How It Feels To Be Colored Me By Zora Neale Hurston Analysis

Focus more on the people being pushed away by the condemnation, majority of people are passively, not actively contributing to racism. elaborate on the difference and elaborate on how the condemnation alienates the passive and gives the active something to fight.

The twentieth and twenty-first centuries are filled with victories for many civil rights movements. While they are attempting to achieve the same goal, the methods of various activists and authors vary wildly. Instead of adopting the dominant narrative of condemnation, both Brent Staples and Zora Neale Hurston write about the injustices against themselves without pointing fingers or being held up about it. They would both likely agree that by portraying yourself as the victim and condemning your aggressors, you make less progress than by simply drawing

In the essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” Zora Neale Hurston describes her life growing up in Florida and her racial identity as time goes on. Unlike many, she disassociates herself with “the sobbing school of Negrohood” that requires her to incessantly lay claim to past and present injustices and “whose feelings are all hurt by it”. Although she acknowledges times when she feels her racial difference, Hurston portray herself as “tragically colored.” Essentially, with her insistence that she is unhurt by the people treat her differently, Hurston’s narrative implies she is happier moving forward than complaining. Ironically, Hurston is empowered by her race and the double standard it imposes stating, “it is thrilling [that for every action,] I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame.”. Moreover, with her insistence that we are all equal under “The Great Stuffer of Bags,” she accepts every double standard and hardship as good. Hurston’s narrative of self empowerment moves and entertains the reader, while still drawing attention unjust treatment Hurston