It’s time to make a step. From the first sentences of this letter when the author is saying that it took him five times to write it, you can feel that it’s not going to be easy to read the letter. Right then I felt the pain, life experiences, his way of life. It took me three times to read it, before I was able to try and write a review and personal opinion about it.
Race and color of the skin are still most demanded topics in peoples’ life. You hear stories of a white police officer killed a black kid on the street, black man robbed the deli and shot the indian cashier and so on. But how many years have gone by since Afro-Americans received equal rights in US? Not long ago, we were talking about human civilization, I can see that the author knows the history of his people and I think he was one of those who fought for freedom, and now he’s trying to explain to his nephew that the fight is over and the best thing he can do is to forgive the rebels which are still out there and who’s thinking that the fight is not done yet. I can be wrong, but I feel like the author is trying to show that some white people are now more slaves of their prejudices then the black people back in the days. That it took so many years to open the eyes of humanity, but still there are some with closed ones.. He’s asking to forgive them because they are stuck in their mind and there is no way for them to be free from their own prison they are in. In the last part of his letter he gives advice not only to his relative, but to mankind, he says that we need to get rid of the chains, shook our dungeon to be able to make a next step in our bright future, without it we are still going to be in the dark ages.