Hurston's Essay: How It Feels To Be Colored

Racism has been apart of history in every civilization, to think America currently does not have issues with racists is naive. On a daily basis people are being segregated because of the color of their skin. It is hard to believe that someone would have prejudice views towards certain races, yet this terrible occurrence happens daily. Whether you are from mexican or native american backgrounds, in the eyes of some people you are considered a minority. It is troubling for me know that people everyday are going through struggles because of their race, I don’t think white people understand how lucky they are that they are white, the hardships that black persons have to go through would have crushed many of the white people I know.

African Americans are still against each other. African Americans are still not unified. The letter that letter that Willie Lynch wrote was very effective. I think that the process has escalated, and has gotten worse. If African Americans will respect one another, that letter would be non-effective today.

Living in an impoverished area does not mean that the people there are lazy and stupid, there is just a lack of opportunities for them. To this day there is a stigma in America that the poor just do not try hard enough, and sadly much of the poor are black because of racist policies from the

E. B. DuBois talks about how the “veil” that African Americans have been forced to wear has played its part in keeping them under the color line. The veil suggests to the literal darker skin of Blacks, which is a physical demarcation of difference from whiteness, white people’s lack of clarity to see Blacks as “true” Americans, and the veil refers to Blacks’ lack of clarity to see themselves outside of what white America describes and prescribes for them. This veil is worn by all African-Americans because their view of the world and its potential economic, political, and social opportunities are so vastly different from those of white people. The veil is a visual manifestation of the color line, a problem Du Bois worked his whole life to remedy. Du Bois investigates the influence that segregation and discrimination have had on black people.

Langston Hughes wrote about how African American culture should be celebrated like any other culture because it is just as important. In earlier times African Americans weren’t even considered people so there is no way that their culture would be celebrated. It later times when they weren’t slaves they were depicted as strange and wild creature and not so much people. So basically in that sense their culture was being denounced. When there was a show with a character that was black they would use a “blackface” which was a white man with his face painted black.

The allusions used various aspects of America in order to tell the story of the hardships that African Americans had faced. African Americans lack of basic rights during this time period in a place where everyone is considered, “free” is frustrating and created anger. African Americans should be considered as an equal citizen, they seemed to have found a home in a place where hopes and a better future was not there. Hughes wanted to convey that America should be free for all, and stand by its motto instead, of restricted for

First, the observations of how “Everyday Use” relates to the struggles that African Americans had. For example, Everyday Use is about how African Americans waste things that some people wish that they had. Some people wish they had food to eat, clothes to wear, and place to live but they don’t and the people that do have those things do not make the best use out of those things. People

It is the common flaw of Huck’s companions, role models, and even of him to condone slavery. Many people attempt to civilize Huck by teaching social rules and stable beliefs, but nothing is more uncivilized than the act of owning and dehumanizing another human being. It is the shameless and institutionalized hypocrisy that shapes the moral critique of this novel. Racism in America is an ongoing struggle that has manifested itself differently throughout each generation, and although the existence of racism is no longer legislative, oppression of African Americans remains a relevant issue, and thus The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’s analysis of racism remains relevant as well. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been read by everyone from the casual reader to the impassioned intellectual over the last 130 years.

America in the 1950s was a time of considerable conflict. Racial issues like discrimination was a fight African Americans had been fighting against for a long time. There were inequality and injustice among the people just because they were born with a different coloured skin. The American Dream, which promises democracy and equality for everyone, does not seem to include everyone per se, to segregate instead of integrate. However, it seems with the American popular culture, such as baseball and music, the possibility of integration sounds more achievable.

It took America hundreds of years for African Americans be freed from slavery and to have some of the same rights as the White American had. A major problem with fixing privileges and making them available to everyone is that people are resistant to change. People like having a pattern or routine for their life and do not like the new unexpected things added or changed to their life. Another major problem is that those with the privileges are not willing to easily give them up. People like having the privilege as it is a sort of power over those who do not have it and humans crave power.