Responce to poem "Sympathy" by Paul Lawrance Dunbar

 The poet has chosen his words to create a vivid image of the caged wounded bird that looks upon the free beutiful world and longs to be part of it. The poem makes me sympathises with the bird and try and relate the birds situations to a Black American at the time when racism had "caged" the Black Americans. The poem made me realize how much of a pain it can be to be a victom of racism. The little this we do like name calling and steriopyping someone realy can turn out to become something more serious. I certainly do not want to become the "bars" of someones "cage" that stops them from feeling free to be themselves.  

My Opinon on the Racism towards Black Men

I dont know how people thought it was right to do those things to
a human being... wern't thet disturbed when they saw the hangings
of people on the trees? or when they burnt down peoples houses?
Im sure they wouldnt do that to their dogs so why were they doing
those things to a human being? And to think they called themselves
christians makes me even more sad and angry that they could have
done that to people. I guess this shows us that we realy shouldn't
dislike or alienate people based on our prejudice towards them.
It should never ever happen again.

The Life for Black People in 1800~1990

Life was cruel  for the black African people. Many white men were racist
and discriminative towards them, especially in Southern America. The white
men thought they were superior towards the black men and labeled them as
stuped, uneducated, aggressive, and sexual. Due to this racisim the black
men were treated unfairly and seen as unequal in a country which was built
on equality. Blacks got different treatment; they were put in diffent schools,
houses, buses, hospitals, and cemeteries from whites. The worst case was
that they were killed/abused by the ku klux klan ( a clan caln that acted
violently towards the blacks). Some blacks were lynched if they looked at
white women and white and black people couldnt marry due to white people
fearing a mongrel race.