Racism In The 21st Century Essay

Whenever racism is mention the first thing that comes to my mind is slavery in America, and the aftermath of it. White people believe that they were better than those black people and slavery was not immoral. After slavery ended because of emancipation the slaves were supposed to be treated equally to white but that wasn’t the outcome. African Americans was faced with discrimination and prejudice; white people were trying their best from allowing the black race to advance in American society. African Americans decided to fight against racism through multiple tactics; an example would be speaking or writing about their experiences. Documents like W.E.B DuBois Souls of Black Folk, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississsippi, and Barack Obama’s “Eulogy for the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney”; demonstrated how different African Americans time periods affected how they viewed the race issues and the similarities and difference between them. After slavery, questions arose about African-Americans’ position in society. In W.E.B DuBois’ Souls of Black …show more content…
President Barack Obama is Black. W.E.B. Dubois and Barack Obama document is 112 years apart; so in between those years many things have change. In Dubois Souls of Black Folk he used sorrow songs to get his point across about issue of race. Barack Obama’s “Eulogy for the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney” uses the song “Amazing Grace” to honor the lives of the people who died. The sorrow songs in Souls of Black Folk started of African then became African American. Grace was use as a theme at the end of Barack Obama eulogy to finish his eulogy and to name all the victims that died because of their race. These two people opinions were expressed in a way that made sure that the reader will understand what was going on in that time