Living For The City, By Stevie Wonder

Are you colored and ever been approached by a racist person that said some very nasty things to you? Or maybe you yourself have witnessed someone that was racist say things that got you angry with or dislike that person. I myself have heard people say racist jokes or just be racist to someone. Being racist is not something to be taken lightly. In 1973, Stevie Wonder wrote the song “Living for the City” to talk about his life a little. The song was about living in a racist city and country. A lot of people heard this song and could connect with him while others just sat back and understood him trouble. In this essay you will read what I think he is saying in the song “Living for the City”. In the first part of this essay, upon which you are reading, you will be reading about the first two stanzas. When Stevie Wonder was a kid he lived in Mississippi with his parents and sister and were apparently going through a hard time for their life and the country’s. His house did not look good, which probably meant that he was poor and could not maintain the houses infrastructure as well as a white family could at the time. He had said that his parents gave him love and affection so that he could move in
Stevie Wonder’s hair was long and his feet were tough and gritty because since they had no car he probably walked everywhere and his feet got used to it. He also loved to spend his time walking the street in the city he lived in which turn out to be New York City. Since he live in the city of New York, he and everyone else who lived there were sitting in a constant, never ending cloud of pollution that was not visible which is why he said he was almost dead from breathing on air pollution. He hopes that people will hear his voice and his sorrow, and that people will help make it better for the future. Stevie Wonder said that nowhere else could be colder and that the world would be over if it did not