Theme Of Racism By James Baldwin

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What is racism? Racism is discriminating or treating someone better/worse because of their race. Racism can be one race taking superiority over another race or cause harm to another race. The essay written by James Baldwin, expresses the way racism happens today, in society. James Baldwin achieves his goal of showing the path of racism throughout time by his use of pathos, ethos, logos, and repetition. The specific use of all these devices truly brings the best way of using his writing skill in this essay. To begin with, let’s get to know more about James Baldwin, the author. James Baldwin constantly wrote about his experience as a black man in white America (“about the author”). In various essay’s James Baldwin wrote about the struggle and …show more content…

For example, when he talks about hating the Jews again and again, he is trying to explain how the Jews or anyone treated them so bad just because of the color of their skin. This shows how the repetition shapes the article, also makes the article more effective by repeating the important things. James Baldwin uses repetition throughout the essay about racism to give the effect of going through the struggle of racism as if the reader has experienced racism themselves. Some might say that James Baldwin’s essay is old and argue that the society today has changed and embraced the different races. For example, there are no segregated schools in America and different races are allowed the same rights as white American, who were born here. Others might state that the world has changed and the world is getting closer than ever. But I disagree, I believe that the world hasn’t changed that much and racism still goes on in today’s society. For example, the shooting in a predominate African American church by a white man (Apuzzo, Schmidt, and Perez-pena). The white man in the church pulled out a gun harming the people in the church because of the color of their skin. This proves how racism still occurs and causes harm to multiple people. This also proves James Baldwin’s essay is still current and how racism is a major problem in today’s

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