Richard Wright's Black Boy

“Look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like living in jail.” This quote , written by Richard Wright, indicates the segregation issues in the United States. He was also the author of his autobiography, Black Boy. It reveals his life as an African American in the South before the Civil Rights Movement but after the Civil War. Although the Civil Rights Act has been established, racial problems still exist in the United States nowadays. If Wright were writing an autobiography titled Black Boy today in 2017 about a black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about segregated education in the United States, unfair treatment by police towards
African Americans now make up about 10 percent of all homeschooled children in this fastest-growing form of education.” ( Ama Mazama,2015 ) More blacks tend to choose homeschooling today due to discrimination. According to the research by Ama Mazama, an associate professor and the director of graduate programs for the department of African-American Studies at Temple University, African Americans are forced to study separately with the majority students, just like the time before the Civil Rights Movement. The curriculum and teachers’ attitudes and behaviors are the two main reasons why African Americans choose homeschooling instead of going to regular schools like other American kids. The author of the article also points out that many white teachers bring their opinions towards the black people into the school. This kind of racial stereotypes by teachers hurt the black community as their stubborn thoughts make African Americans feel that they are isolated and not accepted by the teachers. According to “ African-American Students Lagging Far Behind”, written by Lauren Camera, states that the academic levels of African Americans are lower than the white people. “A sweeping portrait of the performance of African-American students in U.S. schools
“Why Are So Many Black Americans Killed By Police?”, by Carl Bialik, denotes that more African Americans are being killed by police “ Black Americans are more than twice as likely as white Americans to be killed by police officers. Researchers agree that racism almost certainly plays a role in that disparity.” (Carl Bialik,2016) The number of deaths of blacks are twice more than the number of whites. This is questioned by many African Americans as long as there is a higher number of black people killed by the police and people also want to find out the reason why more black people murdered by police. The data from this research also use as a display to show how the public dislikes the black people. These police officers killed more African Americans than the white people. As a result, police brutality towards the black community occurs in the United States society and racism is the key concern of African Americans as they are facing police brutality because of their race. The article written by Tess Owen, “Black and Hispanic people more likely to be victims of police brutality, study says”, also talks about African Americans are the victims of police brutality. “ ‘For much of the 20th century,’ Fryer writes, ‘law enforcement chose to brazenly enforce the status quo of overt discrimination, rather than protect and serve all citizens.’” (Tess Owen,2016) Another research