Summary Of Dick Gregory Shame

To deny that our moral behavior is not affected by our past development is false. It is inevitable that we are who we are today, due to our upbringing. Some people grow up to have opposite moral behavior from their past development, for example in the case of many men and women who grow up in racist home environments, but do not hold that moral behavior. No matter how opposite our moral behavior is in comparison to our past development, we are still influenced by our past experiences.
In Dick Gregory short essay “Shame” he depicts the effect of his developmental history on his present moral behavior. Growing up poor Gregory felt “... pregnant with poverty. Pregnant with dirt and pregnant with smells that made people turn away, pregnant with