The Continued Miseducation Of Black Boy By Richard Wright

Times have changed since the Jim Crow Laws less than a century ago. In his autobiography, Black Boy, Richard Wright described his experience as a young black male living in the Jim Crow South from 1908 to 1927 . He explained how horribly people of African American descent were treated and his plans to escape as soon as possible. Many years have passed since then and the South is different now. If Wright was living as a young black boy in 2018, he would write about the election of Barack Obama, the failed education of African Americans, and racism in the police force.
The election of Barack Obama was a historical moment in U.S. history. Obama, a man with African American ancestry, was elected as president in a country that used to hold blacks as slaves. All the previous presidents had been white, thus having a black president - the highest
The column, “The Continued Miseducation of Black Americans” by Manuela Ekowo argues that African Americans all around the United States have not been given the appropriate education to escape their impoverished and historical backgrounds. Whilst most blacks do attend school and have academic programs to help them achieve their dreams Ekowo writes that blacks today still graduate at significantly lower rates than other races, and those attending reputable schools still have not budged the percentages much at all. In 1940, a measly two percent of colored men and women completed four years of college. By 2015 that number changed to about twenty-one percent of black women and seventeen percent of black men in America with a bachelor’s degree or higher. That number has slowly climbed more than fifteen percent over the span of seventy-five years. Those numbers are incredibly disappointing, and reflects how much America has done for the least fortunate of