Discrimination In 'Native Son'

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Discrimination is very apparent in history and even today. We still live in a world today where someone can get their life taken just because of the color of their skin. People are discriminated against all the time. Now a days you’re more likely to get judged on your race, sexuality etc, rather than on your character. Discrimination is unethical and unacceptable because it’s dehumanizing and unjust. People should be judged on their character, not their race, religion, sexuality, and among other things. For example, Muslims are very much discriminated against. People like to assume that since a few Muslim people did harmful and cruel acts, that all Muslims are dangerous. Even though this way of thinking is inaccurate. For instance Majid …show more content…
Even more so in the past, just the color of your skin determined your worth as a human being. We were completely separated and racial slurs were the norm in society. The novel “Native Son” is a great depiction of how life was for African Americans in the 1930s, and how high the rate of discrimination was. Throughout the novel, the main character named Bigger is constantly being dehumanized. For example, when Bigger gets captured, a mob of people are saying “Kill ‘im!”, “lynch ‘im!”, “That black sonofabitch!”, “Kill that black ape!” (Wright …show more content…
This scene accurately depicts that. The novel “The Bluest Eye” is also a great depiction of how life was for African Americans. It also shows racism and discrimination within the black race. Some black people were so ashamed to be perceived as “black” that they discriminated against their own race. Back then people thought that the darker you were the uglier and more dangerous you were. For example a character in the novel named Geraldine, whom is racist towards her own race, calls a girl named Pecola a “black bitch” (Morrison

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