The white race didn’t want to be associated in the same context, there was no we or us, only “She got the hell away”. Like a love affair that couldn’t happen because they were different races, “She was white”. This use of pronouns make it seem like a completely different universe between him and her. It starts out with “he wanted to taste her”, “I worried for him”, “she was engaged”, “She was white”, “None of us are far from ending”. In this poem Gary Jackson also shows racism through the personal pronouns like I, her, he, and us. Jackson could have used just a lady or woman but instead he used diction and chose the word white to show contrast and racism. And lastly, Gary Jackson uses the word “white” to show how the color of someone’s skin effected them differently. They wondered when it would end and they would get their freedom. Blacks were worried about what would happen to them when they stepped out on the streets or when the next incident would be. They words, hell away, means to stay away and to get to a safer place. Harassment is one of the ways African Americans were lynched and torment. Lynching as mention earlier was used during segregation time periods and after the slaves were free in America. Some of the word choices that show us the theme of racism is words like lynching, harassment, hell away, ending, worried, and white. In this poem we can see racism not only through diction, but through personal pronouns. Lynching was a word to describe the violence, torment, and harassment that blacks would receive from whites. We readers can see this theme of racism through poems like “How to Get Lynched on the Job”. Gary Jackson writes about this theme of racism using literary devices such as diction, and the use of personal pronouns. They feel like they are a completely different species in this world of white people and judgment. it’s a simple thrill to peer behind the veil-observe how the other color lives”. They’d look anyways, it’s just they have a new reason, one that makes them comfortable in their fear. Or in the poem, “Watchmen” he Jackson writes, “Now all of these white people are watching us. And the bubblegum lips part or shades of black show racism and stereotyping against African Americans. This stereotypes blacks as being evil wanting to sexually abuse people or just abusing. dark like olives, He smiles as if he wants to bite your throat, holds back his teeth with those bubblegum lips he can’t help but lick”. Jackson shows this theme in the poems like, “Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is”, where it says “I know the dangers of believing every shade of black you see. The main one I see in the book is racism. Gary Jackson’s Missing You, Metropolis has many themes to it, such as death, individualism, sexual maturity, life, choices, and mainly racism.
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