Autobiography Of A Black Boy Essay

Research Paper: An Updated Autobiography of a Black Boy Richard Wright was born after the Civil War but before the Civil Rights Movement. If Wright were writing an autobiography titled Black Boy about a black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about the increasing racial pay gap, the success of Obama’s presidency, and the rise in police brutality. Throughout his life, Wright struggles with money to move to the North, lacks a good role model, and doesn't have faith in authority. His life would have been entirely different if he could overcome these hurdles. His original autobiography is mostly centered around finding his identity and overcoming segregation, which likely wouldn't be changed in his new autobiography. A troubling issue in the United States is the unignorable difference in payment for blacks and whites. …show more content…
Also, he claims that Obama's presidency has not helped the black incarceration rate, which is much higher than any other race. Overall, however, he concedes that at the very least, Obama has been a positive role model for African Americans. He blames the lack of role models for black youth to the overhyped images of black athletic and entertainment success created by the white supremacist U.S. capitalism. The treatment of black youth is another highly sensitive and debated issue, one that Wright would surely be strongly opinionated on. From job recruiters to law enforcement officers, it seems as if black youth always gets the short end of the