Whites’ Against Blacks’ As times change it seems that the problems involving race have reached a plateau. The government is not helping with the whites’ against blacks’ issue. The Black people have been put through a tremendous amount of suffering and in today’s world there suffering never seems to seize. In the play “Fences” by August Wilson it shows a man, Troy, whose life has changed due to this issue. Also in the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes it shows how dreams come and go but it when one gives up on a dream it can affect them in many ways. Racial problems seems to be a problem that cannot be fixed due to, black and white people are stuck in the past and not able to move on, history always seems to repeat itself, and America is stuck in an ignorance is bliss state of mind. With these problems not being solved it seems that there is no hope for changing the future.
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When blacks were finally allowed into the major leagues Troy was too old to play baseball anymore. This affected Troy’s entire life due to the fact that he resented white people because he believed he was good enough to be in the major leagues and the whites are to blame for him not being able to. This caused Troy to not allow his son to play football in college because he thought “The white man ain’t gonna let you get nowhere with that football.” (Willson, pg1131). Troy was made at the white people for not letting him play baseball so he was not going to let his son go through the same pain that he went through. Troy’s thoughts became bias and became stuck in the past so much that his entire life suffered from this. When Troy told his wife that he cheated on her he used baseball references to break it to her because baseball was such a life changing factor in his life. Troy blamed white people for his problems and this was a pattern he showed throughout the entire
When blacks were finally allowed into the major leagues Troy was too old to play baseball anymore. This affected Troy’s entire life due to the fact that he resented white people because he believed he was good enough to be in the major leagues and the whites are to blame for him not being able to. This caused Troy to not allow his son to play football in college because he thought “The white man ain’t gonna let you get nowhere with that football.” (Willson, pg1131). Troy was made at the white people for not letting him play baseball so he was not going to let his son go through the same pain that he went through. Troy’s thoughts became bias and became stuck in the past so much that his entire life suffered from this. When Troy told his wife that he cheated on her he used baseball references to break it to her because baseball was such a life changing factor in his life. Troy blamed white people for his problems and this was a pattern he showed throughout the entire