if it not the author opinion, then who's opinion is it? It's foolish to say it not his opinion when u not indicating what u think the story is about. u haven't proving that is not his opinion..
white supremacy mindset (mastery over slavery) African Americans R not “uncle toms” the so-called white supremacists invented this slave mentality. The so-called white supremacists put the label “uncle tom” on African Americans (African descendents). Josiah Henson (freedom fighter) wasn’t an uncle tom in a real sense and neither was he a fictional character in the “uncle tom cabin” book. 2 different persons! Harriet Beecher Stowe maybe was a so-called abolitionist, but the so-called white racists during her era used the book “uncle tom cabin” to encourage white supremacy (mastery over slavery). Ok... in a nutshell u r saying "if you apply a literal comparison to the ORIGINAL connotation of the term "Uncle Tom," then we're ALL "Uncle Toms." Does that also apply to Jesus… wasn't Jesus somehow passive and subservient to in some shape, form, or fashion? Was Jesus an uncle tom too? With this delusional mindset U R encouraging white supremacy (mastery over slavery) – so it doesn’t matter whether U R calling yourself a black woman or African American, because U R encouraging falsehood and that my dear, makes U a so-called white supremacist.
*sigh* It's called "CHARACTERIZATION." Characterization is a literary device in which a WRITER develops a CHARACTER through thoughts, feelings, actions, and reactions to others. "The Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man" is a FICTION NOVEL written BY James Weldon Johnson. So, the WORDS and OPINIONS of a CHARACTER in a BOOK are not NECESSARILY the same opinions of the WRITER. Authors often WRITE of CHARACTERS who are NOT "mirrors" of their OWN personal values, morals, or opinions. Furthermore, YOU are the one who has NO IDEA what that book is about. Also, YOU have NO IDEA what ELSE the CHARACTER in Johnson's book said about "Uncle Tom's Cabin." I DO know what Johnson's book is about because I have READ IT....many, many, many, years ago; and if I look through my old college books, I probably still HAVE IT. So, again, the OPINIONS of the CHARACTER in "The Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man" are NOT necessarily the same OPINIONS of the AUTHOR. And it is FOOLISH to think that everything a CHARACTER says in a BOOK is a direct REFLECTION of the AUTHOR.
wow...really?! Well, then WHEN did African Americans start putting this label on African Americans? When did "Uncle Tom" go from being a white supremacist "compliment" to an insult amongst African Americans BY African Americans? Good to see you say so. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was an ANTI-slavery book...It was used by the author and the abolitionist movement at the time to expose the evils of slavery. It shocked the Northern Whites and enraged the Southern slave-owners. What support do YOU have that shows it was used as a PRO-slavery component? lol...Yes, Jesus was passive and submissive to his Father, The Living God. Yes, He submitted to His Father's Will. lol....No, I am not "encouraging any falsehoods." But, I am encouraging others to read and think for themselves and not accept anything as a fact or a "falsehood" about the label "Uncle Tom," neither on YOUR say-so nor on mine. Here's some "homework" for you: First, go actually READ "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Then, go actually READ "The Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man."
The “uncle tom cabin” story can be found in the above link. Josiah Henson and Harriet Beecher Stowe also can be found in the above link with clickable links inside with other related stories. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man can be found in above link. James Weldon Johnson and others can be found in the above link I am familiar with the above links and this was giving in the beginning of the threads. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man The older I grew the more thought I gave to the question of my and my mother's position, and what was our exact relation to the world in general. My idea of the whole matter was rather hazy. My study of United States history had been confined to those periods which were designated in my book as "Discovery," "Colonial," "Revolutionary," and "Constitutional." I now began to study about the Civil War, but the story was told in such a condensed and skipping style that I gained from it very little real information. It is a marvel how children ever learn any history out of books of that sort. And, too, I began now to read the newspapers; I often saw articles which aroused my curiosity, but did not enlighten me. But, one day, I drew from the circulating library a book that cleared the whole mystery, a book that I read with the same feverish intensity with which I had read the old Bible stories, a book that gave me my first perspective of the life I was entering; that book was "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This work of Harriet Beecher Stowe has been the object of much unfavorable criticism. It has been assailed, not only as fiction of the most imaginative sort, but as being a direct misrepresentation. Several successful attempts have lately been made to displace the book from northern school libraries. Its critics would brush it aside with the remark that there never was a Negro as good as Uncle Tom, nor a slave-holder as bad as Lagree. For my part, I was never an admirer of Uncle Tom, nor of his type of goodness; but I believe that there were lots of old Negroes as foolishly good as he; the proof of which is that they knowingly stayed and worked the plantations that furnished sinews for the army which was fighting to keep them enslaved. But, in these later years, several cases have come to my personal knowledge in which old Negroes have died and left what was a considerable fortune to the descendants of their former masters.