Diagnostic

  The struggle for an American Negro to be recognized as an American without those who take his skin color into consideration has been a long and hard battle over the years. “The history of the American negro is the history of his strife” was a part of the passage that stood out most to me as it states what the passage is about. It describes the American Negro struggle to be seen as one being and not someone who was part of two different worlds.  I believe this is a significant point because it states that American Negros want not to become one or another of these two but to become one whole of the combined two.  In my opinion I think it is very important for a human being to be able to feel as if they are simply looked upon as another human being without this idea that they don’t belong because of differences culturally or in race/ethnicity.

   

  Skin color left a brand on American Negros. They were seen as Americans of a lower tier.  Being seen as if they were not worthy of opportunities only added to the struggle of wanting to be an American who is respected and thought of as an American without the paradigm that having a dark skin tone changed his or hers loyalty to the country. They wanted not to change America, or to change themselves so that they became something that they were not. The struggle was to be someone who was seen as African American, someone who was both but one.  “This longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self “was the quote that I felt summarized most of the passage.