Before the equal rights movement, there were times when people of different races and ethnic backgrounds, specifically African Americans, have been discriminated against. Audre Lorde’s “The Fourth of July” focuses on some of these discriminations. Over the past sixty years, America has come a long way in the fight for equal rights. Some might say we have come too far. Many people are so concerned with being politically correct and ensuring that discrimination against the African Americans does not prevail, they have gone overboard. Since the eradication of discrimination against African Americans, many people of European dissent are now suffering from reverse discrimination. In Washington D.C., before the civil rights movement, discrimination
