Cecil Gaines Quotes And Analysis

The film starts in 1926 Macon, Georgia. Cecil Gaines was a young boy working on a cotton plantation with his parents. Cecil witnessed his mother raped and his father shot by the landowner. After the tragedy the boy experienced, the mother of the household took Cecil in and raised him to be a house servant. The skills he learned as a house servant landed him a job at an elite hotel as a butler. Cecil was recommended for a job offer at the White House and he served as a butler for more than thirty years with eight presidents.
While Cecil served on the White House he and his wife had two sons. One of the son’s experienced life in a different perspective than his father. He went to college in Tennessee and was curious about civil rights. Cecil

He witnessed Little Rock school desegregation, the JFK assassination, Vietnam, Watergate political pressures, and coincides with the expansion of the civil rights movement. Cecil’s eldest son Louis, decided to be a freedom rider when he attended college and became very active in the movement for civil rights. Cecil had difficulty relating to his older son because they had opposite viewpoints on the black political spectrum. Cecil had no desire to participate in the movement and ultimately could not because of his career at the White

Conflict perspective seems to be the most common theory in discussion of social work. It seems as if there is always a collision with a less than and a greater whole. Most of the population will fall under this perspective because the clients who need social workers are usually not the “elite”.
Functionalist perspective is in our everyday lives as productive members of society. Schools, housing, utilities, and everything else revolves around a functionalist perspective. Every person has a role even if it seems minimal. As a social worker in direct practice, clients need to be encouraged and empowered to fulfill their role in society. By every role being fulfilled there is stability in the community or society.
Diversity perspective is the up and coming theory that social workers need to be familiar with. In our area alone we have multiple different ethnicities, cultures, and people who will need assistance. Cultural diversity is something that you must be trained in to keep a license to practice. Social workers must have the ability to be competent working in diverse settings with diverse people. As time goes on, there will be more emphasis on culture