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My People
By: Langston Huges
Dish-washers,
Elevator-boys,
Ladies’ maids,
Crap- shooters,
Cooks,
Waiters,
Jazzers,
Nurses of babies,
Loaders of ships,
Porters,
Hairdresser,
Comedians in vaudeville
And band-men in circuses-
Dream- singers all,
Story-tellers all.
Dancers-
God! What dancers!
Singers-
God! What singers1
Singers and dancers,
Dancer and laughers.
Laughers?
Yes, Laughter….laughters...laughters-
Loud-mouthed laughters in the hand of Fate.
In the poem “My People.” by Langston Hughes, he said people's features and appreciated them; he refers to working-class men and women's strength. In the end lines, he touches people’s feelings by saying “laughter” that something big even if he can not see the other people's souls. However, the social class makes a huge difference between that Upper class, they don’t have empathy for anybody else; they are like devils. At this time, the minorities' discrimination and inequality in the social class make United States history.Hence, the them is that everyone has to take part in something as a community.