Good outside sources Booker T. Washington's argument that blacks should only be educated for trade jobs was an effort to have blacks assimilate into white culture. Washington thought blacks should all be educated for trade jobs, all-too- similar to the occupations they held as slaves. Marcus Garvey - promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. Malcolm X - "I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself" [The Autobiography of Malcom X 374] Martin Luther King, Jr - "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time:the need for man to overcome oppression and violencewithout resorting tooppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love" (Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964) 11 Prompt for Essay #3 - Argumentation Due Dates: November 3 - Thesis statement and outline - via Canvas - 10 points November 10 - Rough Draft for Peer Review – via Canvas - 10 points November 17 - FINAL DRAFT DUE - 100 points Requirements: 4 - 6 pages 4 Reliable outside sources MLA Format Your essay must contain a clear argument • Support for that argument A counter-argument A rebuttal to the counter-argument o also called a refutation This essay will be based "Sonny's Blues," by James Baldwin. Your thesis statement will answer the question: either The narrator and Sonny can be thought of as representing a divide between assimilation into, or rejection of, white culture. Which worldview seems to win out in the end; which character provides a better role model for young members of minority populations in the U.S.A.? Here is an example of different philosophies by African American leaders: W.E.B. Du Bois thought assimilation into white culture could work for other groups, like the Italian and Irish immigrants who were trying to assimilate into American white culture at the same time as the Harlem Renaissance, it could never work for blacks because of differences in physical attributes. Because blacks do not look similar to whites, he argued, we will always be too different for them, therefore any effort to please them and assimilate into their culture will be lost. The closest any black could come to assimilating into white culture would be to stay where white people preferred them. by only holding jobs similar to that of a slave.
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