For vacation, Baldwin went to a Swiss village where he was the only African American present. He felt uncomfortable and did not why the village people stared and treated him different from everyone else. They thought his hair was the color of tar and it had the texture of cotton. He was living a nightmare which no one can wake him from. There were about six hundred people, and they were all Catholic. Baldwin did not see them as unkind, just unaware of black history in America. For example the children shout,
Niger! Niger! He walked along the streets yet he reacted patient with them.
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But, the main concern of Rodriguez is the difficulty of the adaptation of the Hispanic community in the American society. Both Baldwin and Rodriguez make the point that dark skin makes people feel shame. Both reveal similar racial issues, so African and Hispanic communities have experienced a lot of difficulties of the skin color.
In conclusion, I am against racism because I know the discrimination that these people from different races and skin color face. We are all equal because we all are human beings and have rights. Also, we should talk to children about their cultures and educate them on this issue. The only way of finishing with racism would be by finishing with the social, economic and political injustices that are generated in the society. Baldwin and Rodriguez promote to stop the suffering with racism because they lived their own