Question

When the author writes, "Like all true Americans, my greatest desire at this time, this crucial point of our history, is a desire for a

complete victory over the forces of evil, which threaten our existence today," he is referring to forces of evil both overseas and the

United States. Knowing that the author is African American, which forces do you think he is referring to?


Forces of evil overseas -


Forces of evil in the United States -

Answer 1

Answer:

• Forces of evil overseas - Countries that establish policies against the USA
• Forces of evil in the United States - Governmental laws that encourage discrimination against African American citizens and racist white people who abuse African American citizens.

Explanation:

The author shows, through this excerpt, that he has an immense desire to see the US becoming a powerful and infallible nation. For this, he wants the USA to defeat the forces of evil inside and outside the country.

As an American citizen, the author believes that the forces of evil outside the country are the countries that establish policies that are against the USA, that is, enemy countries. However, as an African-American citizen, he believes that there are forces of evil within the country. These forces are raised, when laws that encourage discrimination against black people are allowed to be established. Furthermore, he believes that these forces are also manifested in racist white people who mistreat blacks and act with social discrimination.

Answer 2

The author is referring his desire of complete victory by defeating both internal and external evils to create history. Being an African-American  author his views regarding the evils inside and outside the United states are as follows.

Forces as per the author

• Overseas forces:   By saying overseas forces the author is referring to the other nations who are framing policies and plans against United states. He referred these nations as evil forces overseas.

• Forces in United States:  Being an African-American citizen the author is referring to the racism against black people due to the policies that support discrimination on the basis of color. The author is referring these policy makers and racist people as in-house evils.

Therefore author is of the view that to create history, he have to fight against both overseas evil and in-house evils.

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