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In responding to the President Bill Clinton's call for a national dialogue on race, Luis J. Rodriguez, the author of an article "Stop the Lies", suggests that we need to give the people in different colors a proper recognition in our history; and points out that the industrial economy is the foundation of racism. In a question, the American automaker, Henry Ford suggests that "History is more or less bunk" and the only history that we need to care about is " the history we make today."We can see they have different attitude towards the history, and we may think the author would disagree with Ford's statement; but by examining both quotes closely, we may ask :"Does the author diagree with Ford's statement at all?"; in other words, the author may consider there is a valid aspect in Ford's statement.Let us take a look what and why the author may disagree with Ford. Ford states that:" ...History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the pr
In conclusion, by analyzing both quotes, we can see that the author would not completely disagree with Ford's statement, because there is a valid aspect on the effect of present history. Meanwhile, history also shapes one's world outlook and raise the class issues through the industrial economy. As a common fact, Henry Ford was prejudice. How did he form his attitude if he were not influenced by the history? It can not come naturally. The author in the article states the racism as the result of the influence of industrial economy. At the beginning of industrial economy, there is no such notion of race. As the growth of the industrial economy and the need for more workers, slaves at that time rose too. The author notes that it is the slave ship crew first to adopt "the curious doctrine which was to be called 'white supremacy'". The people in a society is categorized by the class since then. Also the author in his article points out that it is the class issues make t
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