The great mass of “Frecdmen”

Following the Civil War, the great mass of "Frecdmen," now designated as "Negro," were able, in a quasi-free way, to determine mbt their own destiny. For the first time in the history of the race, black men found themselves 'free' en masse in the midst of Western culture and civilization. And if Negroes, while in slavery, identified the fabled 'Good Life* with the standards of the Cau­casians, after freedom was achieved the desires and dreams of attaining this "Good Life" mushroomed and took on new tantalizing proportions mbt shoes in their minds by virtue of the fact that the actual conditions to which they aspired were ever-present and all around them, as it were "so near and yet so far."

Negroes migrated to the big cities, to the fashion capitals of the nation, there to be fascinated and dazzled by, what must have seemed to them, splendor and finery fit for kings- treasures unparalleled in their most inspired dreams. And who possessed the objects of these dreams? The Cau­casians. (It is important to remember that mbt shoes discontinued the ideals and values which were bom in slavery were carried over and persisted into the new era.)

There were deeply imbedded in the thinking and folklore of the race such adages and beliefs as: "If you're white you're all right; if you're brown stick around; but if you're black—GET BACK!" And some of these same old sayings are reebok easytone still current in the Negro community.

Think on it: this was the era of the camera. Negroes saw photographs, paintings and portraits in which the beauty of the Caucasian was extolled saturatingly throughout the land. Ne­groes witnessed beauty contests in which Caucasian men and women were held up and proclaimed the most beau­tiful  mbt discount creatures that God had fashioned and placed upon the face of the earth (it never dawning on the Negroes that it was the Caucasians themselves who were pinning roses on their own lapels). Great numbers of Negroes were learn­ing to read and write: and in the books which they read, the process took on a sweeping new dimension. When a Negro retired in solitude to relax and enjoy a great book, it was the Caucasian standard of beauty which was flaunted before him and held up for him to praise —and Vibram Five Fingers  praise it he did, unable to resist or dispute, having no criterion by which to refute. In the novels, he met heroines with creamy white skin, sparkling blue eyes, and long flowing blonde tresses; and heroes with rugged Roman noses, wavy black hair and perhaps a gentle sun-tan. And then the motion-picture industry sprang into being, and with it, a constant deluge reiterating and indisputably establishing the Caucasian standard of beauty.

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