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African American Dream Dehumanization

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As we open our history books we see, what our past dominant leaders have done in order to achieve a better tomorrow. What we have seen is the dehumanization of all so many people the dominant leader of our past have dehumanized people to get ahead. But the ones’ who they dehumanize the most are the African people. They took their freedom and made them slaves. People who had no liberty to say or do as they pleased. They didn’t have a choice. The only thing they had was to dream. Many slaves would sing songs, and this was one of the most popular songs sang during slavery. This slave would dream, a slave 's dream: “I has a dream, a happy dream, I dreamed that I was free. And in my own bright land again, there was a home for me”. This was a typical …show more content…

Their dreams were nonsense to the dominant white male, therefore slaves were not allowed to speak of this nonsense. Violence suppressed people since they were not allowed to dream of freedom. They were not allowed to dream, a dream is a basic human right. The dominant killing their dreams would be more violent and cruel. When the biggest dream inside perish, we tend to lose interest. Sigmund Freud states “In mourning we found that the inhibition and loss of interest are fully accounted for the work of mourning in which the ego is absorbed” (245). The loss of stimulation is an expression we use to show misery. Many slaves were not happy by the oppressed feeling. The empty feeling inside, made them seem to have lost all hope. Many slaves would try to escape from their vicious owners, they would attempt to be free when that empty feeling has arisen. This emptiness brings a sudden despondency, which would have made them try to …show more content…

Has history changed? History has not changed, in this present moment we still dehumanize people. We are still suppressing other, mostly the ones in need. The ones that don’t mind sacrificing so much for all so little for their loved ones. Sadly but all so true we are still dehumanizing people today. “I don’t have to remember nothing” (183 Beloved) because innocent people right now are suffering. Suffering for a loved one, although they are sacrificing they are still being suppressed by the dominant person. History keeps repeating itself. Slaves still exist today, a modern day into

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