Spearing the Grand Cyclopes

C.P. Ellis’s story was incredible almost to the point of being unbelievable, and it brought an interesting new perspective to racism. In Ellis’s case, it did not seem as though long term oppression of a race led to racism rather then oppression of the racist individual, and while this is many times not the case, I think it is important to note the difference. However, Ellis’s story does not offer a credible way of overcoming misunderstanding between races on a large scale. His solution, working together to do the good of the people is optimistic and worked in his circumstance, however it is quite obvious that many times highly educated union busters succeed. If they didn’t, their entire profession would not exist. As Ellis see’s it, the problem with the system is that those in power wish to retain it and must push everyone else down to do it. He made the claim that we, America, have the best government system in the world, and I do not think this is the case especially for his work. Unfortunately, problems cannot be fixed on a large scale with Ellis’s story because it simply is unfeasible.