What Would Richard Wright Think? America would not be the America it is today if it wasn't for the millions of black people who helped build this country. Ever since the first slave ship arrived in 1619, it has been the struggles of blacks who built the country from the ground up. It took hundreds of years just for blacks to receive basic rights just as anyone else is privileged to in this country. America has come a long way since 1619, yet we still lack justice for Blacks to this day. Richard Wright was born after the Civil War but before the Civil rights movement. If Wright were writing an autobiography titled “Black Boy” (today in 2017) about a Black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about lack of education, unfair black
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Whites however tend to attend better schools and get better educations compared to minorities such as blacks. By 2022 it is expected to see a 44% increase in mixed race students in America's schools (Cook). Majority of these students will attend a school that is not up to date and is behind America's educational standards. This in turn will translate to a less educated generation especially among minority groups such as blacks. By age 2, disparities are already shown between black and white children (Cook). Fewer black children demonstrate proficiency in development skills such as receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, matching, early counting, math, color knowledge, numbers and shapes (Cook). It is also believed that more black parents have less access to materials that would improve the education of their children. Also black children are enrolled in low quality day care centers compared to whites (Starks). Blacks score far worse than most of the races in reading in math (Ray). If Wright were to write about a black boy growing up in America today he would write about the struggle of a black boy trying to get a good education but struggling to obtain …show more content…
As a nation we’ve made improvements since the 60s and many minority people are thriving for the first time in American History. But it's not enough. If Richard Wright were writing an autobiography titled “Black Boy” (today in 2017) about a Black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about lack of education, unfair black political representation, and the high murder rate in black communities across the United States.
Work Cited
McCarthy, Niall. "Homicides In Chicago Eclipse U.S. Death Toll In Afghanistan And Iraq [Infographic]." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 08 Sept. 2016. Web. 26 May 2017. Cook, Lindsey. "U.S. Education: Still Separate and Unequal." U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News & World Report, 28 Jan. 2015. Web. 26 May 2017. Stephanopoulos, Nicholas. "The False Promise of Black Political Representation." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 11 June 2015. Web. 26 May 2017. Ray, Betty. "The Crisis in Black Education: Focusing on Young People's Strengths." Edutopia. N.p., 23 Feb. 2017. Web. 26 May 2017. Cella, Matthew, and Alan Neuhauser. "Race and Homicide in America, by the Numbers." U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News & World Report, 29 Sept. 2016. Web. 26 May 2017. Starks, Taleeb. "The Top 5 Issues Facing Black Americans." PragerU. N.p., 26 May 2017. Web. 26 May
Whites however tend to attend better schools and get better educations compared to minorities such as blacks. By 2022 it is expected to see a 44% increase in mixed race students in America's schools (Cook). Majority of these students will attend a school that is not up to date and is behind America's educational standards. This in turn will translate to a less educated generation especially among minority groups such as blacks. By age 2, disparities are already shown between black and white children (Cook). Fewer black children demonstrate proficiency in development skills such as receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, matching, early counting, math, color knowledge, numbers and shapes (Cook). It is also believed that more black parents have less access to materials that would improve the education of their children. Also black children are enrolled in low quality day care centers compared to whites (Starks). Blacks score far worse than most of the races in reading in math (Ray). If Wright were to write about a black boy growing up in America today he would write about the struggle of a black boy trying to get a good education but struggling to obtain …show more content…
As a nation we’ve made improvements since the 60s and many minority people are thriving for the first time in American History. But it's not enough. If Richard Wright were writing an autobiography titled “Black Boy” (today in 2017) about a Black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about lack of education, unfair black political representation, and the high murder rate in black communities across the United States.
Work Cited
McCarthy, Niall. "Homicides In Chicago Eclipse U.S. Death Toll In Afghanistan And Iraq [Infographic]." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 08 Sept. 2016. Web. 26 May 2017. Cook, Lindsey. "U.S. Education: Still Separate and Unequal." U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News & World Report, 28 Jan. 2015. Web. 26 May 2017. Stephanopoulos, Nicholas. "The False Promise of Black Political Representation." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 11 June 2015. Web. 26 May 2017. Ray, Betty. "The Crisis in Black Education: Focusing on Young People's Strengths." Edutopia. N.p., 23 Feb. 2017. Web. 26 May 2017. Cella, Matthew, and Alan Neuhauser. "Race and Homicide in America, by the Numbers." U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News & World Report, 29 Sept. 2016. Web. 26 May 2017. Starks, Taleeb. "The Top 5 Issues Facing Black Americans." PragerU. N.p., 26 May 2017. Web. 26 May