Stop the Gang Violence

Ray Rodriguez

In the story Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright, the theory of gang violence interfering with racial ethnicities, Blacks and Whites are in gang wars, is like how children in my neighborhood, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans fight over minor differences which eventually turn into bigger dichotomies of race and ethnic groups. “I never fully realized the ...environment till one day the gang to which I belonged found itself engaged in a war with the white boys who lived beyond the tracks” (Wright X), shows the relationship in my neighborhood but there are no tracks instead there is a bridge. Also “they replied with a steady bombardment of broken bottles.” The same exact thing happened. The gangsters were looking for bottles like savages in garbage cans just because of their hate for one another. This all happens when differences are implied In The Sky is Grey by Ernest J. Gaines “We should question and question and question—question everything.” (The college student 95). They eventually do question why do they hate each other but they pain does not help and makes them want revenge. They learn the hard way when they get caught and have to answer to authority like parents and the five Oh aka police and eventually need to respond to consequences. These stories are not related to my letter because the children I speak of are a little older and are so ignorant they think they know everything but they don’t. They learn lessons after a death and it sometimes leads to death of innocent jut because people are supposedly inferior and different.