Racism is one of the world’s most horrible problems. Racism is one race seeing another race as infernal to their race or seeing their race as weak. Some white racist were harsh to the African American race because of their skin being colored during the 1800s. Some white sees the African American race as "non-human." Racism can be to any race. In the story "Sonny's Blues" the narrator's uncle got killed by a car crashing into him. The people that hit his uncle were white drunk men although they didn’t mean to do it they drove away when they crashed into him. Those white men didn’t really care what happened to his uncle those white people; left him for death. In the story “Sonny’s Blues” James Baldwin argues that race limits what …show more content…
In this part of the passage, the narrator can’t get his mind off how his brother had ended up in jail. He thinks about how close he and his brother are those teenagers outside of school, cussing, laughing, and joking around. He starts to realize that how he could have ended up like his brother. “The narrator said, “When the last bell rang … I listened to the boys outside talking, laughing, and cursing. Their laughter struck me for the first time… and in them I heard my brother I heard myself.” The narrator is describing how his brother sounded like the boys outside. Also, how he can hear himself in those boys. The narrator is starting to notice that how close he and his brother is in other people. He starts to notice how his brother really is. The narrator is starting to get his brother a little. He staring to get his brother; what his brother is doing and why he doing certain things. Person can’t know one person by just seeing or hearing things about them. You can never judge them by how the look and what they do with there. What one person does or looks doesn’t mean they’ll always be like. For example: when white men see African American men as weak or slaves