Then Steinbeck opened the character up by talking him to Lenny. Crooks felt as if he could be totally open with Lenny because Lenny couldn’t properly follow track of the conversation and wouldn’t tell anyone else what he has said. This showed the readers the suffering that black people suffered. For example Crooks says to Lenny “Spose you couldn’t go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ‘cause you was black.” This shows the social outcast that black people were. By including this character, John Steinbeck was protesting that treating black people as social outcasts and as second class was not fair.
For decades after that rule was written slaves were still used. Completely contradicting the thought that all men are created equal. In fact the only government system that promotes equality is communism. As America has learned communism doesn’t work. Today that rule is scoffed at while it’s respected.
So how can the two be tied together? Well first of all, their views are very strong and loud. Baldwin rants in his essay that the whites are too blame for the uneducated African Americans and the formation of the dialect: black language, which Baldwin intensely argues that it is not a dialect and the term dialect is offensive “white people in American never had any interest in educating black people, except as this could serve white purposes” (pg. 264). Cisneros explains in one of her passages the desire for a “man man,” which through the person’s eyes is someone who can cook and clean – shadowing a female’s role which is something completely opposite of modern society’s expectations.
Now the training of men is a difficult and intricate task.”(Dubois 1) I personally think that the contamination of most blacks today is from out dated teachings, some churches, politicians and most importantly, the entertainment business. The media influence blacks to glorify street life and poverty. If we had more rappers and media outlets talking about things with substance in the community like political issues, understanding our prominence and up lifting the culture, I think that people would start to be moved or shifted into the right directions. Dubois states “School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and
Indeed, everyone in Maycomb County, whether they are black or white, is affected by racism, and sometimes all it takes to see it is a child. Calpurnia, the black maid in the Finch residence, has been greatly affected by racism. She must speak differently around white people than she does with black people because “It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike…” (Lee, 126). White people have a greater education than black people, so Calpurnia must speak more distinctly while she works for the Finches.
While black people struggle, the media constantly portrays them as animalistic brutes. In turn, it reinforces the stereotype in the minds of white people, which in turn feeds their fear and contempt of black people, particularly black men. Fear is a powerful motivator and white people justify segregation as the only way to protect white society from the “animalistic brutes.” Bigger is well aware of the instant judgments white people make when they see a black man. For example, when Bigger goes to the Dalton’s house, he thinks, “Suppose a police officer saw him wandering in a white neighborhood like this? It would be thought that he was trying to rob or rape somebody,” (44).
There was racism that was directed towards the whites when Jem and Scout were brought to First Purchase and were not welcomed by Lula. Negroes didn’t want to be near whites and vise versa. This affected the children of Maycomb County, going back to when Jem cries because he was aware that the jury knew Robinson was innocent and wasn’t given justice. Therefore, there was a time where racial prejudice was to blacks and as well as whites. Social prejudice was also a big topic in To Kill A Mockingbird.
Feeling Emasculated In so many relationships in society black women wonder why their men are not faithful, or not committed to them, or go get a woman of a different race. The answer is right in front of their faces; they emasculate their men. They emasculate them to the point where they can’t take it anymore. Then they wonder why they don’t have a man. No one wants to put up with their controlling ways, bad attitudes and their feeling of thinking their better than their men.
The black man has been stereotyped in society from the ancient time period to present day. The physical attraction and the actions pursued by some black males have been used against the specific population as a form of ridicule and humiliation. How have the black men in society been portrayed over the last decades? The answer is negative. These stereotypes are not set in stone facts but only assumptions throughout society that the media substantiates and worsens the brighter picture.
Many writers argues that stereotypes causes many trouble to people's lives in kinds of aspects and bring them a lot of troubles. Cofer points out that media use the image of Latina women lead people to misunderstanding them. She describes the terrible experiences that the boss of Puerto Rican women proposed the unfair condition to decide their future of jobs in the factories and men would often misinterpret their tight skirts and jingling bracelets as a lure. In the same way, Gup provides the example that people believe the stereotypes and these stereotypes also place a crushing burden on Asian-Americans. Gup argues the stereotype makes people feel uncomfortable because that his teacher think he could and should do better just because he is a Jew.