Ralph Ellison Battle Royal

After reading the story Battle Royal I decided to write this paper because the discrimination issues that we still seeing a couple of decades after this story has been wrote. Discrimination is not only about black and whites is all about the different cultures on America and how they interact with each other and the bias around each culture example Hispanics, Africans, Asians, and other ethnic groups in the US. Sometimes it is hard to think this way, but when you check statistics about graduation of high school just in Indiana, the highest dropouts are from Blacks and Hispanics with a Graduation Rate of 79% and 85.5% respectively, the minorities are always on the negative numbers and if one of them or a group of this minorities go above and beyond of expectations; everyone turn their heads and attention to them and show them as an example to the other kids and young adults on this minority group. Why is this deformed image of the race, and how this affected our kids? The story “Battle Royal” was written by Ralph Ellison on 1952 and today 64 years later we still dealing with this detriment between all the ethnics groups, as how Ellison mentioned on an
This generation grew up in areas where the immigrants do not have a big impact on their society and treat immigrants as a threat. They didn’t realize that if we talk about Latinos the demographer “William H. Frey” said that “the primary driver of growth in the Latino population isn’t immigration. It’s the number of births to Latino U.S. residents”. In the same prospective of the story “Battle Royal” the majority (whites) shall invest in the middle class education and social services not just to help or do something to “your people”, but, because this is the future of