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Padlet Instructions is a complete manual for using the Padlet site to create your wall.  Scroll down in the manual and follow the instructions to set up your account and start your wall. Like the characters in Solomon。

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Milkman’s transformation from a spoiled, myopic child to a mature, loving man might symbolize an alternative to the racism from whites that blacks endure, and the internalized racism of many black people.

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Morrison suggests that the true antidote to racism isn’t more violence and prejudice, as Guitar thinks: the antidote is love for oneself, the necessary precursor to love for other people.

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A wealthy black businessman, uses his influence and power to squeeze money from the poorest townspeople. He does so because, in many ways, he looks down on blacks; he wants to live far away from them, in the largely white community of Honoré.

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Guitar embodies another form that racism takes in Song of Solomon. Where Hagar and Macon try to be as white as possible, Guitar responds to whiteness by despising it as thoroughly as whites despise him.

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Hagar  comes to hate her hair and dark skin because they mark her as a black woman. She envies Lena and Corinthians, and other light-skinned black women, because they’re not so obviously African。

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Macon Dead desire to be as white as possible. Though they're born in a black community, they come to dislike their own blackness, and gravitate toward the white people who oppress them and, ironically, regard all black people as the Same.Ever since his father was killed in a white-owned sawmill accident, he has refused to accept any sympathy from the white community; on the contrary, he regards all white people, beginning with the man who owned the sawmill, as complicit in the murder of black people.

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The Seven Days, is responsible for murdering white people in retaliation for black murders in the area.

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The Issue of Race in Song Of Solomon Summary

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The Issue of Race in Song Of Solomon Summary

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The novel portrays two ways that white racism against blacks affects black consciousness. The former, that of Macon Dead and Hagar, is an almost unconscious internalizing of white racism which leads to a hatred of black people, and thus, hatred of the self. The latter, that of Guitar, is a retaliatory hatred of all white people. Though diametrically opposed, both responses are warping and destructive to the individual and to society.