If people actually believe racism is completely wiped clean, people are wrong. Racism is still very much alive to this present day. The fact that there are different levels in society because of the different colors due to race is disgusting. People are quick to judge others with the reference of their skin color. Society doesn 't completely understand that people do not get to choose the color of their skin they are born with. People do not get to choose the race they are born with, they don’t get to choose the ethnicity they are born with. Racism will never die. The poem “Incident”, written by Countee Cullen, is about a small boy, the age of 8, going on a trip to a place he has never been to. The place he visits is Baltimore, in which he
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Throughout his seven month trip, the only thing he remembers is a boy called him, “Nigger”. Now at the age of eight, children are in a friendly stage, where everyone is their friend. It is their innocent stage where children don’t really know any better, and they haven 't fully grasped and understand the concept of racism and how hurtful it can really be. A child saying this to another child, the same age, is quite traumatizing. “Of all the things that happened there, that’s all that I remember,” Cullen never seemed to forget the experience he once had back when he was a child. As heart breaking as that is, during the time in which the poem was written (1925), and when that actually happened to Cullen as a boy, racism is still going around.
Jermaine Cole, well known as J. Cole, raps about racism in many of his songs. In ‘It won’t be long’, J. Cole says “Racism is alive I see the disguise” and later in the song says, “I’m sick of my soul, is there a better life for us? I just sit and I hope. I hope and I pray. It’ll change one day, I’ll make a change one way”. Just about in every one of his songs he refers to the world as a cold world, but disguises it as “Cole World”. Almost every single J. Cole has …show more content…
Trethewey describes her yard being lit up like a christmas tree when the “angels” came. It doesn’t say what age she was, but one can assume she was a child at the time of the incident. Analyzing the poem, it seems like she is in also in an innocent stage. She doesn’t know any better other than to think they are angels and bring no harm to her or her family. She doesn’t know about the horrific things people did and what the real meaning were. All she could gather from her incident at the time was that men in white gowns, that looked like angles, went to her house and set her grass on fire in the form of a cross, and left and how it happened every year while she was growing up. While the damage might now have been physical, it possibly damaged her emotionally and psychologically. While a little girl thinking angels were coming into her yard, and later learning what the real meaning was is scarring. Her once innocent memory becomes a horrific detail in her life she has to live with, and it haunts her. A little of her background story was that her parents were in a mixed relationship. So she was born half black and half white, and at the time this happened that was extremely frowned upon. Relating to J. Cole’s song ‘Fire Squad,’ he says, “ I realize the
Throughout his seven month trip, the only thing he remembers is a boy called him, “Nigger”. Now at the age of eight, children are in a friendly stage, where everyone is their friend. It is their innocent stage where children don’t really know any better, and they haven 't fully grasped and understand the concept of racism and how hurtful it can really be. A child saying this to another child, the same age, is quite traumatizing. “Of all the things that happened there, that’s all that I remember,” Cullen never seemed to forget the experience he once had back when he was a child. As heart breaking as that is, during the time in which the poem was written (1925), and when that actually happened to Cullen as a boy, racism is still going around.
Jermaine Cole, well known as J. Cole, raps about racism in many of his songs. In ‘It won’t be long’, J. Cole says “Racism is alive I see the disguise” and later in the song says, “I’m sick of my soul, is there a better life for us? I just sit and I hope. I hope and I pray. It’ll change one day, I’ll make a change one way”. Just about in every one of his songs he refers to the world as a cold world, but disguises it as “Cole World”. Almost every single J. Cole has …show more content…
Trethewey describes her yard being lit up like a christmas tree when the “angels” came. It doesn’t say what age she was, but one can assume she was a child at the time of the incident. Analyzing the poem, it seems like she is in also in an innocent stage. She doesn’t know any better other than to think they are angels and bring no harm to her or her family. She doesn’t know about the horrific things people did and what the real meaning were. All she could gather from her incident at the time was that men in white gowns, that looked like angles, went to her house and set her grass on fire in the form of a cross, and left and how it happened every year while she was growing up. While the damage might now have been physical, it possibly damaged her emotionally and psychologically. While a little girl thinking angels were coming into her yard, and later learning what the real meaning was is scarring. Her once innocent memory becomes a horrific detail in her life she has to live with, and it haunts her. A little of her background story was that her parents were in a mixed relationship. So she was born half black and half white, and at the time this happened that was extremely frowned upon. Relating to J. Cole’s song ‘Fire Squad,’ he says, “ I realize the