A More Perfect Union, And Let America Be America Again By Langston Hughes

Racism has been around for a very long time. It’s effect America’s history a lot. Throughout the years’ racism has improved but it’s still improving. African Americans have struggled a lot with prejudice. Prejudice is an adverse judgment formed without knowledge of the facts. In the following three passages To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, A More Perfect Union by Barack Obama, and Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes a lot of the history of racism is shared. Prejudice affects minority groups by judgment and the inequality of the African American community. Prejudice affects minority judgments because of the stories they hear as a youth. Some kids may grow up around prejudice or some might found out about it. Either way, it

America is known as the land for the free. People are supposed to be treated as equals when moving to America. That is not the case. It’s a lie not everyone is treated the same. In the poem Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes the poem quotes, “And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came to build a homeland of the free.” This quote shows us how people come to America to be free from their previous troubles. They want to build a better life for themselves. America has fought a lot to be a free country, but that doesn’t mean that we are a free country. During Obama’s speech, he quotes “you know. We’re becoming a more perfect union, not a perfect union, but a more perfect union.” Obama shared his experience with prejudice so he knows that America is not perfect and that we aren’t the country that we wished we would be. The American dream isn’t how people think it is, not everyone is treated right especially immigrants or people of color they are not viewed the same as white people. Even though we were created the same that doesn’t change how people view someone who is different looking than they are. It was also quoted in A More Perfect Union by Barack Obama “ Am I judging people as much as I can based on not the color of their skin, but the context of their character.” This explains how some people judge others not for who they are but for the color of their skin. It’s not fair to be treated by the color of your skin. It doesn’t mean anything about your character. Prejudice is a mindset, a mindset can be implanted into the youth’s brain for them to believe that something is right when it’s not. Prejudice won’t go away it will be passed on from generation to generation, and always affect minority