Argumentative Essay: The Banning Of Black Boy

Banning Books Essay To ban a book is to remove it from a library or from other sources such as online websites. A book is evicted by dense communities of people and can only be banned for reasons deemed unfit such as being: “politically incorrect, containing sexual subjects; and(or) talk of extreme racial tensions” or explicit violence (Downs and Sweet). An example of a banned book is Black Boy, which contains vulgar language, crude depictions which drove people of certain communities to evict it from High School libraries. It was banned in Mississippi 1945, by a senator who was so religiously biased that a book questioning God and a book that contains vulgar language should not be allowed to be read by teenagers of the Mississippi community

It was prohibited for vulgar language, sexual explicitness, and violent imagery that is gratuitously employed. The author Richard Wright challenges society itself as he insults white men and shows how sometimes he hates them, other times he's arguing with his grandma over religion, the author shows very explicit language, and the author is constantly causing violent acts, and being beaten. The readers, such as myself believe that Richard Wright's book should not be banned because even though he's constantly encouraging racism he is also stressing how much equality is needed. Black Boy was written as almost an autobiography, a lot of the contents of this book are straight from Richard Wright’s life. He wrote this novel to show the struggles of a poor black boy in Mississippi and show what racism can do to people. Richard Wright rewrote this book once which shows he knows that it has some wrong inside of it, and the whole time he fought controversy for writing it very explicitly. Wright should not have had to rewrite this book, neither should it have banned in any

Explicit language was better expressed by the author multiple times just like “Indian, white, and Negro?” multiple times he would use words such as “negro” and “bastard” as well as much worse I'm not allowed to mention in this day and age(Wright page 37 of Black Boy pdf). Crude depictions are “gratuitously” employed in a poem written by black friends of Richard Wright’s- “Jew, Jew, Two for five That’s what keeps Jew alive” they were being rude to jews by saying Jews die easily. All three of these examples are important to the novel because they show irony by a stereotyped black boy stereotyping, and all three of these moments teach the author's moral lessons like, be careful what you say, and there's always someone in more pain than