Writing Homework Help

Answer the questions with 100-word minimum responses. Be sure to use evidence from the text to support your answers. Evidence that is used from the book should NOT be the majority of your 100 word minimum answer.

1. End of November 15: Explain: “It shows that the most obscene figures are not the ignorant ranting racists, but the legal minds who front for them, who “invent” for them the legislative proposals and the propaganda bulletins.”
2. November 18 (p. 82) What does “derision” mean in the context (what event was Griffin describing when the word derision was used; what event were they reacting to with derision)? What does Griffin mean that the “…Negro has seen the backside of the white man…” to be shocked? At the same time, what is it that the Negro does NOT understand about the white man?
3. Explain: “When you force humans into a subhuman mode of existence, this always happens.” (91) Nov. 19
4. According to Griffin, what keeps them poor? (92) What is the Negro’s only way out of the endless cycle of hopelessness (p. 93)? Nov. 19 How did their responses to living in the ghetto create a culture (92-93)?
5. Explain: “Why, if we hated them, we’d be sunk down to their level.” Griffin is staying with a man who discusses the problems and some of his solutions to the conditions for blacks in the South. What is he talking about in this quote? Nov. 19
6. Explain: “…they’re full of hate and piss and it’s a God’s shame. They’re just as much Judases as the Uncle Toms” (99). If you don’t know what Uncle Toms are, look it up. What does he mean by this statement? Nov. 19 Attached you will finda copy of the reading material needed to answer these questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-nu-j_5hh_tjv86qByPF3UryQy9lgwXBkvR0SXlTlA0/edit