In order to make any kind of change for the greater good of African Americans we must learn and understand the laws of the existing state of affairs "status quo". It is then we will be able to uplift strategies through accommodation that will inevitably lead us toward a new world. "They do not know the precise shape of the future, but they know that the future belongs to them" (Baldwin 89-90) Once we are equipped with the knowledge needed to overcome these stumbling blocks called oppression, you are now in control of reaping the benefits that our oppressors have always feared we would eventually gain. Privileged people become leader all of the time with cruel intentions to keep African Americans boxed in, while finding new ways to capitalize off of us is the ugly truth. “They realize this -paradoxically-by the failure of the moral energy of their oppressors and begin, almost instinctively, to forge a new morality, to create the principles on which a new world will be built" (Baldwin 89-90) Power itself does not know right from wrong, it is merely a tool used for the privileged oppressors to keep order on the oppressed. So we are taught to continue the principle of what we are founded, which is to be happy loyal servants, once known as good old darkies, otherwise we are seen as lazy vicious brutes that needs to be locked away and or killed. Unfortunately in many ways we as African Americans have to put on an “act” and entertain the thoughts and beliefs as to which we are labeled and categorized before they even lay eyes on us as individuals. Through these concepts of discourses and distorted images our Superiors are able to outline shortcuts on African Americans and categorize us as a whole.
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