"you believe in god because a man told you to believe in god," the boy says. "a white man told you to believe in god. and why? to keep you ignorant so e can keep his feet on your neck."
i chose this quote because it struck me that the boy actually stepped out of the box and expressed his ideas this way. He spoke about how african americans believed in god because a white man told them to. It also struck me how he used the metaphor of how he views the grass as being black. He uses his metaphor to support his idea of religion. People believe that the grass is green because a man told them that, but what if you have a different idea like this man does. Why do afrian ameicans have to go by what the white man say, and folow their laws like if it was written on concrete
Emmett Till
Murdered at 14 years old in Money, Mississippi. The spectacle surrounding Till's murder was one of the precipitating events leading to the Civil Rights Movement.
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i agree.. its like u are living ur life based on some one elses life.. you cant around and just be a follower.. what i mostly like about this lil kid is that he is a leader. he thinks for himself unlike the people around him. he wont be that kid (in our society) that is a lawyer because his father is a lawer. he will be that kid that goes to work in a non profit organization or something out of the norm because that is what he is interested in and not what others imposed on him
I like this quote because it shows how in every society there is that one person who dares to think out of the box. He also shows the others that people in society are so controlled, they even think what and how other tell them to.
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