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Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes The Poem “Let America Be America Again” is a very emotional and moving poem. It was most likely written around the same time slavery ended in America. As the poem goes on it shows more and more the cruelty and hardships certain people would have had to experience in that time and how hard it was for these obstacles to be overcome. The poem speaks of America’s dream for freedom and for all to be equal. The character says that this dream has not yet been realized especially for him and those like him. He speaks of how America is supposed to be the land of love but how it never was that to him. The character also says how “There’s never been equality for me, nor freedom in this “homeland of the free”. America is called the homeland of the free and it is almost as if the character is mocking this because he himself has never been able to be free. The author talks abo