The Way Our Government Treats

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Term Paper Title	The Way Our Government Treats
# of Words	785
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.14

     The way our government treats
African-Americans has improved over
the years. Especially during the period
of time following the Civil War when the
end of slavery came.  The prejudice
behaviors of some of the American
population did not end with last gun shot
of the Civil War though.  Throughout the
years our country has bore trough
since the conclusion of the war there has
been traces of racism everywhere.  It
has been witnessed in our California
riots via Rodney King and it has been
seen in such things as sports via Marge
Schott.  It is no surprise that racism is a
popular topic for literature.
     James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" is a
story about a young black man who
finds his way out of Harlem and into
trouble.  The young black man, Sonny,
was a musician who left Harlem and got
involved in drugs.  He came back after a
prison sentence to stay with his brother,
the narrator of the story.  The story is
mostly a tail of the trials a black man
goes through living/getting out of
Harlem.  The story is not as much
concerned with the way the Caucasian
race treats the African-American race
as it is a story of the struggles blacks
have getting to positions that are at
least achievable for whites.  The main
instance of racism and the mistreatment
of colored people is the killing of
Sonny's uncle.
     "This car was full of white men.  They
were all drunk, and when they seen your
father's brother they let our a great
whoop and holler and they aimed the car
straight at him.  . . .They wanted to scare
him. . . By the time he jumped it was too
late" (Baldwin 102).
     The previous passage was taken
from the conversation the narrator was
having with his mother about his uncles
death.  It is a very definitive passage
for the view some Caucasian people
had/have toward African-Americans.
     U.S. News and World Report
reported in June 1996, "In Charlotte, N.C. .
. . a 13-year-old white girl was arrested
and charged as a juvenile with burning
the sanctuary of a black church; there"
(Witkin 32).
     Racism has no boundaries it is in the
young of our country, the old, the poor,
the rich, white or black.  This is something
that is briefly addressed in "Sonny's
Blues" but is more of an issue in Toni
Morrison's "The Bluest Eye".  The story
fits perfectly with the previous U.S.
News article.  It deals with a African-
American girl, Claudia, whose hatred
for little white girls leads her to the
dismembering of baby dolls she is given
as presents.  The hatred also leads...

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