Summary Of The Book 'Black Boy' By Richard Wright

In the autobiography, Black Boy, written by Richard Wright takes the readers back into the deep south of Jackson, Mississippi, where whites attempted to tame blacks into submission by hard discipline. It seemed that the more Wright had gained in life, the more he was hurt. Wright was alienated from his environment. Even though he tried to distance himself from the prejudice all around him, the white people still tried to turn him into the stereotypical southern black person. Wright was born after the Civil War but before the Civil Rights Movement. If Wright was writing an autobiography title Black Boy in 2017 about a black boy growing up in the United States, he would write about the first African American, Barack Hussein Obama II, becoming
In sports, especially the NBA, African American athletes dominate the white athletes. Examples of some famous NBA African American athletes are Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, etc. They are the players that are not only well known in the United States, but also in the World and their achievements are unachievable for any other athletes. Also, their impacts on African Americans are huge too. Because of their impact in the NBA, everyone in the world looks up to them. Wright would write about them because at his time period, everyone looked down on African Americans. African Americans would have never expected that other people would look up to them. They only hoped that people would treat them equally. Wright would feel very proud of how these African American athletes have changed how other people view and treat African Americans. In the article, “Jordan Contributes to Black Issues”, written by Scoop Jackson from ESPN on December 19, 2014, Scoop claims that with the recent increase in superstar and celebrity social and political awareness, people like LeBron James posted Instagram and Twitter lending his voice to issues ranging from the deaths of Trayvon Martin to the non-indictment of officer Darren Wilson; Derrick Rose first stepping on the court wearing an "I CAN'T BREATHE" shirt during pregame warm ups; NFL players entering the
Police should be a justice character in the society, but the way they have treated African Americans makes people very mad and changes how people view the police.Wright would write about this because this is a very big problem that the United States should solve. The racial problem will never be solved if police brutality is still occurring unequally between African Americans and other races. This is a very hot topic, which known as “Black Lives Matters”. In the article, “KING: Black Lives Matter opposes police brutality, not police”, written by Shaun King from Daily News on July 19, 2016, King claims that we should all be deeply disturbed by the fact that an unarmed African American man is an astounding seven times more likely to be killed by American police than an unarmed white man. King also claims that the clear majority of American police officers who were shot and killed were shot and killed by angry white men. Conservative outrage was nonexistent because it appears that conservatives are primarily outraged about police being killed when black people kill them. These two facts prove how African Americans are the people who are often harmless to the police, but are more harmed by the police. This leads to questions that it has been 49 years after the Civil Rights Movement, why people, especially police, who should