Layngstun Hyooz

The poem "I too" by Langston Hughes and the beginning of Chapter 17 in black Boy are very similar in that the main focus of both pieces is unity as a result of white oppression. Hughes' poem spoke frequently about how even though at the current moment there was nothing he could do about his situation, he and his black brothers and sisters would eventually be able to overcome their obstacles and eat with everyone else, no longer held back in the kitchen. Richard feels his sense of unity at a relief station while he is trying to get food. He finds that he can relate to the situations of the people in this place and that even though they are all suffering, they are at least suffering together.