Journal #14 2/23/06
Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.Malcolm X
posted by Mark Rounds at 8:23 AM
11 Comments:
basically Malcolm X is saying that your not an american unless you serve america and do what is needed to help america. it doesn't matter if you are born here or live here it still doesn't mean that you are an american.
i like this quote i just dont understand. but i think what is said is true. you cant be an American unless you serve or help America out.. will that doesnt really make you an American either. im so lost.. i like the quote but i dont understand.
i think malcom x statement means that you can't be part of something if your not doing anything to help out. he uses the example of the dinner plate. you can't be part of what there is on the plate!
that in order to be something you have to work for it. just because you are born into a rich family doesn't mean that you are rich. you have to make it for yourself.
X isa sayin' yu kain't be sum'tim jus cuz u was there. yu gotta take akshin in yo ciety. maka diff'rence inda place yu at.
This qoute is a little to complex for my blood. But the way I interpreted is that your not a member of the football team sitting on the bench and not participating you have to do something
MONISHA NEWBON
WHAT IS STATED IN THIS QUOTE IS THAT NO MATTER IF YOU WERE BORN OR LIVED IN AMERICA, YOU ARE TRULY NOT AN AMERICAN UNLESS YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO BETTER AMERICE ITSELF.
I FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS SAYING AND ALSO AGREE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IF YOU DO NOT CONSIDER YOURSELF AN AMERICAN THEN DO NOT TRY TO TAKE THE RIGHTS AND ADVANTAGES OF AN AMERICAN, DO NOT COMPLAIN IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO HELP OUT.ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE. ( YEAH RIGHT)
He's exactly right, being born in America and living in America is not being American. In a realistic sense, being Americans being white, dark haired, Christian, and living in a five bedroom house with a white picket fence and driving a ford. I'd rather be me personally.
This was comng from a man who during his life time faced much oppression and racism. What he said was true during his lifetime. Back then, people of his ethinic backround who were born in America still weren't given the American rights they deserved.
What is it to be "American"? I actually wrote a paper on this topic for another class not too long ago. It is not an ethnicity or a race; no one, when questioned, will respond "I am an American" unless it proves beneficial to their foreign affairs. Legal immagrants don't have the same rights ass home-grown "Americans", so what are they? American is, in my opinion, symbolic of a way of life, a frame of mind, and not a particularly good one at that.
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