The Colored Girl

One paragraph of the Colored Girl sums up how I feel about the issue of race and how this really began. White manhood shaped the laws of the land and established that black males and females were inferior and have no equality with white men or women. I don't agree with that of course, I think it is what was established in the minds of everyone that it was white men that set in stone they were superior in every way and that black men were not equal, and black women were below that, it's not a fair unwritten law but white men had great pride, they were afraid to lose their superiority and authority as the so called superior race, and giving a statement that they were equal was suppose to be a defeat for the white men and a victory for black men and women. Women in general wanted to step out of Men's shadows and be on equal ground with everyone, eventually it worked but there was a lot of stubbornness to break