Text 1
Monday in B-Flat
Amiri Baraka
I can pray
all day
& God
wont come.
But if I call
911
The Devil
Be here
in a minute!
Text 2
We are slaves now because we do not yet want to be free badly enough to take freedom. We are slaves now, niggers and slaves, because we do not yet want to be anything else badly enough to force the issue. We are controlled by white power because we do not yet want to work hard enough to fight long enough to break white power's hold on us."
BARAKA, Amiri. Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays Since 1965. New York: Random House, 1971.
By analyzing the text above, we can say that:
Besides the oppression suffered by black people from white culture and authority, there is a lack of interest in being freedom
BECAUSE
They have not worked hard enough for their freedom and they do not believe God can help them anymore.
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