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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
It showed the short comings of Communist Party USA from a black person's POV... Showed the social relationship between blacks and whites a la "the white man's burden" and interracial sexual tension as seen with the Narrator and the Trustee Norton at the brothel...
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He attacked every single black leader in that book. And then he attacked everyone else.
The beauty of the book to me was how the narrator learns how to stop letting people define who you are, but to just be yourself.
Who cares if I like yams. Who cares what they say if they see me eat yams. I like yams so I will eat them.