B. It links personal and national events to show the destructiveness of hatred.
Explanation:
With this sentence we can find the perfect reason behind enunciations like "shamefulness, revolt, discontent, and scorn "… unfairness, insurgency, discontent, and contempt “…the violence which rose all about us as my father left the world had been devised as a corrective for the pride of his eldest son." which are the principle and most grounded disputes showed in the concentrate, all the abhor, and moping that the maker suffered over being a Negro around at that point.
The author is trying to say, the person being described has two defining characters. At a point in time, he can be very lively and animated. Some other times, he is withdrawn, cool and lonely.
The figure of speech to describe this is an OXYMORON.
