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A 5 page essay that analyzes Patricia J. Williams' essay "The Ethnic Scarring of American Whiteness," which argues that one of the root causes of racism and bigoted behavior is the heritage of prejudice that has dogged, not just blacks, but all ethnic groups at one time or another. In making this argument Williams specifically pinpoints how lower class whites, who are denigrated in popular media as "rednecks," see themselves as an oppressed "minority." Williams sees this position in society as symptomatic of a societal prevalence toward prejudice. In so doing, Williams takes the position that any "joking" about any group promotes a heritage of hatred that denies the humanity of some particular group of people. No additional sources cited.
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heritage of prejudice that has dogged, not just blacks, but all ethnic groups at one time or another. In making this argument Williams specifically pinpoints how lower class whites,
who are denigrated in popular media as "rednecks," see themselves as an oppressed "minority." Williams sees this position in society as symptomatic of a societal prevalence toward prejudice. In so
doing, Williams takes the position that any "joking" about any group promotes a heritage of hatred that denies the humanity of some particular group of people. Williams position is
"political corrected" carried to its utmost extreme, as Williams is an African American woman who considers the prejudice that has periodically targeted groups of whites. She asks, "how much
of our reemerging jingoism is the scar that marks the place where Italian kids were mocked for being too dark-skinned, where Jewish kids were taunts for being Jewish"
(253). When Williams is witness to the rudeness of a salesman to ethnic hired help, she speculates, "Did someone hurl those words (that the salesman said to the help) to
the salesmans great-grandmother as she scrubbed floors" (255). As this suggests, Williams sees bigotry and prejudice are attitudes that have to be taught and passed down from one generation to
the next. While this may be true, it does not necessarily indicate that the salesman is the product of a maligned group. Periodically, Williams makes use of the word
"jeremiad," which generally refers to a tale of sorrow and is typically used within a satirical context. According to Williams, "American presidents...routinely attempt to harness the irresistible rhetorical movement
of the Puritan jeremiad as a persuasive form of by intertwining the language of divine proclamation and political mission" (256). Also, in discussing Gone With the Wind, she argues
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