African American People

Happiness is undeniably one of the main purposes of human life. In order to get it Man has often resorted to different means. And migration is unanimously recognized as an efficient mean to find blossoming. In this regard, African-American people, after the Emancipation proclamation, decided to leave the South and settle in the North to improve their living conditions. In fact the hostile system of the South did not enable them to enjoy their freedom and take advantage of their new status for southerners were conservative and their former masters never saw them as equal. Therefore African American people naturally tried to reach the North with the hope of a better life and treatment as Claude brown says in the novel ''these migrants were told that unlimited opportunities for prosperity existed in New York and that there was no color problem there. They were told that Negroes lived in houses with bathrooms, electricity, running water, and indoor toilets" .In fact they considered it as a "Promised Land". However once established there African American people have not spent much time to notice that the reality was quite different. In fact things did not walk as they wanted. Their conditions have even worsened for they could not find decent job and were fallen in poverty and despair. They had difficulties to sustain their families to pay rents ,prices were rising and wages decreasing. As a result African American families were in terrible crisis for parents had no longer time to discuss with their children, to bring them up, to care about their schooling . Thus these latter with neither education nor supervision, and being ignorant, saw themselves found in a situation where drug addiction and dealing, robbery, prostitution and violence were their chosen way of life. That 's why their parents were pointed an accusing finger at and specially fathers for behaving like missing.

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