In this poem, Langston Hughes focuses on the segregation that many African Americans have faced due to the racism correlated with their skin color. The poet also focuses on American patriotism and how Africans and other minorities should have the pleasure to be patriotic. The poem starts off with an African American being told to sit in the kitchen to eat dinner instead of outside in the dining room with everyone else; it emphasized the means of strength African Americans have to be able to eat, strive and live. The third stanza of the poem talks about how the next dinner time, he’ll be able to sit at the dining table and people will not judge the color of his skin in a negative way anymore. People will find appreciation for the hardships that
