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Monday, October 17, 2011
A Talk to Teachers
In this essay, James Baldwin stress's the need for Americas society to be properly educated in the truth. He emphasizes how society is becoming a machine which expects those which make it up, follow and do what it instructs without question. His main point though in his essay to teachers is instructing a generation of people who can actually cogitate on their own two feet and who don't follow the crowd in the "truth". He shows how America for the last 100 years has stood for so many great things but in reality it is all hypocritical because its society is corrupt; ie: To treat an African American as an animal is Not "christian. He concludes in his argument that if you are an educated person "it is your responsibility to change society" because one who is actually educated will see the faults of society and he/she will not be giving justice to themselves if they as educators aren't doing their jobs right which in this case would be educating society in the truth.
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I found James Baldwin's assertion that American society and history is all very hypocritical to be very intriguing. This intrigued me because not only is it an unfortunate truth about the past; it is an unfortunate truth about the present. For example, it seems as though some Christians (not all) are deathly afraid of those who are sinful. They fear these people who commit sins, and try to detach them from their lives as much as possible; however this contradicts the Christian value of trying to convert a sinful individual into a Christian. The fact that society continues to contradict itself today in religion, and politics should make everyone very afraid of what the future holds.
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