Who Is Richard Wright's Autobiography Of The 21st Century?

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The 21st Century Richard Wright was born after the the Civil War but before the Civil Rights movement. If Richard Wright were writing an auto-biography today, about a black boy growing up in the United States Of America, Richard would write about the, police racial profiling different races from white, the unemployment between whites and blacks, and the percentage of teens of graduate that are black and whites. Richard Wright would write about these things in modern time of the year 2016. If Richard Wright would write a autobiography today he would write about the racially profiling police between white and blacks. Police in todays society if they have the suspicious they will pull you over and see if you are guilty of something, that is one case happening in Bloomfield county.In BloomField county, the police pulled over a male suspect driving with a group of black people and the officers claimed to have found illegal substances, but there was no possession according to the …show more content…
Across America Blacks unemployment rate was 9.6 percent and whites had only 4.6 percent, many black people in certain regions they grew up in or currently live in are 17.3 percent unemployed compared to the 4.6 percent whites have in the area, many of the sources believe it was the white culture background they grew up in. Second, Richard would write about the unemployment rate between whites and blacks is because more white people are given opportunity than blacks with the education of having a college degree. Blacks with an education is not given a job because many believe that blacks do not have the same education as whites, according to the sources whites are given job opportunities when having a value education for themselves. I believe that Richard would deeply get into this topic if he were to write a book in today's

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