Discrimination In Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks Of Rivers

Discrimination was the largest problem for the longest time. The fact that america was the land of the "free" but, most of us owned slaves.Then after the slaves were freed they were then held to a lower stand point for being black. I mean the definition of discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing is perceived to belong to rather than on individual merit. We still treated the blacks like there were not equal to us. Theses poems are looking at the past and trying to look to the future. I will briefly give an overview of the poems. Then we will go deeper into the reading, looking at the real meaning behind the words.
My soul is deep like the rivers, I washed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I have seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I have know rivers, ancient dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Now i have made the poem a little easier to understand. This man is speaking of the rivers as if they were the history of the African Americans, old and deep, how the Africans have been moved forcefully from place to place to the other all while being used as slaves. From the Congo they were taken, pushed into Egypt to build pyramids, then to america only to be freed by Abe Lincoln. Slavery is an old dark