The Lynching of Jube Benson by P.L. Dunbar

We live in a very picayune society where it is very gentle to fall into the trap of lone(prenominal) looking at the go forth of batch, things, and ideas without taking the time and drive to delve deeper into them. Everyday stack are judged solely on the color of their skin. Race is an ideology that was make believed by society because of how people perceive ideas and faces that they do not normally see. For years, African Americans bear experienced a tart social structure that unhuman them, while whites negative attitudes and perceptions of ingloriouss served as a mechanism to apologize their oppression. In todays society, a person tends to single out against someone who may expect different due to their ain narrow-minded concepts built up finished living in a nation that has suffered from multitudinous years of racial segregation. The little(a)(p) story, The Lynching of Jube Benson, by capital of Minnesota Laurence Dunbar, revolves around racial regime and portra ys how the stereotypes people pitch of African Americans not only create an inaccurate picture of how they rightfully are, but generates violence against them as well. Dunbar utilizes his main character, Dr. Melville, to display the misconceptions and stereotypes that whites have developed towards the African American community.\nThe Lynching of Jube Benson is a short story in which a white narrator, Dr. Melville, describes his involvement in the lynching of his former inexorable friend, Jube Benson, who was falsely accused of murdering Dr. Melvilles lover, Annie. Unfortunately, Jube was found innocent after(prenominal) he was already lynched. Dunbar presents the stall of the black character through the commentary of the white Dr. Melville. By doing this, the author highlights the kind of agreement that whites have about the black population. Dr. Melville understands the influence of tradition and a false education on his understanding of blacks. As he recounts his story, he o bserves that at fi...