Racism In Blood Brothers Guitar

Guitar’s cruel past involving racism initiates his rebellious behavior that sticks with him for his entire life due to his inability to remove his personal stereotypes towards whites. As a very young child, Guitar faces racism first hand which leads to his hatred of whites. "Listen. Go around to the back of the hospital to the guard's office. It will say 'Emergency Admissions' on the door. A-D-M-I-S-I-O-N-S. But the guard will be there. Tell him to get over here on the double. Move now. Move!" (Page 5). "'You left out the s, ma'am'… The North was new to him and he had just begun to learn he could speak up to white people" (Page 5). Guitar’s origin of hatred for whites begin when he was an adolescent. The white nurse who bossed him around at Mercy Hospital …show more content…
Guitar’s hatred towards his father’s boss is rational but expanding his hatred to all whites is unreasonable because not all whites are as cruel as his father’s boss. Like Guitar, many blacks during the 1960s set stereotypes towards whites because of the Ku Klux Klan. Because Guitar’s father’s boss was so insincere after his father’s death, Guitar formed a hatred towards all whites. Guitar represents the whole black community during the 1960s because the blacks formed a hatred towards whites because of the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was a white supremacist group that lead violence movements towards African Americans. "No innocent white people, because every one of them is a potential nigger-killer, if not an actual one" (Page 155). The Ku Klux Klan’s lead violent movements especially during the 1960s including church and school bombings. The large racist group towards African Americans caused the blacks to form a hatred towards all whites like Guitar. Although the audience perceives Guitar’s stereotype for all whites to be very unreasonable, the blacks in the 1960s had stereotypes as well towards whites because of the Ku Klux