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Racism in Black Boy Racism is one of the main themes of Black Boy . Throughout the story we can see how black people lived and suffered , just for being different . They were treated as animals and humillated by people . They didn’t have rights and had to support the injustices of life at that period of time. Since little , Richard knew but didn’t understand that white people were different to black people , he thought that they were the same but still knew that white people were more powerful than black people , for example when he said in page 23 : ¨ And when a word circulated among the black people of the neighborhood that a black boy had been severy beaten by a white man , I felt that the white man had the right to beat the black boy. Richard refer to the black person as a boy , and to the white person as a man , by this difference we can see that he wasn’t really concerned about the differences between whites and blacks , but he knew in a very innocence way that white men were more powerful than black men.
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