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My Arkansas

My Arkansas

"My Arkansas" by Maya Angelou, discusses her
remembrance of an old Arkansas where she had spent
some time as a child with her grandmother, in a rural
segregated part of the state. An Arkansas where
discrimination against blacks was an every day
occurrence, and to this day, still has strong racial
discrimination. The speaker, who is also the writer,
talks of past crimes that had occurred against black
people. "My Arkansas" gives a glimpse of what it must
have been like for a black person living during that
time experiencing the atrocities of their civil
liberties trounced. "My Arkansas" tells of how civil
liberties and discrimination had been abused by
members of our society.
The speaker begins by giving an allusion of a very
violent past in this poem. The speaker is a black
woman who hints at this violent past, and remembers it
well. Maya Angelou is also a civil liberties activist.
She understands the discrimination that was the cause
of this violence and puts it in the past where it
belongs. Racial discrimination is still present in
Arkansas and everywhere else in the country. Civil
liberties, society is still abusing them today.
In the first stanza, the speaker talks of a "deep
brooding," meaning that the crimes of the past still
haunt those in Arkansas. It talks of  "moss pend,"
crimes not forgotten,

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