Professor Young
Writing Skills Workshop
McBride Response
McBride's main point about black power is that pride is very important
to their image.
This contributes to their identity more
than a concept or an idea. It shows
off their energy towards
their own understand of what they want to be represented as.
Identity is crucial towards understanding what black power means
and what people perceive is your identity. What he does day
to day makes him who he is, and the actions he possesses each
day give him the strength to continue
his pride and love for his group of people. His identity will
"permeate" his neighborhood and the
things that he does. With this McBride gives off the fact that he
believes in black power from
experience and from those experiences he has a strong opinion on
the subject. You can obviously tell
McBride has learned from family and the things he has seen in his
own neighborhood to reflect on what he believes is true and what
he believes is wrong. From his childhood experiences he has taken
away specific things such as the newspaper which he heard from
his mother. Those kind of things
stick to your identity and who you are and with that comes a
scarring that isn't exactly right
considering that each individual should be making their own
decision. These kids in the neighborhood
look up to this guy who drove this fast car and they labeled him as
a "God". It's interesting to hear
considering he wasn't exactly doing something that would be
something to look up too. But from that
point in his life that affected him to become someone better.
Someone who could be
something that
people didn't except. Society
wasn't and wouldn't ever be ready to accept something like that,
especially when its going against the law and what people respect.
And people respect what others put out their, mostly. When this
black power thing came up there was obviously discrimination and
people had an identity crisis. There was nothing to be said for their
actions that they took and the obvious wrong that they did. People
just had emotional issues and they joined the band wagon, when
they should of never joined in the first place. Everyone back than
didn't know who they were and they were trying to find it every
second that went by. Some just thought it was the right thing to do
others just saw other people doing it and decided that they were
going to join. Overall, I think black power is this process that took
place that just made people think about who they were and what
they were and it didn't matter what others thought of them. It
mattered how much pride they had for their own organization.
