It’s all Black and White During both realism and modernism, there were many racial issues. “How it Feels to be Colored Me” s a modernist story that demonstrates how, yes, she may be colored, but she's proud of who she is.In the first line she states, “I am Colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grand-father on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”(Hurston) She is proud to be different from everyone else. She has down sides to, she's treated differently from the whites, which is unfair, but she comes out brave, courageous. She puts her foot down and says this is me, this is who I am, and i am beautiful the way I am. I’m not ashamed to be who I am because I am me and no one will ever change how I feel. She is fearless and bold. In the modernist story “Theme for English B” the girl, the only colored girl in her class, takes a stand by pointing out that she is being treated unfairly. She did not get correct grades because her teacher discriminated against her. She was trying to live her life and lead a normal life, she wanted an education, but her teacher failed to give …show more content…
Booker T. Washington gave a speech and one the lines really tells of how our country lived and thought of one another, “Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands.”(booker T. Washington) This statement is telling of how instead of having the colored work for whites, they need to work together as one nation. In order to build this nation to be stronger they have to look past the differences that they see in people and join their weaknesses and strengths. They have to be able to fall back on each other and not let color change who someone is truly inside,for the body is only a vessel for what is truly on the