Jared K illuminates "Cross"

Cross

My old man's a white old man               

And my old mother's black.

If ever I cursed my white old man

I take my curses back.

If ever I cursed my black old mother

And wished she were in hell,

I'm sorry for that evil wish

And now I wish her well

My old man died in a fine big house.     These two lines show that white people are

My ma died in a shack.                          rich and black people are poor and 

I wonder where I'm going to die,           discriminated against.

Being neither white nor black?             He wonders how people will take him as a white or black person. To discriminate or not discriminate him.
     

       
    The poem I picked is called Cross by Langston Hughes. It is about white people  get more oppurtunities than black people. The poem shows how the whites always get their way. The example he uses is his father, who is white, dies in a big house. This implies that he is very rich, while his black mother is poor and dies in a dirty shack. In the beginning of the poem when he says he has on occasion been rude to both parents but respects them both equally. By respecting both parents of different races equally he shows that we as Americans, in the land of the free should do the same to.