Let America Be America Again: Poem Analysis

No Money, More Problems
The class system is in governments all over the world and has been in government for as long as anyone can remember. The class system has three tiers, the lower class, the middle class, and the upper class. The passages Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes, Helping homeless college students by Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Income inequality, policy choices led to ongoing school segregation, report says by The Washington Post, and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry give great insight into what it is like living in the lower class. Since lower class jobs pay small amounts of money, it is challenging to move up into a higher class.
In the poem Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes, He refers …show more content…
He also suggests that the machine is all the corporal businesses and the worker's life is sold to the business because the hours are long and ruthless, the conditions are not suitable for human beings to be working in, and they are paid such little amounts of money that they have to work as much as they can to provide for their families. Mr. Hughes states later in the poem that, “I am the Negro, servant to you all.” (10:3) For some people it is there only option. Minorities in America were not taught the same as the majority race of America. They were taught less information so therefore they are not qualified for high paying jobs. So the people that own these businesses capitalize on the minority's not having an education and …show more content…
The article, Helping homeless college students, The Washington Post shows that, “Robinson worked low-paying, unskilled jobs for a while before getting a degree in general studies and business. He left small-town Georgia for better opportunities in the Atlanta area, but again found only low-paying employment.” (4) This is a prime example of someone being in a low class, because he was in the bottom of his high school class and was looked at differently when he eventually went to go to get a job. He was looked at as a person that was unreliable and ignorant. He was not given a chance just because of what happen in high school. He attempted to improve, but was still given the same amount of chances because he was looked at like the man he was when he was in at the bottom of his class even though he tried to change. In the same article the author states, “His mother and sister needed help paying their bills, so Butts gave them his rent money. Unable to get the money back, he got further and further behind on his financial obligations and was eventually evicted.” (2) Because Butts was born into a lower class family, his family stayed that way even after he went to college. As a result of this he had to help if family even though he had to help himself. Since his family was in a lower class they brought him down

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