Brother To Brother Black Men

The book that I chose to talk about is "Who's Gonna Take the Weight" by Kevin Powell. This book breaks down African Americans in society today in three different but very essential categories that is explained through essays about his life and what he went through. My reactions about each category were distinctive as I continued to read each section. For example, the section titled "The Breakdown," he talks about how after the Real World he went to work for Quincy Jones' Vibe magazine and he was surprised about the lack of African American editors or those that were in a head position. As I read that, I was not too surprised at the fact that a Black owned magazine company is actually operated by Whites. During the 90s and even now a lot of Black owned companies are really operated predominately by whites. Although, it is less common now because African Americans are now getting a better education, life, job opportunities, etc, they are now seen as counterparts in the company and even have more say as to what happens inside the corporation.

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James Baldwin?s story ?Sonny?s Blues? is a deep and reflexive composition. Baldwin uses the life of two brothers to establish parallelism of personal struggle with society, and at the same time implies a psychological process of one brother leaving his socially ingrained prejudices to understand and accept the other's flaws.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone. It is beautifully written with great mastery of language and it really opened my eyes on race relations in the Deep South in the beginning of the twentieth century. Using the power of his words Wright contributed greatly to African American crusade for equal Civil Rights and made his audience, both black and white in the Northern states of the United States and in Europe to increasingly despise the white supremacy of the Southern states. Perhaps Wright did not mean Black Boy to be a social commentary, but at least it is an important piece of African American heritage from the era of Jim Crow laws.

In a society like the up and rising there will be no brother's try to help another brother out because most African American people live by a quote such as this one “ black power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny". Which means if you do not know better you will not do better people are all for taking but helping is not in their vocabulary. Change is needed so when will it happen. The autobiorgapy makes we wanna holler and the novel do as I say not as I do have many similarities and many diffrences but the main idea for both is that african american males have a lot of obstacles to face and without someone to teach them it will coniune to get

The story of two men growing up in the same neighborhood with similar backgrounds with the same name and eerily similar circumstances that leads and ultimately has each character ending up in very different places in life. Taking completely different paths to their futures is the setting of this story “The Other Wes Moore”. The way a person is shaped and guided in their developmental years does undoubtedly play a huge role in the type of person they will become in life. The author Wes does a good job of allowing you the ability to read this story and the circumstances surrounding the character his mother joy played such an important role in his success, while comparing the roll of Mary the other Wes’s mother. Both boys grew up with strong, hardworking black women in their lives and yet it still allowed for two completely different journeys. I think the lack of fathers and having not so good male role models was also a contributing factor.

I decided to write Unless WE Tell It…It Never Gets Told! while I was writing my first book. It dawned on me that stories about the Civil Rights Movement were not the only ones lacking. Stories about great Black Americans

Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin works with the narrator and its younger brother Sonny. The narrator presents life changing moments between both himself and Sonny, although both are related they are both two very distinct individuals. In the beginning of the passage, it started off describing their critical living conditions in Harlem and how people were trapped in the projects while others were able to escape. Although some people were able to escape these living conditions it seemed as though the desperation of trouble would always be with them. The narrator expresses his thoughts on the subject through a complex picture of rage, an express of violent uncontrollable anger reflecting to the audience both external and internal by change, escape, trap, and racism.

“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin focuses on the importance of family in a time period such as the Harlem Renaissance, and the importance of embracing one's true identity in the midst of a world filled with hate and struggle. No matter how hard life gets from drugs, to jail, to death, the people around you who love you can always help you through it thick or

It’s about human suffering that led to drugs addiction as a coping mechanism. In this story, the narrator is not the main character, rather the story focuses on his brother, Sonny. Readers were giving more structure details about the story. It is about two African-American brothers growing up poor in Harlem, they have nothing in common except their background. They are as different as day and night. Hence, they were disconnected in their thoughts and feeling. Sonny has always felt his older brother had never listen to what he really want out of life. Sonny was depict as “darkness” since he was the one using drugs, got into troubles, and was sent to prison. The author used symbolism such as “trapped in the darkness which roared outside” and “great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long” to describe sadness and suffering. Sonny wanted to escape Harlem, he feel trapped there by the destructive pressures of poverty and racism all around him. He turned to drugs and music to escape his reality. All through Sonny’s young trouble life, his brother did not seem to suffer the same fate. He joined the Army, got married, came back to live in the same community and works as a school teacher. Even though he sees the same or similar behaviors from his students that Sonny had displayed years ago; he describes his students as “all they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness”. Again, Baldwin used “darkness” to imply these boys only know bad and they will get worst. It characterizes a limited option, the hopelessness that African-American people endure in their daily life. The narrator describes one of Sonny’s old friends, now a grown man, as “partly like a dog, partly like a cunning child”, implying that he is