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In the poem "Theme for English B," by Langston Hughes, he talks about the African American struggle for equality. The poem starts off with a professor giving his students a paper to write about whatever subject they want. The instructor says ....

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... is going to be graded differentely, because he is black. I felt that hughes was not asking for sympathy but just an understanding. he explains that a black man will always have an impact on a white man's life, and or vice versa. He also thinks that his professor won't undertand his poem, because he and his professor come from two completely different worlds. After reading his poem, I felt that Hughes's only wish is to be accepted not as a black man, but as an American. I could relate to Langston Hughes's writing, because I too, sometime wonder if the teacher understands what I write. ...