***Racial equality has positively enhanced the social status of African Americans in the United States. In the poem “I, Too” by Langston Hughes, he wrote about the frustrations of the black man in his poetry. He never gave up because he saw America in which black and white men would eat at the same table and be considered equal. In the 2nd stanza, he uses metaphors such as “the darker brother” to refer to the black man. Sadly, during that time Hughes was writing, the black man was not equal to others. “I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen. When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.” The black man goes on, laughs, eats his dinner and grows stronger. This refers to how African Americans would live