The poem, “Let America be America Again” by early Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes underlines several issues facing America at the time. This primary issue was that America is not living up to what America says it’s supposed to be. Hughes explains that America is not living up to the idea that it set up for itself because it is not being equal to those depending on their race as well as their class. According to Hughes America is supposed to be a place where both all races and all classes can be viewed as equal with neither one being able to exploit the other. In "Let America Be America Again," Langston Hughes explores both race and class inequality in America by contrasting what America is with what America is supposed to be.
In a time when labor and anti-discrimination laws were not up to par with what they should be not everyone feels like the land of the free is actually true, rather that America as a whole is not up to part with what it should be. During the early 1900s while no person …show more content…
People like Langston Hughes had been living in an America that segregated them from the rest of society and didn't treat them as equals, they never saw the equality that America says it guaranteed. Hughes takes all these sentiments and summarizes them by explaining that for people like him, “There’s never been equality for [us], nor freedom in this homeland of the free.” There are people who felt like America at no point was ever the place that it said it was; that the place where they could live free and equal was only ever an idea and never a real place. To those people, it wasn't actually that America needed to be America again rather that it simply needed to actually be the place that it claimed it because to them at no point was it that place it claimed to
In a time when labor and anti-discrimination laws were not up to par with what they should be not everyone feels like the land of the free is actually true, rather that America as a whole is not up to part with what it should be. During the early 1900s while no person …show more content…
People like Langston Hughes had been living in an America that segregated them from the rest of society and didn't treat them as equals, they never saw the equality that America says it guaranteed. Hughes takes all these sentiments and summarizes them by explaining that for people like him, “There’s never been equality for [us], nor freedom in this homeland of the free.” There are people who felt like America at no point was ever the place that it said it was; that the place where they could live free and equal was only ever an idea and never a real place. To those people, it wasn't actually that America needed to be America again rather that it simply needed to actually be the place that it claimed it because to them at no point was it that place it claimed to