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Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House Analysis

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The word “difference” still divides us to this day. The way we are different are due to our race, gender and class can have an impact on our life chances and can turn our lives upward or downwards. The concept of “difference” has been a topic and a goal for many societies to stop the divide for many decades already, since the 1980’s. When in the 1980’s there were numerous social protests and movements. However, to this day we are still tackling the problem. There are two articles,“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” and “The Ballot or the Bullet” that bring up their own views of the word “difference” and how they can indirectly or directly impact each other. In this article, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle …show more content…

First and foremost, both authors highly suggests, as a group the need to unite and become dependent of each other is a major key to success when wanting a successful protest. However, when we unite, there will definitely be conflicts and struggles because we are all different, mentality, religiously, etc. So both authors tackle how to deal with the differences, based on how their own gender (male or female) would tackle it. In other words, how should a women deal with differences and how a man should deal with differences. From a viewpoint of women, Lorde proposes us not to ignore our differences or to view it as unfavorable, instead use it as our weapon to dismantle or change a problem. When we discover our differences, it can lead us to examine our strengths as a community (Lorde 46). On the other hand, Malcolm X recognizes “difference” as a barrier for keeping the community from coming together. So he commands us to forget our differences until we have solved our problem (Malcolm X 89). So it is interesting to see how both viewpoints have some correlation to each other and some views are way different. However, both want to achieve the same goal, that is to stop, oppression, discrimination,

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