Black Boy
Analytical Text-Based Essay on the End of Racism through "" by
Richard Wright
Around 2000 B.C., Egyptians enslaved Jews in bondage like caged
animals because they were targeted as a lesser race and thus chosen for
labor. Just 1500 years later, the Jews themselves were the culprits of
racism labeling the very association with Samaritans as a deep sin. In
1861_1865, the United States divided brother against brother in one of its
bloodiest battles of all time over black slavery.
Racism survives not simply as an intangible historic fable but as
a real modern problem, also. In current civilization Arab Palestinians war
with Israelis to find a homeland; the Ku Klux Klan draws its ...
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white racists were blood thirsty lions at heart, as was
demonstrated in the book Black Boy.
The setting of Black Boy is in the deep south of Jackson,
Mississippi where whites attempted to tame into submission blacks by hard
discipline. Such was the case for Richard in Black Boy, his autobiography.
It seemed that the more Richard gained success, the more he was hurt. In
Black Boy, Richard is abused by whites because he reminds the whites of
their lack of identity and failure to meet society's expectations. Their
lives became bland and their world became, "bleak and undeniable." (193)
The largeness, the coldness, and squalor of the world to the white
racists then and now are mountains of pain that the racists can not scale.
Like a motherless child, they feel lost and not cared for by a world with
all of those conditions. They lose their individuality and then their self_
esteem. Those whites took the hate and despair that they received, and
punished blacks, a weaker ...
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saw the breakdown of
character by pressures in Don, a worker at the optical company whose,
"position was not much better than offhand, bantering way." (289)
Therefore the whites' identity crisis as a result of the perceived great
expectations and the individual's weakness combine to further ware away
the individual to racism.
At early childhood, Richard remained blocked from the molding of
society, and so did not elicit a distinction between blacks and whites.
Richard described them as, "merely people like other people." (27) At
childhood, Richard found the truth_all peoples seemed somewhat equal.
Whites were humbled by the revelation that they were just normal, not the
heroes of ...
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