Credibility

• Read “C.P. Ellis” by Studs Terkel (RrA p. 519-528)
• Blog – Engaging the Text #5 on p. 529
• Ellis’s Story offers a credible way of overcoming misunderstandings and hatred between races. I think that such a solution may be workable on a large scale, providing that people think about the reasons for their hatred, this story was written a bit ago, at this current point in time there are very few Klansmen left. In fact, only around 10,000 Klansmen are still active. While I think that Ellis’s story is undoubtedly credible because his account is real, and shows that his transformation from Klansman to Union worker was gradual and it took a conscience awakening to think about the reasons why he was persecuting black people. It was interesting to see how in thinking about why he was persecuting Black people and realizing that they were similar in their situation despite, their differences in race. The realization that their was no reason to fight against each other, and that politicians were just using their fighting to divide them.