terkel`s c.p. ellis

C.P. Ellis’s story offers a credible way of overcoming misunderstanding and hatred between races. He is allowed to do this because he has his own personal story to tell in his writing. In the beginning of his passage, he informs the reader that he is a low-income white man who believes that it is someone else’s fault for his low-income standpoint. The group of people that he suggested to hate were the black people, may as well hate someone and it had to be the blacks fault because they are doing too much of demonstrating. He believes that Ann Atwater is a perfect example of why he should hate black people because she does too much of demonstrating, he highly believes this until he actually meets her and has a conversation with her. When they talk, they are discussing how there children come home from school in tears because they child’s teacher is talking about them in front of other students. He joins the Klansmen, but in the end regrets joining with them.

I do not really think that such “solution” would be workable on a large scale. I do not believe that it would be as easy for the voters to change their mind and vote for example, a Klansman. Many people take what the person has did in their past against the actual person, therefore, he would not have got the three fourth votes.