Racial Discrimination In Native Son By Richard Wright

Racial discrimination refers to treating individuals differently due to their race or color. There has been extreme tension in the world dealing with racial discrimination. African Americans are being killed and only being seen as rebels. The world has evolved to still look down on certain minorities. African Americans are being discriminated against because of racism, stereotypes, and how they are portrayed in the media, leading to violence. There will never be a change in the way society views African Americans unless everyone opens their eyes to the real problems in our world. Discrimination has been around far too long and a change in the way minorities are viewed should come quickly amongst everyone. To be treated as equal, you have to be first seen as equal. In Native Son by Richard Wright, the main character, Bigger, is trapped in a white world. In this novel the main character is seen as a murderer, rebel, and overall horrible human being. Bigger wanted to join the army but the white people in his time say all they want a black man for is to dig ditches (Wright 409). He had hopes and ambitions but could not fulfill them due to his skin color. He’s black, there’s no use in even hoping for anything …show more content…
African Americans would have to have started out equal to be seen as equal after. If they were not seen as regular human beings to begin with, they did not receive the same privileges. For instance according to Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim, a slave, has barely to any education at all. Jim says, “I didn’t know dey was so many un um” (Twain 81). This shows how an African American like Jim was brought up. Based off his grammar and way of speaking, readers can acknowledge that black people are “uneducated”. The fact that a slave spoke language like that shows how African Americans could not even obtain a proper education. They were simply neglected from this