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Reading Richard Wright’s stories after reading Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God was like jumping into a cold shower and wiping the sleep from my eyes. His writings wake you up for the gross injustices and inhumanities that Blacks encountered in the South, and still today face everyday all over America. Hurston’s South was a microcosm of one woman’s journey through life and love, whereas Wright lifts the miasma that surrounded her writings and presents the macrocosm of the South. All of Wright’s stories present these injustices and inhumanities in a different way in each of the stories in Uncle Tom’s Children. However, the story that touched me the most and made me say ‘whoa, wait a minute’ was definitely The Ethics of Living Jim Crow. I read through it twice with two differe