Crooks In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Imagine just cruising down the street, knowing you’re hungry, knowing that you want food. But suddenly being attacked by white policemen, and having your story being spread all over the globe. Just imagine being segregated by skin color, containing racism, and negativity all around you. Just remember an African American teenager being killed for allegedly doing absolutely nothing, forced people to realize Black lives matter. Crooks has the knowledge, strength, and courage, but not the equality and pity that he deserves in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
Society back then, was not very accepting and weren’t influential, but very racist. Crooks’ skin color didn’t make society agree with him. People in this story disrespected him and labeled

Crooks as a “n***er”. Crooks thought he would grow up to become like his father, respected and successful but instead, he gets treated like a dirtbag. Crooks has grown more wisdom, lack of trust, and self racism. “This is just a n***** talking, an’ a busted back n*****” (71), Crook has gotten so much hate through his head, he became more negative to himself.
Skin color isn’t an issue at all, it is the people who are an issue.
The boss didn’t give Crooks the items that other non colored workers receive. Crooks gets the downgraded quality of the stuff other people got. “Crook’ bunk was a long box filled with straws” (66), others got a comfortable mattress bed in the bunk room with other men, while Crooks spends his time alone. Non colored people despite him and gave medicine bottles for the horses and him. Obviously, he gets the same treatment as a horse would. His room is near where the horse sleeps and he gets items that horses would get. If Crooks works and spends his day on the ranch, he deserves the same credit and cut as the other young men would get..