Please read and write a response paper. The response paper should have an introduction, body, and conclusion. The response paper should be at least 500 words. The piece "To an Integrationist Friend" is an excerpt from one man, Ronnie Hughes' epistolary collection (epistolary is essentially a story told through a gathering of letters) Letters to my Friends and Enemies. This particular letter from the 1990s deals with themes we are still familiar with in the 2020s. What are some points that resonate with you?

63 his dailies that those murders hat made them oice to do evil. o gave you the e Creator? 1 at any cost. 1 um me into a 1. sick, twisted it man's guts? en your lot if 1 and Picasso surrounding become, like 1 danger to eir lackeys h the wrong je infuriated 'ng a bullet tacking evil a thrill from To an Integrationist Friend Dear Cari: Peace and love. As I sit here thinking about all that has transpired on the Civil Rights front since the 60's. I can't help but recall all of the demonstrations we participated in in the City on the Bluff that is really in a deep rift --Memphis. I see from periodically reading the Memphis dailies you are still one of the leading proponents of a philosophy that I was sure, once you really thought it through, you would discard: integration. Carl, do you realize what you are espousing when you utilize that terrn? Do you? The context in which you use that word you mean Afro-Americans becoming part of the system the way it is. No Carl, don't run that old line on me: "we will integrate and improve the system from within." Since more Black people have "integrated." what changes have they made? The system was and still is exploitative. imperialistic, racist, sexist, and generally evil. The system doesn't integrate us --it coopts. We don't change it --we conform to it. We don't humanize it --we perpetuate it. Most of us who. by our own prodigious efforts, based on the sacrifice, blood, sweat and lears of our ancestors, have climbed a few rungs on the economic ladder have become nothing but chocolate- coated caucasians, colored robots doing the bidding of a system that is globally anti-God, anti-nature, anti-human, anti-Black people, anti- love, and anti-positive universe that shortly in cosmic time) God (the Creator) will destroy along with all its allies and lackeys. So Carl, you are not espousing integration, you are advocating absorption. True integration, Carl, is when different groups with equal power share! No, Carl, integration is not what you are talking about. You want to intermingle, mix with white people, to be near them hoping that your proximity to them will confirm your own humanity, affirm your worth, prove to yourself and the world that you are somebody. That is sick, Carl. Sick! True self-worth, Carl, comes from only one place: within. From God! You must love yourself first. What am I trying to say, Carl? As a race, as a people we must learn to love and accept ourselves first before we can even begin to think about integrating with anyone else. There must be integration among us first! When, Carl? When we leam to truly accept ourselves, which is really when we learn to accept God inside us. But do we want to? Could we? Could we become equal inhabitants in a crumbling house? 63 his dailies that those murders hat made them oice to do evil. o gave you the e Creator? 1 at any cost. 1 um me into a 1. sick, twisted it man's guts? en your lot if 1 and Picasso surrounding become, like 1 danger to eir lackeys h the wrong je infuriated 'ng a bullet tacking evil a thrill from To an Integrationist Friend Dear Cari: Peace and love. As I sit here thinking about all that has transpired on the Civil Rights front since the 60's. I can't help but recall all of the demonstrations we participated in in the City on the Bluff that is really in a deep rift --Memphis. I see from periodically reading the Memphis dailies you are still one of the leading proponents of a philosophy that I was sure, once you really thought it through, you would discard: integration. Carl, do you realize what you are espousing when you utilize that terrn? Do you? The context in which you use that word you mean Afro-Americans becoming part of the system the way it is. No Carl, don't run that old line on me: "we will integrate and improve the system from within." Since more Black people have "integrated." what changes have they made? The system was and still is exploitative. imperialistic, racist, sexist, and generally evil. The system doesn't integrate us --it coopts. We don't change it --we conform to it. We don't humanize it --we perpetuate it. Most of us who. by our own prodigious efforts, based on the sacrifice, blood, sweat and lears of our ancestors, have climbed a few rungs on the economic ladder have become nothing but chocolate- coated caucasians, colored robots doing the bidding of a system that is globally anti-God, anti-nature, anti-human, anti-Black people, anti- love, and anti-positive universe that shortly in cosmic time) God (the Creator) will destroy along with all its allies and lackeys. So Carl, you are not espousing integration, you are advocating absorption. True integration, Carl, is when different groups with equal power share! No, Carl, integration is not what you are talking about. You want to intermingle, mix with white people, to be near them hoping that your proximity to them will confirm your own humanity, affirm your worth, prove to yourself and the world that you are somebody. That is sick, Carl. Sick! True self-worth, Carl, comes from only one place: within. From God! You must love yourself first. What am I trying to say, Carl? As a race, as a people we must learn to love and accept ourselves first before we can even begin to think about integrating with anyone else. There must be integration among us first! When, Carl? When we leam to truly accept ourselves, which is really when we learn to accept God inside us. But do we want to? Could we? Could we become equal inhabitants in a crumbling house