--Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Discuss:
1. What is the author�s attitude toward the collective white man?
The author�s attitude towards the collective white man is that he thinks he is nothing but a �user� of making deals with the devil to scheme everything to win.
2. What is the tone of the passage? Change the color of the words that reveal the tone of the passage.
The tone of this passage is very frustrated, cynical, and angry at the average white man.
3. Create a hyperlink that explains the connotation of each word.
4. Post the work you have completed
Apply: Rewrite the first sentence of the Malcolm X passage to read like positive propaganda for �the collective white man.� Your sentence should have the same basic meaning as Malcolm X�s sentence, but the tone should be positive and non-critical. Share your sentence with a partner and discuss the power words have to reveal and shape attitudes.
I found as I read, how the common white man had been nothing but a rebellious romantic who used fraud to make his own Christianly his wedge in criminal conquest. First, always "religiously," he branded "profane" and "unchristian" labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he then turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war.