The title “To the White Fiends” already shows that he is an African American and he is not very fond of his white counterparts. In the first line, he refers to whites as "savages." The term savage describes how violent, rambunctious, and fierce a person is. The word fiend means enemy. White America is the enemy and nothing good ever comes from them. They would rather destroy the black race. “Think you I could not arm me with a gun/and shoot down ten of you for everyone/of my black brothers murdered, burnt by you?” (2-4). This is the reason why McKay is livid with the "fiends". They are pure savages who take his brothers ' lives because they can but they do not realize that is just as easy for a black man to end the life of a white one. In the southern United States lynching was a very common form of how black men were killed. In lines 5-7, the term black is now referred to evilness. Whites mark Blacks as evil beings, yet they do not let this get in the way of their thinking. If they allow this to corrupt their minds they will eventually back down and will not be able to suppress them for the fear that the blacks will soon fight
The title “To the White Fiends” already shows that he is an African American and he is not very fond of his white counterparts. In the first line, he refers to whites as "savages." The term savage describes how violent, rambunctious, and fierce a person is. The word fiend means enemy. White America is the enemy and nothing good ever comes from them. They would rather destroy the black race. “Think you I could not arm me with a gun/and shoot down ten of you for everyone/of my black brothers murdered, burnt by you?” (2-4). This is the reason why McKay is livid with the "fiends". They are pure savages who take his brothers ' lives because they can but they do not realize that is just as easy for a black man to end the life of a white one. In the southern United States lynching was a very common form of how black men were killed. In lines 5-7, the term black is now referred to evilness. Whites mark Blacks as evil beings, yet they do not let this get in the way of their thinking. If they allow this to corrupt their minds they will eventually back down and will not be able to suppress them for the fear that the blacks will soon fight