JUSTICE by Langston Hughes

This week in the English class we discussed a lot of Langston Hughes poems. What I find interesting is that he is rather literal and all his poems dealt with topics of racism and prejudice. I really like his poems and I familiarize with them in some aspects. I can obviously understand why did Langston Hughes wrote this poems. He was black and lived in the 1960’s United States. Therefore, he lived in a very discriminating time, especially against the black race, his race. Although racism is not so known now a days we can see still that there is racists and racism in the world. I want to discuss the poem “Justice” which was not discussed in class. The poem is real short so I’m going to write it and then discuss it.
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise.
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.
This poem is very literal, although it uses several symbols these are pretty easy to understand and interpret. On the first line he means to say that the American justice only does justice to what they want to do justice, on the second line he means to say that black people know that justice is not on their side, so they probably know how to deal better with it than most whites. The bandage he’s referring to means the way justice hides the injustice some people go through. When he says that once perhaps were eyes, I think he means that people used to see justice how it is supposed to be seen but now a days things doesn’t work like that. The two festering sores are obviously referring to the eyes.