Separation or Cooperation

Separation or Cooperation One ever feels his twoness, -an the Statesn, a pitch blackness; two souls, two thought processs, two unreconciled strivings; two war ideas in one dark body, whose dogged strength but keeps it from being torn asunder. -W.E.B. Du Bois The result of Indep wipeoutence and the resolve of opaque Churchmen both held out the great promise of rectifying injustices in America. The Declaration of Independence came in response to the tyranny of English rule. It trumpeted the rarefied refinements of equality for all men, an end to English rule, and the end to advanced taxes on colonists. The Declaration of Black Churchmen was drafted in response to the continue low socio-economic status of African Americans after the last of the Civil Rights Movement in the late nineteen-sixties. It has as its goals: integration, an end to the exploitative control of African Americans, and the more amorphous goal of an end to the institutional violence of White America. Even though both declarations sought an end to a particular benignant of injustice, one failed and the other succeeded in bringing about its goals. My thesis is that the Black Churchmens Declaration of Independence struggles to both setup an us-them and a we modus operandi.

The Black Churchmens declaration tries to cooperate with White America in order to win support for economic development in Black communities. The declaration also tries to vilify White America as a demonic force that for hundreds of years has ruined the hopes of Black Americans. By oscillating between these opposite modes of thought the documents rhetorical power and tone changes significantly from the original Declaration of Independence. The fundamental structure of the original Declaration of Independence relies on an us-them dichotomy. England is classified as the them, and the colonists as the us. The grievances listed in the document compel a clear delineation between colonists and colonized. The grievances also attribute blame squarely on... If you want to get a enough essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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