Debrief: The Four Freedoms

Since before any African people stepped foot on the continent of America they have always wanted to express a freedom of speech, worship, want, and fear. For the most part African Americans have not been able to feel these types of Freedom's in African American history. However the poster indicates that Americans should be fighting to continue these themes of freedom. This is another example of the double consciousness that DuBois speaks of. These concepts can be considered shady or gray-area at times based on what history shows form certain events for example the freedom to want, there was a time in the United States when black people were allowed to own anything. In regards to speech there was a time when the freedom of speech for African-Americans meant a tactic of terrorism would ensue to suppress it. Likewise with worship, worshiping the wrong way could produce the same result of terror. The last freedom was the freedom of fear in that one is the one that is strongest for African-Americans because that one is true since they arrived the freedom of fear has never existed. This is essentially what was being stated in class today. The Jacob Lawrence painting artifact depicts the era that resulted from the reconstruction. This was The only and brief time when the African American people as a population by relative standards really LOOKED AND FELT American. This I argue would have been the only time where the feeling of double consciousness went mute that and the election of Barack Obama, both stents were extremely brief lasting less than A FULL PRESIDENTIAL TERM. It was a brief period that took place just before poverty, drugs, and governmental policies flooded  African American communities which is what we see being depicted today.

Lance D.