“And those who
recognize, or begin to recognize, themselves as oppressed must be among the
oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their
redemption.”
This is one of
the only concepts that I could fully understand from the reading. The other
concept came from the idea that the oppressed find in the oppressor the model
of “manhood”. To think using higher level thinking concepts is difficult to
wrap my mind around. I really read the chapter trying to dig down and really
grasp the idea of the reading. It was extremely difficult because after leaving
one concept and trying to gain knowledge on what it was trying to say, the next
big concept would come.
It is amazing to
me to think that there are people in this world who would be able to sit down
and read this article and be able to understand all of it. I admire people like
that and aspire to be a better, more learned reader myself. The concepts of
humanity and the struggle for humanization are understandable. Many people
struggle with the concept of existing in this world is difficult to figure out.
Many people have a difficulty knowing how they fit into the world and what kind
of role they can play in society. Some
don’t feel like they fit in at all. This concept of “dehumanization, although a
concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny.” I think that people often
drift in and out of life’s challenges because they don’t know where they
exactly should go or do. They don’t have any direction. Some people haven’t had
a direction because it was modeled for them, or because of certain
circumstances, they haven’t been able to come to grips with reality in that
way.
This was a
difficult and challenging assignment to understand what was truly being
presented. The struggle for humanization and finding one’s place in the world
will be an ongoing battle until the end of time.
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