/kɑːnfɪdəns/: They, Too

After reading "I, Too", there is a sense of disgust upon society; a realization of how thoughtless people can be of human rights and equality. How terrible is it that this is the story we'll be telling our grandchildren. "Gather around children. Once upon a time, it was just so logical to say people are weird because they are darker than us! hohohooho". What bothered me so much was that although this unnamed man in this poem hopes for a future with no existence of racism, it still lives today. Yet he has such gleaming confidence, almost as if he is dominant over his situation. Fitzgerald points out that racism can only be overcome with confidence in order to establish dominance and control.

The typical piece of literature that is based off of the segregation of African Americans consist of

pathogens that make you want to crawl in a hole and punish ourselves for being so judgmental. 

However, this poem stood out like Moses riding on a pink elephant in the streets of New York. The unnamed "darker brother" that is featured in this poem does not take pity upon himself, nor does he make an frustrated remark onto the corrupted society. Instead, he demonstrates confidence in his ethnicity. He is actually putting pity upon everyone else for not realizing "how beautiful" he is, and chuckles on the idea of racism. This creates a sense of dominance on his side, contrasting on the limited amount of power Blacks had during that time period. With the use of rhetorics like: colloquial diction, foreshadowing and synecdoches; Fitzgerald shows that a change in attitude can flip the idea of racism and whoever owns confidence in the situation is the one who has more power redeemed within them. On this note, take a moment and visualize Moses riding in on a pink elephant.

photoshopped by yours truly.