Egalitarianism

August Wilson was an amazing playwright, on the other hand, he was also an effective social-reformer. August Wilson Wrote “a cycle of plays, one for each decade of the 20^th century” and through his plays, he was spreading a certain message, however with every new and upcoming play, his ideals would get revised and be up to date. “Wilson has never been interested in plot” he didn’t care that his plays were predictable, in fact if you were able to predict what was going to happen, you would better understand that message he was trying to send out; and that critical message he was so dire to spread out is,  egalitarianism, aka social equality. Wilson’s plays according to him offer white Americans a different outlook on black Americans. For example, in his play Fences all the white Americans see is a garbage man, a person they don’t usually concern themselves with, someone they usually pay no regard to, in spite of this, they somehow fail to recall that this “garbage man” this individual, this soul, this HUMAN BEING, this SOMEBODY is a person as well. Moreover this somebody feels the same you do. He craves the same things we all do, love, honor, beauty, and despises the same things we do pain, betrayal, anguish, sorrow. Recognizing that these things are as much part of the white American’s life, can affect how they think and correspond with Black people in their lives. Wilson once said, “if humanity of a garbage man is a revelation to anyone, we are in much worse shape than the most apocalyptic social critics thinks.