THE DANGER OF HAVING BEEN BLACK.

A detailed Summary of THE DANGER OF HAVING BEEN BLACK.

Maya Angelou, the famous author of I Know Why the Caged Bird

Sings, has written through this book her autobiography and a look at the segregation in the

early years of 1930's. On page 187 of that book she has written that: " It seemed terribly

unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy

burden of blackness." Earlier in her childhood she suffered and learned from the

grievance of certain white people in the south part of United States of America. At Stamps

where she was raised by her grandmother, as a child she was affected by racism

and those who preached it. She could not even believe they were human or real. She had

lived it and had some terrible experiences from it. However, back in California, where she was born

she understood the segregation with a certain realism.

Sometimes I explain to myself that the history ofsegregation could not be

otherwise. It would have been difficult for the master to accept equality with the former

slave. However, the way that Maya has described the situation in the book

tells how horrible it was at that time. First of all, growing up black

and female as she said was very painful. At Stamps, where as a child she was raised, the

Momma her grandmother. They were calling her by the first name instead of the last name. " Bye, Annie."

Here was an act of injustice again, and that part of the book makes me pensive and think how

their anger and hatred. And it could not be otherwise.

irst act that made her burst in tears was when the three little powhitetrash girls were mocking

nothing else to do than sings. In other words, sitting in the same classroom with those white girls

all the signs of racism that the secretary had shown since the first time she went to the office. And she

I am black, I have right only to a little level of education, and I have to accept any kind of injustice.

Approximate Word count = 1382
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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