In a nation built on trust, the constant misjudging of stereotypes is one of the leading causes of racism. The meaning of stereotype is a generalization of a group of people, which is commonly associated with race and how they are viewed. Cornelius Eady, an African American poet, who has lived all his life dealing with the prejudice of being a “black man” in New York, has developed a writing presence in the literary world as a writer of black mistreatment.
In Eady’s “Who Am I” he writes about the court case South Carolina vs. Susan Smith, describing the story through the eyes of an imaginary black man, figment by Smith. Susan Smith decided to tell the world that a black man kidna