Hurston argues that the American society has misapprehended black people, even to the present day. And it's not because it is hard to understand and accept black people, but because the white majority is entirely indifferent to them. They don't care about black people's preoccupations, struggles, internal problems. And it isn't only white Americans who employ such an attitude. It is also colored immigrants and people of other ethnicities who join in.
Hence the misconceptions about black people. They are still being perceived in the context of their former slavery. They are almost never seen as heterogeneous population, where there are educated and uneducated, skilled and unskilled. Thereby the white majority reinforces the ancient narrative that blacks don't even deserve education, as it won't improve their inherently corrupt nature
The media don't help either. Their portrayal of black people is uniform. Of course, their work is commercial, and they won't make stories that don't sell. But that only means that the general audience is not interested in ordinary, everyday, human stories about black people. It is not only a snobbish perspective; it is a socially detrimental perspective which excludes a huge population which is a part of America.
A fearful trip. Answer found in the poem O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman, where the captain is Abraham Lincoln and the fearful trip is the civil war.
Answer:
they are cold blooded
skin is smoothy
breath through skin and sometimes with lungs
Answer:
one thing i would change in this world is the discrimination and I would change the way people talk to other people in a discriminating way. and I want to change it because it makes me sad to see people being discriminated because of their race or any type of reason. my life would be different because I would be happy people did not discriminate people. and the world would be different because people would learn to not discriminate.
