Have you ever heard the saying "money makes the world go round"?

- Well it goes without saying that, money makes the USA "go round".

With money comes power and in the Capitalistic system where "production and distribution are privately or corporately owned" (by whites). Whites have the upper hand, blacks undeniably have the lower hand. Communist ideologies believe that "the organization of labor" should be for the "common advantage of all members" , it also advocates the "overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat" which means the "poorest class of working people" (a.k.a the African American). Richard Wright wrote Native Son, in order to portray how black life is doomed in America and how some will revolt (consciously or subconsciously). Wright opens the readers eyes to the oppression that whites inflict on blacks through capitalism and by doing so he illuminates the virtues of communist ideologies.

In the novel Native Son; the black man is denied the three basic rights of freedom:

1. "The capacity to exercise choice"

2.. "The right to unrestricted use; full access"

3. "The right of enjoying all of the privileges of member

By identifying whites as the obstacle in the way of his freedom and what that entails, he identifies whites as the enemy and himself as the victim. By assuming the role of the victim he must defend himself from his attackers (whites), therefore his aggressive acts against society are actually in self-defense. This is also the claim of Max, the communist lawyer that Wright uses as a vehicle for voicing his communist ideas. Max defends Bigger in court following the murder that Bigger commits on a white girl from "The Daltons", a family that he was working for. The Daltons represent a typical white family. Wright named the family the "Daltons" after John Dalton who was a British chemist that developed the atomic theory but was colorblind and most famously created "Daltonism" which is "An inherent defect in perception of colors, colorblindness". This is Wrights way of making a statement of how society does not understand blacks and mis-labels them as criminals and hence treats them as such. Blindness is also a frequently reoccurring theme in the book. Blindness is symbolic of the ignorance that leads to the oppression of blacks through the robbery of their freedom, and it is this robbery that instigates the scared and aggressive archetype of Bigger Thomas. From the moment he met the Daltons "he felt guilty, condemned". He was scared of infiltrating white society and he knew white property and contact with whites was forbidden, this made him think that "he should not have come [there]". When Mr. Dalton was interviewing Bigger, his daughter Mary walked in. She looked straight at Bigger and this made him feel uncomfortable. Mary discriminated against Bigger even though she acted as though she was being friendly and open-minded. When she met him, the first thing she asked him was whether he "belong[ed] to a union?" This was a way of making him feel aware of his color through seemingly pleasant conversation. She referred to her father as "Mr. Capitalist", This implies that she considered herself free of blame. In defense of the accusation of being a capitalist Mr. Dalton tells Bigger that the family "hired Negro chauffeurs" and "donated money and a ping pong table to a charity". He also boasted about being a "supporter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People". He says this shamelessly even though he runs the high rent tenement housing that forces blacks to live in awful conditions and supports segregation by refusing blacks their right to lease apartments in white neighborhoods. Even though the Daltons think that they are for equal opportunities and are not prejudice because they join some league or give away a table, Bigger sees through this and knows that they see him as some kind of case study instead of an individual. To the Daltons, he is a "colored" person, not Bigger Thomas. He knows that if he was caught with Mary they would not give him the benefit of the doubt, which is why in a frenzied act of self defense he killed her. Max, defends Bigger in court, he questions Mr. Dalton about why the real estate that his company owns has higher rent for "Negro's than for whites", Mr. Dalton claims that it is not his fault. The coroner leapt to Mr Daltons defense and said that because Mr Dalton was "one of the most respected men in th[e] city" Max should be quiet. This is how

Some common words found in the essay are:
Bigger Thomas, Gus Bigger's, Bigger's Buddy, Native Son, Bigger Gus, Black Book, Dalton British, Colored People, CAN'T WIN, Richard Wright, bigger thomas, native son, exercise choice, privileges membership, enjoying privileges, enjoying privileges membership, privileges membership citizenship, membership citizenship, defends bigger court, choice 2 unrestricted, basic rights, 1 capacity, rights freedom, capacity exercise, 2 unrestricted access,
Approximate Word count = 2253
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)