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 * //For me, "I, Too"//** is about asking for just the chance to be equal. As one part of the poem states,

"Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America."

Langston Hughes is saying that white oppressors, if given the chance to be seen as equals, will see how beautiful blacks are and feel ashamed for segragation. It is a fundamental desire and want to be created equal. Hughes is tired of being treated like he is not human; he wishes blacks to rise above this. He condems American lifestyle in the 1930s and the state of American society. Blacks should become equal in this "white" home. The person in the poem just laughs at whatever the white man or women has said because the narrator knows that he or she really is beautiful. "Tomorrow" may mean that he or she believes that the day will come when there is equality.

This poem sums up what America was made up of. Everybody is American in America. That's the final statement.

//**Untitled (Women and City Theme)**// reminded me of a Langston Hughes poem called "I, Too". This photograph depicts an image of an African American man situated below what seems to be a painting of a young white women. This women holds her chin up and almost dismises the man. His face looks tired and it is full of perspiration from a hard day's work. He needs to rise above the brick wall and reach the white woman. The man seems like he is tired of working when he knows that white Americans are working less and getting more. The photography is set so he is the darkest part of the image and the viewer is drawn to him. Hughes's "I, Too" emcompasses American life for blacks and whites. This photograph illustrates this same message.