Lattany, K. H. (1973). Guests in the promised land:
Stories. New York: C. Scribner's Sons.
“It ain’t a Promised Land at all if some people are always
guests and others are always members.” A
collection of eleven short stories that narrate life as a black person in a white
world ranging from a girl that despite being taunted, manages to keep her cool;
to a young man who has just being released from jail and vows to not fall
victim once more to the criminal life; to a touching love story that warms your
heart, or an individual who hides behind charitable behavior to disguise a
hateful racist side. These stories depict different people in different
situations with different experiences that all depict the struggles of an
African American in a White American Society.
Sometimes people complain that the struggles of African-American are overrated. To let it go and accept the past and embrace the present, the present that's supposed to be "racism free." Well, time an time again it is proven to the world that the world is still racist, and whether we want to accept it or not, America is indeed a racist country. And it's not just African-Americans that struggle though. It's also Hispanics, I know because I am pretty much Mexican, but Anglo-Americans struggle as well. It's a harsh world out there, but sometimes the struggles of some are more noticeable than the struggles of all.
Sometimes people complain that the struggles of African-American are overrated. To let it go and accept the past and embrace the present, the present that's supposed to be "racism free." Well, time an time again it is proven to the world that the world is still racist, and whether we want to accept it or not, America is indeed a racist country. And it's not just African-Americans that struggle though. It's also Hispanics, I know because I am pretty much Mexican, but Anglo-Americans struggle as well. It's a harsh world out there, but sometimes the struggles of some are more noticeable than the struggles of all.
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