Social impacts of Wilson's legacy

If we were to describe the legacy of August Wilson we would look at the physical awards he left behind, like the August Wilson theater and his cycle of 10 works. But if we named the social changes he made it would span through almost everyone who has seen his plays, met him in person or heard his life story. He bring to light the topics no one really want to talk about, the racism we see throughout the US, the power we give words, and how that language separates us. He shows we give power to language to determine how people are in our eyes, which can affect how we see different races so we tend to form groups based on color. We can see this in almost all cases brought up in the news, like Brown vs Board, the modern version of it when brown said the n-word in front of Mason the principal. We see how one words use can change our view on people and how words can hurt us. But it can also make it so we are treated as equal, like brown says “I had to show them I was going to stand up for myself-”. Some people would have never seen this power we give to words so they can hurt if they hadn't seen Wilson’s plays or heard his life story. The people closest to him understood that, like his wife. She says that “I lived long enough with August to feel I know what he wanted done with his work”. She even continues helping with his plays even after his death.