The Negro Artist And The Racial Mountain Summary

Hughes sees as the mountains in his article “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” that stands in the way most black people literary expression such as color, economic hardship and brainwash. First symbolic mountain he comprehends that being not self-confidence with their own color and dreaming to be someone else such as white especially those who are gifted of art such as poet. Instead of being themselves and enhance their beauty, hard work, and natural gift using who they are, mostly they dreams and wishes being white. Second, the mountains symbolic he sees is that economic hardship. The writer explains about the black who wants to be white poet, and how his hard worker parents of him push their son to be like white. The father of the black America says “‘Look how well …show more content…
It might not be the same as the era and open discrimination like the writer live. Since there are a lot of black and other rice successful unlike that time. However, it is not 100% free of racial basis and criticism. For good change that was impossible during that time is having black present, but present Obama also faces a lot of discrimination because of his color. Also, here what happens to mean while I was working in a hospital day shift. A white patient came to see a doctor who heard from a friend for his excellent services and knowledge of the area he covers. The patient asked three times to make sure if that name and doctor is right, but when he got the same answer, he said to my friend “he hate Monday” and he would be back other day when he saw a black doctor. As a foreigner, I did not notice anything, but my friend explain to me what is that means. In addition to that, whenever someone apply for school, job or other, people always ask for race. For me, it is a way of discrimination and