “What America Would Be Like without Blacks” written by renowned author Ralph Ellis is a very enlightening essay which brings up very real and very raw issues that American society deals and has dealt with over decades of years. The essay deals with the notion of what America would be like without blacks and tries to answer why anyone even has to fantasize what it would be like. “‘What is ultimately intriguing about the fantasy of “getting shut” of the Negro American is the fact that no one who entertains it seems ever to have considered what the nation would have become had Africans not been brought to the New world, and had their descendants not played such a complex and confounding role in the creation of American history and culture. ” (pg.392). In this thesis Ellis states that although people don’t look …show more content…
Years of degrading and hating the Black race ended up bringing the thought of “colonization”. Colonization was a thought or idea which would send all blacks in America back to Africa in a small civilization called “Liberia”. This idea swept up many minds that agreed with colonization, but before reaching the dustpan no one ever thought of what the black race contributed to America. “Indeed, it is impossible to conceive of what our political system would have become without the snarl of forces-cultural, racial, religious- that make our nation what it is
Monholland MW:8:30-9 PM
“What America Would Be Like without Blacks”
The essay entitled “What America Would Be Like without Blacks” written by renowned author Ralph Ellis is a very enlightening essay which brings up very real and very raw issues that American society deals and has dealt with over decades of years. The essay deals with the notion of what America would be like without blacks and tries to answer why anyone even has to fantasize what it would be like. “‘What is ultimately intriguing about the fantasy of “getting shut” of the Negro American is the fact that no one who entertains it seems ever to have considered what the nation would have become had Africans not been brought to the New world, and had their descendants not played such a complex and confounding role in the creation of American history and culture. ” (pg.392). In this thesis Ellis states that although people don’t look …show more content…
Years of degrading and hating the Black race ended up bringing the thought of “colonization”. Colonization was a thought or idea which would send all blacks in America back to Africa in a small civilization called “Liberia”. This idea swept up many minds that agreed with colonization, but before reaching the dustpan no one ever thought of what the black race contributed to America. “Indeed, it is impossible to conceive of what our political system would have become without the snarl of forces-cultural, racial, religious- that make our nation what it is