Essay On Let Usa Be America Again

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Kyndal Sims Mrs. Evans ENG III 5 February 2024. Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes used powerful words and metaphors that shed light on the oppressive reality faced by many Black Americans and exposed flaws in the structure of America’s foundation. He also wrote in solidarity with other marginalized groups who have faced oppression while living in America. Since its founding, America has been a land portrayed as being full of new opportunities, including a greater chance of a better livelihood. Yet, for a lot of Americans, especially Black and Indigenous Americans, that promise is shadowed by mistrust and false hope. “Let America Be America Again” is a poem that exposes the many contradictions of the American Dream ideology, for …show more content…

I think of American society and what it has portrayed to all its citizens. Except that what it portrays is not always accurate. The American Dream is an ideology that translates differently depending on who you ask. But the central point of the ideology has never been clear, for it has never accounted for all its people. However, the oppressors have benefited from the labor of others to achieve it and live up to it in its entirety. To dissect the concept of the American Dream would be to dismantle the false narrative that all people in the United States are treated with equal rights and to acknowledge all people and their contributions to society. Langston makes a great example of this throughout the poem. From the perspective from which he is writing, the narrator seems helpless. He is angered that this is the reality in which he lives when he knows his efforts are much more deserving than they are given credit for. Which is common among Black people living within this oppressive society. Langston states, “We, the people, must redeem the land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain— All, all the stretch of these great green states— And make America again!" Hughes. These are the hopes of the

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