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White Man's Struggles In America

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This poem being from 1951 verbalizes the internal struggle of a black college student. During this time period it was socially acceptable to think the color of a person’s skin could dictate a person’s interests. He internally battles with the idea of identifying with a white man and how his white professor will be forced to identify with him after reading his paper. The poem also depicts the struggles of all college students of any time period. While he specifically mentions his struggles as a black man some of these struggles are also reflections of how most students don’t identify with their professors. The timeless part of his poem is that although people have their differences we are all connected in some way through the universe due to
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