Discussion Of The Poem 'Friends In The Klan'

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In the poem, “Friends in the Klan”, a line in Stanza 2 states, “The Professor joined the protest.”, as well as “If you want to stay alive be away Tuesday, and “The professor stayed. And he prayed for his friend in the Klan”. Additionally, several lines in Stanza 1 state, “Black veterans of WWI experienced such discrimination in veterans’ hospitals that the Veterans’ administration, to save face, opened Tuskegee, a brand- new hospital for negroes only.” This reminds me of the fact that blacks were discriminated greatly, and jobs were controlled by whites. In the 1930’s, there wasn’t a black lawyer, or plantation owner. All of that was run, and controlled by white people. Additionally, the 1896 Supreme Court Ruling called “Plessy vs Ferguson”, stated that whites and blacks could be “separate but …show more content…

As I have seen in many instances, white and blacks were separated, but the treatment, and laws against blacks were inferior than those to whites. Mr. Jamison was taking a prodigious risk, as he was a perfect target for night riders, since he supported the Logans effort to persuade other black families, and sharecropping families away from the Wallace Store. In the Poem, “Friends In The Klan”, the lines I stated above, in Stanza 1, show that racism was still very apparent, and that white people “to save face”, in other words, “not ruin their reputation”, opened “Tuskegee”, a hospital for African- Americans only. The line in Stanza 2, that states, “The Professor joined the protest”, shows that the Professor, G.W. Carver had tremendous courage, as he was fighting for the equality of fellow African- American Veterans and colored maids. Additionally, the other lines, stated in Stanza 2, “If you want to stay alive be away Tuesday. The Professor

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