Interview with August Wilson

During the interview with August Wilson, Wilson expounds on many different cultural aspects in life. He first undergoes the changes in generation causing parents to have to raise their children differently from how they were raise. One question that he uphold in his interview is "Are the tools we are given sufficient to compete in a world different from our parents knew?" This was an interesting question to me because the environment children raised in now is more dangerous than before and things are prone to happen to a child. This cause a parent to have to raise their child strictly and have full attention of there whereabouts. Unlike now, parents could tell their kids to go outside and have no worries as to what might happen but things have changed. He answers his own question saying, he thinks the tools are helpful but they have to do different things with the tools. I totally concur with his statement. He also talks about how African American separate themselves from society and rather make a future from getting a job with using their hands rather than paperwork job. He ends his interview saying he would like to see blacks develop their own institutions that responds to their needs rather than others. This is his solution to some of the issues with the African American society and I agree with it. I found this really interesting.