Hughes points out the lack of equality of poor whites but also how unjustly and even more unequally blacks are being treated by the same upper class people. He points out the need for blacks and poor whites to work together for equality, otherwise they cannot rise above the upper class who are taking everything from them. In “Let America be American Again” Hughes says “(There’s never been equality for me, / Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.””)(15-16). While poor whites are not being treated equally at this time they still have their freedom unlike blacks who have never been given equality or freedom. In “Open Letter to the South” Hughes states to the poor whites and the working class “Let us instead, you and I, / One single hand /
