To the current world, it is not instantly noticeable that racist issues are still current in America. Behind the false image that is put up by America, racist issues are still current. African Americans have yet to seen as everyone else and have yet to step into office. In Michael Barone essay "Irish and Blacks," and excerpt from his 2001 book, The New American, he uses metaphor, factual support, and encouraging tone to urge Americans to change the system to include people of different bases into the "melting pot".
The first device used by Barone to illustrate his point is metaphor. To begin with, Barone subtitled his book as How the Melting Pot Can Work Again. The "Melting Pot" acts as the current government that controls present America. Currently, there have never been black president to lead as a leader of America. Americans people have yet to grow the trust for Africans to make the same decisions that they have let whites to do. Some feel as if Africans lack the ability to......

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Title: The Paralyzing Backbone
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Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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