White Relationship with the Blacks: A Problematic Situation in the South and North
Racism has been a controversial point for centuries. Even in today’s society still exist a disparity between the treatments of blacks by white individuals. Moreover, during the 1950’s race relationships between the white and black community in the North and South represented oppression and abusive behavior by whites. In Ralph Ellison “Invisible Man” whites treat black as savages and invisible individuals according to the narrator. Multiple authors that illustrates the narrator views of the racist relationship are Richard Wrights in his work “12 Million Black Voices” and Staples in “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Spaces” In Ralph Ellison “Invisible …show more content…
More specifically, white consider blacks were imperceptible and not important in society, for instance they consider themselves superior to blacks. An illustration of the black sense of invisibility is during the narrator speech after the Battle of Royal. Ellison writes “I spoke automatically and with such fervor that I did not realize that the men were still talking and laughing until my mouth dry. (Chapter 1)” This illustrates that white’s ignorance for blacks that make the conclusion that whites believe that black’s words were not essential or important. Additionally, another example is illustrate by the character of Bledsoe, who in his whiteness and sense of superiority, expelled the narrator out of the school and punished him by sending him away to work (Chapter 2). By this can be portray that Bledsoe despite of him being a black male, his actions and expressions towards the narrator exemplify his apathy towards the black …show more content…
For example, Wright writes about the North “A white man or a woman comes and sits beside us, not even looking at us, as though this were a normal thing to do (Wright 3).” As well Wright writes “In the South life was different; men spoke to you, yelled at you, or killed you (Wright 4).” These example evince the existence of apathy by the whites towards the black community. In like manner, Staples in his text “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Spaces” express horror from the whites towards the blacks. An example of this is when Staples writes “One day, rushing into the office of a magazine I was writing for with a deadline story in hand, I was mistaken with a
Racism has been a controversial point for centuries. Even in today’s society still exist a disparity between the treatments of blacks by white individuals. Moreover, during the 1950’s race relationships between the white and black community in the North and South represented oppression and abusive behavior by whites. In Ralph Ellison “Invisible Man” whites treat black as savages and invisible individuals according to the narrator. Multiple authors that illustrates the narrator views of the racist relationship are Richard Wrights in his work “12 Million Black Voices” and Staples in “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Spaces” In Ralph Ellison “Invisible …show more content…
More specifically, white consider blacks were imperceptible and not important in society, for instance they consider themselves superior to blacks. An illustration of the black sense of invisibility is during the narrator speech after the Battle of Royal. Ellison writes “I spoke automatically and with such fervor that I did not realize that the men were still talking and laughing until my mouth dry. (Chapter 1)” This illustrates that white’s ignorance for blacks that make the conclusion that whites believe that black’s words were not essential or important. Additionally, another example is illustrate by the character of Bledsoe, who in his whiteness and sense of superiority, expelled the narrator out of the school and punished him by sending him away to work (Chapter 2). By this can be portray that Bledsoe despite of him being a black male, his actions and expressions towards the narrator exemplify his apathy towards the black …show more content…
For example, Wright writes about the North “A white man or a woman comes and sits beside us, not even looking at us, as though this were a normal thing to do (Wright 3).” As well Wright writes “In the South life was different; men spoke to you, yelled at you, or killed you (Wright 4).” These example evince the existence of apathy by the whites towards the black community. In like manner, Staples in his text “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Spaces” express horror from the whites towards the blacks. An example of this is when Staples writes “One day, rushing into the office of a magazine I was writing for with a deadline story in hand, I was mistaken with a