Comparison Of God Bless Amerika And A Party Down At The Square

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This essay will compare similarities of the works by Lil wayne in “God Bless Amerika” George Romero 's “Night of the Living Dead” and Ralph Ellison 's “A Party Down at the Square” . In order to discover the similarities between People of Color struggles, in particular those of Blacks in America in each respective time frame. Lil Wayne speaks of fear, racism, and discrimination in “God Bless Amerika” he explains to the listener that racism is alive and painful giving the audience a bleak look at American life. He speaks of the corruption and his personal fear of unjust and unethical treatment by others simply due to his skin color. George Romero directed the modern zombie horror film “Night of the Living Dead”, the main character is a Black …show more content…
He raps that acts of violence against black people happen all the time. In Night of the Living Dead the main character, Ben is constantly fighting against Cooper, a white man. Cooper seems always in opposition to following Ben’s orders although Cooper has proven himself an inadequate leader by hiding in the basement. Although no racial slurs or words are used during the arguments the tension between the two cannot be explained simply by anger. A Party Down at the Square speaks of the same discrimination but a more extreme and overt kind this time racial slurs are used and the black man, who the reader knows nothing about what he has or hasn 't done, is killed in a grisly way. A common theme can be found throughout every work, the artist is trying to bring attention to the status and respect black people receive at the time. Lil Wayne speaks on the corruption of America he uses words like “Godless” and “Hopeless” to describe his view of American life and the idea of the American dream. Wayne offers every listener and viewer of his videos a Dickensian view of America bleak, impoverished, and corrupted. A short scene in A Party Down at the Square can easily be seen as similar, the man being lynching begs for someone to slit his throat, a merciful Christian death. Then Jed, a elected town leader yells at him “Sorry, but ain’t no Christians around tonight.” surely these deep southern individuals are Christian, but they are each so obsessed with the goal of killing this black man it seems to bother none. In Night of the Living Dead, the apocalypse is brought on by humans and their curiosity, more so the group is killed by not listening to Ben the hero because he is black. Lil Wayne calls America Godless and in Ellison 's story a town leader claims there are no Christians in the square when a black man is begging for

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