Black people have come a long way since the days of slave whips and chains. Originating in Africa, as the human race in general is, sold by its own people, forcibly brought to the colonies, stripped of its culture and unwittingly assimilated into the colonial culture that would soon be the United States of America. Hundreds of years later, we find ourselves in the 1960s, where revolutionaries such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm all races as a whole. These individuals advocated for a desegregation breakthrough allowing future generations to eventually become more understanding toward their racial counterparts. However, even with this progress, the desire for equality no longer exists because it has been achieved, but because people believe that we are all equal and that the ideas of discrimination and racism do not exist, even if so, as shown in the letter entitled My dungeon shook. Every day a black person, or a minority in general, experiences the constant feeling that they are not good enough and that opportunities for prosperity are not as prevalent for them as they are for a white person. The systems of prosperity, oppression, racism and classism are not broken however, they have been deliberately set up this way to ensure that the inferior races remain inferior and the superior race remains superior. Culture is defined as the beliefs and customs of a particular society or group. . Since the westernization of native Africans, the culture of black people has changed dramatically, in ways that one would not even think represents the original black culture. Black women wear weaves in order to replicate the idea...... middle of paper......, the misfortune that society is structured the way it is gives black people little hope. It will be like this until things change, if they ever change. Living a life of oppression takes its toll on some and forces them to succumb to the machinery of the system of which they are supposed to be cogs. Change comes from action. If black people would come together and enlighten each other, instead of trying to outdo each other, as is the case as a black man, the results could be exceptional. To the point where black people would gain the respect of a so-called superior race, to the point where they would have no choice but to consider us equal. Until the majority decides that this is what they really want, black people will continue to be treated as inferior and will be frustrated by something they could change if they united to conquer..