Racism :: English Literature

RacismRacism, the belief that race accounts for differences in humancharacter or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. either across the world racial favoritism has been a heartrending problem.In Africa 80% of the population is black and the 20% that are etiolatedhave each the power, is it not true that all men are created equal?Three stories Afrika Road, The Prisoner who Wore Glasses, and Whydont you Carve Other Animals, tell about Africa and how racialdiscrimination is a big problem. A more dramatic story is the movieThe Power of One about an English boy growing up in Africa and hisstruggles. In these ill-judged stories and in the movie racial conflictsare evident in the form of egg innocence against white, white against black,and black against black.Not all white people believed that they were superior to the blacks,this concept made the racist whites turn against other whites. In themovie, PK, the main character, suffers ordeals which no one shouldever have to go through with(predicate) simply because he is English. At his boardingschool the other kids do not like his presence and they make sure heknows it. Another white kid spits in PKs face and even takes it asfar as peeing on him in the bathroom. Sadly enough those werent eventhe more serious of the acts of hate shown in the movie. PK gets hungup by his feet and stoned with a slingshot, all this because he isEnglish. In The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses, the only real instance ofwhite against white was when the guard took the prisoners side. Eventhough he was forced too, the guard took the prisoners side andtreated them as equals, going completely against what the other guardsbelieved was right. Other than that there werent umteen instances ofwhite against white discrimination in the stories, they were mainlyabout the conflicts between blacks and whites.Racial conflict between blacks and whites is definitely expressed morein the short stories than in the movie. In Afrika Road, it is said howeven though 80% of the population is black, the white people stillhave the power. This idea is also expressed metaphorically in WhyDont You Carve Other Animals? When it says The elephant has ruledthe forest for a long time, he is older than the forest, but thegiraffe extends his neck and struts above the trees, as though theforest belonged to him. He eats the topmost leaves, while the elephantspends the day rolling the mud. Do you not find it interesting?