Analysis Of I Too Sing America By Langston Hughes

In America 47% of hate crimes are racially motivated, that’s almost half of all hate crimes. There are hate groups in every state in America such as the Klu Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations. As you can see racism is still a huge problem in the United States. Langston Hughes is a poet who wrote about some racism and slavery back in the days, and what I took from him is that we all are one, and we all are America.
In one of his poems “I, Too, Sing America,” he talks about this boy who comes off to be a slave. Using first person perspective the boy says, “they send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes.” In this poem the boy has to eat in the kitchen but he doesn’t let it get to him that much because he strives to believe that one day he will be able to sit at the table when company comes. He says, “I’ll be at the table when company comes.” A couple lines later he states that nobody will dare send him to eat in the kitchen, and that they’ll be ashamed once they see how beautiful he really is. At the beginning of the poem he starts off with, “I, too, sing America,” but then at the end he states, “I, too, am America.”
In the poem the mother is talking about how life hasn’t been easy for her but she’s still going. A couple lines to this poem are, “ Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” and then later she states, “But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners.” The next couple of lines she is talking to her son who is also dealing with this discrimination she has been going through, she tells him, “don’t turn your back. Don’t you set down on the steps ‘Cause you finds it’s kinda hard.” She talks about how she has been through everything he’s going through but even worse and that if she can make it through all this then he can make it through it