Essay On Let America Be Great Again By Langston Hughes

Throughout the majority of Langston Hughes literary work there were racial tones. He mocks the illusion that America puts to the outside world that there is opportunity for all and the equality among all people. He uses his personal experiences as young black man living an America to draw inspiration too. He explains that in America the country pampers white people, but demonizes blacks. In many of his writings he expresses his conflict of being a person of mixed race but having a clear appearance of a black man. The hate that he experiences as a black man from both blacks and whites. He also holds blacks accountable for not giving a helping hand to the fellow black Americans. Everyone can read and understand his poems. Given the education level of a lot of Langston’s audience, it was important for him to use more of a relaxed form of writing.
(It never was America to me.)”1 In Langston Hughes Let America Be Great Again he is saying that for a back person in America there is no dreaming. There is oppression. For a black man in america there is pain, that steams from purposeless hate towards african american people. The wanting to do more to accomplish dreams and have the opportunities that afforded to white americans but being denied because of something as small as skin color. “America never was America to me …..There’s never been equality for me, Nor Freedom in this “homeland of the free” 1.

Langston’s powerful poem accomplishes his efforts to express his frustrations with America’s treatment of blacks. Let America be America Again was a relevant poem that spoke to the struggles of the early twentieth century as well a