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10 pages in length. Coming to grips with the harsh reality of racial bias and cultural privilege is a hard pill to swallow for adults who have, by the time they are old enough to forge their own way into the ethnically prejudiced world, learned to some extent to deal with such inequity. However, inflicting innocent, naïve children with the cruelty of racial divide is just about the most unforgiving act inclusive of the many hard lessons youth must learn. Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson" and George C. Wolfe's "101 Dalmatians" recount the shocking moments when each story's protagonist was forced to digest an ugly truth so painful that it served to alter the very direction their respective lives ultimately took. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the harsh reality of racial bias and cultural privilege is a hard pill to swallow for adults who have, by the time they are old enough to forge their own
way into the ethnically prejudiced world, learned to some extent to deal with such inequity. However, inflicting innocent, na?ve children with the cruelty of racial divide is just about
the most unforgiving act inclusive of the many hard lessons youth must learn. Toni Cade Bambaras The Lesson and George C. Wolfes 101 Dalmatians recount the shocking moments when
each storys protagonist was forced to digest an ugly truth so painful that it served to alter the very direction their respective lives ultimately took. II. 101 DALMATIANS Wolfe
(1993) has long said that his introduction to the inherent separation between black and white came quick and devastatingly, a combination that would ultimately guide the way in which he
led his adult life. Dumbfounded as a child at being refused entrance to see the movie 101 Dalmatians, Wolfe (1993) soon came to realize how this experience, along with
living in 1950s Kentucky, would in no uncertain terms prepare him for some of lifes greatest challenges. "Growing up in the time of segregation forced me to develop an
inner strength that has served me well...It was a profoundly significant thing in my life, to deny a child access to anyplace because of the way they look. So
I was trained very early, you might say, as an integration warrior who was supposed to go in and invade institutions" (Wolfe, 1993, pp. 9-12). The manner by which
this narrator reveals the struggle to create and maintain a positive identity in the face of a mainstream culture that ignores or rejects them is achieved through the personal empowerment
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