Racism In Society

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Racism in the United States is so deeply embedded within society, many are not aware of the multiple forms racism take in a society. The deeper racism permeates a society, the deeper the inability to recognize or discuss the topic of racism since it is all engulfing. Since artists show the attitudes of society in their art it is not surprising that many artists face the multiple faces of racism in their work. In the poems of Countee Cullen, Gary Soto, and Dudley Randall, racism takes on many faces on sorrow, death or in the guise of humor; but the ugliness and damage of racism to our sense of a nation is deep and damaging.
The face of sorrow are a major contribution to the racism in as a nation. Everyday innocent children are either mistreated because of their skin color, their age, or maybe even by the clothing they wear and put on daily. Dudley Randall presents a great example with the Ballad of Birmingham. The thought that the mother did not want to let her daughter go and march as an innocent child shows how her mother feared for
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In the poem, Incident the moment in which the little boy made a face and stuck out his tongue shows a sign of a humorous act. Children nowadays make faces at other and older people believe that it is an act of playfulness and teasing. Although the victim thought of this act as a wrong doing the reader and or audience can picture this moment as mockery or foolishness. In “Ballad of Birmingham,” the moment in which the little girl tried convincing her mom that she was not going to be alone and that her friend was going to be there shows humor. In today’s time teenagers often try to beg their parents or try to convince their parents that they should go out and it brings humor to the adults face because adolescents are willing to do anything to get what they want. The little girl was basically teasing her mom by proving to her that she was going