In Mosley’s writing, we find democracy’s purpose has mutated from rights to riches. Science is growing both helpful and fearful while the greater flaws grow bigger under the cover of censorship. This is the obstacle in the pursuit of happiness.
    In chapter three of Workin on the Chain Gang, segregation limited the black American society to labor and recession of goods and rights. As Mosley portrays the image of the white society being distracted by media and wants, the black American society fought off segregation and that gave perspective to the "chains" in America.
   "The black American experience is the history of America. Our struggle to survive in the face of blinding hatred is in part a key to understanding how the chains forged in the modern world might be slipped and avoided in the future(Mosely 47)."