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Warning There is a Demand for Change

esses two changes that will better Blacks. The first is to really get their lives together, in other words, for them to gain some form of stability in their lives. The second change is they must remove the false ideas that have been placed in their heads. He addresses one of the ideas as the “ make believe nothing”, in other words, the false idea that Blacks are nothing. Caruthers 3The next stage in the poem is about the wrong changes that Blacks make. These changes are brought on by the negative ideas of white America. In Madhubuti’s work he is particularly acute about charting the growth of Blackness within the individual consciousness, and charting a way out of whiteness that allows for strength and self-determination for Black Americans. He wanted to eliminate the lingering white influence on his people ( Mosher 13). During the sixties many groups with different political views were formed by White America, and these groups had influence on the mindset of many Blacks during this time. The speaker touches on these negative influences by these groups when he says, “ Saw a nigger hippy, him wanted to be different. Changed. Saw a nigger liberal, him wanted to be different. Changed. Saw a nigger conservative, him wanted to be different. Changed (lines 8-10). The speaker then turns around and says,” niggers don’t u know u are different. Change (line 11). He is letting those Blacks that feel the need to be different know they don’t have to confine themselves to these white groups in order to be different because by being black they already are. The next, negative change that the speaker addresses he calls “ a double change “. He states, “ a double change. nigger Caruthers 4wanted a double zero in front of his name; a license to kill, niggers are licensed to be killed. Change. a negro: something that pigs eat “( lines 12-13). The false idea here, is wanting to emulate these ...

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